César Awards: ‘The Ties That Bind Us’ Wins Best Film; Richard Linklater Becomes Second American-born Filmmaker to Win Best Director
Carine Tardieu’s family drama The Ties That Bind Us (L’Attachement) has won Best Film at the French César Awards at its annual ceremony in Paris on Thursday, also... Read More
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Interview: How Zoey Deutch Built Her Singular Version of Jean Seberg for Richard Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’
A lot has changed for actress Zoey Deutch since the last time she starred in a Richard Linklater film. Since 2016’s Everybody Wants Some!, Deutch... Read More
2026 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR (June)
With Cannes in the rear view mirror we find ourselves midyear and with it, winners like It Was Just an Accident, Sentimental Value, Sound of... Read More
‘Nouvelle Vague (New Wave)’ Review: Richard Linklater Channels His Inner French Cinephile with Impeccably ‘Breathless’ Recreation [A-] Cannes
“The best way to criticize a film is to make one.” Jean-Luc Godard’s famous quote, among many others, finds its way early in Nouvelle Vague... Read More
AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 288 – 2025 Cannes: The Winners, the Losers, the Coughing
The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival has ended but not without a few bumps along the way, including a full city power outage... Read More
AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 345: Recapping the 79th Cannes Film Festival and Looking to the Awards Future 
‘The Beloved’ Review: Javier Bardem Makes a Meal Out of Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Movie-Making Buffet [B] 
‘The Dreamed Adventure’ Review: Valeska Grisebach’s Observant Thriller Examines the Grey Zones of Morality [B+] 
‘Minotaur’ Review: Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Timeless, Domestic Epic is an Unflinching Look at Putin’s Russia [A] Cannes