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Politics continues to trump business at this year’s Cannes film festival, with little in the way of deals out of the Marché, but lots of activist agitation on the red carpet and beyond. Cannes’ first weekend, traditionally the period when the bidding wars begin and the first big buys are announced, has been almost frighteningly…
Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa made a quiet but unforgettable entrance onto the world stage with her 2022 feature debut Plan 75, a haunting dystopian vision of state-sponsored euthanasia for the elderly. Selected for Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section, the film earned the Camera d’Or Special Mention and introduced Hayakawa as a director with an artfully…
Art house distributor and streamer Mubi has struck a deal to buy the rights to Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, for North America and additional territories in a first big deal at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The territories also include the U.K., Ireland, Italy, Spain, Benelux, Latin America, India, Turkey,…
It’s easy to get star-struck by a Wes Anderson cast. There are Oscar winners, screen legends and blockbuster stars all occupying the same, impeccably ornamented space. It’s an entirely different experience getting star-struck by the Anderson troupe when you are the one leading his films. “As a performer, it was amazing to play around within…
In such a fast-moving industry, it can be easy to forget that, a mere six or so years ago, there was no film scene whatsoever in Saudi Arabia. The country has only been welcoming non-religious tourists since 2019, a year after cinemas reopened following a near 40-year ban. Now there are more than 800 to…
Austrian performer Johannes Pietsch won the 69th Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday night while Israel’s Yuval Raphael came second after a tense showdown at the Grand Final in Basel, Switzerland. Pietsch, an Austrian-Filipino opera singer who was raised in Dubai — and performs professionally under the name of JJ — sang the operatic ballad…
Their meet cute was 2012 in Cannes. Diane Kruger — Hollywood star of Troy, National Treasure and Inglourious Basterds — was on the jury. German director Fatih Akin had a documentary screening at the festival. Kruger had been an Akin superfan ever since his breakout Head-On — a gritty, violent love story about a young German-Turkish woman trying to break free of her…
A new teaser trailer for Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague (New Wave), which is premiering in the Cannes Film Festival competition on Saturday evening, shows off some of the cinematic style audiences can expect from the homage to Jean-Luc Godard’s 1959 New Wave classic A Bout de Souffle (Breathless). The black-and-white movie, shot in the 4:3 aspect ratio, stars…
Hong Kong-based boutique studio Salty Pictures has revealed its next feature project, 8 Limbed Dragon, a martial arts action drama starring Chinese UFC fighter Jingliang “The Leech” Li in his acting debut. The project was unveiled Friday at the Cannes market, where The Leech is currently attending the 78th edition of the festival. Inspired by…
Cannes devoted its opening day, May 13, to Ukraine, screening three documentaries, outside its official selection, dedicated to the Ukrainian people in their ongoing fight against the Russian invasion. Those films look at a key figure in the conflict — Zelensky, which traces the life of Ukraine’s wartime president Volodymyr Zelensky — and directly at the…