Award-winning Italian and French classics on tap this week

Bicycle Thieves is the 1948 Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica. The Ricci's are a working class family living in Rome. World War II has just ended, leaving Italy in ruins. The father, Antonio is

Ray focused his attention on independent filmmaking after a meeting with French filmmaker Jean Renoir. Watching Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist 1948

This week I take a peek at 10 cult favorite movies now streaming on Hulu Plus. May 18, 2013, 7:25 AM This week I take a peek at Hulu Plus, another paid online streaming service that charges $8 a month for access to new and old TV shows, but also a ...

Writing in the Times of India, Faizal Khan underlines the bitter truth behind those glossy red carpet pictures: Malyalam film director Shaji Karun's Swaham was the last Indian film to be selected for competition for the Palme d-Or… in 1994! Khan ...

The Cannes Film Festival is underway, with a whole host of on the coast of the south of France. So what better excuse to turn back the clocks with a lookback at the most memorable moments from the last 66 years. From Diana Dors, to Cheryl Cole, via ...

YOUR obituary of Guilio Andreotti, long-serving and later discredited Christian Democratic politician in post-war Italy, might remind some cinema lovers in Scotland of one of his earliest misjudements (Herald Obituaries, May 7). As a junior minister ...

someshree banerjee pays tribute to Satyajit Ray who was filmmaker, fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, calligrapher, graphic designer and film criticHe was born in Calcutta into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature.

A showcase of early films by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi show the beginnings of a career that has brought him to international acclaim, writes Peter Calder Film-goers who were introduced to the work of Iranian maestro Asghar Farhadi, as I was, ...

To Hindi cinema, with love and exasperated fondness Amjad Khan in Qurbani (1980). Photo courtesy: Subhash Chheda Also Read Updated: Sat, May 04 2013. 12 35 AM IST Nadia Hindi cinema's fearless alpha-woman. By the time Wadia Movietone, a production ...