Now playing Next 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 02/09/2015
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Now playing Next 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 31/08/2015
Now playing Next 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 31/08/2015
Now playing Next 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” 31/08/2015
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Now playing Next 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. 25/08/2015
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Now playing Next 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 17/08/2015
Now playing Next 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 06/08/2015
Now playing Next 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 06/08/2015
Now playing Next 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 31/07/2015
Now playing Next Cinema A conversation with Michel Ciment, film critic and chief editor of French film magazine "Positif" Michel Ciment is a veteran film critic and the editor-in-chief of the highly influential French film magazine Positif. Amongst non French cine-files he is most associated with the subject of Stanley K 31/07/2015
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Now playing Next Cinema 'Microbe and Gasoline', optimism and poetry by Michel Gondry ‘Microbe and Gasoline’ is a typical Michel Gondry movie: optimistic and poetic. Microbe and Gasoline are two teenage boys. Their nicknames bear 24/07/2015