The culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, today confirmed plans to abolish the UK Film Council.
A Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) statement confirmed the proposal, rumours of which first emerged on the Deadline London blog.
The move is part of a raft of DCMS cost-cutting measures that involve the merger, abolition or streamlining of 16 public bodies.
Hunt answered questions in [...]

When the censors took their cutting shears to Dibakar Banerjee’s latest film, the Indian director was not particularly surprised when they decided to blur and trim a controversial sex scene. But when they chose to exclude an episode in which one of the characters refers to the low caste of another, he was both stunned and [...]

This picturesque capital in the heart of Central Europe has played many roles over the years.

Kristin Scott Thomas in costume while shooting a film in Budapest.

It doubled for the sultry streets of Buenos Aires in the 1996 film “Evita,” directed by Alan Parker; provided the ambiance of terrorist menace and revenge in 2005 for Steven Spielberg’s “Munich”; [...]

Bollywood has had a rough half-year,  with industry estimates pegging losses at about 2 billion rupees ($44 million) given a series of major failures with few hits making up for the deficit.
Among the approximately 70 films released in the first six months, the two much-hyped and big-budget titles of the year, “Kites” and “Raavan,” performed [...]

He is a stalwart of Indian cinema who once played Gandhi on the small screen, while she is a former Miss India best known for her romantic comedy roles. Together, Anupam Kher and Neha Dhupia are to play Adolf Hitler and his mistress Eva Braun in a new Bollywood film set in the last days of the Third Reich.
According to reports, the curiously titled Dear [...]

Thai film “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” won the coveted Palme d’Or for best picture at the Cannes film festival Sunday.
The mystical exploration of themes related to reincarnation as a well-to-do farmer confronts his imminent death was directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
The director, who has won other prizes in Cannes before, said during [...]

When young director Pablo Trapero shot “El Bonaerense” in 2002, he pushed the frontiers of socially realistic cinema in Argentina; with “Carancho,” he returns to the same nitty-gritty terrain (the film is even shot in the same neighborhood) where police corruption is a given and survival depends on beating your rivals to a pulp before [...]

Wonderful as it is to win the Oscar for best foreign-language film, don’t expect it to make your phone ring off the hook.
“If you win every other award in the world from every major festival, it’s not as visible as the Oscar,” observes Argentine writer-director Juan Jose Campanella, whose thriller “The Secret in Their Eyes” [...]

In the deep south of a country where few locals drink, fewer speak English, and the metric system reigns supreme, you’ll find a derelict gas station whose sign promises, “Cold beer. Last stop 200 miles.”
It’s one of several structures near this garrison town that may disrupt [...]

JOHN WOO HAS DREAMED of adapting “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” his entire life. The Hong Kong-born director first read the epic Chinese novel as a boy, and 40 years later he has finally turned the story into “Red Cliff,” which is the top-grossing movie in Asia.
READ HIS THOUGHTS ON MAKING RED CLIFF