‘Lupin III: The First’: Film Review

When the protests over the killing of George Floyd ripped through the U.S. in late May, they quickly found resonance abroad — perhaps nowhere more than in France, where the 2016 death of 24-year-old Adama Traoré while in police custody (in an incident with similarities to the Floyd case) gave the French their very own reason to take to the streets.

The Royal Tenenbaums, Moonrise Kingdom and The Grand Budapest Hotel.The follow-up to his weird and wonderful stop motion-animated adventure Isle of Dogs is set to arrive in the form of The French Dispatch — or, to give it its full title, The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun.

head off to nearby secluded vacation houses rather than hopping on international flights or lining up at theme parks this year.“The Rental,” out digitally Friday, taps into our worst fears of what could happen during a quiet holiday with heart-thumping realism.The two couples — Josh (Jeremy Allen White) and Mina (Sheila Vand) and Charlie (Dan Stevens) and Michelle (Alison Brie, who is married to Franco) — head off to the calm abode they found online, French bulldog in tow, to celebrate a recent

Amazon Prime, comes from Lauren Redniss' 2010 graphic biography, “Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout.” Satrapi, the Iranian-French filmmaker, has her own roots in graphic novels. She co-directed the adaptation of her own “Persepolis," a striking coming-of-age tale set against the Islamic Revolution.

How can an angelic-looking, 16-year-old blond boy resist a more tenebrous, slightly older man with a silver earring, a sailboat, a motorcycle and nipples peeking from beneath his billowy 1980s shirts? It's no surprise when cute Alex falls in love with the edgy and alluring — if also ill-omened —David inSummer of 85 (Ete 85), the 19th feature from gifted French filmmaker François Ozon.

Amber Heard's former aide, Kate James, told a London court that the actress stole her story of sexual abuse and made it her own to receive mass sympathy.James gave her testimony remotely from Los Angeles, in support of Johnny Depp in his trial against The Sun's publisher, News Group Newspapers (NGN), and its executive editor Dan Wootton.

Abortion is a subject that runs through the core of Saint Frances, the debut film written by and starring rising talent Kelly O’Sullivan. But until O’Sullivan’s own parents read the press coverage of the film, they didn’t know that their daughter had had an abortion several years ago.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticNot since the summer of 2003, when François Ozon unveiled Sapphic sizzler “Swimming Pool” at the Cannes Film Festival, has the French director seduced audiences quite as brazenly as he does in “Summer of 85,” which was also set to premiere at Cannes, before the global coronavirus outbreak forced the cancellation of the 2020 edition.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentThe Jewish Film Institute has selected six projects for its inaugural Completion Grants Program, including “The Wild One,” a documentary by French filmmaker Tessa Louise-Salomé about Holocaust survivor, Hollywood filmmaker and Method Acting pioneer Jack Garfein, who worked with George Peppard, Steve McQueen and James Dean.The funding program supports both emerging and established filmmakers developing “original, contemporary stories that promote

For a debut feature, writer-director Charlène Favier’s powerful coming-of-age sports drama Slalom couldn't come at a more timely moment.

David Robb Labor EditorPatricia Richardson, president of the SAG-AFTRA Los Angeles Local, urged the guild’s members today to vote no on the union’s new film and TV contract. “The deal isn’t good enough, and now is the time to fix it,” she said during a Zoom press conference with other leaders of the opposition, which includes the local’s two vice presidents – Frances Fisher and David Jolliffe – and A.

During the lockdown, there’s been pressure to be productive.

Jun 19, 2020 by Awais Irfan Good intentions and a compelling Jesse Eisenberg sadly can’t save this sluggish, disjointed wartime biopic – a true story that tells the true story of mime Marcel Marceau when he assisted the French resistance in World War II to escort thousands of orphans out of Nazi-occupied France.Eisenberg’s roles of late have made for some unexpected, interesting films; in both The Art of Self-Defense and Vivarium, Eisenberg plays up to his strengths.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentEurope’s biggest nation of moviegoers, France, saw its theaters reopen with a bang on June 22 and managed to sell between 850,000 and 900,000 admissions through Sunday.It’s roughly 50% less than an average week in June, but considering the dearth of fresh releases, the heat wave, which plagued most of the country last week, and fears of a second wave of COVID-19, it’s an “outstanding result that is beyond our most optimistic forecast,” said Eric Marti at

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentSolveig Langeland’s Stuttgart-based sales agency Sola Media has sold CGI animated feature film “Moonbound” to multiple territories.The film, directed by Ali Samadi Ahadi on a production budget of around $9 million, will be released in Germany and Austria by Little Dreams and Warner Bros.

After launching in France in 2014 with rather disappointing numbers, Netflix has since become a major contender, with nearly 7 million subscribers at the start of the year and probably many more after a lengthy COVID lockdown this past spring.

would be playing Venus and Serena Williams' father, Richard Williams, in an upcoming biopic, — but a new lawsuit claims that the tennis coach had already sold his life rights to someone else. In a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles on Tuesday, TW3 Entertainment and Power Move Multi Media claim that the upcoming film, produced by Smith's production company, Overbrook Entertainment, and Warner Bros., is based on a multi-million dollar breach of contract. «This case presents an unfortunate and tawdry

Also Read: Warner Bros in Talks for 'King Richard,' With Will Smith as Serena Williams' FatherTW3 Entertainment argues in the complaint that it purchased the motion picture rights to any film “based in whole or in part on Defendant [Richard] Williams’ life story or his book.”Williams, in 2014, wrote a memoir on his life titled “Black and White: The Way I See It.” The book details Williams’ life as a black man in the south and the obstacles he had to overcome to raise his daughters and train them

Ed Meza @edmezavarLa Fabrique Cinéma, the French support program aimed at young filmmakers from emerging countries, presented a wide-ranging showcase of works from around the world at the Cannes online market on Tuesday, among them new works by Iranian filmmaker Keywann Karimi (“Drum”) and Thai helmer Sompot Chidgasornpongse (“Railway Sleepers”).They are among 10 filmmakers taking part in the Institut Français’ La Fabrique Cinéma program, presenting projects in various stages of development