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Cannes 2024: It’s Not Me, Filmlovers!, Misericordia
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In his freely associative, furiously introspective “C’est Pas Moi” (“It’s Not Me”), which played in the Cannes Première sidebar, Leos Carax pays homage to the late Jean-Luc Godard, along with an assemblage of other influences, through a rapid-fire cinematic “self-portrait”...
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The World’s Biggest Jewelry Box: Kristen Joseff on Hollywood’s Favorite Jeweler, Joseff of Hollywood
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The family-owned jewelry firm Joseff of Hollywood has been providing sparkle and glamor to the movies for almost a century. At the opening reception of the Hollywood Museum exhibit showcasing some of Joseff’s treasures, Leonard Maltin paid tribute. In an email, he...
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Cannes 2024 Video #6: Ben Kenigsberg on The Substance, Anora, Emilia Perez, and Napoleon
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In this video dispatch from the Cannes Film Festival, Chaz Ebert and our contributor Ben Kenigsberg discuss several of the biggest films of the event, including award winners "Anora" and "Emilia Perez".
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A Larger Kind of Career: Morgan Spurlock (1970-2024)
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While the final chapter of his story was shrouded in allegations and controversy, the impact of Morgan Spurlock’s breakthrough film, 2004’s “Super Size Me” cannot be denied. Not only did it shape the way that people look at fast food,...
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Cannes 2024 Video #8: Award Winners
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Chaz Ebert reveals the winners of the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. The prizes for the 77th edition of the Cannes Festival have been awarded, and we have all the details for you. The theme of the evening...
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Cannes 2024: Armand, The Kingdom, September Says
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Away from the pandemonium of the Croisette and the festival’s main competition, Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section offers a consistently diverting showcase for original, daring films from emerging filmmakers (its name, translated, refers to a different way of looking at...
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Cannes 2024: Sean Baker’s Anora wins Palme d’Or
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Sean Baker's "Anora," starring Mikey Madison as a Brighton Beach sex worker who gains a shot at wealth and happiness when she meets the son of a Russian oligarch, won the Palme d'Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival on...
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Cannes 2024: The Seed of the Sacred Fig, All We Imagine as Light, The Most Precious of Cargoes
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Sometimes screenings at Cannes are showstoppers for reasons that exist apart from the films themselves. The Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof received a standing ovation when he went to take his seat in the Grand Theatre Lumière for yesterday's premiere of...
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Kidnapped
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Set in 1900s Italy, and based on a true story from Italian history, the story of “Kidnapped” is so primally upsetting that you would think that it would be unbearable to watch. But it proves intoxicating, at times nearly overwhelming,...
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Cannes 2024: My Sunshine, Rumours, The Balconettes
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I can’t think of three films more tonally disparate than these. There’s a coming-of-age drama with queer elements, a raucous apocalyptic satire, and a feminist ghost film. The first, “My Sunshine,” competes in Un Certain Regard. The other two, however,...
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