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/ 6 February 2012
A Rudolph Valentino biopic and a Charlie Chaplin musical are among new projects in the pipeline.
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/ 18 January 2012
Cinemagoers in Liverpool demanded refunds on tickets for Oscar favourite <i>The Artist</i> because they did not realise it is a silent movie.
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/ 16 January 2012
This year’s Golden Globes ceremony honoured a diverse selection of shows and films, including silent film <i>The Artist</i>.
Silent movie <i>The Artist</i> and family drama <i>The Descendants</i> have scooped the accolades at this year’s Golden Globe awards.
Oscar Wilde’s renovated Paris tomb has been unveiled, complete with a new glass barrier to shield it from a torrent of dangerous, admiring kisses.
For the first time in more than 80 years, a silent movie is being talked up as a real Oscars contender.
Perhaps because <i>Skeem</i> is unapologetically South African, it was a hit at the Abu Dhabi film festival.
<i>Black Butterflies</i> gives us a vivid picture of the
crazy, chaotic and candid life of Ingrid Jonker.
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/ 10 October 2011
Police have used teargas to disperse hundreds of Tunisians protesting against a niqab ban and the screening of a film they said denigrated Islam.
<b>Shaun de Waal</b> has been mulling over the question of what we might call "local content" in South African movies.
Djo Tunda wa Munga’s picture of life in Kinshasa is all about survival and a future devoid of hope.
<i>The First Grader</i> is based on the true story of a former Mau Mau fighter and villager, who first went to primary school when he was 84 years old
In <i>Retribution</i>, the national film fund has backed another ‘crisis of masculinity’ film, argues <b>Gillian Schutte.</b>
The author of <i>Precious</i> talks about abiding barriers to black artists in America.
Two movies this week deal with the way the past can haunt the present, and both in the context of countries with a history of political violence.
<em>The Tree of Life </em>seems to linger lovingly over itself, especially its own awed pondering.
A radical punk revolution was just an idea in a novel by a disaffected Muslim convert but for the bands he inspired the scene became real.
Viewers of a sensitive disposition will probably steer well clear of a film by Lars von Trier titled <i>Nymphomaniac</i>.
<em>Mail & Guardian</em> readers share their thoughts on the SACP, Sactwu, Zwelinzima Vavi and more.
Oliver Hermanus’s film <i>Skoonheid</i> is raking in the prizes, whether in Cannes or, last weekend, at the Durban International Film Festival.
What an odd movie <i>The Beaver</i> is. Not just that title, in which most Americans would hear the echo of porno-slang, but also its very idea.
<i>Biutiful</i> is sometimes beautiful – and sometimes exasperating, questionable and absurd.
The film about the famous group of photographers
is missing context behind the violence of the time.
There was much on-stage flailing of hair, crashing about and mayhem at Fruits and Veggies’ launch of <i>Ndaa</i>, the Afro-punk-ska outfit’s debut.
An all-male orgy of married Afrikaners is just one of the scenes from <i>Skoonheid</i> that shocked — and impressed — the Cannes Film Festival judge
<i>Win Win</i> proves that a quirky approach does not necessarily save a film from irritating banality.
<i>Transformers: Dark of the Moon</i> should be on Ritalin, or whatever it is they give hyperactive kids nowadays.
The brutal fighting between the ANC and the IFP has ended, but other than that the place in Thokoza where Greg Marinovich was shot hasn’t changed.
<i>Green Lantern</i> features a host of old clichés, has a weak story, and doesn’t look terribly good either.
Director and writer Paul Feig’s view of himself as a struggling outsider mirrors the focus of much of his comedy.
If the technology in <i>Source Code</i> is anything to go by, you, too, could be possessed by Jake Gyllenhaal in the near future.
<em>The Adjustment Bureau</em>, the new Matt Damon vehicle, is all <em>deus ex machina </em>and not much else.