1-2 Special Acquires North American Rights to Harris Dickinson’s Cannes-Winning Directorial Debut ‘Urchin’
1-2 Special announced today that it has acquired all North American rights to Harris Dickinson’s Urchin. The directorial debut from one of the most acclaimed actors... Read More
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2025 Un Certain Regard Winners: ‘The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo,’ ‘Urchin’ and More – Cannes
The 1980s Chilean AIDS surrealist drama The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo has won the top award from the Un Certain Regard section of the... Read More
‘Armand’ Review: Renate Reinsve is Electric as a Woman on the Verge in Halfdan Ullman Tøndel’s Enigmatic Debut | Cannes
Ever since Renate Reinsve stunned the Cannes Film Festival as a disaffected millennial in Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World in 2021, the... Read More
2023 Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard awards: Molly Manning Walker’s ‘How to Have Sex’ wins top prize for her debut
John C. Reilly and his fellow jurors Paula Beer, Davy Chou, Alice Winocour and Émilie Dequenne have revealed their awards for the Un Certain Regard section... Read More
‘Kadib Abyad (The Mother of All Lies)’ review: Asmae El Moudir stunningly recreates a buried Moroccan past | Cannes
Over the last few years, a strong ascension of Moroccan cinema started taking shape on an international scale, with the effective participation of major fresh... Read More
If asked to describe How to Have Sex in one word, the answer, however strange, comes easily in the form of a place: an airport.... Read More
2023 Cannes Film Festival: Actor John C. Reilly to preside over Un Certain Regard jury
Following last year’s Italian director, actress and producer Valeria Golino, this year finds Academy Award-nominated American actor John C. Reilly set to preside over the... Read More
Cannes Review: Riley Keough and Gina Gammell’s ‘War Pony’ is a well-intended but often performative look at letting Lakota people telling their stories [Grade: B-]
The origin story of Riley Keough and Gina Gammell’s feature debut, War Pony, coincides with the production of another film, Andrea Arnold’s 2016 Cannes Jury... Read More
First look: Justin Chon and Alicia Vikander in clip from Cannes entry ‘Blue Bayou’
Focus Features has released the first look at Blue Bayou, from actor/writer/director Justin Chon (Gook), in which he stars with Academy Award winner Alicia Vikander.... Read More
Cannes 2021: Andrea Arnold to lead Un Certain Regard jury
Director Andrea Arnold will lead the jury of the Un Certain Regard section of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, it was announced today. The 74th... Read More
Oscar Shortlists: ‘Sinners’ and ‘Wicked: For Good’ Net Most Mentions, ‘Sirāt’ Makes Sound Waves 
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