Here are a few things to know about the living legend that is Gordon Liu. 1 His parents did not want him to learn kung fu Liu developed an interest in learning kung fu as a child after seeing martial arts films at the cinema with his uncle. But his parents were dead set against … Read more
Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal’s annual Tribeca Festival, which opened Wednesday night and runs through June 16, will look a little different this year. For the first time, Tribeca will give awards to short films generated by artificial intelligence. It’s one of the entertainment industry’s first public embraces of the new technology, which many … Read more
And no film star wants to end up like that. Charlie Chaplin in a scene from The Gold Rush (1925). Movies during this era were captured on nitrate film, which was highly flammable. Photo: AFP Movie-making has gone through a number of evolutions as directors sought a way to immortalise their leading men and women. … Read more
