Who Financed JFK? Oliver Stone Laments Hollywood’s Refusal to Back Conspiracy-Filled Cannes Doc

Quentin Tarantino has revealed that he has not watched Natural Born Killers in its entirety.Speaking on Brian Koppelman’s podcast The Moment, the filmmaker addressed his much-publicised disdain of the film, which is based upon his script.“One of the things about that script in particular is that I was trying to make it on the page, so when you read it, you saw the movie,” Tarantino explained.

You know the story; before he made a name for himself as a director, Quentin Tarantino was a screenwriter trying to get his foot in the door. Before he directed “Reservoir Dogs,” he sold his “True Romance” script to Ridley Scott and sold his “Natural Born Killers” script to Regency/Warner Bros.

EXCLUSIVE: IFC Films has taken North American rights to Andrea Arnold’s well-received Cannes Film Festival documentary Cow. 

highly transmissible nature of the Delta variant, and stories of the breakthrough infections it occasionally causes in vaccinated people, are clouding those plans. Apple recently pushed back the reopening of its offices to October, delaying the return by a month.

EXCLUSIVE: Following its well-received debut in Cannes Film Festival’s inaugural Premieres section, Andrea Arnold’s latest feature, Cow, is recording brisk business for Paris-based Mk2 Films.

Conspiracy theorists have spent more time researching their subjects than you have and have facts ready at their disposable with which to bury you in. Take filmmaker Oliver Stone, for example.

There was no shortage of movie star style on offer as A-listers thronged to Cap D’Antibes for the amfAR gala at Cannes.

Tilda Swinton is once again make a stylish appearance at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival!

Thirty years after his dramatic feature JFK, innumerable interviews and an untold number of related texts, you might have thought Oliver Stone had had his say on the Kennedy assassination.

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.

Check out TheWrap’s digital Cannes magazine issue here. You can find all of TheWrap’s Cannes coverage here.Oliver Stone headed to the Cannes Film Festival this week 30 years after the release of his dramatic saga “JFK,” this time with a documentary about the John F. Kennedy assassination murder that aims to get more answers about the 1963 event.

Oliver Stone has argued that American financiers appear reluctant to support films about U.S. political history after he had to turn to Europe to fund his documentary JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass.

EXCLUSIVE: Business continues to trickle through during the physical Cannes film festival, primarily on titles here in the selection. On the ground, Altitude Film Sales has now wrapped a deal for French rights on JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass with L’Atelier Distribution.

AmfAR Global Campaign Chair Sharon Stone will be in Cannes on Friday to host the org’s glitzy annual benefit gala, which supports AIDS research. Stone has been a key figure for amfAR since the 1990s.

CANNES, France -- Thirty years after “JFK,” Oliver Stone has returned to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, this time in a documentary.“JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass" is a kind of non-fiction addendum to one of Stone's most sensational and controversial films.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic“JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass” lives up to its title. Directed by Oliver Stone, it’s a kind of documentary companion-piece sequel to “JFK,” and yes, it takes you through the looking glass again.