Cannes Film Festival artistic director Thierry Fremaux met with the press a day before the event begins, during which he discussed the Netflix controversy, forgiving Lars von Trier, new sexual harassment hotline, and disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein. The festival has urged Netflix to allow Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma, about his early years in Mexico, to premiere […]
Cannes Film Fest 2018: Cold War–Pawlikowksi, Crew, and Cast
May 7, 2018 by
PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI (Director) Pawlikowski was born in Warsaw and left Poland at the age of fourteen first for the UK, Germany and Italy, before finally settling in the UK in 1977. He studied literature and philosophy in London and Oxford. Pawlikowski started making documentary films for the BBC in the late 1980s. His docus, which include From […]
Cannes Film Fest 1989: Year 42–Spike Lee’s Denied Top Honor for Do the Right Thing
May 5, 2018 by
Decades later, Spike Lee still feels that he was unfairly denied the top honor of the Cannes Film Fest, the Palme d’Or, for Do the Right Thing in 1989, when the winner was Soderbergh’s sex, lies and videotape, which he described as “white boy’s wet dream.”
Cannes Film Fest 2018: Buzziest Titles Up for Sale
May 4, 2018 by
Some of the buzziest projects on the sales market of the 2018 Cannes Film Fest.
Cannes Film Fest 2018: El Angel–Directed by Argentinean Luis Ortega
April 30, 2018 by
El Angel, Directed by Luis Ortega Written by Luis Ortega, Rodolfo Palacios, Sergio Olguín Starring: Lorenzo Ferro, Chino Darin, Mercedes Morán, Daniel Fanego, Luis Gnecco, Peter Lanzani, Cecilia Roth Buenos Aires, 1971. Carlitos (Lorenzo Ferro) is a seventeen-year-old youth with movie star swagger, blond curls and a baby face. As a young boy, he coveted […]
