Free from Nabokov’s pen and Humbert’s mind, it has a voice all of its own. Pia Pera was the first to realise this ...

The Odyssey has us asking what other literary classic that we definitely should've read by now needs to be on the big screen in IMAX.

"The diversity of talent meets the diversity of perspectives" at the 79th edition of the Swiss festival. By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor The films in the Concorso Cineasti del Presente, or ...

A film adaptation of Azar Nafisi's critically praised, worldwide bestselling memoir, Reading Lolita in Tehran, is now in theatres. Education had become dangerous and even deadly during the Islamic ...

Azar Nafisi's story of forming a covert book club for Iranian women made her a beloved literary figure, but the film adaptation struggles to rise above platitudes. The fleeting impulse to label a film ...

Recent events in Iran have placed a fascinating country under more scrutiny than usual, and “Reading Lolita in Tehran” provides a bracing sense of what it has been like to live in this deeply ...

A film adaptation of Azar Nafisi’s celebrated memoir of teaching literature in a repressive Iran suggests that the story might be more suited to the page. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket ...

John Wayne has one of the most expansive filmographies in Hollywood history, especially in the western universe, but one of The Duke’s personal favorites wasn’t at the top of his list because of ...

Three films ranked among AFI's greatest movies of all time are finally coming together in a Criterion Collection first.

In 1962, a young filmmaker introduced the world to a new kind of cinematic storytelling. Ivan's Childhood, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, is a Russian film that has been ranked among the best movies of ...