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A golden era of Chinese cinema was brought to a halt by Xi Jinping’s regime, but now, thousands of miles away, a rich world of banned documentaries and dramas is being studied and celebrated

Payout from TCI, where Rishi Sunak once worked, amounts to more than £1m for every working day

WILLOUGHBY, Ohio — It may feel like another lifetime, but it was only a few years ago that the Cleveland International Film Festival was, as Associate Director Patrick Shepherd says, "bursting at the seams" at Tower City Cinemas. The roughly 250-seat auditoriums — with their rough 30-year-old seats — regularly…

CHICAGO — Last year, the opening night of the Chicago International Film Festival told it like it was. One film (Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch”) played indoors, at the Music Box Theatre. That same night, across town, another film (Todd Haynes’ “The Velvet Underground”) played outdoors at the Pilsen drive-in…