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“I don’t even want to get into it.” There are few social experiences more psychologically draining to me right now than hearing a man...
Gold House Local to Global Storytelling Panel at Cannes
At the 79th annual Cannes Film Festival, IndieWire and The American Pavilion teamed up to host a series of panels exploring the work...
‘Nobody Wants This’ Season 2 and How To Make a Soundtrack Album for TV
The creative brief couldn’t have been more succinct when music supervisors Manish Raval, Tom Wolfe, and Jonathan Leahy convened with “Nobody Wants This”...
Léa Mysius Thriller Is Tense, Predictable
Monica Bellucci gives her best performance in years — or at least the one most likely to travel outside of her native France...
Why William Greaves Didn’t Finish His Film
William Greaves‘ concept was as brilliant as it was simple: Throw a party for all the prominent, surviving luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance...
‘I Love Boosters’ Director Boots Riley — Making Of Interview
Director Boots Riley hasn’t played the classic video game Katamari Damacy, but he has thrown a giant rolling ball’s worth of color, formal...
Slow Western Debuts at Cannes
German director Valeska Grisebach follows up on “Western” (2017) with a film that could justifiably have the same name. Once again she mounts...
Andrey Zvyagintsev Cannes Interview on His Return with ‘Minotaur’
World-class Russian filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev (“Leviathan”) returned to the Croisette this year in Cannes competition with “Minotaur,” having recovered from a near-fatal illness....
Hirokazu Koreeda on ‘Sheep in the Box’ — Cannes Interview
It’s an exciting time for Japan at Cannes this year, as the Marché du Film’s Country of Honor has nearly a dozen diverse...
Clever Caboose Cannes American Pavilion Panel: Watch
If you’re reading this, you already know that the economics of independent films are getting tougher. With costs of everything going up and...


















