All posts tagged "Cannes Film Festival"
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Festival Beat: Cannes Film Festival 2019
Cannes: For most moviemakers, it’s the be-all, end-all for their movies to screen here. Maybe for that reason, the pressure began mounting from the moment...
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Foreign Contenders: Shoplifters Director Hirokazu Kore-eda on Father Figures and His Methods of Working with Children
For the last 15 years, Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda has elicited unfeigned portrayals from children and teens using parameters tested over several feature films. “This...
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Surrounded By Wolves: Jeremy Saulnier Teamed up with Netflix to Adapt His Latest Atmospheric Thriller Hold the Dark
Since Jeremy Saulnier’s second feature, the slow-burn revenge tale Blue Ruin premiered to rave reviews at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, Saulnier has quickly become one...
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The Glory of Blaze: Ethan Hawke on His Restless Spirit, Coming Full Circle and His New Country Music Movie
Cool, cocky and complex, Ethan Hawke sits down with me at a breakfast table in the Boerum Hill section of Brooklyn for a spirited conversation...
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Cannes Film Festival 2018: Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Kristen Stewart, and More in Our Portrait Gallery
What do red carpet selfies, Netflix films, and pre-premiere advance screenings have in common? They were all roundly banned at the 71st annual Cannes Film...
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Cannes Film Festival 2018: Nandita Das’ Biopic Manto Examines Iconclast Writer Saadat Hasan Manto
Presented in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section, Nandita Das’ biopic, Manto, follows the most tumultuous years in the life of Saadat Hasan Manto,...
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“Time to Dream:” Find Inspiration in Daily Life with Apichatpong Weerasethakul in this New Doc
Within the first minute of A.W.: A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a fiery crab emerges from a small mound of wet sand. Moments later, another...
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Beyond The Forest: How the Director Of Red Trees Brought Her Family’s Survival Story From Short to Feature Doc
There I was, in the presence of a rock ‘n’ roll lawyer, palming through a contract. “Well done, sweetie,” the lawyer said as I signed...
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The Laws of Nature, the Study of Violence: Taylor Sheridan Takes Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen to Wind River
“There’s an interesting thing about this business,” says Taylor Sheridan. “It tells you what you’re supposed to be doing. A lot of times you don’t...
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Shine a Light: Scorsese’s Film Foundation Leads a Charge to Preserve 50 Endangered Gems of Africa’s Cinema History
Having touched on the rich cultural heritage of West Africa with “Feel Like Going Home,” an episode in his 2003 documentary series The Blues, which...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
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How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...