Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been sentenced to five years in prison by a Tehran Revolutionary Court in a new ruling. The verdict also imposes a two-year ban on international travel and social media use, along with an order to confiscate his assets. The latest sentence comes in addition to an earlier one-year prison term he was already facing. Panahi’s lawyer, Mostafa Nili, told the Emtedad News Agency that the latest verdict was delivered in absentia. According to Nili, the filmmaker’s bank accounts were unexpectedly frozen last week. When his legal ' ...
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Oscar-winning American actress Eva Marie Saint, renowned for her performances in On the Waterfront and Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, has died at the age of 102. The Hollywood legend passed away from natural causes at her home in Los Angeles on October 6, 2026, according to her spokesperson. Her death marks the loss of one of the last surviving stars of Hollywood's golden age, leaving behind an extraordinary career spanning more than six decades. Born on July 4, 1924, in Newark, New Jersey, Saint developed an interest in acting while ' ...
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Award-winning Bangladeshi cinematographer Joaher Musavvir Jyoti is known for his work on Roid, Pressure Cooker, Jaya Aar Sharmin and A House Named Shahana. Having studied filmmaking and cinematography in Prague, he works across South Asia and Europe, bringing a distinctive sensitivity to light, landscape, atmosphere and human emotion. His work has reached international audiences through festivals including the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), SXSW London, Sitges, and Raindance. He received the Best Cinematography award for Roid at the 2026 Mosaic International Film Festival in Canada. In conversation with Md ' ...
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On 5 October 1864, Louis Lumière was born in Besançon, France. More than a century and a half later, his name is still closely tied to the earliest days of cinema. Together with his elder brother Auguste, Louis helped turn moving images from a technical experiment into something people could sit together and watch on a screen. The Lumière brothers grew up around photography. Their father, Antoine Lumière, was a photographer who later built a successful photographic business in Lyon. Louis showed a strong interest in the technical side of photography ' ...
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The first time I properly watched Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, I remember wondering when I would stop noticing the time. A woman was preparing food, clearing a table, moving through her apartment, doing things that most films would either cut away from or compress into a brief montage. Nothing, at least in the conventional sense, seemed to be happening. And yet after a while I found myself watching with an odd degree of attention. A small delay mattered. A gesture felt different. Silence became uncomfortable. It ' ...
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