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Cannes 2024

  1. cannes 2024
    Horizon: An American Saga Is Dune: Part One for DadsHi, I’m dads.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  2. movie review
    Furiosa Isn’t Trying to Make the Apocalypse Look CoolGeorge Miller’s Fury Road sequel is a thrill, but also bleaker and more fantastical than you might expect.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  3. cannes 2024
    Sicko Yorgos Is BackYorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness delights and luxuriates in absurdity and abasement. He’s fully back in his sandbox.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  4. on-set
    Celebrity Sightings In United States - November 07, 2022
    Francis Ford Coppola Accused of ‘Old-School’ On-Set Behavior“I’m not touchy-feely. I’m too shy,” the Megalopolis director said in a roundabout response to the allegations.
    By Jason P. Frank
  5. cannes 2024
    Sean Baker’s Anora Is Scheduled to Hit Theaters This FallNeon is planning a prime awards-season release for its fifth consecutive Palme d’Or winner.
    By Chris Lee
  6. cannes 2024
    "The Shrouds" (Les Linceuls) Red Carpet - The 77th Annual Cannes Film Festival
    Vanity Fair France Très Désolé for Editing Out Guy Pearce’s Palestinian-Flag PinVanity Fair France apologized in a tweet.
    By Bethy Squires
  7. cannes 2024
    The 12 Best Movies We Saw at Cannes This YearA 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.
    By Rachel Handler and Bilge Ebiri
  8. cannes 2024
    "Marcello Mio" Red Carpet - The 77th Annual Cannes Film Festival
    Kelly Rowland Explains What Happened on Cannes Red CarpetThe same usher was filmed rushing Massiel Taveras and Yoona.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  9. cannes 2024
    It’s No Wonder That Cannes Fell for AnoraThere are wild moments in Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner that feel like real life letting itself in through the door and upending the narrative décor.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  10. cannes 2024
    We’ll All Soon Be Talking About the Absurdist On Becoming a Guinea FowlThe Cannes prizewinner will soon be released in the U.S. by A24. Its off-kilter, absurdist vibe is enchanting, but it’s rooted in deep horror.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  11. high five
    FRANCE-FILM-FESTIVAL-CANNES
    It Pays to Bet on Neon for the Palme d’Or at CannesNeon has won the Palme d’Or five times in a row, with Sean Baker’s Anora as its latest win.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  12. cannes 2024
    "Anora" Photocall - The 77th Annual Cannes Film Festival
    Who Will Score the Palme d’Or at Cannes 2024?Sean Baker takes home Palme d’Or for Anora.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  13. cannes 2024
    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.”
    By Rachel Handler
  14. cannes 2024
    George Lucas Is Being Cranky at CannesAnd, no, he will not re-releasing his original versions of the first Star Wars trilogy anytime soon, thank you.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  15. cannes 2024
    All the Films Sold at Cannes 2024Sideshow and Janus Films picks up Misericordia.
    By Zoe Guy
  16. cannes 2024
    The Best Movie at Cannes This Year Is an Oddball Canadian ComedyMatthew Rankin’s Universal Language feels warm and familiar even as we realize just how startlingly original it is.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  17. cannes 2024
    A Night at Cannes With the Strippers of Sean Baker’s AnoraThe breakout stars on making it in Hollywood “not in spite of being a sex worker but because of it.”
    By Rachel Handler
  18. cannes 2024
    Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope Is As Beguiling As It Is AlienatingOnly Sorrentino could pull off something like this.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  19. o-town
    The 2024 Cannes Film Festival’s Standing-O-MeterPaolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope was up to par at 9(ish) minutes.
    By Bethy Squires
  20. cannes 2024
    The Apprentice Gets Dumber the Longer It Goes OnDirector Ali Abbasi’s portrait of a young Donald Trump never lives up to its strongest performance: Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  21. cannes 2024
    If Only David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds Weren’t So LifelessThere’s adultery and cuckoldry and doubles and all the other good Cronenbergian ideas. But none of it really fits together.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  22. cannes 2024
    Terrible Billionaire Who Funded the Trump Movie Thought It Would Be PositiveReportedly “under the impression that it was a flattering portrayal of the 45th president.”
    By Nate Jones
  23. cannes 2024
    The Substance Is Disgusting, Twisted, and Instantly DivisiveThe graphic body-horror film starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley is lighting up debate at Cannes.
    By Rachel Handler
  24. cannes 2024
    Yorgos Lanthimos and Jesse Plemmons Love Their Filmmaking CultAnd their new movie Kinds of Kindness, an anthology of abject debasement starring fellow cult members Margaret Qualley and Willem Dafoe.
    By Rachel Handler
  25. cannes 2024
    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.
    By Rachel Handler
  26. cannes 2024
    We’ll Be Yelling About Emilia Pérez Long After Cannes EndsMost people at the 2024 film festival seem to love the movie, and the ones that hate it, really hate it.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  27. cannes 2024
    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.
    By Rachel Handler
  28. cannes 2024
    Rumours’ Goofy Political Satire Has a Giant Glowing BrainThe legendary Canadian director Guy Maddin’s latest, which just premiered at Cannes, has a glorious B-movie sheen.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  29. cannes 2024
    Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada Is the Confession of a Man Who’s Faced DeathRichard Gere and Jacob Elordi star in Paul Schrader’s latest as two versions of a dying filmmaker reckoning with a lifetime of regret.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  30. cannes 2024
    Nicolas Cage Is at His Maniacal Best In The SurferThe sunburnt thriller-comedy, which premiered at a midnight screening at Cannes, also birthed a new Cage catchphrase.
    By Rachel Handler
  31. cannes 2024
    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.
    By Rachel Handler
  32. cannes 2024
    Megalopolis Is a Work of Absolute MadnessThere is nothing in Francis Ford Coppola’s perhaps-final testament that feels like something out of a “normal” movie.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  33. cannes 2024
    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.
    By Rachel Handler
  34. cannes 2024
    Everything You Need to Know About Young(er) Furiosa in FuriosaAfter director George Miller, teen actor Alyla Browne received the loudest applause at the movie’s Cannes premiere.
    By Rachel Handler
  35. cannes 2024
    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.”
    By Rachel Handler
  36. cannes 2024
    Greta Gerwig’s Cannes Jury Faces Tense Questions on Opening DayAbout France’s fledgling Me Too movement, a seasonal-workers’ strike, and the horrific conditions in Gaza.
    By Rachel Handler
  37. cannes 2024
    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.
    By Rachel Handler and Bilge Ebiri
  38. cannes 2024
    Iranian Director Mohammad Rasoulof ‘Chose Exile’ in Europe After SentencingRasoulof managed to escape Iran despite the government confiscating his passport.
    By Rebecca Alter
  39. vulture recommends
    You’re Not Going to Cannes, But You Can Play the Cannes Board GamePlay through the frustration and triumph of financing a genre film from the decidedly non-glamorous comfort of your living room.
    By Greta Rainbow
  40. the festival circuit
    What to Know About Cannes (Other Than the Movies)Meryl Streep is donning her best beret to receive an honorary Palme d’Or.
    By Jason P. Frank
  41. cannes 2024
    Cannes We Please Get the Full Cannes Lineup?Official selection includes Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone’s Kind of Kindness.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  42. saint francis vs the philistines
    Hollywood Is Doomed If There’s No Room for MegalopolisesFrancis Ford Coppola self-financed a movie the industry’s bean-counters don’t want. It’s not surprising, but it is depressing.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  43. cannes 2024
    Hi, Jury President Barbie!Greta Gerwig will preside over the 2024 Cannes Film Festival Jury.
    By Zoe Guy