A Rich Field of In-Competition Films at Venice

A Rich Field of In-Competition Films at Venice
The Venice film festival has a strong lineup of watchable and thought-provoking films from France, Italy, Russia and the United States, with the promise of more to come.
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Singeetham Srinivasa Rao’s gems before Christ
With more than 50 years of glorious film-making, and many successful movies in his kitty, we celebrate Singeetham Srinivasa Rao by looking at some of his groundbreaking works before he undertakes a movie about Jesus Christ.
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Cinematic Titanic’s struggle with ‘Weisenheimer’s’
In the late 1980s through the end of the 1990s, an unusual show on Comedy Central (once called the Comedy Channel) cultivated a devoted audience that loved bad B-grade movies and inspired heckling. “Mystery Science Theater 3000” showed series creator Joel Hodgson as a man stranded in space with some wisecracking robots. As original cast members left the show and new comedians were introduced …
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