Entertainment

1918 in Italy was, a title reminds us, “the year of victory.” Yet the first images in Gianni Amelio‘s WWI-set “Battleground” are anything but triumphal: a pile of bloodied soldiers’ bodies…
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Andres Veiel’s documentary “Riefenstahl,” which challenges the carefully crafted public persona of one of Germany’s most controversial directors, who was forever tainted by working with the…
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Most people probably can’t remember “global warming” or whatever you want to call it being a significant issue — let alone a political football — before the last decade or two. But as “The White…
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Israeli director Amos Gitai has pushed back against efforts for his Venice-bowing film “Why War” to be boycotted from the festival. Premiering out of the competition over the weekend, the…
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French writer Nicolas Mathieu won the Prix Goncourt — France’s highest-profile literary award — for his 2018 novel “And Their Children After Them,” a working-class Bildungsroman set against a…
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It’s no coincidence that “Families Like Ours,” the climate change disaster drama miniseries in which Denmark literally closes due to flooding, is premiering in Venice, a city famously battling…
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Oasis fans aren’t finding much glory this morning while trying to buy tickets for the band’s highly anticipated reunion tour, with many reporting technical issues. After tickets…
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Marco Bellocchio‘s “Se posso permettermi Capitolo II” (May I Say? Chapter Two), which has its world premiere Sunday in the Out of Competition section of the Venice Film Festival, has debuted a…
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UPDATED: India‘s National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) Mumbai Bench approved the high-profile merger between Reliance Industries Limited’s (RIL) media arm and Disney‘s Indian entertainment assets…
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If you think the American presidential election has been unpredictable, wait’ll you see how capricious things get at the Vatican when the cardinals assemble to choose a new pope in “Conclave.”…
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