In the first secret project to hit the Croisette, buyers will get to see footage from an untitled Todd Haynes documentary about seminal rock group The Velvet Underground. Footage from the music-themed film, which marks Haynes’ first documentary, will be screened Thursday afternoon at the Cinema Olympia in Cannes and is expected to ignite a […]
Cannes Film Fest 2019: Bacurau–Powerful Brazilian Film, Starring Sônia Braga and Udo Kier
May 29, 2019 by
Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants (among them Sônia Braga) notice that their village has literally vanished from online maps and a UFO-shaped drone is seen flying overhead.
Cannes Film Fest 2019: Labaki’s Jury Spreads Un Certain Regard Prizes
May 24, 2019 by
Brazilian filmmaker Karim Aïnouz was the big winner in tonight’s Un Certain Regard awards, when his well acted melodrama The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão received the top prize from jury president Nadine Labaki. The “Capernaum” director and her fellow jurors demonstrated eclectic taste in the ceremony, ultimately handing honors to 8 of the 18 […]
Cannes Film Fest 2019: Stallone Honored, Discusses Rocky and Rambo
May 24, 2019 by
The 2019 Cannes Film Fest honored Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone, who conducted a masterclass, in which he looked back at his 43-year career and discussed how he never intended Rambo to get political. Thousands queued outside the Salle Debussy to sit down with the star and gave him a raucous standing ovation as he strode […]
Cannes Film Fest 2019: Once Upon a Time…..in Hollywood–Entertaining and Nostalgic but Not Sentimental
May 24, 2019 by
Tarantino’s ninth feature, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, is a brazenly entertaining, supremely acted, playfully self-reflexive, deeply personal movie. As such, it serves as the director’s love letter to the film industry–and to Los Angeles itself–at a crucial time, when major changes were about to take place in and out tinsel town.
