**Next Children Cinema Day on October 18: A Magical Experience for Malta’s Young Film Lovers** The excitement is palpable as the annual Children Cinema Day approaches once more. Scheduled for October 18, this special event promises to enchant Malta’s young cinephiles with a day dedicated to the magic of film. As a nation rich in…
**Claudia Cardinale, 87: Valetta’s Golden-Weekend queen who taught Malta how to dream in Technicolor** Valletta’s vintage cinemas fell silent yesterday as news broke that Claudia Cardinale—Italy’s eternal star who once flickered across Maltese screens in the swinging Sixties—had died in Rome aged 87. Within minutes, Facebook groups like “Malta Memories” and “Cinema Royal Valletta” were…
# Cinema: All eyes turn to Asia’s biggest film festival – and Valletta is watching too While the last rays of a Maltese summer still glint off the limestone balconies of Strait Street, cinephiles from Seoul to Busan are rolling out a red carpet that stretches 9,000 kilometres east. The 28th Busan International Film Festival…
Robert Redford, the golden-haired icon who turned “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” into the cinematic equivalent of a Mediterranean sunset, has died at 89. News of his passing reached Malta just after dawn on Tuesday, flickering across phone screens in Sliema cafés and on fishing boats bobbing off Marsaxlokk. Within minutes the island did…
