Cannes Film Festival
Demi Moore and Cher Join Together to Raise $16 Million to Fight AIDS at amfAR Gala in Cannes
Each year, the amfAR Gala is one of the biggest celebrity-studded and exclusive black-tie events during the Cannes Film Festival. Always held on the last Thursday of the festival, the evening brings together notable names and those with thick wallets to raise money for AIDS research and HIV prevention, treatment, education and advocacy. This year, […]
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Demi Moore Cannes Shocker ‘The Substance’ Sells Wide
Buyers are hot for The Substance. The Demi Moore body horror film from director Coralie Fargeat, one of the buzziest films in this year’s Cannes competition, has all but sold out worldwide following its rapturous reception at last week’s world premiere. The Match Factory, which is handling world sales on the movie, closed deals in […]
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‘Gazer’ Review: A Striking ‘Memento’-Like Noir That Keeps Viewers at a Stylish Distance
A young mother with a deteriorating neurological condition gets caught up in a deadly mystery in this Cannes-bowing feature directorial debut by Ryan J. Sloan.
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‘Parthenope’ Review: Paolo Sorrentino’s Taste for Baroque Virtuosity Delivers a Lavish Banquet That’s Too Rich to Digest
Newcomer Celeste Dalla Porta stars in this story tracing the life of a Neapolitan woman as a reflection of the city itself, also featuring Stefania Sandrelli, Gary Oldman and Silvio Orlando.
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‘Marcello Mio’ Review: Chiara Mastroianni Transforms Into Her Father in Christophe Honoré’s Heartfelt if Tedious Cinema Homage
The latest collaboration between the actress and director also features Catherine Deneuve, Fabrice Luchini, Melvil Poupaud and several other French talents playing themselves on screen.
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‘Ernest Cole: Lost and Found’ Review: Raoul Peck Poignantly Explores the Vital Work of a South African Photographer
The 'I Am Not Your Negro' filmmaker's latest investigates a mysterious cache of Cole's images, with LaKeith Stanfield giving voice to the chronicler of South African life.
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Netflix Rejected David Cronenberg’s ‘The Shrouds’ as a Series, Director Says: “I Felt I Can’t Let This Die”
David Cronenberg has opened up on putting his film The Shrouds to Netflix executives as a television series, who greenlit writing a first episode before rejecting the director’s project. The sci-fi drama, which aired in Cannes to a three-and-a-half minute applause before Cronenberg spoke to the audience, follows Karsh (Vincent Cassel), a prominent businessman and […]
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‘The Falling Sky’ Review: A Vivid Portrait of an Indigenous People’s Urgent Fight for Survival
Premiering in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, the documentary spends time with the Yanomami people of the northern Amazon as they prepare for a sacred ritual and monitor the incursions of illegal miners.
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‘Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter One’ Review: Kevin Costner Gets Thrown From His Horse in Muddled Western Epic
The director stars alongside Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Jena Malone and Luke Wilson in the opener of a quartet of films about the settlement of the American West.
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‘Rumours’ Review: Cate Blanchett and Alicia Vikander Play Clueless World Leaders in Guy Maddin’s Very Funny, Truly Silly Dark Comedy
Canadian directors Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson satirize the ineffectual meagerness of global summits and draft resolutions in their Cannes-premiering romp.
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‘Limonov: The Ballad’ Review: Ben Whishaw in Kirill Serebrennikov’s Perplexing Portrait of a Russian Writer and Dissident
The Cannes competition regular returns with his first English-language (but heavily Russian-accented) effort, about poet-punk-prisoner-gadfly-neo-Fascist Eduard Limonov.
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‘Blue Sun Palace’ Review: An Intimate, Affecting and Dogma-Free Portrait of Chinese Immigrants in Working-Class New York
Constance Tsang’s Queens-set debut feature premiered in Critics’ Week at Cannes.
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