MK2’s Nathanael Karmitz to Unveil Big Plans With Heritage Film at Lumiere Festival (EXCLUSIVE)

Cannes wrapped a late, and truncated, version of its 2020 film festival on Thursday, just hours before all of France went into a second coronavirus lockdown. The French Tech, a comedy from director Bruno Podalydès, closed the three-day mini-festival at 8 p.m.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterThe winners of the 2020 Irish Film & Television Academy Awards were announced last night, with Lesley Manville and Liam Neeson pic Ordinary Love winning Best Film, presented by Martin Scoresese. Tom Vaughan-Lawlor won Best Actor in Film for Rialto, which also scooped the Scriptwriter prize for Mark O’Halloran.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentBrandon Cronenberg has proven to be an heir to his father, David, with his grisly sophomore feature, “Possessor Uncut,” which took home best film and director at Spain’s 53rdSitges Film Festival on Saturday.Running Oct.8-18, the fantastic film fest, Europe’s biggest, wrapped yesterday in Sitges, a picturesque seaside resort just south of Barcelona.With these new honors, Brandon Cronenberg also suggests that his best new director award at 2012’s

Kaleem Aftab The hallmarks of screenwriter Michel Audiard – slang-laden dialogue, absurd situations and explosive confrontations – are all in evidence in Gilles Grangier’s “The Night Affair” (“Le Désordre et la nuit”), screening at the Lumière Film Festival as part of the program marking the centenary of Audiard’s birth.The celebration features 18 films scripted by Audiard, one of his directorial efforts, “Don’t Take God’s Children for Wild Geese,” a pastiche of the hardboiled detective

Ed Meza @edmezavarSandra den Hamer, president of the Association of European Film Archives and Cinematheques (ACE) and director of the Netherlands’ Eye Filmmuseum, has called on a European framework to facilitate the sharing of European film heritage with the public.In a lively online discussion between several representatives of European film institutes at the Lumière Film Festival’s International Classic Films Market (MIFC) in Lyon, France, on Thursday, den Hamer pointed out that many small

Ed Meza @edmezavarThe Lumière Festival’s Classic Film Market (MIFC) in Lyon, France, is spotlighting efforts in Portugal to digitize and preserve the nation’s film heritage as part of this year’s country focus.Portugal is a good representation of what is happening in Europe, according to MIFC program coordinator Gérald Duchaussoy.The Cinemateca Portuguesa has agreements with rights holders and distributors, organizes events, promotes Portuguese cinema at festivals, digitizes and restores films

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentDealing with a surge in COVID-19 cases, France has imposed a nightly curfew in Paris and eight other cities, which could potentially put some film releases and shoots on ice.Announced by President Emmanuel Macron during a televised address on Wednesday, the curfew will kick off on Saturday and remain in place for six weeks, running from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m.

Dave McNary Film ReporterThe 43rd Denver Film Festival will open on Oct. 22 with a drive-in showing of Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland,” starring Frances McDormand, at the Red Rocks Park.The festival will be mostly virtual but will also hold drive-in showings of “Nine Days” as its Centerpiece title on Oct.

Lise Pedersen “À la recherche de la Lumière” – the French title of Oliver Stone’s memoirs, “Chasing the Light: How I Fought My Way into Hollywood,” couldn’t find a more fitting place than Lyon’s Lumière Festival to make headlines.The U.S.

Lise Pedersen “Ouf!” – “Phew!” in French: the sigh of relief was the first word to appear in the inaugural clip at the opening ceremony of Lyon’s Lumière Festival, which kicked off on Saturday night as the city was put on maximum alert amid the coronavirus pandemic.While attendance numbers are limited, cinemas remain open in France and the festival will be able to go ahead as planned.Led by Thierry Frémaux, who is also head of the Cannes Festival, it is one of the world’s leading classic film

Dave McNary Film ReporterIrish actor Ruairi O’Connor will play rock ‘n’ roll icon Buddy Holly in the biopic “Clear Lake” with a tentative production start date set for the spring.O’Connor, who stars as a young King Henry VIII in the Starz miniseries “The Spanish Princess,” was selected following a six-month search by the producers and casting directors at Presser/Well Casting to find the right actor who both resembled Holly and could handle vocals and instrumentation on classic songs such as

Ed Meza @edmezavarIf all goes as planned, the Lumière Film Festival will kick off this month in Lyon, France, to again celebrate classic cinema and fete such guests as Viggo Mortensen and Oliver Stone.This year’s edition, which runs Oct. 10-18, is taking place under strict health and safety measures, including limiting public gatherings to a maximum of 1,000 people.

Mirayo by Santana — the cannabis brand’s name is a combination of the Spanish words for “my” and “ray” — is the musician’s newest pot venture that he says was inspired by his childhood and Latin heritage, Variety reported.Santana’s line of packs of pre-rolled joints and jars of marijuana flower place him alongside boldfacers such as actor Jim Belushi, Wu-Tang alum Method Man, and Snoop Dogg, who are invested in a combination of weed lines, farms, products and delivery apps.The Mexican-American

Netflix has said it is standing by the controversial film Cuties after it emerged the streaming giant is facing a criminal charge in Texas over the movie’s alleged “lewd” depiction of children.

The Philadelphia Film Festival has unveiled its 2020 film lineup for an Oct. 23 to Nov.

Emily Cooper (Lily Collins) is in a bit of a romantic pickle at the end of the first season of Netflix's romantic comedy, .

Jamie Lang Returning for its fourth year, although necessarily postponed from its traditional March dates by the COVID-19 pandemic, Malaga Film Festival’s Spanish Screenings will take place Nov.

Cannes Film Festival organizers, after having to cancel this year's physical event due to the coronavirus pandemic, said on Monday that four films from this year's Official Selection will screen in the city in the south of France after all during a "2020 Special" taking place at the end of October. Organizers had focused their efforts this year on Cannes 2020, a branded selection of titles that did not screen in Cannes but at other international fests, including Venice.

The 2020 Cannes Film Festival has risen from the dead. And much like a zombie from a George A.