At most film festivals, any standing ovation stirs excitement. Not so at the Cannes Film Festival, where audiences will stand up and applaud for literally anything — even for films they also booed. To ...

Has all the applause gotten out of hand? At this year’s Venice Film Festival, which ends Saturday, three movies so far have received standing ovations reported to last 15 minutes or more. The wildest ...

The Cannes Film Festival means many different things to many different people - from masterpiece movies to not-so-well-regarded ones, from glitz and glamour to sometime controversy. In the latter ...

Has all the applause gotten out of hand? At this year’s Venice Film Festival, which ends on Saturday, three movies so far have received standing ovations reported to last 15 minutes or more. Mamma mia ...

"Oppenheimer" notched seven wins at the London awards show. "Oppenheimer" swept at the star-studded 77th British Academy Film Awards, as Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy and Robert Downy Jr. all took ...

If standing and clapping for more than 15 minutes sounds a bit tiring then you might want to steer clear of film festivals, where standing ovations are becoming increasingly epic affairs. The Venice ...

The Oscars have done something the Academy too often resists: It listened. On Wednesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the creation of a new competitive category for ...

At the Wiener Staatsoper this spring, George Balanchine’s Divertimento No. 15 and Merce Cunningham’s Summerspace supported Pathétique, the Staatsballett director Martin Schläpfer’s take on Tchaikovsky ...