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Lee Chang-dong Plans Fall Shoot for Next Film Possible Love

by admin|2 months ago19 May 2025|The Film Stage

While it’s been an interminably long seven years since 2018’s Burning premiered at Cannes Film Festival, Lee Chang-dong has kept busy. A quartet of restorations of his early films recently debuted, while a collection of his short stories was released...

Cannes 2025 Video #3: Festival Dispatch with Robert Daniels

by admin|2 months ago19 May 2025|Roger Ebert

Chaz checks in with our Associate Editor at the midway point of the fest.

First Teaser Trailer for Julia Ducournau’s Alpha, Set for October 2025 Release

by admin|2 months ago19 May 2025|The Film Stage

Set for a world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival today, Alpha provides Julia Ducournau the unenviable task of following 2021’s Palme d’Or winner Titane. Starring Mélissa Boros, Golshifteh Farahani, Tahar Rahim, Emma Mackey, and Finnegan Oldfield, the film now...

Cannes Review: Pillion is a Provocative, Funny, and Touching Anti-Romance

by admin|2 months ago19 May 2025|The Film Stage

It wouldn’t be Cannes without a good scandal film. For 2025, British director Harry Lighton’s feature debut Pillion may be the one that sends the most people clutching their pearls. Centered on a dom-sub relationship within the gay biker milieu,...

Sleepless City (Ciudad Sin Sueño) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

by admin|2 months ago19 May 2025|Ioncinema

A Boy & His Dog: Galoe Sweeps Through Slums in Restrained Debut Home is where the heart is, but such a sentiment becomes difficult to differentiate for the adolescent protagonist of Ciudad Sin Sueño (Sleepless Night), the directorial debut of...

The Secret Agent | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

by admin|2 months ago19 May 2025|Ioncinema

Mischief, Thou Art Afoot: Filho Captivates with Seductive, Furtive Period Thriller Pregnant with dread and jam-packed with homage to the tone and time of sweaty, paranoid suspense thrillers of the 1970s, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent (O Agente Secreto)...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6 – Wes Anderson’s ‘The Phoenician Scheme’

by admin|2 months ago19 May 2025|Ioncinema

With three previous films in the Cannes competition beginning with Moonrise Kingdom (2012), followed by 2011’s The French Dispatch (read ★★ review) and 2023’s Asteroid City (read ★ review), Wes Anderson has a safe home in France. Production on The Phoenician...

The Phoenician Scheme | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

by admin|2 months ago19 May 2025|Ioncinema

Much Ado About Fussing: Anderson Spills More Twee The Wes Anderson devotee cult has been searching for a way to justify his cinematic sainthood following an arguable trend of hollow triumphs, and it seems his latest endeavor, The Phoenician Scheme,...