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2024 Cannes Film Festival: Claude Barras’ “Sauvages” & Paronnaud/Ducord’s “Into the Wonderwoods” Added!
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The filmmakers of My Life as a Courgette and Persepolis are set to return to the big stage with their latest films as the Cannes Film Festival have pumped in the very last titles for the 2024 edition pumping a...
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2024 Cannes Film Festival: Wim Wenders, Jean-Luc Godard & Akira Kurosawa Feted in Classics Section
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The section that we criminally need to overlook while covering the festival, the Cannes Classics films (excluding Le Cinéma de la Plage) are the last batch of titles to be programmed for the next edition. Packed with film-related docus, restored...
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Pieces of a Another Woman: Kornel Mundruczó Sets Up “At the Sea” with Amy Adams
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In our second piece of news concerning a Hungarian filmmaker (and producer Alexander Rodnyansky), we’ve learned via the Deadline that Kornel Mundruczó has still got the Bostonian vibes and will boat out to At the Sea – a drama with...
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Divided Against Themselves: László Nemes Begins Production on Broken Family Drama “Orphan”
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For his third feature (in a row), László Nemes is going back into the history books for his next project set to month into production this June. Set in 1957’s Budapest, Orphan follows a young Jewish boy whose mother has...
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2024 Cannes Film Festival: Samir Karahoda, André Hayato Saito & Daniel Soares Among Palme Short Hopefuls
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And last but not least, the Cannes Film Festival has announced the eleven shorts competing for the Palme d’Or. Selected from just over 4400 submitted shorts and representing countries such as Azerbaijan, Brazil, Canada, China, Croatia, France, Kosovo, Lithuania, Portugal...
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2024 Cannes Film Festival: Rúnar Rúnarsson, Céline Sallette, Jessica Palud & Emanuel Parvu in Final Add-Ons
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Today we’ve got a baker’s dozen thirteen added to the Cannes 2024 edition. We learned beforehand that Mohammad Rasoulof and Michel Hazanavicius we competition entries and one more title trickled in from Romanian actor/director Emanuel Parvu and his Trois kilomètres...
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2024 Cannes Film Festival: Hazanavicius’ “The Most Precious of Cargoes” & Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” in Comp
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Are we capping off the Palme d’Or competition at twenty-one? This might be the case as we learned this morning (looks like Variety has red phone direct access to Thierry Frémaux) that the anticipated (we briefly discussed it in our...
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Cabin Pressure: Keanu Reeves First Passenger to Board “The Entertainment System Is Down”
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Following in the footsteps of Woody Harrelson, Keanu Reeves is the next actor in line for a special kind of miserablism reserved for air travellers in Ruben Östlund’s The Entertainment System Is Down. The project which was set to shoot...
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Pressing the Mute Button: Maysaloun Hamoud to Direct Taxi Driver-esque “Beretta”
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A project that has been on our radar since it was an invited spec at Sundance’s January Screenwriters Lab back in 2015, Beretta has found a director in Maysaloun Hamoud. Written by Qatari-American artist, writer and filmmaker Sophia al-Maria, Variety...
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2024 Cannes Film Festival: Lynne Ramsay, Abdellatif Kechiche & Jessica Palud Among 11th Hour Film Options?
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The films from the Critics’ Week and Directors’ Fortnight sections are now on firm grounds and as we anticipate the unveiling of the Cannes Short Film Competition and Cannes Classics selections, there’s also anticipation surrounding those last additions to the...
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