The Cannes Film Festival announced Tuesday that it had chosen Juliette Binoche, one of France‘s best-known actors, to preside over its 78th edition which will take place in May. The…
Beyoncé has earned 11 Grammy nominations for Cowboy Carter, matching Michael Jackson’s Thriller for the most nominations from a single album. As the most awarded artist in Grammys history, could…
“Deux Filles Nues” (Two Naked Girls), a graphic novel about a Nazi-looted painting won Best Comic Book at France’s Angoulême Festival on Saturday. Its author, “Luz”, is a former cartoonist at the…
French President Emmanuel Macron will be touring the Louvre on Tuesday, days after the museum’s director issued a warning about the dire conditions for visitors and artefacts at the iconic…
Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez,” a Spanish language, French-made film, dominated the Academy Awards nominations with a leading 13 picks, including best picture and best actress for Karla Sophia Gascon, making…
In the beginning there was Cimabue, “who was to shed the first light on the art of painting” – until he was “eclipsed” by his pupil Giotto. The story, told by…
David Lynch, the filmmaker celebrated for his uniquely dark vision in such movies as “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and the TV series “Twin Peaks,” has died just days before…
Jacques Audiard’s audacious musical “Emilia Pérez,” about a Mexican drug lord who undergoes gender affirming surgery to become a woman, led nominations to the 82nd Golden Globes on Monday, scoring…
A social media ban for children under 16 passed the Australian Senate Thursday and will soon become a world-first law. The law will make platforms including TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit,…
French-Algerian writer Kamel Daoud on Monday won France‘s top literary prize, the Goncourt, for a novel centred on Algeria‘s civil war between the government and Islamists in the 1990s, organisers…