Cannes

Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis goes to Lionsgate for the U.S. release after mixed reactions at Cannes

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Lionsgate continues its relationship with Francis Ford Coppola by agreeing to distribute the filmmaker’s latest epic, Megalopolis. Despite receiving divisive reactions at the Cannes Film Festival, Lionsgate is ready to risk it for the biscuit with Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis. Lionsgate is bringing Coppola’s science-fiction drama to theaters in the United States and Canada, says … Read more

Cannes 2024: Ghost Trail, Block Pass | Festivals & Awards

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Set against the steadily revving engines and propulsive forward motion of the French motocross scene, Antoine Chevrollier’s feature debut “Block Pass” is a poignant and painful coming-of-age story about two young men whose friendship is tested by circumstances that complicate their lives in a rural French suburb.  Both mechanic Willy (Sayyid El Alami) and competitive … Read more

Cannes 2024: Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, Eephus, To A Land Unknown | Festivals & Awards

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Lund’s feature debut, “Eephus,” similarly captures the passage of time through a beloved American pastime, following a men’s recreational baseball game played on their favorite field.  Soon to be demolished to make way for an elementary school, this humble patch of green is perhaps nothing special to anyone other than the middle-aged, community-league players who … Read more

Cannes 2024: Normal Normal or Cannes Normal?

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I’m back after 15 days in Cannes–still jetlagged, my mind still spinning from the dozens and dozens of films I screened. The sense of familiarity of wandering the streets between my apartment and the Palais, running into the shopkeepers, restauranteurs, colleagues, and others, makes the entire experience feel so much like home that returning to … Read more

JCVD & Dolph staged a Cannes fight to promote Universal Soldier

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Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren tricked the media into thinking they were feuding to promote Universal Soldier. The Cannes Film Festival has a storied history of infamous moments. We think of Brigitte Bardot in her bikini, Spike Lee threatening Wim Wenders with a baseball bat after losing the Palme d’Or, pretty much everything Lars … Read more

Cannes 2024: It’s Not Me, Filmlovers!, Misericordia | Festivals & Awards

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It’s clear that Carax is troubled by questions of how cinema evolves in the present day, amid the deluge of glancing visual representations that make up our modern media landscape. Even within the explosion of ideas that he playfully detonates in “C’est Pas Moi,” the questions he’s asking reflect larger existential concerns. Not even a … Read more

Cannes 2024: Armand, The Kingdom, September Says

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Away from the pandemonium of the Croisette and the festival’s main competition, Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section offers a consistently diverting showcase for original, daring films from emerging filmmakers (its name, translated, refers to a different way of looking at things). Three of the best films I saw in this section at Cannes this year—including … Read more