Four Video Essays Explain The Mastery Of Filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami (Rip)

With each film he made, the internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami left critics grasping for superlatives, and his death this past Monday has challeng...

Jio Mami With Star Film Club: Premiere Of Q’s Brahman Naman In Collaboration With Netflix

The Jio MAMI film club’s second installment - The India Premiere of Brahman Naman held on Monday, June 27^th was a rousing success. Audi 3 at PVR Icon, Vers...

Light Pollution Is Throwing Off The Seasons

In a study published Tuesday in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, researchers describe how night-time light pollution is causing early budburst—emergenc...

Craig Ferguson And Hollywood Stars Come Together To Have Fun And Change Lives In NBC’s Second Annual ‘Red Nose Day Special’ May 26

Craig Ferguson and a star-studded cast of Hollywood favorites is coming together to have fun, raise money and change the lives of kids who need our help the most in ‘...

Retroscope - In admiration

“ You must be the writer?!” The tall man greeted me sitting in the large drawing room .

His unexpected, if direct greeting, knocked me down that night w...

When Economic Growth Doesn't Make Countries Happier

Rich people are happier than poorer people on average, and richer countries are happier than poorer countries. And yet growing national wealth is not always accompanied by ...

The Dying Art Of Film Projectionists: In Pictures

As film gives way to digital, Richard Nicholson gained access to an endangered habitat where most cinema-goers never venture – the projection box – to document ...

Study Raises New Concern About Global Warming

A study published in Nature says global warming could disintegrate the vast ice Antarctic ice sheet sooner than originally thought. That would mean a 3-foot sea level rise ...

Iris SXSW 2016 Reviews: Everything We Saw At The Fest

Few film festivals offer the breadth and variety ofSXSW and this year was no exception. During my eight days there, I saw gentle comedies, brutal horror movies, fascinating...