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My Octopus Teacher: Underwater art exhibition or camouflage? It’s been over a year since most of us have set foot inside a theatre. Instead, we’ve spent the past 13 months streaming instead of screening, and so the idea of handing out movie awards seems unduly hypocritical even by Academy standards. If ever there were a time to remind audiences that it is once again safe to return to the multiplex, it’s now. Why then did the Board of Governors choose a change of venue, from the Kodak Theatre to Union Station? Fortunately, tear gas wasn’t used to disperse the homeless for a photo-op fe...

About the Show Every two weeks, film critics Dana Stevens (Slate) and K. Austin Collins (Rolling Stone) revisit notable films from the past—movies outside of the current releases and that have influenced modern culture and canon—and analyze them with a contemporary, critical eye.All episodes Hosts Dana Stevens is Slate’s movie critic. K. Austin Collins is a film critic for Rolling Stone and a crossword constructor for the New Yorker and the New York Times. About

Le notti bianche (1957) We began this short week with a look at the enthusiastic response to Mark Harris’s Mike Nichols: A Life, and opening this month’s round on new and noteworthy books, we turn to a few more biographies. For a New York Times profile of literary biographer Hermione Lee, widely admired for her books on Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, and Penelope Fitzgerald, Charles McGrath spoke recently with novelist Julian Barnes who recalled the day that playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard approached Lee and asked her if she might consider making him her next subject. When she ...

Screenplay News and Reviews Are These the Best Valentine’s Day Movies? In the spirit of tumultuous relationships, this list looks at the definitive relationship dramas. These are films that focus on one or more romantic relationships. These aren’t just “falling in love” movies. These are movies that dissect some side of a relationship that helps to drive the plot. So, without further ado, let’s join hands on this journey together. 25. A Separation (2011) Directed by: Asghar Farhadi A rare foreign Oscar nominee for Best Original Screenplay (as well as winning the Best Foreign Languag...

Step back in time with critically acclaimed cinematic wonders screening this month Alliance Francaise Dubai will screen French classics every Sunday Image Credit: Supplied Sundays spell classic movie nights in the city as Alliance Francaise Dubai picks out some treasured French cinematic wonders to screen at its theatre in Oud Metha. All movies will be shown at 7pm in its original language with English subtitles, with screenings starting from January 10. January 10 Starring: Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin Casque D'Or Ima...