Film festivals

LOS ANGELES -- Under a string of golden street lights, the directions roll off Jorge Xolalpa's tongue interchangeably in English and Spanish as he paces the sidewalk with a cameraman by his side.The actors don’t miss a beat, and crewmembers…

NEW YORK -- Ninety-nine lashes and a prison sentence awaited Zar Amir Ebrahimi in 2008 when she decided to flee Iran.Ebrahimi’s only crime was sex. A videotape made privately with her then-partner had two years earlier been leaked by…

LOS ANGELES -- A woman who says Harvey Weinstein raped her in 2013 testified Tuesday that she had feelings of guilt and disgust that began soon after she let him into her hotel room and lasted for years.The woman, a model and actor…

NEW YORK -- A normal morning scene. Breakfast on the kitchen table. A newspaper rustles. A backpack is packed. The mother asks her teenage daughter if she’ll be home later. “It’s Tuesday, so, um, I’m going to go to Dad’s.” The look of…

MILWAUKEE -- Musician Mike Schank, best known for his good guy role in the award-winning documentary film “American Movie," has died at age 56, according to a close friend. Jackie Bogenberger told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that…

NEW YORK -- Five years after a pair of exposés revealed Harvey Weinstein’s long trail of sexual abuse of women, “She Said," a film that dramatizes the dogged fight to uncover years of allegations against the movie…

NEW YORK -- Long before Bong Joon Ho's “Parasite” triumphed at the Oscars and “Squid Game” circled the globe, Park Chan-wook was astonishing worldwide audiences with his sumptuously stylistic, outrageously violent and…

NEW YORK -- Long before Bong Joon Ho's “Parasite” triumphed at the Oscars and “Squid Game” circled the globe, Park Chan-wook was astonishing worldwide audiences with his sumptuously stylistic, outrageously violent and…

NEW YORK -- For the first time, the major U.S. theater chains will play a Netflix release after exhibitors and the streaming service reached a deal for a nationwide sneak-peak run of Rian Johnson's “Glass Onion: A Knives Out…

NEW YORK -- After 15 years running SXSW's film festival, director Janet Pierson is stepping down. Her longtime deputy, Claudette Godfrey, will take over leading the annual Austin, Texas, gathering, one of America's premier film…