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“What I am trying to show is that, despite the changes of the times, the essential value of ‘going to the cinema’ never changes,” says director Lee Jong-pil.

Shu Qi has spent her career embodying other people’s stories — enigmatic drifters for Hou Hsiao-hsien, comic foils in international action franchises, or, more recently, the tragic heroine of Bi Gan’s Cannes award winner Resurrection. With Girl, Taiwan’s most acclaimed screen star, now 49, turns the camera on herself, mining her childhood in 1980s Taipei for a bracingly personal directorial debut. The result is not nostalgia but something darker: a stark coming-of-age tale about inherited sorrow, cycles of violence, and the fleeting possibility of friendship and escape. It is, as Shu says, “a story that opens up a conversation about…

The organizers of the Canadian Screen Awards, the country’s Oscars and Emmys, are to end nomination eligibility for foreign talent, including American actors, starting with the 2026 edition. “In order to best celebrate and honor Canadians working on Canadian productions, individuals must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada to be eligible for a Canadian Screen Award,” the Academy said as tightened eligibility and voting rule changes unveiled Wednesday come amid rising U.S.-Canada diplomatic and trade tensions. Making CSAs eligibility exclusively available to homegrown talent or those with residency follows a rise in Canadian nationalism countrywide after U.S.…

The release of filmmaker Rob Savage’s Other Mommy is being delayed from May 8, 2026, to Oct. 9, 2026, Universal announced Tuesday. Rob Savage is the bold genre director whose credits include Host and The Boogeyman. Horror maestro James Wan of Atomic Monster is producing the horror pic — in association with Spin a Black Yarn for Universal Pictures — whose high-profile cast includes Jessica Chastain, Jay Duplass, Arabella Olivia Clark and Dichen Lachman. Atomic is home to some of the most successful horror and franchises in recent memory, including The Conjuring, Insidious and Saw (Wan’s genre label is part of the Blumhouse…

One of our very best actors, Brian Cox, makes a somewhat belated directorial debut with the Toronto world premiere Glenrothan, in which he also stars. Set in his native Scotland and lovingly photographed, the film tantalizes even without a terribly original story. Family conflicts ripple and get fairly predictably resolved. But the cast gallops right past the clichés. To tell the story of two estranged brothers, Cox turned to another Scottish-born actor, Alan Cumming, who gives the most surprising and resonant performance in the movie. The brothers have not communicated for many years. Cox’s Sandy runs a family distillery in…

The controversial and zig-zagging journey for the Oct. 7 rescue movie The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue had another twist on Sunday when it picked up the People’s Choice award for best documentary at the Toronto Film Festival. Director Barry Avrich’s documentary is about a retired Tel Aviv general driving through great danger to save his son’s family at a kibbutz near Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. “To win this award is thrilling for Mark and I. The audience voted and I appreciate that. And we look forward to the rest of this journey,” Avrich said while accepting the doc…

The Owens sisters are heading back to the big screen soon. On Saturday, Nicole Kidman announced on Instagram that Practical Magic 2 has completed production by posting a video of her and Sandra Bullock laughing and walking into the sunset while on set. “That’s a wrap on Practical Magic 2,” Kidman wrote as the caption. “Thank you to the cast & crew for all your magic.” In July, Kidman shared a post to celebrate the first day of filming. The post showed another video of her and Bullock, hugging with the caption: “The witches are back. Owens sisters’ first day…

In films like Grizzly Man, Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo, Werner Herzog has been drawn to obsessive men whose hubris tricks them into believing they can tame nature, only to find nature resistant to human control. South African conservation biologist Dr. Steve Boyes is a worthy addition to that canon of driven eccentrics, his background in environmental science never excluding the philosophical and spiritual reflections of an unabashed dreamer. In Ghost Elephants, Herzog accompanies Boyes to a remote highland plateau in Angola in search of a possibly mythical herd of giant elephants, which turns out to be exactly…

Eight years after he announced his retirement, Daniel Day-Lewis is back acting in Anemone, which was directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis. While speaking to Rolling Stone ahead of Anemone’s world premiere at the New York Film Festival, Day-Lewis admitted he regretted announcing his retirement in 2017. “Looking back on it now — I would have done well to just keep my mouth shut, for sure,” he said. “It just seems like such grandiose gibberish to talk about. I never intended to retire, really. I just stopped doing that particular type of work so I could do some other work.”…

Not everything needs a sequel or reboot. At least that’s what Kirsten Dunst thinks when it comes to the cult classic film, Bring It On. The high school cheerleading movie recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. Now, when it’s common to bring back TV shows and movies, and there’s been recent reboots and followups like Freakier Friday, Gossip Girl, I Know What You Did Last Summer and Snow White, to name a few, Dunst told Entertainment Tonight on Tuesday that she wasn’t interested in rebooting the franchise. When Dunst was asked if we were getting close to seeing a sequel in…