cannes film festival

NEON picks up U.S. rights to Joachim Trier’s Cannes hit ‘The Worst Person in the World’

NEON announced today that it has acquired U.S. rights to The Worst Person in The World from Norwegian writer-director Joachim Trier (Reprise, Oslo, August… Read More

July 16, 2021

‘Blue Bayou’ review: Justin Chon’s stunning portrait of immigration and what it means to be an “American” [Cannes Review]

What does it mean to be an American? The question reverberates throughout every frame of Blue Bayou, the new film… Read More

July 15, 2021

Sony Pictures Classics acquires rights to Juho Kuosmanen’s Cannes competition title ‘Compartment No.6’

Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired rights from Totem Films in North America, Latin America, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle… Read More

July 15, 2021

Cannes 2021: Winners for Critics’ Week, Directors’ Fortnight and Cinéfondation sections

Directors' Fortnight winner 'A Chiara' from Jonas Carpignano Writer-director Jonas Carpignano has won the Europa Cinemas Cannes Label award for… Read More

July 15, 2021

‘Red Rocket’ review: Simon Rex puts the come in comeback in Sean Baker’s nuanced Trump country exposé [Cannes Review]

Perhaps even more so than The Florida Project, Sean Baker’s financial and ideological investment in celluloid film pays off in… Read More

July 15, 2021

‘Titane’ review: Julia Ducournau revs up the body horror in her masterfully audacious follow-up to ‘Raw’ [Cannes Review]

How do you solve a problem like talking about Titane? Julia Ducournau’s film is best seen blind. Really, if you… Read More

July 14, 2021

‘La Traviata, My Brothers & I’ review: Yohan Manca’s winsome family drama is a winning debut feature [Cannes Review]

After a year off, Cannes has returned with a lineup that’s an embarrassment of riches, seemingly designed to make even… Read More

July 13, 2021

Trailer: Justin Chon’s Korean immigrant Cannes entry ‘Blue Bayou’

An official selection of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival from award-winning writer/director Justin Chon, Blue Bayou is the moving and timely story… Read More

July 13, 2021

‘JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass’ is a dense and detailed return to the conspiracy 30 years after Oliver Stone’s masterpiece [Cannes Review]

In the 30 years since JFK made global headlines for its excoriation of the military-industrial complex – and garnered eight… Read More

July 13, 2021

‘Bergman Island’ review: A Mia Hansen-Løve letter on filmmaking with stellar performances from Vicky Krieps, Tim Roth and Mia Wasikowska [Cannes Review]

Mia Hansen-Løve’s directorial style seems to be less about style or genre and more about mood. Her 2018 travelogue romance… Read More

July 12, 2021

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