Film Festivals
|
|
|
|
|
Asian films lead Toronto fest's best-of-decade poll
TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - Asian films, led by Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's "Syndromes and a Century," dominated the Toronto International Film Festival's best-of-the-decade poll results released Monday. Full Article
Polanski will not agree to extradition: lawyer
PARIS (Reuters) - Roman Polanski will not agree voluntarily to being extradited to the United States over a 1970s child sex case, the film director's lawyer said in an interview with French daily Le Figaro published on Friday. Full Article
John Kerry's daughter arrested in Hollywood
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. Senator John Kerry's elder daughter, Alexandra, who made a red-carpet splash at the Cannes film festival five years ago in a see-through dress, was arrested in Hollywood on Thursday on suspicion of drunken driving. Full Article
Sen. John Kerry's daughter arrested in Hollywood
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. Senator John Kerry's elder daughter, Alexandra, who made a red-carpet splash at the Cannes film festival five years ago in a see-through dress, was arrested in Hollywood on Thursday on suspicion of drunken driving. Full Article
John Kerry's daughter arrested in Hollywood
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. Senator John Kerry's elder daughter, Alexandra, who made a red-carpet splash at the Cannes film festival five years ago in a see-through dress, was arrested in Hollywood on Thursday on suspicion of drunken driving. Full Article
Werner Herzog to head Berlin film festival jury
BERLIN (Reuters) - German director Werner Herzog will head the jury at the 2010 Berlin film festival, organizers said on Thursday. Full Article
Penelope Cruz offers a "dream year" in movies
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Penelope Cruz feels uncomfortable talking about nude scenes and says she has "an allergy to labels," but she becomes effusive when discussing her "dream year" with two special films about to hit theaters. Full Article
Amenabar's "Agora" picked up for U.S. release
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Agora," filmmaker Alejandro Amenabar's intellectual epic starring Rachel Weisz, a feature that sat without a U.S. buyer for six months, has found a stateside home. Full Article
First U.S. marijuana cafe opens in Portland
PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - The United States' first marijuana cafe opened on Friday, posing an early test of the Obama administration's move to relax policing of medical use of the drug. Full Article
New York Times says to cut further 25 jobs in 2010
(Reuters) - Less than a month after cutting 100 newsroom jobs, the New York Times said on its website it would fire at least 25 editorial employees next year at the New York Times News Service. Full Article
