Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, first Arab and African director to win Cannes Palme d’Or, dies aged 95
Chronicle of the Years of Fire took the prize in 1975 for its portrayal of the Algerian war of independence, drawing on his own traumatic...
Category : Cannes film festival
Ted Kotcheff, director of First Blood, Weekend at Bernie’s and Wake in Fright, dies aged 94
Prolific Canadian director also made one of the country’s first internationally successful films, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, starring Richard Dreyfuss Ted Kotcheff, the prolific...
