Laetitia Casta to Be Honored With Locarno Film Festival’s Excellence Award

COVID-19 travel restrictions.The likes of Rag’n’Bone Man, Inhaler, Alfa Mist, Yussef Dayes and more will no longer play the festival, which is due to take place from July 2-17.Despite Switzerland easing its lockdown restrictions from tomorrow (June 26), travellers from countries including the UK will need to complete 10 days of quarantine upon entering the country.As a result, artists travelling from the UK will be unable to play the festival, with Montreux announcing replacements today (June

Ben Croll Running July 2-10, the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (NIFFF) will mark its 20th edition this year with a nod to the past, as organizers look to commemorate the lakeside festival’s rise from modest fan gathering to one of Switzerland’s leading film events.

Locarno Sets ‘Beckett’ As Opening Film Ferdinando Cito Filomarino’s Beckett, starring John David Washington, Boyd Holbrook, Vicky Krieps and Alicia Vikander, will open the 74th edition of Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival on August 4. Produced by Luca Guadagnino, the film follows an American tourist vacationing in Greece who becomes the target of a manhunt after a devastating accident.

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Jamie Lang The Locarno Film Festival will open this year’s 74th edition on Aug. 4 with the world premiere of Italian director Ferdinando Cito Filomarino’s latest thriller “Beckett,” starring John David Washington, Boyd Holbrook, Vicky Krieps and Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander.After the film’s Locarno premiere, Netflix will launch the film worldwide on Aug.

Out On Film, Atlanta’s LGBTQ film festival, is closing out Pride month with two incredible film screenings. 

Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James,” part of the Tribeca Film Festival, when the movie stopped with 40 minutes still to go.“We will now pause for 15 minutes to watch the fireworks,” an announcer said. Huh? Cannes has never shot off pyrotechnics during a Lars von Trier debut. (Perhaps they should.)The surprise display was Gov.

Naman Ramachandran The Cannes Film Festival has added seven films addressing environmental concerns to its 2021 line-up.“La Croisade” (The Crusade, France) by actor-director Louis Garrel, stars himself, Laetitia Casta and Joseph Engel. It was co-written by legendary screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière who died last year.

The Venice Film Festival has confirmed that Denis Villeneuve’s Dune will make its world premiere out of competition at the 78th edition in September. Deadline reported in May that the film was expected. From Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures, Dune is the highly anticipated big-screen adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal science fiction bestseller of the same name. The film will be shown on Friday 3 September 2021, in the Sala Grande. The fest runs from September 1-11 on the Lido.

Scott Huver As Forest Whitaker prepares to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Newport Beach Film Festival on June 16, the prolific Academy Award- and Emmy-winning actor with a career spanning four decades says he finds himself increasingly reconnecting with the way he approached the work when he was just starting out.There’s a “joy when I’m working on a part in the discovery of looking at it and trying to figure out the people,” he says.For example, he notes that by focusing more

Emiliano Granada Having won the Swiss Film Award for best animation film, Georges Schwizgebel (“The Ride to the Abyss”) returns to Annecy with his new short film “Darwin’s Notebook” a nine-minute narration of the experience suffered by three natives of Tierra de Fuego as they are kidnapped and later returned to their homeland by the British in 1833.

“What the fuck am I doin’ here?” asks Anthony Bourdain, via archival audio, early in Morgan Neville’s new documentary “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain.” “I shall explain,” he continues, and so he does. The public outpouring of grief when Bourdain took his own life in 2018 was overwhelming; it was joined by some confusion because although he had always been forthcoming about his own demons and drives, his books and television shows conveyed such a palpable zest for living.

“What the fuck am I doin’ here?” asks Anthony Bourdain, via archival audio, early in Morgan Neville’s new documentary “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain.” “I shall explain,” he continues, and so he does. The public outpouring of grief when Bourdain took his own life in 2018 was overwhelming; it was joined by some confusion because although he had always been forthcoming about his own demons and drives, his books and television shows conveyed such a palpable zest for living.

Another early morning, another early announcement from France. As promised by the organizers previously, new titles have been added to the Cannes Film Festival, nine of them in total.

Andrew Barker Senior Features WriterTaking place across outdoor venues in all five boroughs of New York City, the Tribeca Film Festival will celebrate its 20th anniversary June 9-20, screening a bevy of features, shorts, TV series, podcasts and games in what is being billed as the first major in-person film festival to take place in North America since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.Managing all the logistics to mount a proper in-person festival despite such circumstances would be a tall

Naman Ramachandran Anne Hathaway (“The Witches”), Tahar Rahim (“The Mauritanian”), Marisa Tomei (“Spider-Man: Far from Home”), Joanna Kulig (“Cold War”) and Matthew Broderick (“Love is Blind”) headline the cast of writer/director Rebecca Miller’s romantic comedy “She Came to Me.”A multi-generational story in New York, the film follows a composer suffering from writer’s block who rediscovers his passion after an adventurous one-night stand, a couple of gifted teenagers who fight to prove to the