Film
11 Mar
"Oppenheimer," a solemn three-hour biopic that became an unlikely billion-dollar box-office sensation, was crowned best picture at the 96th Oscars that doubled as a coronation for Christopher Nolan.
18 Feb
In a special joint edition of arts24 and The 51 Percent, we focus on whether the #MeToo movement has reached an inflection point in French cinema.
13 Jan
Why does Barbie matter? For some, the 30-centimeter plastic doll represents a toxic ideal of beauty; for others, she is a feminist icon. How does that go together? Barbie is the subject of heated debate and has been one of the biggest selling toys since its emergence onto the market in 1959.
29 Dec
Indian movie stars, especially from Bollywood, have huge fan bases in Pakistan — despite the bitter political rivalry between the neighboring nations. What's driving this popularity?
17 Dec
Fantasy role-playing video game "Baldur's Gate 3" has won Game of the Year at the Game Awards in Los Angeles – the Oscars of gaming – after three and a half hours of speeches, prizes, announcements and adverts. The awards themselves were mostly a hurried afterthought as almost five million viewers of the Game Awards' official stream were subjected to a bombardment of trailers.
16 Dec
Greta Gerwig, actor, writer and film director, notably for the blockbuster “Barbie,” will preside over the jury of the 77th Cannes Film Festival in May, the first American female director to be named jury president, the festival announced Thursday.
15 Dec
The streaming provider has long been criticized for its lack of transparency. Now Netflix will present viewing figures twice a year. In the first ranking, the series "The Night Agent" is in first place.
9 Dec
Even though streaming is reducing the number of people watching films via DVD or CD, movie piracy continues to be a huge problem for the Nigerian movie industry. According to the World Bank, for every legitimate copy of a Nigerian film sold, nine others are pirated. This business is particularly lucrative for young people. But who are these movie pirates and how does the industry reacts to them?
1 Dec
Sebastian Stan has been cast as a young Donald Trump in Ali Abbasi's biopic 'The Apprentice'.
19 Nov
From the Hunger Games prequel without Jennifer Lawrence to a hit American independent movie that knocked Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny off the top of the box office this summer – Sound of Freedom without forgetting the British debut feature How to Have Sex, film critic Emma Jones discusses this week’s new pictures with Eve Jackson.
30 Oct
For more than 50 years he has been conjuring up strange and fantastical worlds. From the very beginning of his work with Monty Python, he has rarely played by the rules and has shunned the Hollywood system, yet serious actors like Sean Connery, Robin Williams and Johnny Depp queue up to work with him.
21 Oct
Based on David Grann's best-selling book investigating a wave of suspicious deaths among Oklahoma's Osage Nation, Martin Scorsese's "Killers of the Flower Moon" is one of the most anticipated movies of the year. FRANCE 24 film critic Lisa Nesselson says it's both sweeping and intimate, with actress Lily Gladstone subtly stealing the show alongside heavyweights Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro.
15 Oct
Renowned for her stuffy, old world attitude, the wife of former French president Jacques Chirac gets the comedic treatment in "Bernadette", starring Catherine Deneuve as the eponymous first lady. FRANCE 24 film critic Lisa Nesselson describes it as "a joyful comedy anchored in French political history" including behind-the-scenes political dealings and a style makeover from Karl Lagerfeld.