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Everest cast and crew discuss taking on the world's highest mountain

As the film premiered out of competition in Venice, the cast of Everest talked of the difficulties of filming in gruelling conditions and the responsibility of depicting real-life events.

Italy

Everest thriller opens Venice Film Festival

The first red carpet of the Venice Film Festival was filled with the stars of the mountainous thriller Everest, along with members of the event’s

Cinema

Stars and gondolas, Venice Film Festivals opens on top of the world

Everest opens the 72nd Venice Film Festival. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Keira Knightley, it is based on the 1996 climbers' disaster on the world's highest peak.

Cinema

Redford and Nolte take a hike in A Walk in the Woods

Redford returns to acting with a buddy comedy about crossing the nearly 2,200 mile Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine.

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Italy

Venice film festival 2015

The world’s oldest surviving film festival is getting underway in Venice – the 72nd edition of what’s locally called La Mostra brings with it 11

USA

Tributes pour in for horror filmmaker Wes Craven

Tributes have been paid to the US horror filmmaker Wes Craven, who’s died in Los Angeles at the age of 76. Twitter has been flooded with comments in

Culture news

Culture by the Black Sea at Bulgaria's Apollonia festival

The Apollonia Festival of Arts in the city of Sozopol is hailed as the most important cultural event in Bulgaria. Every August artists from all

Cinema

'No Escape' puts Owen Wilson's family in peril

“No Escape”, from writer-director siblings John and Drew Dowdle tells the tale of Americans-abroad in a nondescript southeast Asian country. All is

USA

Freddie Krueger creator Wes Craven has died aged 76

US horror film director Wes Craven has died. He was perhaps best known for creating Freddie Krueger’s “Nightmare on Elm Street” and the “Scream”

Cinema

"The 33" digs into 2010 Chilean mining rescue and media circus

Trapped for 69 days under a collapsed mine before being rescued alive. It was being spoken of as a movie even as the last of the Chilean miners was

World News

Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser released on Instagram

Cinema

3D animation brings Polish World War Two hero to life

In Mexico City, 3D animators are bringing to life the story of a Polish World War Two hero. Maximilian Kolbe was a Franciscan monk, who volunteered

Russia

Sentsov sings Ukrainian anthem as jail sentence is read out in Russia

A Russian court has sentenced Ukrainian film-maker Oleg Sentsov to 20 years in prison on terror charges.

Russia

Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov gets 20 years for "terrorism"

Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov sentenced to 20 years in prison by a Russian military court. Sentsov was arrested shortly after the Crimean

Culture news

Troxy claims largest theatre organ title after Wurlitzer restoration

After six years of renovation Europe’s largest theatre organ is again ready to make windows shake and blast audiences in London’s east end, at the

Cinema

Richie breathes life into "Man from UNCLE" brand

Guy Richie takes on another franchisable household name, one that has been in the kitsch cupboard for a while, with “The Man from UNCLE”. Reviving

Cinema

Awakening the force, Disney reveals new adventures for Star Wars fans

The publicity drive for the next installment of the Star Wars franchise has entered warp speed with the news that Jurassic World director Colin

Russia

Historian, who revealed Stalin went to movies after ordering 3,000 deaths, dies aged 98

Robert Conquest, a prominent Anglo-American historian, who documented many aspects of Stalin’s rule, has died aged 98 in California. He wrote poetry

USA

Gunman shoot dead a man who opened fire in a Tennessee cinema

US police have shot dead an axe-wielding man who opened fire in a cinema in Nashville, Tennessee on Wednesday after dousing the auditorium with

Cinema

'La Isla Minima' superbly crafted drama is a Goya galático

This week we bring you ‘La Isla Minima’ by Alberto Rodriguez, a beautifully shot film noir, which swept the board at the Goyas, Spain’s equivalent of

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