Cinema
Curtains down on 14th International Children's Film Festival Bangladesh
The 14th edition of the International Children's Film Festival Bangladesh (ICFFB) came to an end on Friday.
‘Ma Rainey,’ ‘Minari’ and Boseman lead SAG nominations
Chadwick Boseman received two posthumous nominations from the 27th Screen Actors Guild Awards on Thursday, while the Korean American family drama “Minari” and Spike Lee’s Vietnam veteran drama “Da 5 Bloods” were among the nominees for best ensemble.
Chadwick Boseman earns 2 nominations for NAACP Image Awards
With his final two performances, the late Chadwick Boseman earned two NAACP Image Awards nominations Tuesday, while “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” could make its presence felt at next month’s ceremony.
Oscar-winning, ‘irreplaceable’ Cloris Leachman dies at 94
Cloris Leachman, an Oscar-winner for her portrayal of a lonely housewife in “The Last Picture Show” and a comedic delight as the fearsome Frau Blücher in “Young Frankenstein” and self-absorbed neighbor Phyllis on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” has died. She was 94.
14th International Children’s Film Festival begins Saturday
The 14th edition of International Children’s Film Festival, organised by Children’s Film Society Bangladesh, will begin in the capital on Saturday.
Goethe and HerStory Foundation to host 'Sister Library: Orlando by Virginia Woolf' on Wednesday
Goethe-Institut Bangladesh, in partnership with HerStory Foundation is going to host an online circle reading of British modernist author Virginia Woolf's famous autobiographical novel 'Orlando' on Wednesday, 7 pm at the online platform Zoom.
Open to any adult audience upon free registration, the event titled 'Sister Library: Circle Reading Apart Together' will feature the popular novel as the latest edition of the monthly reading circle, which went virtual after the coronavirus outbreak around the world last year.
Online film screening begins at Goethe Institut on Friday
An online film screening event titled ‘Berlinale Spotlight World Cinema Fund’ will begin at Goethe-Institut in the capital on Friday.
Paul Walker-starring ‘Brick Mansions’ released on Bongo
Hollywood superstar Paul Walker’s latest movie "Brick Mansions” is available dubbed in Bangla for viewers to watch only on Bongo, the largest Bangladeshi streaming platform.
Satyajit Ray took Bengali cinema to new heights: Speakers
Remembering Oscar-winning film-maestro Satyajit Ray on his birth centenary, speakers at the 19th Dhaka International Film Festival (DIFF) said he transcended linguistic barrier and took Bengali cinema to an untouchable height.
Remembering Alamgir Kabir, the Professor of Bangladeshi film, 32 years after his tragic death
Albert Einstein once said, “Education is not the learning of facts but the training of the mind to think.” The late Bangladeshi filmmaker Alamgir Kabir, a pioneer in his field who passed away on this day (January 20) in 1989, took Einstein’s advice, trained his mind as a filmmaker and through his creations, projected the light of his beliefs and ethics onto his viewers.