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Was Josh Hartnett a Millennial Gay Stepping-Stone? An Investigation. In Happiest Season , Clea DuVall shouts out to Hartnett, who perhaps unintentionally helped millions* of young women along on their queer journeys.
Helen Hunt Answers Every Question We Have About Twister The actress on performing with Bill Paxton, what it was like to be temporarily blinded on set, and what her future with the franchise looks like.
June Squibb Made It She yelled at Woody Allen in her 60s, earned an Oscar nod in her 80s, and at 94, has her first starring role.
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Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border Is an Urgent Warning “I never had such a strong experience with audience reaction like I did with this film.”
The 12 Best Movies We Saw at Cannes This Year A Brighton Beach stripper saga, an absurdist Canadian satire, a body-horror fable, and all the movies we’ll be yelling about in the months to come.
Judith Godrèche Breaks Open France’s Moi Aussi Movement at Cannes “They wish I would fall, I’d make a mistake. Once you are someone who is a whistleblower about sexual violence, you need to be perfect.”
A Night at Cannes With the Strippers of Sean Baker’s Anora The breakout stars on making it in Hollywood “not in spite of being a sex worker but because of it.”
The Substance Is Disgusting, Twisted, and Instantly DivisiveThe graphic body-horror film starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley is lighting up debate at Cannes.
Yorgos Lanthimos and Jesse Plemmons Love Their Filmmaking Cult And their new movie Kinds of Kindness, an anthology of abject debasement starring fellow cult members Margaret Qualley and Willem Dafoe.
Emilia Pérez Is the Breakout Movie of Cannes 2024Zoe Saldaña and Karla Sofía Gascón on making the Jacques Audiard film that’s taking this year’s festival by storm.
Franz Rogowski Explains Bird ’s ‘Fantasy of a Naked Man Standing on a Skyscraper’ The actor sat down at Cannes to talk nude spas, fame, and his dreamlike character in Andrea Arnold’s new film.
Nicolas Cage Is at His Maniacal Best In The Surfer The sunburnt thriller-comedy, which premiered at a midnight screening at Cannes, also birthed a new Cage catchphrase.
What Even Is Megalopolis ? What’s going on with the guy who stands up in the audience and talks to the screen? Is Francis Ford Coppola broke now? And many other questions.
Anya Taylor-Joy Says It ‘Doesn’t Make Any Sense How Safe Furiosa Was’ “Every day we all wake up, especially George, with the reality that we could injure or kill somebody,” said the film’s producer at Cannes.
Everything You Need to Know About Young(er) Furiosa in Furiosa After director George Miller, teen actor Alyla Browne received the loudest applause at the movie’s Cannes premiere.
What If Meryl Streep and Juliette Binoche Held Each Other and Wept in France? “You make me want to love again. To feel the need. To lose control. To become obsessed.”
Greta Gerwig’s Cannes Jury Faces Tense Questions on Opening Day About France’s fledgling Me Too movement, a seasonal-workers’ strike, and the horrific conditions in Gaza.
What’s at Cannes? Furiosa , Francis Ford Coppola, Sebastian Stan As Donald Trump. This year’s Cannes Film Festival is filled with big-name auteurs, big-name stars, and visions of doom.
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Caroline Polachek Explains Her ‘Straight-Up Grunge’ Moment “Starburned and Unkissed,” Polachek’s song for the I Saw the TV Glow soundtrack, was inspired by Kurt Cobain and “temporary celibacy.”
‘Making a Movie About Religion Feels Dangerous Right Now’ Ethan and Maya Hawke discuss closet Christians, American sins, and making a film about faith.
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Let Josh O’Connor Be Extremely Filthy in Everything If cleanliness is godliness, the Challengers star’s dirtiness is perfectly profane.
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‘It Made Me Believe That Love Wasn’t Real Anymore. And I Puked.’ Swifties on Cornelia Street took the Joe Alwyn breakup news as well as you’d expect.
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Irish Wish Is a Crypto-Fascist, AI-Generated Harbinger of DoomNetflix’s latest Lindsay Lohan vehicle is cluttered with right-wing dog whistles and ChatGPT-like dialogue.
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‘I Thought Oppenheimer Was Mediocre’ What I saw, overheard, and swallowed behind the scenes at the 2024 Oscars.
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‘We Suck. And We Know It. So We Keep Trying.’ Best Actress Oscar Winner Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos explain what makes collaborations like Poor Things work so well.
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An Attempt to Make Sense of the Jennifer Lopez Wedding Industrial-Complex Canon The JLOWICC is a complex universe filled with dead mothers, worried best friends, sad dinners, and machetes.
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The Crying Game How do actors learn to sob on cue? And can I? Oprah’s acting coach, a soap star, a famous clown-class graduate, and others explain.
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Ex-Lovers Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel, Reunited Twenty years after their breakup, the Taste of Things co-stars laugh, argue, and remember why they fell in love.
Emma Stone Has Created One of Cinema’s Most Shamelessly Sexual Characters Her character in Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest movie is her best role yet, one that is primed to earn her another Oscar nomination.
Whither Timothée Chalamet’s Bleu de Chanel Commercial? Like all great mysteries, the case of Martin Scorsese’s conspicuously missing perfume ad begins in ancient Mesopotamia.
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Brit Marling Knows Whodunit The actress and writer of mystical sci-fi like The OA returns with something fleshier: a murder-mystery series.
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‘She Eats, She Pays, She Gets the F– Out’ Servers, bartenders, and owners explain what happens when Taylor Swift visits their NYC restaurants.
All Your Burning Questions About The Curse , Answered What the hell is this show? Who’s cursed? And what is going on with Benny Safdie’s wig?
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Pedro Almodóvar Can’t Talk About His New Movie (But It Will Be About Death) The director says he is following up his gay-cowboy short with a mysterious film “about two women in a very intimate situation.”
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‘Pedro, This Is Like the Cover of Playgirl ’ An afternoon at Cannes with the young hunks of Pedro Almodóvar’s gay cowboy movie, Strange Way of Life.
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The 14 Best Movies We Saw at Venice and TIFF This Year Fall festival season has brought a bounty of awards contenders, star-making performances, and must-see masterpieces.
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The Hitmen, Horny Gals, and Hypermasc Bros of Venice This year’s film lineup hinted at a collective unconscious obsessed by performed masculinity, killing people for money, horniness, and Willem Dafoe.
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Sofia Coppola’s Elvis Movie Brings Priscilla Presley to Tears The subject of the dark, complex biopic called Priscilla “amazing” and reaffirmed that the rock star was the love of her life.
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Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s New Movie Is an Anti-Capitalist Parable With a Shocking End Evil Does Not Exist is a smaller and simpler movie than Drive My Car , and can best be described as a sort of environmentalist folktale.
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Is There Anything Léa Can’t Seydoux? In her latest film at Venice, The Beast, Seydoux stars in three different genres at once.
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We Are Asking the Wrong Question About Bradley Cooper’s Maestro Nose The more fun question is: Are noses to Bradley Cooper what feet are to Quentin Tarantino?
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The Vibes Are Off at Venice Bring back the movie stars … before it’s too late.
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Adam Driver Wasn’t Allowed to Actually Drive on the Ferrari Set At the film’s Venice press conference, Driver also questioned why big companies like Netflix and Amazon can’t meet SAG’s demands.
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Finally, the Lesbian Incel Comedy America Has Been Waiting For How NYU friends Ayo Edebiri, Rachel Sennott, and Emma Seligman made Bottoms — and won over Hollywood along the way.
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The Brain-Breaking Dissonance of Red, White & Royal Blue Uma Thurman’s accent. Surprise Truvada sponcon. The tonal equivalent of a Disney Channel original gay porn. Make it all make sense.
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