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Two years ago, Noémie Merlant wowed audiences with her incredible performance as the lead actress in “Portrait of a Lady on Fire.” The film would premiere to rapturous reviews and go on to dominate many critics’ top ten lists at the year’s end. And for Merlant, it served as a breakout performance that made film fans take notice and look out for everything she might have coming up.
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You probably remember “Never Gonna Snow Again” from the Venice Film Festival last year, where it was met with much acclaim. Then Poland chose it as their Official Submission to the 93rd Academy Awards.
, the islanders in the villa are left to deal with the aftermath of a shocking ceremony. In ET's exclusive sneak peek from Thursday's episode, the drama is getting started and you better believe it's about to get messy, messy, messy.Though Melvin «Cinco» Holland Jr.
Super producers are usually not young guys; they are generally the Tony Viscontis, Rick Rubins, Dr. Dre, Linda Perry, and Nigel Godrich’s of the world, to name a few.
EXCLUSIVE: German actor August Diehl, whose credits include The Young Karl Marx, Inglourious Basterds and A Hidden Life, has signed on to play the lead role in big-budget Russian drama Woland.
Two simple-minded friends find a giant fly in the trunk of their car and decide to use this discovery to make a lot of money. No, this isn’t the description of a fever dream I recently had.
Cannes film festival might primarily be a celebration of cinema, but as any fashion fan will know, it’s just as much of a sartorial spectacle as well. Every year since 1946, with the exception of 2020 due to the pandemic, a menagerie of film stars, models, and directors decamp to the French Riviera to preview the hottest releases for the year.
Caleb Landry Jones was a big winner at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival!
John Boyega might be known for big franchises these days, “Star Wars,” “Pacific Rim,” etc., but as something like Steve McQueen‘s recent “Small Axe” will sharply put into focus, he hasn’t forgotten his indie roots and stories of real human empathy.
When “Good Joe Bell” debuted at last year’s TIFF, there was buzz about the film being an Oscar contender for star Mark Wahlberg. But when after the debut, the reviews were published that showed the film wasn’t the awards contender many thought it would be, as it failed to live up to the inspiring true story it’s based on.
Cannes film festival might primarily be a celebration of cinema, but as any fashion fan will know, it’s just as much of a sartorial spectacle as well. Every year since 1946, with the exception of 2020 due to the pandemic, a menagerie of film stars, models, and directors decamp to the French Riviera to preview the hottest releases for the year.
A coming-of-age summer romance yarn, “Mi Iubita, Mon Amour” succeeds in shifting the power dynamic within the classic genre archetype, albeit in a way that increases the creep factor.
K.J. Yossman Maria Bakalova (“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”) has gone from Kazakh ingenue to a Cannes contender thanks to her new film, “Women Do Cry.”In the movie, Bakalova (pictured right), who scored Oscar, SAG, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for her breakout role last year as Borat’s unsophisticated teenage daughter, is almost unrecognizable.
“Magnetic Beats,” the directorial debut from Vincent Maël Cardona, is one of the most exciting new features at this year’s Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes. And in the wake of the recent world premiere of the feature, we’re happy to offer our readers an exclusive clip from the new drama.
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticAs a filmmaker, Sean Penn has always had a flinty integrity, but the movies he directs work so hard to channel the values of ’70s films — they’re moody and fatalistic, with furrowed brows, and move at a pace of drop-dead deliberation — that early on, in the days of “The Indian Runner” (1991) and “The Crossing Guard” (1995), you could just about feel the sweat of his downbeat virtue.
If the Merchant Ivory factory of well-appointed period British cinema was still in operation, a film adaptation Graham Swift’s novella Mothering Sunday, debuting today as part of the Cannes Film Festival Cannes Premiere section, might have been something they would have snapped up immediately.