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Cannes Film Festival 2021: Jury president Spike Lee denounces authoritarian regimes, says ‘world is still run by gangsters’
Fp Staff •Ahead of the Cannes 2021 opening night screening of Annette, Spike Lee and other jury members addressed a press conference.
Parasite director Bong Joon Ho to explore sea creatures in first animated movie
Trendingdesk •The animated movie will begin once Bong Joon Ho completes the live-action English language film he is currently working on
Despite COVID-19, how major international film festivals delivered robust versions of themselves
•A touch of foresight — as well as passion, planning and a willingness to scrap just about everything — is what prevented some of the major international film festivals to become casualties of the unpredictable pandemic.
Oscars 2021: With a format revamp, shorter runtime, pandemic-safe edition was a subdued and sincere affair
•Oscars 2021 offered a more intimate setting that felt like a throwback to the earliest days of the award show, when they were just an untelevised banquet for 270 people.
Oscars 2021: All you need to know about the reinvented awards ceremony, when and where to watch
Fp Staff •Oscars 2021 can be watched on Star India and and Star World on 26 April at 5.30 am.
Bong Joon-Ho expresses concern for anti-Asian hate in US, says such crimes makes him 'quite fearful'
•Bong Joon-Ho said directors and creators should be bolder when dealing with current issues of society and "shouldn't be afraid to confront them"
Donald Trump's term as president as depicted in cinema, television and documentaries; from Get Out to Parasite
Manik Sharma •Cinema under Donald Trump, it is safe to say, has been indicative of the chaos and division he has imported to the country.
Bong Joon Ho makes history as the first South Korean to head Venice Film Festival jury
Fp Staff •"Honoured to be woven into its beautiful cinematic tradition," Parasite director Bong Joon Ho on serving as the jury president at the 78th Venice International Film Festival.
Parasite director Bong Joon-ho to produce adaptation of his 2014 Korean immigrant drama Sea Fog
•The original film, which was directed by Shim Sung Bo from a script he wrote with Bong Joon-ho, follows a fishing-boat crew on a dangerous commission to smuggle a group of undocumented immigrants from China to Korea.
As Snowpiercer season 1 ends, recapping the main events and themes of Netflix's dystopian thriller
Rohininair •Season one of Snowpiercer, the Netflix adaptation of French graphic novel Le Transperceneige (which also served as the inspiration for Bong Joon-ho's 2013 film) came to a nail-biting close on Monday.