Films

Türkiye's internationally acclaimed filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan received an 11-minute ovation during the screening of his latest film "Kuru Otlar Üstüne" (About Dry Grasses) at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19.

Ceylan, who attended the premiere with the actors in the film, expressed his gratitude, thanking the film crew and the actors who took part in the film.

Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford swung into Cannes on Thursday for the world premiere of "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" in one of the most anticipated events of the French Riviera festival.

Fedoras abounded in the throngs of onlookers who watched Ford and company hit the red carpet.

Johnny Depp's comeback film is full of scandal both on-screen and off, as he tests out his French in the role of King Louis XV.

There were rumors Depp only had a few minutes of screen time in "Jeanne du Barry," which opens the Cannes Film Festival today and has a nationwide release in France.

Oscar-winning U.S. actor Jamie Foxx is out of hospital and recuperating from an unspecified medical emergency, his daughter and publicist said on May 12. 

Last month, the 55-year-old Foxx was rushed to a medical facility in the state of Georgia, where he was filming a Netflix movie at the time.

French director Louis Leterrier was a regular fan of "The Fast and the Furious" when the multi-billion-dollar franchise started more than two decades ago. Now he is finishing it.

"I was a fan, buying my ticket on the Champs Elysee in 2001, who became a director and now I'm ending the franchise," Leterrier told AFP. "That never happens!"

Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded the Russian Ambassador to Bulgaria Eleonora Mitrofanova with the Order of Alexander Nevsky, TASS reported.

The most interesting part of " The Mother," a decent if forgettable action pic starring Jennifer Lopez, is the one that is left largely unexplored. The movie is a high-concept thriller that boils down to just a few words: She's a mother and an assassin. OK, you're probably thinking, fine.

As part of its "Psi" program on the subject of psychiatry and how it's portrayed in film, the Trianon Cinema (trianon.gr) - in cooperation with the Hellenic Psychiatric Association - is screening Robert Redford's 1980 drama "Ordinary People." Starring Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch and Timothy Hutton, and based on novel by Judith Guest, this was one of the first films signalin

A 5-month-old baby died in a car after it was left there by its father in the northwestern town of Arta.

According to police sources, the father was supposed to drop the child off at the nursery, but forgot it in the backseat of the car. The infant's mother went to the nursery at noon to pick up the baby and was informed it was not there.

"They used the words I said a few years ago that I still stand by today. I would really like to chase them through the streets and I think that will happen, even if I wasn't there, maybe death will overtake me... They will be chased around streets. That is more than certain.