CANNES, France – Filmmaker Schlomi Elkabetz made a documentary “Les […]

The 74th Cannes Festival opened with a very unusual film on Tuesday, one that is slated to compete for the Palme D’Or, the top prize which this year will be given out by a jury headed by Spike Lee: “Annette,” by one Alex Christophe Dupont, otherwise known as Leos Carax (full disclosure: I haven’t read any of the press material for the film, on purpose, I wanted to soak up in the film’s energy. As it were, there’s little in the way of easily

I can't remember the last time the jury's president at the Cannes Festival got his mug on the official poster (don't go getting a big head now, Spike, you hear?). The Cannes Festival official poster was just released moments ago, and it features the director of "Do The Right Thing"  as the character Mars Blackmon in a still from his first film, "She's gotta have it" (1986), a first film that got him noticed. Lee will be this year's jury president, an invitation

PARIS--The upsetting of our way of life, having a drink at the terrasse of a café with someone you love, reading, or watching people go by, to say nothing of taking in a movie at the theater (in a country where Netflix is thriving, theater attendance here remains strong), by the coronavirus pandemic, has been felt painfully. It was only this week when things began looking normal again, with throngs eagerly taking over watering holes and restaurants.