All posts tagged "Cannes Film Festival"
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Movie News
Festival Beat: Cannes Film Festival 2019
August 29, 2019Cannes: For most moviemakers, it’s the be-all, end-all for their movies to screen here. Maybe for...
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Directing
Foreign Contenders: Shoplifters Director Hirokazu Kore-eda on Father Figures and His Methods of Working with Children
November 30, 2018For the last 15 years, Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda has elicited unfeigned portrayals from children and...
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Interviews
Surrounded By Wolves: Jeremy Saulnier Teamed up with Netflix to Adapt His Latest Atmospheric Thriller Hold the Dark
October 9, 2018Since Jeremy Saulnier’s second feature, the slow-burn revenge tale Blue Ruin premiered to rave reviews at the...
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Movie News
The Glory of Blaze: Ethan Hawke on His Restless Spirit, Coming Full Circle and His New Country Music Movie
September 14, 2018Cool, cocky and complex, Ethan Hawke sits down with me at a breakfast table in the...
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Movie News
Cannes Film Festival 2018: Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Kristen Stewart, and More in Our Portrait Gallery
May 31, 2018What do red carpet selfies, Netflix films, and pre-premiere advance screenings have in common? They were...
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Movie News
Cannes Film Festival 2018: Nandita Das’ Biopic Manto Examines Iconclast Writer Saadat Hasan Manto
May 24, 2018Presented in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section, Nandita Das’ biopic, Manto, follows the most...
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Directing
“Time to Dream:” Find Inspiration in Daily Life with Apichatpong Weerasethakul in this New Doc
March 27, 2018Within the first minute of A.W.: A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a fiery crab emerges from...
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Directing
Beyond The Forest: How the Director Of Red Trees Brought Her Family’s Survival Story From Short to Feature Doc
September 14, 2017There I was, in the presence of a rock ‘n’ roll lawyer, palming through a contract....
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Summer 2017
The Laws of Nature, the Study of Violence: Taylor Sheridan Takes Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen to Wind River
July 31, 2017“There’s an interesting thing about this business,” says Taylor Sheridan. “It tells you what you’re supposed...
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Other
Shine a Light: Scorsese’s Film Foundation Leads a Charge to Preserve 50 Endangered Gems of Africa’s Cinema History
July 21, 2017Having touched on the rich cultural heritage of West Africa with “Feel Like Going Home,” an...
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Directing
"Men React Poorly to the Power of Women": Cannes 2017 Award-Winner Michel Franco Talks New Film April’s Daughter
June 23, 2017Though his screenplays delve into the delicate and provocative, Michel Franco’s direction is restrained. His shooting...
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Festivals
Cannes Film Festival 2017: Charlize Theron, David Lynch, Will Smith and More in Our Red Carpet Gallery
May 31, 2017Stars aligned at the 70th anniversary edition of Cannes Film Festival, May 17-28, 2017. It was...
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Other
A Tale of Truth and Darkness: An Appreciation of Andrzej Wajda’s Kanał
April 20, 2017On April 20, the late Andrzej Wajda’s Kanał, a landmark of Polish cinema and a universally...
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Directing
The Best Advice I Ever Received: How the Team Behind Slamdance Film Cortez Found the Courage to Make Their Film
April 10, 2017The Man with the White Hair sat a long way away from me, his ’80s-era glasses...
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Festivals
Dixie Flicks: How Justin Wheelon Persuaded Skeptical South Carolinians to Embrace Southern City Film Festival
February 7, 2017How does a Southeastern film festival land a spot on Film Freeway’s top 100 best-reviewed festivals...
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Acting
Upstaged by Injustice: The Salesman Is About More Than Its Titular Character, Says Actor Shahab Hosseini
January 26, 2017Asghar Farhadi’s newest film The Salesman recently won prizes at Cannes for both Farhadi’s screenplay and for Shahab...
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Directing
“You Are a Person Seated in Court:” Asghar Farhadi Says Those Watching The Salesman Are More Than Spectators
January 25, 2017A door opens, a crime is committed, honor is transgressed, and the conflicts in a literary...
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Directing
Laughing With Pain: Director Maren Ade and Sandra Hüller on Their Hilarious Father-Daughter Dramedy Toni Erdmann
December 29, 2016Fake teeth, a raggedy wig, and the playful love of a father that knows no boundaries...
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Crossing the Line
Crossing the Line: Andrzej Wajda, Pioneer of the Personal and Political in Polish Cinema (1926—2016)
October 11, 2016Andrzej Wajda, the powerhouse purveyor of Polish cinema with a celebrated knack for devastating depictions of...
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Producing
Expanding the Doc Universe: Producing Terrence Malick’s Voyage of Time, and the Business of IMAX
October 6, 2016Those of you who are familiar with film markets—either those happening in conjunction with a festival...
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Acting
Aging Bull: Robert De Niro Remains Ferocious as He Spars with Édgar Ramírez in Hands of Stone
August 22, 2016I had just arrived on the Croisette for this year’s Cannes Film Festival and was having...
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Festivals
Cannes Film Festival: The 2016 Official Selections Announcement
April 14, 2016From A-list actors to unknown directors, sales agents to everyday film lovers, everyone at the Cannes...
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Documentary
Love is a Losing Game: Asif Kapadia Navigates Guilt and Pain in Amy
July 1, 2015Amy, the beautifully detailed and heartbreaking documentary about singer-songwriter Amy Jade Winehouse, who died four years...
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Winter 2015
Scar Tissue: Mommy is Xavier Dolan’s Most Serious, Sincere Film Yet
May 7, 2015With his latest feature, Mommy, Xavier Dolan has rid himself of pretense. “I come from a...
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