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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...