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PARIS, April 22, 2022 (BSS/AFP) - French actor and filmmaker Jacques Perrin, who starred in dozens of films including "Cinema Paradiso"

'The family has the immense sadness of informing you of the death of filmmaker Jacques Perrin, who died on Thursday, April 21 in Paris.'

Athens-based musician and Hugh Hodgson School of Music graduate Avery Leigh Draut spent six years making her band Night Palace's debut album.

Márta Mészáros' film, 'Adoption', is empathetic and beady-eyed about the negotiations and indignities of those caught up in social prejudices, especially women.

My favorite genre is the movie musical; my least favorite, the musical-theater-kid movie. Both Spielberg’s Story and last year’s other corny pretender, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights, have arrived as quaint, todos-juntos representatives of the latter brand. Bright, high-pitched, and would-be weird, they come from a time when we weren’t shaken by a global pandemic that wiped out millions of the bottom and made billions for the top. Miranda had the audacity to state in a promotional podcast for In the Heights that he wanted to “transcend” (“progress beyond”) West Side Story ...