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Grand Tour | Review

Runaway Groom: Gomes Charts a Barren Odyssey In what serves as an extremely taxing personification of cold feet, Miguel Gomes feels as if he’s...

2024 Marrakech Intl. Film Fest: Neo Sora, Murat Fıratoğlu, Damian Kocur & Mo Harawe in Comp

The Marrakech International Film Festival have announced its complete line-up and in the official competition (first and second feature films) film titles we find...

2024 European Film Awards: Audiard, Guiraudie, Fargeat, Gomes & Rasoulof Among First Selections

The 2024 Fiction Feature Film selections are in and we have twenty-nine film titles as part of the first wave of eligible Euro items....

2024 TIFF: Miguel Gomes, Wang Bing (X2) & Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias in Wavelengths Programme

We have two exciting updates from TIFF: first, the Wavelengths line-up has been unveiled; second, NYFF has confirmed that Luca Guadagnino's Queer will have...

2024 NYFF: Corbet, Tsangari, Baker, Lesage, Guiraudie Plus Surprise Devor & Loktev Titles in Main Slate

We got a nice sampling of Berlinale (e.g. the Golden Bear winner Dahomey) and Cannes (e.g. the Palme d'Or winner Anora) items with a...

2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Rasoulof, Kapadia, Audiard, Baker & Schrader are Top 5

On awards day, there is what they call le reprise des films de la Compétition - essentially each film in the comp receives one...

Miguel Gomes’ Grand Tour – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9

I still recall when Miguel Gomes took over the Directors' Fortnight section with not one, but three films for the The Arabian Nights trilogy (Volume...

2024 Cannes Film Festival: Payal Kapadia, Lanthimos, Baker, Gomes & Agathe Riedinger’s Debut Vie for Palme d’Or

With today's announcement of nineteen competition titles aiming in contention of the Palme d'Or (note that we might add another pair or trio next...

2024 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Directors’ Fortnight

In their inaugural edition and first mandate, Artistic Director Julien Rejl oversaw a significant transformation of the Directors' Fortnight, not only altering its name...

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Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.

Interview: Eivind Landsvik – Low Expectations | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Exploring themes of mental health, emotional recovery, companionship, and...

Interview: Sandra Wollner – Everytime | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

One of the discoveries of this year's Cannes Film...

Interview: Lukas Dhont – Coward | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Following the Grand Prix–winning Close, Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont...