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CANNES 2026 AWARD WINNERS: Christian Mungiu Takes Home His 2nd Palme D’Or for ‘Fjord’
by admin|5 months ago|Hammer to Nail
NEON has done it again! The 79th annual Cannes Film Festival concluded on Saturday night as the jury, headed by Park-Chan Wook, awarded the prestigious Palme D’Or to Christian Mungiu’s Fjord, which the distributor acquired a year ago. This marks...
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‘With Hasan in Gaza’ Review: A Sorrowful Testament to Palestinian Memory and Struggle
by admin|5 months ago|Slant Magazine
Kamal Aljafari’s documentary is politically striking for its familiarity. The post ‘With Hasan in Gaza’ Review: A Sorrowful Testament to Palestinian Memory and Struggle appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Cannes Review: Valeska Grisebach Returns with Spellbinding Noir The Dreamed Adventure
by admin|5 months ago|The Film Stage
For some, the premiere of Valeska Grisebach’s new film was the kind of thing to be discussed in hushed tones. Here was the long-awaited return to Cannes, nine full years since Western, a singular film that, by now, is within...
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Cannes 2026: “Fjord” wins Palme d’Or
by admin|5 months ago|Roger Ebert
“Fjord,” Cristian Mungiu’s drama about a Romanian family that is targeted by child services in Norway, won the Palme d’Or at the 79th Cannes Film Festival. It was a second Palme for Mungiu, who took the prize in 2007 for...
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The Next Best Picture Podcast – “Star Wars: The Mandalorian And Grogu”
by admin|5 months ago|Next Best Picture
For this week’s main podcast review, Ema Sasic, Josh Parham, and Giovanni Lago review and discuss “The Mandalorian And Grogu,” starring Pedro Pascal, Jeremy Allen White, Brendan Wayne, Lateef Crowder, Jonny Coyne, Martin Scorsese, and Sigourney Weaver. Written and directed by Jon Favreau, and...
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Cannes Review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Spins an Entrancing Yarn with The Samurai and the Prisoner
by admin|5 months ago|The Film Stage
Lord Murashige Araki (Masahiro Motoki) doesn’t like killing. A samurai presiding over Arioka Castle in 16th-century Japan, he’s a walking contradiction—a warrior bound by a merciless code of conduct he has no trouble forsaking, much to the dismay of his...
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Coward | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|5 months ago|Ioncinema
Bent Knee, Limp Wrist: Dhont Explores Love at the Frontline “We have so much to say and we shall never say it,” is one of the many grim rationalizations in Erich Maria Remarque’s classic anti-war text All Quiet on the...
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2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Fatherland & Fjord Rated Top Films of Cannes!
by admin|5 months ago|Ioncinema
The Palme d’Or winner and the Best Director winners are 2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel top graded films according to our twenty international film critics. Cristian Mungiu won his second Palme d’Or for Fjord and Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland reign supreme while...
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2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Léa Mysius’ ‘Histoires de la Nuit’
by admin|5 months ago|Ioncinema
Léa Mysius’s cinema as to this point focused on adolescence and sensory awakening, the body as transformation and instability but with her third feature she has moved into genre. She broke through with 2017’s Ava in the Critics’ Week and...
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Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord Wins Palme d’Or: See Full List of Cannes 2026 Winners
by admin|5 months ago|The Film Stage
As the 79th edition of Cannes comes to a close, president Park Chan-wook and his jury of Demi Moore, Ruth Negga, Laura Wandel, Chloé Zhao, Diego Céspedes, Isaach De Bankolé, Paul Laverty, and Stellan Skarsgård have unveiled the winners. Leading...
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