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New Yorker: In Forty-Five Years of Making “Mad Max” Movies, George Miller Has Learned That Audiences Are Seldom Wrong, and His Wife Is Always Right; His youth in a small town in Australia; Art of film editing, “You are tyrannized by time.”

Must Read! Cannes: ‘Rumors' is the Most Accessibly Goofy Film Guy Maddin Has Made; All Star Cast; Hilarious Synopsis

Escaped Iran Director Mohammad Rasoulof Arrives in Cannes; Escaped on an "exhausting and extremely dangerous" journey on foot; Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison; His "The Seed of the Sacred Fig" is competing for the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize

Finally, Hollywood's Jewish Origin Story; Many felt the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures was ignoring the elephant in the room

Review: Coralie Fargeat’s ‘The Substance' STUNS Cannes; Audacious, Bloody, and Brilliant; Tackling Hollywood’s obsession with female beauty; Starring Demi Moore, Dennis Quaid and Margaret Qualley

Demi Moore Defends Nudity and Gore In ‘Insane’ Cannes Film With 100% Rotten Tomatoes Score; Oscar?

New Teaser Trailer Official From Cannes Film Festival 'The Substance'

Cannes 2024: Director Hu Guan's 'Black Dog' Film is One of the Best of the Fest; "Ranks as one of the best dogs movies ever made"

Trailer 'Black Dog' (2024 )

Official Trailer 'Reverse the Curse' Starring, Directed and Written for the Screen by David Duchovny, Based on His Novel; Also Starring Logan Marshall-Green and Stephanie Beatriz

Official Trailer: 'A Sacrifice' Mystery Cult Thriller; Directed by the British filmmaker Jordan Scott, daughter of filmmaker Ridley Scott; Starring Eric Bana, Sadie Sink, Sylvia Hoeks

Man Ray’s Beguiling and Bemusing Filmscapes; Artist's 'Return to Reason' film series anticipated the extent to which the motion picture would inform how we curate and call up memory

King Coppola's 'Megalopolis' is a Fightback Against Artistic Safetyism

‘Megadoc': Mike Figgis' ‘Megalopolis' Behind-the-Scenes Documentary is Ready

Kevin Costner Can’t Hold Back Tears as His Western Epic ‘Horizon’ Earns 7-Minute Cannes Standing Ovation, Promises ‘3 More’ Installments

Kevin Costner Civil War Epic Three Hour “Horizon” Panned in Cannes — Star Doesn’t Arrive in Film For an Hour!

Official Trailer No. 2 'Horizon: An American Saga'

Eddie Murphy is Back to His Old Hijinx! Official Trailer 'Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F'

Bettlejuice is Back to His Old Hijinx! Official Trailer: 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' Creative Visionary Tim Burton; Starring Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, Justin Theroux, Willem Dafoe and Jenna Ortega

Film School: Our Critic Justin Tanner Recommends You See This Classic!
‘The Claim’ directed by Michael Winterbottom in (2000) is a great adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s “The Mayor of Casterbridge,” set during the gold rush of the 1850s.
Peter Mullan plays a prospector who sells his wife and infant daughter in exchange for a mining claim, then strikes it rich and builds a thriving community in the mountains of Northern California.
Twenty years later, his grown daughter (Sarah Polley) and ailing wife (Nastassja Kinski) return, setting in motion a series of emotionally wrenching events that turn the prospector’s world upside down.
Gorgeously shot by Alwin H. Küchler, and with a stirring score by Michael Nyman (The Piano), ‘The Claim’ is a rollercoaster of heartbreak and redemption, with an ending that had me weeping into my popcorn. ~Justin Tanner


Trailer: ‘The Claim’ (2000) Starring Peter Mullan, Milla Jovovich, Wes Bentley, Nastassja Kinski and Sarah Polley

AI Deepfake Putin Film Sells Big at Cannes

Sean Baker’s ‘Anora’: Wild Sex Worker Cinderella Story Just Dazzled Cannes; Breakout Star Performance for Mikey Madison

Interview: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons and Willem Dafoe Crack the Yorgos Lanthimos Code

Cannes Review: ‘Kinds Of Kindness’: Yorgos Lanthimos’ Twisted Triptych On Control & The Human Condition

Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Kinds of Kindness” Was Booed at Cannes; "Unlike Bunuel he hasn’t much chuckle in him"

The ‘Psycho’ House Was Modeled After This Hopper Painting; Both artists explored the loneliness that results from modernization

Review: ‘The Apprentice’: Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump? It Works! Jeremy Strong as Lawyer Roy Cohn; Iranian-Danish filmmaker Ali Abbasi (Oscar-nominated “Border” "Holy Spider")

Your Tax Dollars at Work: San Quentin Is Getting a Film Festival; Inside Prison Walls

Ethan Hawke Tells Young People to Watch Old Movies: ‘It’s on Your Damn Phone, Watch It!’

Ten Film Noir Movies That Are Perfect From Start to Finish; "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of"

“The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed” Is a Deceptively Plain Masterpiece; Joanna Arnow’s new film mines the comic potential of distance and framing, in an examination of degradations large and small

Directors Joanna Arnow and Sean Baker Discuss "The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed"

Official Trailer 'The Damned' Cannes Debut; French production made by Roberto Minervini, an Italian filmmaker about America's Civil War in the 1860s

Official Trailer 'Longing' (2024) Starring Richard Gere and Diane Kruger; English film remake directed by Savi Gabizon after his 2017 Israeli film

Teaser Trailer: 'Myth of Man'; Visually Arresting; New sci-fi fantastical odyssey from visionary filmmaker Jamin Winans

Trailer: ‘Filmlovers!’ directed by Arnaud Despechin; Coming-Of-Age Story About The Love Of Film

Remember That Time When the Motion Picture was Invented by Eadweard Muybridge (and Everyone was Naked)?

Julio Torres’s 'Problemista'; A Brown Queer’s Take On What It Feels Like To Be a Problemista

'La Chimera' Review; Shows New Ways A Movie Can Be; Director Alice Rohrwacher creates a magical fairytale about a group of tomb raiders, anchored by a soulful performance from Josh O'Connor

Trailer: 'My Penguin Friend' (2024) Starring Jean Reno