Cannes Film Festival
Diane Kruger, Fatih Akin Reunite for ‘Amrum’
Diane Kruger is re-teaming with her In the Fade director Fatih Akin on the new German period drama Amrum, which began principal photography in Hamburg today. The film follows a family living in a small village on Amrum Island in rural northern Germany in early 1945, in the final days of World War II. The […]
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Cannes Film Festival 2024 Poster Unveiled
The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the official poster for its 77th edition. Cannes likes to evoke cinematic history in its official merch, and this year’s poster is no exception. It features a scene from Rhapsody in August, Japanese classic from the late Akira Kurosawa, which premiered out of competition in Cannes in 1991. In […]
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Critic’s Notebook: On Its 50th Anniversary, Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘The Conversation’ Offers a Searing Vision of Then, and Now
The Palme d'Or winner is still hauntingly relevant as a portrait of surveillance, privacy, power and the dangers of action without reflection.
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Studio Ghibli to Receive Honorary Cannes Palme d’Or
The Cannes Film Festival will award legendary Japanese anime house Studio Ghibli with its honorary Palme d’Or this year, the first time Cannes has given its highest award to a company instead of an individual. “For the first time in our history, it’s not a person but an institution that we have chosen to celebrate,” […]
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Cannes: Baloji, Emmanuelle Béart to Lead Golden Camera Jury
Baloji and Emmanuelle Béart will oversee this year’s Golden Camera jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, organizers said on Tuesday. Organizers said French actress Béart and director and songwriter Baloji will serve as president of the jury that selects the best first film from across the official selections of the film festival. “Being a […]
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Donna Langley to Receive Kering’s Women in Motion Award
NBCUniversal Chair Donna Langley will be honored with the 2024 Kering’s Women in Motion Award at the Cannes Film Festival, celebrating, according to Kering and Cannes “a lifelong career committed to steadfast leadership and the fostering of a more inclusive industry that has helped shape diversity both in front and behind the camera.” Langley is […]
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Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Lineup Unveiled
The Cannes Directors’ Fortnight section has unveiled its lineup for the 2024 festival, which will open with This Life of Mine, the final feature from the late French director Sophie Fillières. The drama features Agnès Jaoui as a woman whose identity starts to unravel when she turns 55. Fillières died shortly after wrapping principal photography […]
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Demi Moore to Host amfAR’s 30th Cannes Gala
The 30th edition of amfAR’s Cannes gala now has a host: Demi Moore. The actress has been tapped for an official role at the glitzy event, which will take place at the end of this year’s Cannes Film Festival on May 23. She will be joined at the gala by Cher, who is confirmed to […]
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Cannes Critics’ Week Unveils 2024 Lineup
The Cannes Critics’ Week, the parallel film festival sidebar organized by the French film critics’ union, has unveiled its 2024 selection. The psychological thriller Ghost Trail, the first feature from acclaimed French shorts director Jonathan Millet, will open the 2024 sidebar. Adam Bessa (star of 2022’s Un Certain Regard winner Harka) plays the lead in […]
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Ali Abbasi’s Trump Drama ‘The Apprentice,’ Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Kinds of Kindness’ Set for Cannes Competition
Ali Abbasi’s Donald Trump drama The Apprentice, Anora, the latest from The Florida Project and Red Rocket director Sean Baker, and Andrea Arnold’s Bird, starring Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski, are among the highlights of this year’s Cannes Film Festival competition. Abbasi, the Iran-born, Sweden-based director, whose Holy Spider was a sensation of the 2022 […]
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‘Chicken for Linda!’ Review: A Touching Coming-of-Age Cartoon Caper Made With the Finest Ingredients
Directors Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach’s film won the top prize at Annecy and the César award for Best Animated Feature.
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Cannes Film Festival Launches Immersive Competition Section
Cannes is entering the multiverse. For its 77th edition this May, the austere Cannes Film Festival is launching a new competition section devoted to immersive storytelling. The inaugural edition of the Immersive Competition will feature eight works that use virtual reality, augmented reality and other cutting-edge technologies to “transcend conventional storytelling and transport audiences to […]
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