PARIS, Rebecca Frasquet - The British actress Jean Simmons, who has died aged 80, established her reputation with an unforgettable performance as Ophelia in Laurence Olivier's film "Hamlet" before...
LOS ANGELES, Soo Youn - A Los Angeles judge on Friday denied a bid by lawyers for Roman Polanski requesting the fugitive filmmaker be sentenced in absentia in his decades-old child sex case....
LONDON - Danny Boyle, the British director of Oscar-winning "Slumdog Millionaire", is to direct a stage play adaptation of "Frankenstein", it was announced on Thursday.
Nicholas Hytner, the...
PARIS, Carole Landry- Chagall painting the ceiling of the Paris opera, young lovers kissing by the Seine, grimy-faced children at play in the streets: French photographer Izis captured the poetry of...
BERLIN, Deborah Cole - New movies starring Ben Stiller, Julianne Moore, Gerard Depardieu, Jessica Alba and James Franco will headline the 60th Berlin film festival next month, organisers said...
PARIS, Rory Mulholland - A biopic of Serge Gainsbourg, the French singer best known abroad for his raunchy 1969 classic "Je t'aime, moi non plus," hits cinemas across Europe this week but its release...
MOKRA GORA, Pierre Glachant and Jovan Matic - Emir Kusturica is trying to stop Hollywood tainting his Kuestendorf arts festival, but the renowned director did not reckon with Johnny Depp....
SAINT PETERSBURG - A photograph taken by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sold on Saturday for 1.2 million euros -- even more than the amount a painting by his predecessor Vladimir Putin fetched...
ISTANBUL, Nicolas Cheviron- Istanbul on Saturday launched a year of art events as it became one of three Cultural Capitals of Europe for 2010, feting the occasion with concerts, street shows and...
ANKARA - The scriptwriter of a Turkish television series that sparked a diplomatic row with Israel said his team is working on a movie to show more alleged Israeli "crimes against humanity", in...
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