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Oscars facts and firsts
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 03/03/2025
» The 97th Academy Awards ceremony took place last night at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
Father-son duo in chaps and Stetson hats
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 09/04/2021
» There is something about British actor Idris Elba and his unique persona that draws him to Westerns and cowboy-type stories. Last time we saw him in a cowboy hat and holding twin revolvers was in the Stephen King's Western fantasy adaptation The Dark Tower (2017), Elba has two more Western-themed films scheduled this year, the action film The Harder They Fall where he plays an outlaw gunfighter opposite Jonathan Majors; and the latest Netflix release Concrete Cowboy, a high drama and coming of age film that takes place in the real-life urban cowboy community in a Philadelphia neighbourhood.
The Year of Great Reckoning
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 16/12/2020
» For filmgoers, it was a year of mortal dread. The screen went dark, like a coffin nailed shut, and is still like that in many places. Faith in cinema as we've known it was rattled, challenged, and endangered with a Biblical overtone; it's a plague we're dealing with, after all. It was a year unlike any other we had seen before in the 125 years since cinema was invented. And while that sounds dispiriting, 2020 has also been a "Year of Great Reckoning" during which the equilibrium was recalibrated and the idea of moving images continues, as it should, to evolve.
Venice to host first film festival of coronavirus era
Life, Silvia Aloisi of Reuters, Published on 30/07/2020
» ROME: Fewer A-list stars will stumble out of parties along the lagoon to be snapped by paparazzi in boats. However, organisers of this year's Venice Film Festival are promising plenty of movies -- on actual screens in front of actual audiences -- for the first time since the worldwide pandemic shutdown showbiz.