The awful reality of Auschwitz seen from the other side of the wall, where the flowers grow and children play, is captured in Jonathan Glazer's long-awaited new film, "The Zone of Interest", which premiered Friday at Cannes.. - A decade in the making - "The Zone of Interest" arrives at Cannes a decade after the release of Glazer's last film, the highly acclaimed dystopian sci-fi "Under the Skin" starring Scarlett Johansson.
Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing got incredible access to the inner workings of his country's textile industry by spending five years with its employees, but he fears it may be more difficult for him to work there in future.. "Bit by bit as I got to know all these managers from the factories, I was really able to get total freedom from them and even very strong support on their part," he told AFP. But now Wang worries he may not have such access to film in China again.
Actor Sean Penn gave his full support to the ongoing writers' strike in Hollywood on Friday, saying it was a "human obscenity" that studios were not taking seriously concerns over artificial intelligence.. Asked about the writers' strike that has upended Hollywood productions, he said: "It is the industry that's been upending the writers and the actors and directors for a very, very long time.
Artificial Intelligence may have been used to make Harrison Ford decades younger in parts of his final film as "Indiana Jones," but the 80-year-old actor said Friday he loved being older, and has no plans to slow down.. Ford, whose "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" premiered in Cannes on Thursday night, has vowed this will be his last adventure as the swashbuckling archaeologist after more than four decades in the role.
Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi was discharged on Friday from a hospital in Milan, where he was admitted more than six weeks ago suffering from leukaemia and a lung infection.. After being admitted for treatment of a lung infection last month, doctors revealed that he had "chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia", a rare type of blood cancer.
"Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" sees the archaeologist defy age with special effects and fight off Nazis from Manhattan to Sicily, but he struggled against critics in Cannes on Friday. . "The finale is wildly silly and entertaining... (but) Indiana Jones still has a certain old-school class."
The Smiths bassist Andy Rourke, whose pounding rhythms underscored some of the most influential albums in British music history, has died at the age of 59, band-mate Johnny Marr announced Friday.. Rourke died "after a lengthy illness with pancreatic cancer", the Smiths lead guitarist and co-founder said.
When Norwegian climber Kristin Harila stepped onto the summit of Cho Oyu this month she became the fastest woman to climb all 14 of the world's 8,000-metre peaks.. One of the 8,000-metre mountains -- Shishapangma -- is wholly in Tibet, while another -- Cho Oyu -- is normally climbed from the Chinese side.
British writer Salman Rushdie attended a New York gala on Thursday night in his first public appearance since a knife attack that nearly took his life last year. . I owe my life to them," Rushdie told the crowd on Thursday.
At three years old, a South African toddler reads better than 80 percent of the country's schoolchildren who are more than three times her age.. Her skills are an exception in a country where eight out of ten fourth graders -- schoolchildren aged nine or 10 -- struggle to understand what they read, according to a study published this week.
