‘Beanpole,’ ‘Talking About Trees’ Among Palm Springs Film Festival Winners

By Patrick Hipes

Anne Hathaway enjoyed a rare public night out with her husband, Adam Shulman, on Monday night. 

By Mike Fleming Jr

In the words of the brilliant adventurer-physicist Buckaroo Banzai, "Wherever you go, there you are." This holds true even if where you're going is, as a somewhat less brilliant voyager puts it, "one of those infinite-time-loop situations you mighta heard about." That lesser intellect is Andy Samberg's Nyles, stuck in a rut in Max Barbakow's thoroughly enjoyable rom-com Palm Springs.

A study by the Time’s Up Foundation and USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative has found that women and people of color are vastly underrepresented at film festivals worldwide.

Taylor Swift arrived at this year's Sundance Film Festival in style and was met with a really warm welcome.

Taylor Swift has a lot to look forward to in 2020 with the first important event being the release of her documentary, Miss Americana. Ahead of the Netflix documentary release, we got a small glimpse into what to expect from it through a refreshing trailer.

First and second wives are natural enemies, one bitter and the other greedy: That well-traveled cliché has fueled countless comedies and dramas alike. In its low-key way,The Rest of Us — starring Heather Graham as the ex-spouse and Jodi Balfour as newly widowed Wife No.

According to the intriguingly equivocal disclaimer that opensThe 11th Green, the "unavoidably speculative" film presents "a likely factual scenario of extraordinary events." Those events run a fascinating gamut — extraterrestrial contact, postwar conspiracies, transcendental philosophy — and include a series of conversations between a dead U.S.

A film that touches on immigration as well as the dangers of nuclear weapons certainly sounds timely. Adventures of a Mathematician, a European production having its world premiere in Palm Springs, only partly delivers on its promise.

Acclaimed director Spike Lee will serve as the president of the Cannes Film Festival’s 73rd jury, making him the first black person to do so. In a statement released by the organization, the filmmaker said that he “was shocked, happy, surprised and proud all at the same time.” 

Director and activist Spike Lee will serve as jury president of the 73rd edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Lee succeeds Alejandro G. Iñárritu, whose 2019 jury awarded the Palme d’Or to Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite,” which won a Golden Globe and was just nominated for six Oscars.

A lot of talented people contributed to a small but satisfying comedy that has played at a couple of festivals (most recently Palm Springs) and will be released in February. The nifty title, Standing Up, Falling Down, refers to the main character’s gig as a stand-up comic, but it also encapsulates the troubled lives of the two protagonists.

By Bruce Haring

Vietnam has for centuries been caught up in the struggles of great powers to control its valuable resources and strategic location, first falling under the sway of successive Chinese dynasties and then eventually French colonialism before facing, and repelling, American occupation.

How do you separate color from form and meaning? This was the quest of Carlos Cruz-Diez, well into his 90s, and the subject of Alberto Alvero's serious and delightful documentary, which had its world premiere at Palm Springs and is certain to attract other arts-friendly festivals.Like Cruz-Diez's work, which in addition to being exhibited around the world has graced and transformed everything from airports (in his native Caracas) to baseball stadiums (Miami) to boats (Liverpool), the film has a