1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (397+ words) VENICE, Sept 13 — US actor John Malkovich won his first major film festival award Saturday at Venice for his star turn as a cynical CIA agent with a troubled conscience in Wild Horse Nine. The 72-year-old character actor has been stirring…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (448+ words) AMSTERDAM, Sept 10 — More than 300 works by Japanese contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama go on display in Amsterdam from tomorrow, an exhibit that has become a tribute to the “polka dot queen” who died last month. The exhibition at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (628+ words) VENICE, Sept 10 — A “lacerating” documentary about Elon Musk from acclaimed US director Alex Gibney premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday with one critic saying it had “thrashed” the erratic provocateur. Gibney in his nearly four-hour work traces South…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (628+ words) VENICE, Sept 10 — A “lacerating” documentary about Elon Musk from acclaimed US director Alex Gibney premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday with one critic saying it had “thrashed” the erratic provocateur. Gibney in his nearly four-hour work traces South…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (765+ words) KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 8 — The Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on September 25, has long been synonymous with mooncakes, lanterns and family reunions. Less commonly known, however, is that the festival, regarded as the second major celebration for the Chinese community after Chinese…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (515+ words) VENICE, Sept 7 — An apartment building has just collapsed in an Israeli airstrike, hundreds are likely dead, and a cameraman runs towards the smoke and rubble in the opening scene of the Gaza documentary Citizen Osama. Palestinian director Ahmed Hassouna’s film…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (89+ words) Accepting the award, 37-year-old Tato paid tribute to festival founder Jean-Francois Leroy, who died on Monday. Leroy, he said, had given him an early break in 2018 when he showed his work for the first time. Tato also acknowledged the young…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (449+ words) LONDON, Sept 5 — The British Museum yesterday insisted the Bayeux Tapestry’s condition was “virtually unchanged” after France said two broken threads had been noticed following the centuries-old embroidery’s move to London. The 11th-century work will be displayed at the British Museum…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (613+ words) RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 5 — Marcelo Nogueira is not well versed in the classics but the 27-year-old Brazilian book influencer was seduced by Fyodor Dostoevsky’s White Nights, a 19th-century tale of love and loneliness at the centre of an unlikely TikTok…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (513+ words) GEORGE TOWN, Sept 3 — Penang has gazetted the Teong Guan Phor Thor, or Hungry Ghost Festival, as a state heritage item under the Penang State Heritage Enactment 2011, recognising a traditional celebration observed by more than 200 groups across the state. Penang Chief…...