English-language films

FeCHA | Athens | May 27-31

Back for a seventh edition, the Athens Hispanic Film Festival (FeCHA, fecha.gr) brings gems from the Spanish-speaking world to the open-air Ellinis and Aello movie theaters. The festival opens officially with Santiago Mitre's 2022 "Argentina, 1985" and closes with Marc Romero's 2020 crime-thriller "75 Dias."

Wes Anderson says lockdown helped inspire ‘Asteroid City’

Wes Anderson's new film puts Westerns, theatre, 1950s Americana and an alien into a blender for another of his atypical and star-packed concoctions that he says is about "reckoning with forces beyond your control".

As always, "Asteroid City," which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 23, features a roster of actors that reads like a Hollywood phonebook.  

Protests as Johnny Depp set to walk Cannes red carpet

Protests were building on social media and from French filmmakers on May 16 ahead of Johnny Depp's red carpet appearance for the opening of the Cannes Film Festival.

Depp is making his movie comeback at the French Riviera festival with his new film "Jeanne du Barry," in which he plays French King Louis XV.

Cannes Film Festival readies a blockbuster edition

The Cannes Film Festival, which kicks off today, is such a colossal extravaganza that taking measure of its ups and downs is notoriously difficult. It's a showcase of the world's best cinema. But by at least some metrics, Cannes, following a canceled 2020 festival, a much-diminished 2021 edition and a triumphant 2022 return, is finally all the way back.

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