Cinema
Acclaimed Holocaust documentary projected on Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum
'Occupied City' premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023 as a 4h28 minute cut. It focuses on the stories of more than 2,000 Amsterdam homes during WWII. Now, it will be shown continuously until the end of January 2026 as the full work of art director Steve McQueen originally intended.
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‘Profoundly misguided’: Israeli film industry responds to filmmaker boycott pledge
Since the publication of a call to boycott Israeli film institutions “involved in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people,” the number of signatories has reached 3,500. Representatives of the Israeli film industry have begun to speak out against this initiative.
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Why is Donald Trump taking shots at Tom Hanks?
Tom Hanks was scheduled to receive the 2025 Sylvanus Thayer Award later this month, but the US Military Academy’s alumni association has unexpectedly cancelled the ceremony. This has prompted Trump to gloat by taking shots at the celebrated actor.
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More than 1,300 artists vow boycott of Israeli film institutions
The new campaign comes amid a growing number of entertainment industry initiatives to protest Israel’s war in Gaza. The pledge says Israeli film institutions are playing their part in "genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people."
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Ranked: What are the best Tom Waits big screen performances?
Starring in Jim Jarmusch's 'Father Mother Sister Brother', which just won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, Euronews Culture takes a look back at the indelible – and often overlooked - mark legendary musician Tom Waits continues to make on the world of cinema.
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‘Chipocalypse Now’: Is the Trump administration culturally illiterate?
This weekend, Donald Trump shared an AI-generated image of himself threatening to wage war on Chicago, a Democratic city he has targeted as next up in his immigration and crime crackdown. However, the image reveals how little he gets the movie reference he is co-opting. And not for the first time...
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French actress Adèle Haenel joining the flotilla to Gaza from Tunis
The celebrated French actress, who announced two years ago that she was stepping away from the world of film for “political reasons”, has said she will set sail for the Gaza Strip from Tunis aboard the Global Sumud flotilla - the biggest attempt yet to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza.
