Béla Szakcsi Lakatos, Artist of the Nation, Kossuth Prize-winning pianist, composer, and iconic figure of Hungarian jazz, died early Sunday at the age of 80, the Hungarian Jazz Association announced. As written in their memorial, his personality was intertwined with the development and fulfillment of Hungarian jazz, and his death is an irreplaceable loss.
Coolio, real name Artis Leon Ivey Jr., one of the defining American rappers of the nineties, died at the age of 59.
Jean-Luc Godard, the French-Swiss director of Libération, has died at the age of 91.
Are you interested to get a VIP ‘pass’ for the American Television Academy’s exclusive Emmys Party in Los Angeles? Our reporter Vida Virág was at the Academy’s official 2022 Emmys Party, so here is a sneak peek!
Hungarian film director Cristina Grosan received an independent director’s prize given to female directors under 40 at the Venice Film Festival for her film Hétköznapi Kudarcok (Everyday Failures) screened at the festival’s Giornate degli Autori programme, on Sunday.
Hungary is nominating Blockade, a film about the October 1990 taxi drivers’ blockade, for the 2023 Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, the National Film Institute (NFI) said on Thursday.
Rákóczi festival will be organized on September 11th in Borsi, Slovakia, in the birthplace of II. Ferenc Rákóczi, in the renovated Rákóczi Castle – the László Teleki Foundation, which organized the event, informed MTI on Tuesday.
Ossián, Rudán Joe, Magdi Rúzsa, Lord, Pokolgép, Moby Dick, I’m Dorothy, the Koral Tribute Band and Karpátia will also perform on August 26th and 27th at the Sitke Rock Festival, István Morgós, mayor of Sitke village announced.
Summarizing the most important stages of the folk dance researcher’s life journey and the professional and community messages surrounding it, Hungarian folk music and folk dance will welcome the 90-year-old ethnographer Bertalan Andrásfalvy in a gala evening on August 24th in Pécs, the Janus Pannonius Museum announced to MTI.
This year’s Bujtor István Film Festival starts on Thursday, and on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the birth of the Balázs Béla award-winning actor, film director, screenwriter and producer, eighty films will be shown in four days in Balatonszemes.
