Variety
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Siouxsie and Iggy Pop to Play Cruel World Festival Rain Date Sunday After Lightning Forces Evacuation
After Saturday’s Cruel World festival at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena was evacuated due to lightning during Iggy Pop’s set, organizers promised that...
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Robert De Niro Drags ‘Stupid’ Donald Trump While Discussing Evil Men at Cannes: It’s ‘Insane’ People ‘Think He Could Do a Good Job’
Robert De Niro blasted Donald Trump as a “stupid” man during the Cannes Film Festival press conference for “Killers of the Flower Moon,” comparing...
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‘The (Ex)perience of Love’ Review: A Couple Must Sleep With All Their Old Flames in High-Concept Comedy
What if you had to track down and have sex with everyone you’ve ever slept with, for the good of your current relationship? That’s the quirky...
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Iranian Directors Alireza Khatami and Ali Asgari on Making Underground Film ‘Terrestrial Verses’ – Watch Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)
This year at Cannes Iran being repped by just one film, the timely underground drama “Terrestrial Verses,” co-directed by Canada-based Alireza...
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Christopher Nolan Confirms ‘Oppenheimer’ Is His Longest Movie and ‘Kissing Three Hours’: ‘Slightly Longer’ Than ‘Interstellar’
Christopher Nolan has finally weighed in on the “Oppenheimer” runtime, confirming to Total Film magazine that it is his longest movie to date. The...
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Italy’s Intramovies Takes World Rights on Israeli Director Dani Rosenberg’s Gaza-Strip drama ‘The Vanishing Soldier’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Italy’s Intramovies has acquired global rights outside of Israel and France on Israeli director Dani Rosenberg’s Gaza-Strip conflict drama “The...
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XYZ Films Boards North American Sales on Ukraine War Screenlife Drama ‘StayOnline’ (EXCLUSIVE)
XYZ Films has acquired North American sales rights to “StayOnline,” from Ukrainian director Anton Skrypets, which uses the innovative Screenlife...
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Alicia Vikander on ‘Firebrand’s’ Rarely Told Henry VIII Story: ‘What’s Mostly Dramatized Are the Wives That Didn’t Make It’ (EXCLUSIVE)
In Britain, schoolchildren learning about Tudor history are taught a handy rhyme to remember the order of King Henry VIII’s six wives: “Divorced,...
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Anthony Chen Breaks the Ice With a Tale of Disillusioned Youth in China
In 2021, a generation of disillusioned youth in China decided to step off the hamster wheel and “lie flat” on the ground. Crushed by overbearing...
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Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore Sex Scandal Drama ‘May December’ Heats Up Cannes With 6-Minute Standing Ovation
Todd Haynes brought delicious psychodrama to the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, with the world premiere of his “May December” starring Natalie...
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‘May December’ Review: Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore Play Different Angles on a Tabloid Enigma
In the experimental montage that opens “Persona,” a bare-chested teenage boy caresses a screen upon which the faces of two women slowly morph back...
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‘Black Flies’ Review: Sean Penn and Tye Sheridan Are Paramedics Cruising Through the Inferno in a Drama That Thinks It’s More Real Than It Is
"Black Flies," as staged with maximum overwrought hand-held sensationalism by the French director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, has no plot at all. It’s...