Tag: 2018 Cannes Film Festival

2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 1 – Asghar Farhadi’s Everybody Knows

Best known for winning a pair of Best Foreign Language Film for his films A Separation (2012) and The Salesman (2017) the festival opener...

Live from Cannes: 2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!

Celebrating our seventh year, for the 71st edition of Cannes, we decided to switch things up for our Cannes Critics' Panel. First, we expanded...

Cannes Classics 2018: Mark Cousins Celebrates Welles & Margarethe von Trotta Toasts Ingmar Bergman

Orson Welles will indeed be feted in Cannes this year with Mark Cousins dropping by the Croisette with The Eyes of Orson Welles and German helmer Margarethe...

2018 Cannes Jury Duty: DuVernay, Villeneuve, Zvyagintsev & Kristen Stewart to Hand out Palme d’Or

Jury President Cate Blanchett will be surrounded by fellow thesps Chang Chen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, noteworthy filmmakers Ava DuVernay, Robert Guédiguian, Denis Villeneuve,...

2018 Cannes: Ciro Guerra, Gaspar Noé, Romain Gavras, Jaime Rosales & Debra Granik Fill Directors’ Fortnight

Heavy on Spanish language films (including a Brazilian film not in its mother tongue) and the usual block of French film items, after seven years...

2018 Cannes: Un Certain Regard includes Golino’s Euphoria, Köhler’s In My Room & Bi Gan’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night

Aside from on the radar items of Valeria Golino's Euphoria, Ulrich Köhler's In My Room (#64 on our most anticipated World Cinema list) and Bi...

The Conversation – Cannes Predictions VI: Middle East Repped by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Jafar Panahi & Hiner Saleem

We can anticipate a handful of items from the Middle East, Africa, and India will populate several sidebars, if not the competition itself. Turkey,...

The Conversation – Cannes Predictions V: Jia Zhangke & Kirill Serebrennikov Lead the Far East

Cannes 2017 had a strong crop of Russian titles on hand, and several 2018 possibilities could be poised for entry in this year’s program....

The Conversation – Cannes Predictions IV: Brit Helmers Leigh, Hogg & Strickland Lead Anglo Contingency

On the British side, Mike Leigh’s Peterloo was once assumedly a for sure thing (he won the Palme in 1996 for Secrets & Lies),...

The Conversation – Cannes Predictions III: Italy’s Sorrentino, Garrone & Rohrwacher Lead Europa Europa

It’s less than a week before the official program is unveiled for Cannes 2018 and this year’s festival already promises to be one of...

The Conversation – Cannes Predictions I: North & South America

As we near the announcement of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival’s program next month (April 12th for Cannes, 16th for Critics' Week and possibly...

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