‘Gunda’ Trailer: Nature Gets The “Pure Cinema” Treatment In Film Championed By Paul Thomas Anderson & Joaquin Phoenix

It’s time for a happy birthday, but maybe it’s also a kind of graduation into the next realm, as the “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” is coming to an end and its next season, is its final one. Part 4 of “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” as it likes to be called, focuses on witches and covens and, you know, a big fight against the forces of darkness while balancing some teenage love in the process.

Christopher Vourlias Vadim Perelman’s “Persian Lessons” will represent Belarus in the best international feature film race at the 2021 Oscars, Variety has learned.The WWII drama, which world premiered in the Panorama strand of the Berlin Film Festival this year, stars Nahuel Perez Biscayart (“Beats Per Minute”) as a Belgian Jew who narrowly avoids execution by a Nazi firing squad when he claims to be Persian.

Damon Wise Russian director Victor Kossakovsky returned to documentary festival IDFA – where he has been a frequent guest, and won awards with “Pavel and Lyalya” and “Belovy” – with “Gunda,” a film that made a statement in more ways than one. Shot entirely in black and white, without voiceover or music, it documents the life and times of a pig named Gunda and the piglets she raises on an unnamed farm somewhere—a scenario that does not end well for either pigs or audience.

Marta Balaga German filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger has been making films for nearly 50 years now, creating experimental and often transgressive work that frequently walks the line between documentary reality and artistic truth.

Tripping with Nils Frahm.The German contemporary composer’s double release is set to be premiered in Australia and New Zealand cinemas later this month.

The 21st Century witnessed some of the best performances from World Cinema. While there were a few veteran actors who continued to hold moviegoers' attention in the past two decades, there were several others who held the spotlight and had the world bowing down to them.

Just last month, international media confirmed that will be starring in an upcoming romantic drama that is tentatively titled Text for You. Alongside actor Sam Heughan and five-time Grammy award winner Celine Dion, Priyanka will be playing a pivotal role in the film.

Whether you're a fan of professional wrestling or not, the name The Undertaker has always been a known persona to one and all. After 30 years of entertaining the WWE Universe as one of the greatest WWE gimmicks of all time, Mark Callaway is bidding goodbye to his home.

Also on this day: The “S-O-S” distress signal is adopted at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin.The First Battle of Ypres during World War I ends with an Allied victory against Germany. A flying boat, the China Clipper, takes off from Alameda, Calif., carrying more than 100,000 pieces of mail on the first trans-Pacific airmail flight.The Humane Society of the United States is incorporated as the National Humane Society.

mounting tensions between Greater Manchester leaders and the government over lockdown measures.

Joaquin Phoenix is continuing to pay tribute to Canadian animal rights activist Regan Russell, who was killed by a transport truck while providing comfort to pigs outside an Ontario slaughterhouse in June.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorThe Berlin Film Festival is still planning a physical event in February but will reduce its lineup in the face of COVID-19 restrictions, the festival has confirmed.The event, which is due to run February 11-21, has said it is “too early to consider cancellation”.Tickets for screenings will have to be pre-booked and capacity in cinemas will be reduced by 45-50% in order to abide by social distancing rules.The festival confirmed to us today that the Competition

Pablo Sandoval Producer-director Kristina Konrad’s Berlin-based Weltfilm has boarded “Amateur,” the feature debut of Spaniard Martin Gutiérrez which won the top Malaga Festival Prize for best Spanish film at this Spring’s Malaga WIP pix in post competition.Konrad, one of the jury members for Spanish titles at Malaga WIP, along with Berlin Panorama director Paz Lázaro and Gijón Film Festival programer Ricardo Apilánez, signed up to co-produce “Amateur” after the Malaga WIP showcase.Written by

Acclaimed director David Fincher is sharing his thoughts on the movie Joker and why he considers it to be a “betrayal of the mentally ill.” Fincher recently talked about Joker‘s success in contrast to his movie Fight Club, which was much more difficult to get made back in the late 1990s.

The Matrix 4 held a wrap party in Berlin, disguised as a film shoot to get around German COVID-19 laws, reports say.The film, currently set for an April 2022 release, wrapped up filming at the Babelsberg studios just outside Berlin this week.German newspaper Bild reports (via the Guardian) that producers Lana and Lilly Wachowski organised a party at the studios on Wednesday (November 11), disguised as a film shoot codenamed ‘Icecream Teamevent’.The report says approximately 200 people attended

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Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorNorway has selected Maria Sodhal’s Hope as its submission to the International Feature Film Oscar race. The drama world premiered in the Discovery section of the 2019 Toronto Film Festival and was screened in Panorama at Berlin this year.

Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper's sons are on the way to being besties! Cooper called in to SiriusXM’s earlier this week and the pair recounted a sweet moment between their sons.