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Reporting on the most famous and fashionable, and the films, at the annual Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, the United States.
Robert Downey Jnr attends the Marvel Studios Panel at SDCC in San Diego, California, in 2024. Avengers: Doomsday is currently scheduled to release on December 18, 2026. Photo: Getty Images
American cinema

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Hollywood faces a pivotal year of change in 2026, with the potential Netflix/Warner deal, AI actors and nostalgia fever among key factors.

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American cinema

Film about Pee-wee Herman actor meant as ‘portrait of an artist’

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Photography

Who took the iconic Napalm Girl image? World Press Photo says it’s not clear

Asian cinema

Move over Bollywood, Indian art-house cinema is on the rise

Films such as All We Imagine as Light, Sister Midnight and Santosh are showing a different side to Indian cinema and attracting global fans.

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Kani Kusruti (left) and Divya Prabha in a still from All We Imagine as Light.
Fame and celebrity

Meet actor Robert Redford’s wife of 16 years, the artist Sibylle Szaggars

The couple met at Redford’s Sundance Mountain Resort in 1996 and tied the knot in 2009; Szaggars is Redford’s second wife after he parted ways with Lola Van Wagenen.

Chinese language cinema

Recap | The directors reshaping Asian cinema, from Jia Zhangke to Ray Yeung

Discover 5 directors shaping modern Asian cinema, covering LGBTQ representation, China’s rise, dystopian tales and untold war stories.

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Fame and celebrity

Barack Obama has no problem with daughter not using his name

Filmmaker Malia Obama doesn’t want tagging as a ‘nepo baby’, so these days she is ‘Malia Ann’. And US ex-president is just fine with that.

Former US president Barack Obama takes the stage at a campaign rally for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Photo: dpa
Cinema

Why director Tony Bui is telling the story of the Vietnam war’s ‘napalm girl’

As his Sundance hit Three Seasons enjoys a 4k restoration, the Vietnamese-American director is next chronicling Kim Phuc, the screaming young girl seen in newspapers around the world

Asian cinema: Chinese films

Like a Chinese Michael Crichton, Lin Jianjie went from science to filmmaking

Brief History of a Family made a splash at Sundance and is about to screen at the Berlin film festival. Its Chinese director, Lin Jianjie, reflects on its subject – China’s middle class – and dreamlike ending.

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Barack Obama

Malia Obama’s film career so far – from internships to her directorial debut

Malia Obama just made her directorial debut at the Sundance Film Festival with short film The Heart – here’s what you need to know about her burgeoning film career

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Malia Ann Obama premiered a film short at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival on January 18. Photo: Getty Images
ChatGPT and other generative AIs

Profile | Musician Brian Eno on why he doesn’t trust tech titans with AI

Brian Eno, influential musician and producer, is the subject of Eno, a documentary that uses AI to generate a different version of the film each time it is shown. He explains why he embraced the project.

Brian Eno, influential musician and producer who worked with Roxy Music, David Bowie, Talking Heads, Devo and U2, in a still from the documentary “Eno” about his life and career. Photo: Film First/Brain One
Asian cinema: Chinese films

Review | Brief History of a Family: Chinese drama exposes cracks in ‘perfect’ family

Lin Jianjie’s unsettling drama, which will premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, exposes hidden tensions in a post-one-child-policy Chinese family as the son’s mysterious friend becomes a fixture.

American cinema

Kristen Stewart to Pedro Pascal, 10 to watch at Sundance 2024

Films screening at the 40th Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, include Love Lies Bleeding, starring Kristen Stewart, Freaky Tales with Pedro Pascal, and Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun.

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American cinema

Review | Past Lives: Celine Song’s tender, touching romance about first loves

Celine Song’s gentle romance stars Greta Lee and Teo Yoo as childhood friends in Korea who reconnect online after 12 years apart, and eventually meet again in New York.

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Greta Lee (left) and Teo Yoo in a still from Past Lives, directed by Celine Song. Photo: Jon Pack.
Royalty

‘Immersive’ Princess Diana documentary ‘explores our complicity’ in her life and death

While previous documentaries tried to ‘get inside Diana’s head’, ‘The Princess’ focuses on how the press and public perceived and judged her behaviour.

New film ‘immersive’ about Princess Diana offers an ‘origin story’.
Coronavirus pandemic

Grammys postponed, Sundance goes online, citing Omicron risks

The Grammys were originally expected to return to the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on January 31, complete with a live audience and performances.

American cinema

Sundance hit CODA about a mostly deaf family is funny and profound

Starring a trio of actors who are deaf – Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur and Daniel Durant – CODA is an acclaimed drama about a teenager who can hear (Emilia Jones) growing up in a deaf family.

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American cinema

Nicolas Cage’s wildest film yet – director Sion Sono weighs in

A renegade director, a no-holds-barred actor – Sion Sono on how he made the film Nicolas Cage says is his wildest yet, Prisoners of the Ghostland, which premiered this week at the Sundance Film Festival.

Nicolas Cage (right) as Hero and Nick Cassavetes as Psycho in a still from Prisoners of the Ghostland, directed by Japan’s Sion Sono, which had its premiere this week at the Sundance Film Festival. Photo: courtesy of XYZ Films
Asian cinema

Film follows success of women journalists from India’s lowest caste

The story of three extraordinary young women journalists from India’s first all-women news agency is the subject of Writing with Fire, a stand-out at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

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American cinema

‘If it moves me I’m into it’: Steven Yeun on new film Minari

Korean-American who was Glenn Rhee in Walking Dead says Minari, story of a Korean immigrant family entered in Sundance festival, ‘spoke to me on a deeply human level’; Yeun is also rooting for Paradise at the Oscars.

Steven Yeun in a still from Minari by Lee Isaac Chung, in competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. ‘Tell Steven he absolutely crushed it’, Brad Pitt said of his performance as a Korean immigrant father in the United States. Pitt’s Plan B company produced the film. Photo: Courtesy of Sundance Institute
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