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Close to 40 years after Wim Wenders won the Cannes Palme d'Or for Paris, Texas, its enigmatic ending continues to spark debate in cinephile circles. Talking about his career in a Lumière Film Festival masterclass over the weekend, the German director stood by his decision to have Harry Dean Stanton's…

Editors note: This review was originally published May 29 when the movie premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Now Argentina’s Oscar entry, it hits theaters Friday via Mubi. Whether it's the flat white lighting and washed-out color grading that gives The Delinquents the look of a '70s TV…

Editor’s note: This interview was originally published on May 16 during the Cannes Film Festival. It is being rerun now to coincide with the film’s domestic release and interviews were carried out prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike. EXCLUSIVE: In 2016, the hottest book in Hollywood hadn't even been…

The Cannes Film Festival has admitted six filmmakers, five women and one man, to its 2024 residency program.  The list of filmmakers includes Morrocan director Asmae El Moudir, best known for her feature The Mother of All Lies, which shared last year's the L'Oeil d'or (Golden Eye) prize for the best…

EXCLUSIVE: Well Go USA Entertainment has set an awards-season U.S. release date for Monster, the latest film from Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-Eda that won the Best Screenplay prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The pic, which was released in Japan in June, will start its U.S. run…

EXCLUSIVE: Cinema Guild has acquired North American distribution rights for Portuguese director Pedro Costa's short film The Daughters of Fire, following its buzzy world premiere in Cannes this year. Set against the backdrop of Costa's stomping ground of the Atlantic Ocean island of Cape Verde, the…

Just how bad can a bad zombie flick get? Start with an all-in-one-take plan — “One little slip and it’s ruined” — add cheeseball makeup and then finish it off with “a weird vibe on this shoot.” More on that last part below. Here is the trailer for Final Cut, Oscar-winning The Artist director Michel…

Editors note: This review originally was originally published on May 18, 2022 after its world premiere in the Directors’ Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival. Kino Lorber releases it in theaters Friday. Italian director Pietro Marcello (Martin Eden) shifts his focus to France in Scarlet (L'En…

The Cannes Film Festival has revealed the dates for its 2024 edition, which will run May 14-25. 📅 Save the date! Rendez-vous l'année prochaine pour #Cannes2024. pic.twitter.com/zcJzxX9gsP— Festival de Cannes (@Festival_Cannes) June 6, 2023 This year, French filmmaker Justine Triet become only…

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EXCLUSIVE: Mammoth Pictures has inked a deal out of Cannes with the Bulgarian production company Bazuka to exclusively develop and produce a narrative feature take on the cultural tradition spotlighted in Kukeri, their documentary short produced for The New Yorker which was just unveiled at the beginning…

Justine Triet won the the Palm d’Or, the top prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival becoming only the third woman to receive the honor in the 76-year history of the event. Triet directed the film Anatomy of a Fall which stars Sandra Hüller, a writer trying to prove her innocence in her after her husband’s death. RELATE…