Tag: cinema

Larry Hagman, who shot to worldwide fame for his portrayal of the oilman villain J.R. Ewing in theUS television series "Dallas," has died at the age of 81 after losing a ...

Academics gather to discuss the increasing popularity of historical TV series in Turkey, noting the distinction between fact and fiction is often misunderstood by audiences. “The fictional side needs much ...

Daniel Day-Lewis on Playing Abraham Lincoln. “NOW he belongs to the ages,” Edwin Stanton, Abraham Lincoln’s secretary of war, said at the president’s deathbed. “And to the studios,” he could have ...

The Iranian actor and director Ali Mosaffa’s screen production The Last Step has won at the 2012 MedFilm International Festival in Italy. Mosaffa's feature-length filmThe Last Step received the Love and Psyche Prize ...

Wide-ranging documentaries by Werner Herzog, known for his Wagnerian treatment of his subjects, are being screened at Istanbul Modern. Documentaries that reach from volcanic mountains to the oceans and from ...

A row has erupted in Greece's state broadcaster ERT over a decision this week to cut a scene showing two men kissing from the evening broadcast of award-winning British period ...

With a large number of films on Turkey’s Battle of Çanakkale coming out this year -- for some odd reason that still escapes me -- director Yeşim Sezgin’s newest “Çanakkale ...

Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel, who starred in the iconic 1974 eroticFrench film "Emmanuelle" and over 50 other movies, died in her sleep overnight after suffering from cancer, her agent said Thursday. ...

Veteran theater and cinema actor Erol Günaydın died on Oct. 15 at the age of 79 in Istanbul’s Kadıköy Acıbadem Hospital, where he had been receiving treatment for some time.  ...

Veteran filmmaker and producer Osman Sınav presents an adaptation of Mustafa Kutlu’s novel of the same name in “Uzun Hikaye” (Long Story), his newest directorial effort that opened in Turkish ...