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NBC News’ Meet the Press Film Festival will move to Los Angeles this year and will be part of the AFI Fest next month. The Nov. 11 event, a showcase for documentary shorts, will include in-person and online screenings. It’s previously taken place in Washington, D.C., where the network’s Meet the Press is based. On…

After opening the Venice Film Festival and continuing on to the New York Film Festival, Oscar winner Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers from Sony Pictures Classics will have a red-carpet premiere at this year’s AFI Fest at the TCL Chinese Theatre on Saturday, Nov. 13. In the movie, two women, Janis and Ana, played…

The American Film Institute said Tuesday that it has added the world premieres of Apple Original Films’ Swan Song, starring two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali, and Halle Berry’s directorial debut Bruised from Netflix to this year’s AFI Fest lineup. When Netflix picked up Bruised at the Toronto Film Festival last…

Warner Bros’ King Richard, the Will Smith-starring drama about Serena and Venus Williams’ father and how he raised a pair of tennis champions, will close AFI Fest this fall. Organizer American Film Institute said Wednesday that the pic, which world premiered earlier this month at the Telluride Film Festival, will wrap…

As the fall festivals Venice, Telluride and Toronto, as well as New York and London continue to evolve in the surging Covid environment, AFI Fest has announced it is moving full speed ahead. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s feature directorial debut, tick, tick…BOOM! from Netflix will be the opening-night world premiere on…

AFI Fest on Friday announced the winners of its jury and audience awards, with marquee honors going to Secret of Kells duo Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart’s animated Wolfwalkers, which won the audience award for narrative feature, and 76 Days, the documentary about the first days of the COVID-19 virus in China, taking the…

For at least some of us who lived through the counter-culture/psychedelic era of the late '60s and early '70s, Timothy Leary was one of the most annoying or, at least, equivocal figures of a time that hardly lacked for colorful characters. The most famous utterance of this often articulate, madly attention-seeking…

Right from the opening images of a unrecognizable, long-haired, darkly blond Rachel Brosnahan laying on a lounge chair with oversized dark glasses as we hear Bobbie Gentry’s lilting ’70s song, “I Wouldn’t Be Surprised” play on the soundtrack, I have to admit that tonight’s AFI Fest opener I’m Your Woman had me at…

The woman holds her baby her thief husband says he won’t be home tonight. Later she’s awakened by his partner in crime — “Something happened tonight,” he tells her in a rush — and is set away with a third man. “Is anybody looking?” Jean asks her new caretaker. “Everyone’s looking,” he replies. “And they’re looking for…

AFI Fest said Friday that it has added Regina King’s drama One Night in Miami to its lineup as the Centerpiece Drive-in screening, the only in-person screening at this year’s otherwise virtual edition set for October 15-22. The move comes as the movie, which bowed at this year’s Venice Film Festival, gears up for its…

NewFest is hosting a reading of Ang Lee’s groundbreaking Brokeback Mountain at its New York LGBTQ Film Festival on October 18, employing an all-trans cast for the event that commemorates the film’s 15th anniversary. The cast features Leo Sheng (The L Word) as Ennis, Brian Michael Smith (911: Lone Star) as Jack, Jen…

AFI Fest, taking place online from Oct. 15-22, is honoring Sofia Coppola, Kirby Dick, Rita Moreno and Mira Nair each with an evening of conversation celebrating their careers. "Artists of this caliber are essential players in our global culture," said Bob Gazzale, AFI President & CEO. "To honor each of them – and all…