©Courtesy of Huayi Brothers The most surprising characters can often embark on the road to redemption in movies fueled by grandeur realism. The new dark comedy, Black Dog, is one such heartwarming feature that’s driven by its equally grandiose sentimentality and stark absurdism of its titular character. Chinese filmmaker Guan Hu directed the intimate tale…
Jacques Audiard’s film Emilia Pérez will be France’s entry in the international feature film category at the 96th Academy Awards, to be bestowed on March 2, 2025. Desribed as a “redemption thriller” and as a “queer crime musical,” the Spanish-language drama film won two significant awards at the recent Cannes Film Festival: the Jury Prize…
The HBO Original documentary MoviePass, MovieCrash — directed by award-winning filmmaker Muta’Ali — reveals how the prodigious subscription service for cinemagoers soared and suddenly faced bankruptcy. But the film brings to light way more than a failing business, it exposes how xenophobia is still engrained in the social fabric of the multicultural United States. How…
© APPRENTICE PRODUCTIONS ONTARIO INC. / PROFILE PRODUCTIONS 2 APS / TAILORED FILMS LTD. 2023 Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is threatening a lawsuit against Ali Ablassi’s film The Apprentice, which debuted at Cannes this week to an 11-minute standing ovation. Complaining about “blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers,” campaign spokesperon Steven Cheung denounced the film,…
©Photo by Mike Longhi Francis Ford Coppola’s epic “Megalopolis,”which debuts at Cannes this week, has reportedly already secured distribution deals in Europe. Le Pacte will be distributing the film in France, says its president, Jean Labadie, who has described “Megalopolis, a “spectacular” film with a “unique visual universe.” He was quoted as saying that…
Miranda July is an American filmmaker, artist, singer and writer who was raised in Berkeley and currently lives in Los Angeles. In 1996 a series of shorts, titled Joanie4Jackie, initiated her directorial career that reached its peak in 2005 with the independent film Me and You and Everyone We Know. July also starred in this…
The jury for the 77th Cannes Film Festival has been selected. To be led this year by Barbie director Greta Gerwig (USA), the five-woman, four-man jury includes some of the leading figures in contemporary global cinema: Juan Antonio Bayona (Spain), Ebru Ceylan (Turkey), Pierfrancesco Favino (Italy), Lily Gladstone (USA), Eva Green (France), Hirokazu Kore-eda (Japan),…
©Courtesy of Siberia, Saban Films Keanu Reeves is reportedly being considered for the starring role in Ruben Östlund’s new film The Entertainment System is Down, which will likely begin shooting later this year. Though plot details are still sketchy, Variety is reporting that the film will follow a planeload of passengers who must deal with…
The Second act © Chi-Fou-Mi Productions This year’s Cannes Film Festival—the 77th—will open on May 14 with Quentin Dupieux’s absurdist comedy Le Deuxième Acte (The Second Act), starring Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Louis Garrel, and Raphaël Quenard. The film, which will be shown out of competition at Cannes, will debut in theaters in France on…
The film directed by Mona Achache is a love letter to her mother and a tribute to her intellectual lineage that includes the likes of Henri Bergson and Marcel Proust, although they are not mentioned here. Little Girl Blue was presented at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival in the Special Screenings section and was well…
It was fate that brought them together, “Banel & Adama.” Their love is stronger than centuries of traditions, tougher than the stubbornness of the land. It almost seems to border on madness. But it’s not easy to love unconditionally for a young Senegalese couple when the sun, the superstitious and the customs are against them….
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