English-language films

France's Deauville American film fest opens with Twin Peaks' Laura Dern

The 43rd edition of France's Deauville American Film Festival opened late on Sept. 1 in the Normandy seaside resort with a tribute to American actress Laura Dern.

The festival, a showcase for American cinema, will run for ten days and offer 14 films in the official competition. Dern appeared on the red carpet in a dress covered in blue and white feathers.

Steven Soderbergh: “Film-making is like sex. If I accidentally give someone else pleasure, that’s fine”!

Steven Soderbergh is showing me a collage he’s been making. Half-finished, it sits on a table in his New York office. Composed entirely of movie stars in character, the work gives pride of place to Robert De Niro as a mohawked Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver. He’s flanked by River Phoenix, John Belushi, Sacha Baron Cohen, Dennis Hopper and Catherine Deneuve.

Piranhas seen in Turkish waters

Examinations have started after amateur fishermen caught piranhas in the Kızılırmak River for the third time in the last 20 days.

Three separate amateur fishermen caught piranhas, which are indigenous to the Amazon basin, in Kızılırmak, running through the city center of the Central Anatolian province of Sivas.

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