#Cannes 2023 Award Winners (Updating Live)

#Cannes 2023 Award Winners (Updating Live)

The 2023 Cannes International Film Festival is coming to an end with the awards ceremony for the 76th festival. The closing ceremony has kicked off at the Palais des Festivals’ Grand Théâtre Lumière in Cannes Saturday night. This year’s jury, headed by Swedish director Ruben Östlund — a two-time Cannes’ winner, who last year took…

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#Cannes: Arab Films ‘Four Daughters’ and ‘The Mother of All Lies’ Share Top Documentary Prize

#Cannes: Arab Films ‘Four Daughters’ and ‘The Mother of All Lies’ Share Top Documentary Prize

Two documentaries by Arab women directors have jointly won this year’s L’Oeil d’or (Golden Eye) award for best documentary at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania’s Four Daughters and The Mother of All Lies from first-time Moroccan filmmaker Asmae El Moudir were announced as this year’s best documentary winners at a…

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#Cannes: 3 Questions With Takeshi Kitano

#Cannes: 3 Questions With Takeshi Kitano

Takeshi Kitano has had enough careers for three. Starting as a stand-up comedian in Tokyo strip clubs under the moniker Beat Takeshi, he first rose to fame on Japanese TV, landing an international hit with Takeshi’s Castle, a slapstick-style physical game show that inspired a whole genre (It’s a Knockout, Wipeout). After starring in a…

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#Cannes: Elena Martín Gimeno’s ‘Creatura’ Wins Best European Film at Directors’ Fortnight

#Cannes: Elena Martín Gimeno’s ‘Creatura’ Wins Best European Film at Directors’ Fortnight

Creatura, the debut feature from Spanish director Elena Martín Gimeno, has won the Europa Cinemas Label prize for best European film in the 2023 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight section. The drama, about a seemingly perfect couple who can’t manage to have sex anymore, explores themes of repression and female sexual desire. Gimeno co-wrote the screenplay for…

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#‘All to Play For’ Review: Virginie Efira Excels in a Custody Drama With No Easy Solutions

#‘All to Play For’ Review: Virginie Efira Excels in a Custody Drama With No Easy Solutions

It wouldn’t be the Cannes Film Festival nowadays without at least one film featuring the prolific Franco-Belgian actress Virginie Efira, who’s become a regular on the Croisette ever since starring in director Justine Triet’s second movie, Victoria, back in 2016. Last year, Efira toplined Serge Bozon’s Don Juan and Alice Winocour’s Paris Memories, while also…

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#My Cannes Moment: Joseph Kosinski, Warwick Thornton, Christian Mungiu, Paul Laverty and James Marsh on Their Best Festival Experiences

#My Cannes Moment: Joseph Kosinski, Warwick Thornton, Christian Mungiu, Paul Laverty and James Marsh on Their Best Festival Experiences

Joseph KosinskiThe Top Gun: Maverick director on the epic gala — including a flypast by the French airforce — in 2022. This year he returns as the exec producer on BMW Films’ The Calm featuring the all-electric BMW i7 and starring Uma Thurman and Pom Klementieff The whole Cannes experience — the photographers on both sides of the…

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#Takeshi Kitano Weighs in on Sex Abuse Scandal Rocking Japan’s Entertainment Industry: “These Stories Have Always Been Around” (Exclusive)

#Takeshi Kitano Weighs in on Sex Abuse Scandal Rocking Japan’s Entertainment Industry: “These Stories Have Always Been Around” (Exclusive)

Takeshi Kitano, arguably Japan’s most recognizable entertainer, has weighed in on the sexual abuse scandal that has shaken the country’s multi-billion-dollar media landscape.   Since March, a long-delayed reckoning has been brewing in the country’s entertainment industry. For decades, rumors of rampant sexual abuse had swirled around Johnny Kitagawa, the founder of Johnny & Associates…

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