Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke has finished shooting a short film in Italy, commissioned and produced by Carlo Chatrian, director of the National Museum of Cinema in Turin. Jia (“Still Life”, “A...
At some point, the green wave stops being a wave and starts being the waterline. Ireland doesn’t need to announce its arrival on the global screen stage anymore. It just keeps...
With many factors hitting the real estate market, such as L.A.’s “mansion tax” and other economic factors, agents have a tricky juggling act to perform. But what seems to...
Maude Apatow’s directorial debut, “Poetic License,” kicks off the 29th Sonoma Intl. Film Festival, with Steven Soderbergh’s “The Christophers,” starring Ian McKellen, set for a centerpiece screening. The festival, which runs...
The five Oscar-nominated doc shorts pack a lot of punch into their brief time on screen. The filmmakers talked to Variety about their documentaries. All the Empty Rooms Joshua Seftel’s...
This year’s crop of five documentary feature Oscar nominees is refreshingly balanced. There is a healthy mix of international stories, American directors, docs with big-streamer support and docs with smaller theatrical...
