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Film Festivals: 'Human Zoo' to kick off festival Feb. 5 -- The Berlin Film Festival unveiled the complete selection for Panorama, its international arthouse sidebar Wednesday.

San Francisco's cutting-edge Cutting Ball Theater announces the extension of the company's current production of Mar?a Irene Forn?s's poetic and penetrating MUD. MUD will extend for an additional week of performance, playing now through February 15 at the Cutting Ball Theater in residence at Exit on Taylor, 277 Taylor Street in San Francisco. For tickets ($15-30) and more information, the public may visit cuttingball.com or call 800-838-3006.It is 1973 and Mae has just begun to learn how to read; things finally seem to be taking a turn for the better. As she tries to rise above her humble Midwestern origins, Mae must keep the two men in her life, foster brother and former lover Lloyd, and new boyfriend Henry, from dragging her back down. Little does Mae know that the first strong decision she's ever made about her life may be the last decision she will ever make.'After spending two weeks at the Dialog Festival in Wroclaw, Poland last year, I came back to San Francisco with a new id

Once a year, the town of Park City, Utah is set ablaze with the who's who of the film world. Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival is always rife with stars, and this year's 25th edition of the festival was certainly no exception. Every year more than 50,000 people flood the state of Utah to see the festival's film selections. According to the Sundance Institute, out of the over 9,000 submissions only 200 were selected for exhibition. Which of your favorite celebs make the cut and took to the chilly streets of Park City? Click on the photos to see!

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- When Christian Vuissa organized the first Mormon-related film festival, he wasn't sure anyone would come. Now in its eighth year, Vuissa said that feeling hasn't changed....

THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS, the acclaimed drama presented by Fellowship for the Performing Arts at The Mercury Theater, 3745 N. Southport Avenue, will celebrate Valentine's Day on Saturday, February 14 after the 8 p.m. performance with complimentary cake and champagne for all audience members. Set in an office in hell, THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS will heat up this Valentine's Day by offering a complimentary box of Red Hots? candy to each audience member attending the performance. Tickets are $48.50 and may be purchased by calling the Mercury Theater Box Office at 773.325.1700. THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS, which recently made its Chicago premiere, runs through March 1. Adapted for the stage by Jeffrey Fiske and Max McLean, THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS, which runs 90 minutes without intermission, is set in an office in hell. The engaging play follows a senior devil, Screwtape, and his secretary, Toadpipe, as they train an apprentice demon, Wormwood, on how to 'undermine faith and prevent the formation of virt

Don't Miss Your Chance to Win Tickets to the Highly Anticipated Opening Nights Festival or to the sold out South Pacific.Be part of the excitement surrounding the new, dramatically transformed Alice Tully Hall when the box office reopens for business on Thursday, January 22, at 10 a.m., at the corner of 65th Street and Broadway.WABC anchor Sade Baderinwa and Tony Award-winner and American Songbook star Paulo Szot will be on hand to mark this memorable occasion. And each person who purchases tickets to any event in Alice Tully Hall will be entered to win a pair of tickets to see South Pacific or back-to-back all-Beethoven concerts featuring The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen as part of the Opening Nights Festival.This magnificent celebration of the new Alice Tully Hall takes place from February 22 through March 8. Tickets are available for $25. Artists appearing in a wide array of programs include Jordi Savall, tenor Mark Padmore and pianist Imogen Cooper, the London Philharmo

Bret Easton Ellis has had a pretty good run in film adaptations, with both Mary Harron's American Psycho and Roger Avary's The Rules of Attraction jumping off the page in style and, especially in the case of the former, with healthy box-office returns. But the latest adaptation, The Informers, directed by Gregor Jordan, seems to be suffering in comparison: critics at the Sundance film festival emerged from the first screening apparently bamboozled by what Cinematical.com called 'a jumbled mass of unrelated subplots'.Slash Film was even more scathing, boiling its verdict down to a 15-word review: 'Spoiled Rich kids. Drugs. Sex. Amber Heard naked. Aids. Infidelity. Kidnapping. Unconnected. Boring. Uninteresting. Horrible.'An Education, billed as the pick of the record 12 feature-length British films to be screened at this year's festival, did rather better and has been snapped up by Sony in a deal purportedly close to $3m (£2.18m) following a bidding war with Fox Searchlight. Based on a

The same week an African-American family moves into the White House, a movie about a Mississippi high school's first integrated dance debuts at the Sundance Film Festival.

Actor Tom Cruise is on the red carpet in London at the UK premiere of his new film Valkyrie.

Actor Tom Cruise graces the red carpet in London at the UK premiere of his new film Valkyrie.