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Peter Sellars' staging of Prokofiev’s `The Gambler' is Salzburg Festival's latest offbeat success

Aug. 16, 2024 10:00 AM EDT

SALZBURG, Austria (AP) — Offbeat operas have been some of the Salzburg Festival’s best in recent years, the latest a colorful, outlandish and entertaining staging of Sergei Prokofiev’s “The Gambler” by director Peter Sellars. Starring soprano Asmik Grigorian as Polina and...

A journey through the films of Powell and Pressburger, courtesy of Scorsese and Schoonmaker

Jul. 15, 2024 09:44 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Martin Scorsese has spent a sizeable portion of his life talking about movies he loves. He’s made documentaries about Italian cinema (“My Voyage to Italy”), Hollywood studio films (“A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies”) and individual...

Key players: Who's who at Alec Baldwin's trial for the fatal shooting of a cinematographer

Jul. 07, 2024 12:09 PM EDT

A dozen people were inside a movie set church the day Alec Baldwin shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza during a rehearsal for the Western film “Rust.” Now, almost three years later and after countless hearings and much legal wrangling,...

'Seven Samurai' at 70: Kurosawa's epic still moves like nothing else

Jul. 03, 2024 21:24 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. But despite its age, the vitality and fleet-footed movement of Kurosawa’s epic is still breathtaking. To watch it again is to be swept along, all over again, by its flowing...

Mia Goth and Ti West are on a mission to convert horror skeptics with 'MaXXXine'

Jun. 28, 2024 09:44 AM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — As Mia Goth and filmmaker Ti West walked the red carpet this week for the premiere of “MaXXXine,” the final installment of the pair’s buzzy horror trilogy, a group of hired “protesters” stood outside the TCL Chinese Theatre chanting and holding signs with messages...

What to stream this week: 'The Bear,' Camila Cabello, Megan Thee Stallion and Celine Dion

Jun. 26, 2024 18:02 PM EDT

The life and style of fashion icon Diane von Furstenberg is chronicled in a documentary and albums from Megan Thee Stallion and Camila Cabello are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as...