#Zurich: ‘May December,’ ‘Nyad,’ ‘Pot-Au-Feu’ Among Gala Premieres

#Zurich: ‘May December,’ ‘Nyad,’ ‘Pot-Au-Feu’ Among Gala Premieres

The Zurich Film Festival unveiled its gala premiere lineup Thursday, with highlights including many of the fan favorites from the 2023 festival season. Among the lineup is Todd Haynes’ melodrama May December, starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, the Anne Hathaway/Thomasin McKenzie psychological thriller Eileen from director William Oldroyd and Tran Anh Hung’s foodie French…

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#Remembering Sarajevo’s War-Time Movie Club Where Tickets Cost a Cigarette (But You Had to  Watch Out for Snipers)

#Remembering Sarajevo’s War-Time Movie Club Where Tickets Cost a Cigarette (But You Had to Watch Out for Snipers)

It was February 1993 in Sarajevo and the bombs had been falling for 10 months. The city, the capital of the newly-independent nation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, was surrounded and under siege by Bosnian Serbs forces. The assault — shelling by artillery and tanks, snipers picking off soldiers and civilians — would continue for another…

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#New Ving Rhames, Marion Cotillard Films Among Oldenburg 30th Anniversary Lineup

#New Ving Rhames, Marion Cotillard Films Among Oldenburg 30th Anniversary Lineup

The Oldenburg Film Festival, Germany’s leading all-indie fest, unveiled highlights for its 30th-anniversary edition, including several world premieres featuring Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard and Mission : Impossible star Ving Rhames. Uppercut, a boxing film featuring Mission: Impossible star Ving Rhames, will close the festival on September 17. Director Torsten Ruether remade his own, German-language, debut Leberhaken,…

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