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Last week, the initial lineup for the Cannes Film Festival was released. There were some heavy hitters involved in that announcement, as per usual when it comes to one of the biggest showcases of cinema in the world.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent New films from Hong Sang-soo and Michel Gondry will world premiere at Directors Fortnight, a selection running parallel to the Cannes Film Festival. This edition marks the first under the leadership of Julien Rejl as artistic director. Succeeding to Paolo Moretti, Rejl was named by the governing body of Directors’ Fortnight, the SRF (Société des réalisateurs de films), as part of a rebranding. Unlike previous artistic directors for this selection, Rejl doesn’t come from the festival circuit. He was previously in charge of distribution, international co-productions and international sales at Capricci, an arthouse film banner based in Paris.

Cannes Directors’ Fortnight has announced the selection for its 55th edition, running May 17 to 26.

There are lots of ways to pitch If You Were the Last. How about “Michel Gondry remakes When Harry Met Sally — in space!” Who wouldn’t want to see that? But for all the ingenious hot takes one can dream up for Kristian Mercado’s ambitious feature-length debut, there’s no escaping the fact that it’s less than the sum of its parts. To be brutal, although it does, for an hour at least, cast a spell, raise interesting metaphysical questions, and center on an odd couple who, for once, actually don’t seem like they’ll get together and then totally convince us when they do — it doesn’t really pass muster as a movie at all.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Seth Rogen got brutally honest about film critics during a discussion about mental health and self-doubt on the “Diary of a CEO” podcast. The comedian told host Steven Bartlett that negative reviews from critics “hurt everyone very much.” “I think if most critics knew how much it hurts the people that made the things that they are writing about, they would second guess the way they write these things,” Rogen said. “It’s devastating. I know people who have never recovered from it honestly – a year, decades of being hurt by [film reviews]. It’s very personal…It is devastating when you are being institutionally told that your personal expression was bad, and that’s something that people carry with them, literally, their entire lives and I get why. It fucking sucks.”

Oscar-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman will be this year’s recipient of the WGA West’s Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement. The lifetime achievement award, which goes to members who have “advanced the literature of motion pictures and made outstanding contributions to the profession of the screenwriter,” will be presented March 5 during the 75th annual Writers Guild Awards at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Award-winning filmmakers Alice Diop (“Saint Omer”), Audrey Diwan (“Happening”), Julia Ducournau (“Titane”), Michel Hazanavicius (“The Artist”), Jacques Audiard (“Dheepan”), and actors Juliette Binoche, Marion Cotillard, Isabelle Huppert, Lea Seydoux are among nearly 1,000 prominent French film figures who have signed an open letter to support Iranian women and civil rights activists in their revolt over the death of 22 year-old Mahsa Amini, as well as denounce the “murderous violence” of the Iranian regime. Amini, a Kurdish woman, died in custody on Sept. 16, three days after being arrested in Tehran because she allegedly breached the Islamic republic’s strict dress code for women. Her death has sparked protests across Iran, including in Tehran, Isfahan and Yazd, and in cities around the world, including in Paris, Istanbul and Los Angeles. Amnesty International said Iranian authorities have been “intentionally using lethal force against the protesters,” causing more than more 52 deaths (as of Sept. 30). The organization has urged international action “beyond statements of condemnation” to prevent more people from being killed.

Alice Diop’s Saint Omer has been selected as France’s entry to the best international film category.

Charlotte Gainsbourg is set to be honored at this year’s Zurich Film Festival with the Golden Eye award. Gainsbourg will be presented with the award on September 26 at the festival and the presentation will be followed by the world premiere of her latest film The Almond and the Seahorse, starring Rebel Wilson.

Naman Ramachandran Philippe Rousselet, Oscar-winning producer of “Coda,” “Paris, 13th District” director Jacques Audiard, sales agent Hengameh Panahi and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” filmmaker Michel Gondry are part of France’s newly revamped Oscar submission committee.The committee also includes sales agent Grégoire Melin, “11 Flowers” producer Didar Domehri and Gaumont executive Ariane Toscan du Plantier.The new group will decide which French film to submit for an international feature film Oscar. They will meet Sept. 15 to pre-select three to five films.

International sales agents Hengameh Panahi, Grégoire Melin, producers Philippe Rousselet, Didar Domehri and directors Jacques Audiard and Michel Gondry have been named as the members of France’s new-look Oscar committee.

International sales agents Hengameh Panahi, Grégoire Melin, producers Philippe Rousselet, Didar Domehri and directors Jacques Audiard and Michel Gondry have been named as the members of France’s new-look Oscar committee.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalogue titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This twice-monthly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentCharlotte Le Bon, the Quebec-born actor and filmmaker who is presenting her feature debut, “Falcon Lake,” at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, has already enjoyed several careers. She moved to Paris over 10 years ago after a working as a model, and became an instant star with her hilarious comedy sketches that she delivered on a Canal Plus primetime talk show.

As this year’s Cannes Film Festival gets underway, the marketplace for upcoming films that happens each year at the festival heats up too. And the crop at Cannes 2022 looks very appealing so far, with Cronenberg‘s “The Shrouds,” a couple of films starring Jessie Buckley, and Michel Gondry‘s first movie in seven years all up for sale.

Emilio Mayorga 10 exciting Spanish directors to track in 2022:GABRIEL AZORÍN“I’m interested in films that move from intimacy to mystery exploring language without being solemn,” says shorts director Azorín (“Greyhounds”). Backed by Spain’s Dvein Films and Filmika Galaika, “Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes,” his long-awaited first feature and a friendship tale straddling Roman and modern times, proved  a buzz title at Locarno’s 2021 Match Me forum.VERÓNICA ECHEGUILaunched as an actor by Bigas Luna in “My Name is La Juani,” the “Trust” and “Fortitude” thesp’s surprising first short “She Wolf Totem” earned her a director Goya.

It’s been seven years since Michel Gondry‘s last feature, 2015’s “Microbe & Gasoline,” a tale of two tinkering teens who build a makeshift vehicle and hit the road for an adventure. Now, Gondry’s next directing adventure emerges on the stuffed film market of this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

EXCLUSIVE: Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind director Michel Gondry is readying his next project, which will be on sale in the Cannes market with French seller Kinology.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMemento International has boarded “Falcon Lake,” the feature debut of Quebec-born artist and actor Charlotte Le Bon which will world premiere at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight. Penned by Le Bon, François Choquet and Karim Boucherka, “Falcon Lake” is adapted from Bastien Vivès’s graphic novel “A Sister.” The story follows Bastien, a 13-year old boy who moves with his family from Paris to a lakeside chalet in Quebec where he bonds in an unexpected way with Chloé, 16.

Daft Punk have released a short video detailing the original storyboards of their ‘Around The World’ music video.The video, which was uploaded onto the now-inactive French electronic duo’s YouTube channel on Thursday (April 14), shows the official storyboards from the 1997 music video, including the layout of the video’s iconic stage design, and the placement and movement of its dancers.Watch the storyboard video below.This marks the first time that the ‘Around The World’ storyboards have been made available to a wide audience for free as it was previously only viewable via the duo’s 1997 DVD, D.A.F.T.Directed by Michel Gondry, the ‘Around The World’ music video features several groups of costumed dancers making their way across a stage set, each bringing a different vibe to Daft Punk’s track. Revisit it below:‘Around The World’ featured on the duo’s debut album, ‘Homework’.

Daft Punk are, of course, broken up. While that remains a sad fact of life, the iconic French electronic duo still have a vault of goodies from across their near three-decade career to comb through.

From the beginning, if Nirvana and Kurt Cobain were known for being grumpy and sullen, Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters seemed to have a more optimistic tone. From music videos like Michel Gondry‘s wacky “Everlong” video and their Mentos-friendly video for “Big Me,” perhaps due to the tragedy that the band was born from, Grohl was definitely presenting a different mood and tone and one that featured a lot of comedy.

After working on the acclaimed but short-lived Jim Carrey-starring “Kidding,” Michel Gondry is getting back on the director’s chair for an adaptation of “As She Climbed Across the Table.” READ MORE: Michel Gondry Crafts A New Animated Short About The Trouble Leaving LA To Travel To France The Hollywood Reporter has the scoop, with news that Gondry has come aboard to direct the adaptation of the Jonathan Lethem novel for Amazon Studios and Chernin Entertainment.

another film with a knotty plot out this week, this one was fun to untangle.Kaufman started taking on directing duties with 2008’s “Synecdoche, New York,” and his relative simplicity here compared to the stylings of his previous collaborators Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry allows magic moments to pop out of nowhere.He makes “Ending Things” into a screen version of the immersive off-Broadway play “Sleep No More,” whisking us into seemingly normal rooms in which otherworldly scenes hazily play

IDLES are continuing the march to upcoming third album ‘Ultra Mono’ with latest single ‘Model Village’.

Idles have shared another track from their forthcoming third album ‘Ultra Mono’ – check out the video for ‘Model Village’ below.The follow-up to 2018’s acclaimed ‘Joy As An Act Of Resistance’ is set to arrive on September 25 via Partisan, and has so far been previewed with ‘Mr.

Kidding is coming to an end.

Also Read: Limited Series About Entertainer and Activist Lena Horne in the Works at ShowtimeIt aired its last episode in March.“Kidding” reunited Carrey with Michel Gondry, who directed Carrey in 2004’s “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” Gondry is an executive producer on the show and directed several episodes, including the premiere. Other executive producers include Carrey, Michael Aguilar, Roberto Benabib, Raffi Adlan, Jason Batemanand Jim Garavente.

Over the past few months, we’ve seen several filmmakers work on new shorts while in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic. Folks like Spike Lee, Michel Gondry, and David F.

Martin Scorsese is set to join the ranks of David F. Sandberg and Lotta Losten, Spike Lee, Michel Gondry, and other filmmakers as people who have taken their time in COVID-19-induced lockdown to create something new.

Ariana Grande joined Jim Carrey for a pixie dust-infused cameo on the latest episode of his series Kidding on Sunday (February 23, 2020).

Ariana Grande appeared on a new episode of Showtime’s Kidding, the comedy-drama starring Jim Carrey and Catherine Keener about the troubled life of a children’s television personality. In last night’s episode, directed by Michel Gondry, Grande played a character called Piccola Grande, the Pickle Fairy of Hope, to sing several whimsical numbers with the cast of the show. Check out clips of “Stick Together” and “Hope Is the Song.”

If you still haven't figured out what to give that rock lover on your holiday list, Jack White's Third Man Records has just the thing for you. The Nashville and Detroit Third Man outlets are offering a Lego set inspired by The White Stripes' iconic blocky 2001 video for "Fell in Love With a Girl," bringing the Michel Gondry-directed clip to life with a 213-piece, $60 set that allows you to build three different designs.