#Cannes: ‘The Apprentice’ Director Shrugs Off Trump Lawsuit Threat: “Everybody Talks About Him Suing a Lot of People, They Don’t Talk About His Success Rate”

#Cannes: ‘The Apprentice’ Director Shrugs Off Trump Lawsuit Threat: “Everybody Talks About Him Suing a Lot of People, They Don’t Talk About His Success Rate”

Filmmaker Ali Abbasi has responded to the Trump campaign’s threat to sue over his movie The Apprentice, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday night to an eight-minute standing ovation.  “Everybody talks about him suing a lot of people — they don’t talk about his success rate though, you know?” Abbasi said Monday morning in…

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#‘Lula’ Review: Oliver Stone Chronicles the Dramatic Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Brazil’s Current President

#‘Lula’ Review: Oliver Stone Chronicles the Dramatic Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Brazil’s Current President

Oliver Stone has always had one eye pointed south of the U.S. border. It began with his phenomenal script for Brian De Palma’s Scarface, which transformed the famous Chicago gangster into a hardened Cuban refugee. After that, Stone directed the photojournalist saga Salvador, about the deadly civil war that gripped El Salvador in the 1980s….

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#‘The Balconettes’ Review: Noemie Merlant’s Genre-Bender About Female Friendship and Sexual Violence Is a Hot Mess

#‘The Balconettes’ Review: Noemie Merlant’s Genre-Bender About Female Friendship and Sexual Violence Is a Hot Mess

Noemie Merlant, best known beyond France for her performances in Celine Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Todd Field’s Tár, made her debut as a writer-director-actor a few years back with Mi Iubita, mon amour, which starts with a bachelorette party. Merlant offers up another female-solidarity story in the shape of The Balconettes…

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#‘Savages’ Review: A Heartfelt and Galvanizing Animated Film Calls for Environmental Protection

#‘Savages’ Review: A Heartfelt and Galvanizing Animated Film Calls for Environmental Protection

Films about the ecological stakes of contemporary life often center the results of unfettered human consumption. By showing the abuses suffered by the environment, they function as both an urgent warning and a desperate plea. Claude Barras takes a different route in Savages (Sauvages), his incisive and edifying animated feature about an 11-year-old girl trying…

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#‘The Invasion’ Review: Sergei Loznitsa’s Doc About Ukrainian Life During Wartime Is Quietly Devastating

#‘The Invasion’ Review: Sergei Loznitsa’s Doc About Ukrainian Life During Wartime Is Quietly Devastating

Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s filmography could be neatly divided into three genre buckets: feature films (the last two were Donbass and A Gentle Creature, both from the last decade), documentaries compiled entirely from archive sources (The Kiev Trial), and documentaries about current events, filmed by Loznitsa himself and small crews. The most well-known example from…

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