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Winners and Losers of Cannes 2026

May 24, 2026May 28, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Adam Driver, Andrey Zvyagintsev, art house cinema, Cannes 2026, Cannes Film Festival, Cristian Mungiu, European film, Federico Garcia Lorca, Film Awards, Fjord, Glenn Close, international cinema, Ira Sachs, James Gray, Los Javis, Miles Teller, Minotaur, Neon, Netflix, Oscar buzz, Palme D'Or, Paper Tiger, Park Chan-Wook, Paweł Pawlikowski, Penelope Cruz, Rami Malek, Renata Reinsve, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, The Black Ball, world cinema

A jury including Park Chan-wook, Demi Moore, Chloé Zhao, and Stellen Skarsgård choose a worthy slate

Cannes Has Some Serious (and Some Comic) Daddy Issues

May 19, 2026May 19, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments A24, Adam Driver, art house cinema, arthouse film, arthouse films, Asghar Farhadi, auteur cinema, award season, Camp Miasma, Cannes 2026, Cannes Film Festival, cinema criticism, cinema culture, Club Kid, cold war cinema, Cristian Mungiu, daddy issues, directorial debuts, Disney Plus, Elijah Wood, European cinema, European film, fatherhood in film, Fatherland, festival acquisitions, festival buzz, Festival Coverage, film criticism, film distribution, film festival coverage, film festivals, Fjord, Friday the 13th, Gentle Monster, Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, Havana Rose Liu, Hirokazu Kore-eda, independent filmmaking, Indie Film, international cinema, Ira Sachs, James Gray, Jane Schoenbrun, Javier Bardem, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Lennon The Last Interview, John Travolta, Jordan Firstman, Kristen Stewart, Léa Seydoux, LGBTQ cinema, meta horror, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Michelle Rodriguez, midnight movies, movie industry news, Nicolas Winding Refn, Oscar contenders, Palme D'Or, Paper Tiger, Paweł Pawlikowski, Peter Jackson, Pierre Salvadori, postwar Germany, queer cinema, Quentin Dupieux, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Sandra Hüller, Scarlett Johansson, Sean Lennon, Sebastian Stan, Slasher Movies, Sophie Thatcher, Steven Soderbergh, The Beatles, The Beloved, The Electric Kiss, The Fast and the Furious, Thomas Mann, Un Certain Regard, Vin Diesel, Woody Harrelson, world cinema

Family ties are being stretched for drama and laughs in festival film after film

Cannes 2026 Opens With Sheepish Glamour and a Surprise Masterpiece

May 16, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments arthouse film, Asghar Farhadi, auteur cinema, Camp Miasma, Cannes 2026, Cannes Film Festival, cinema culture, cold war cinema, Cristian Mungiu, Disney Plus, Elijah Wood, European cinema, Fatherland, Festival Coverage, film criticism, film festivals, Friday the 13th, Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, Hirokazu Kore-eda, international cinema, Ira Sachs, Jane Schoenbrun, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Travolta, meta horror, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Michelle Rodriguez, Palme D'Or, Paweł Pawlikowski, Peter Jackson, Pierre Salvadori, postwar Germany, queer cinema, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Sandra Hüller, Slasher Movies, The Beatles, The Electric Kiss, The Fast and the Furious, Thomas Mann, Un Certain Regard, Vin Diesel

Storied film festival honors Peter Jackson, debuts Hannah Einbinder in Jane Schoenbrun’s messy meta-slasher, and shows an early Palme d’Or frontrunner

Huo Mong’s ‘Living the Land’ Revisits a 1990s Chinese Countryside

April 8, 2026April 7, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments 1990s nostalgia, arthouse film, Berlin International Film Festival, China, China film, Chinese cinema, Chinese history, coming of age films, festival films, Henan province, Huo Meng, international cinema, Living the Land, one child policy, rural life dramas, Silver Bear winner, slow cinema, Tiananmen Square, Tiananmen Square aftermath, Wang Shang, Zhang Chuwen, Zhang Yanrong

Award-winning farming nostalgia harvests minimal sentiment

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The Best of the Fests: Talking Diverse Excellence at the New York Film Festival

October 8, 2025 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments Alexandre Koberidze, Back Home, Days and Nights in the Forest, Drunken Noodles, Dry Leaf, Escape, Film at Lincoln Center, Georgian cinema, Hair Paper Water, international cinema, Lucio Castro, Masao Adachi, Masao Adachi Escape, New York Film Festival 2025, Nicolas Graux, NYFF 2025, Satoshi Kirishima, Satyajit Ray, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival, Trương Minh Quý, Trương Minh Quý Hair Paper Water, Tsai Ming-liang, Tsai Ming-liang Back Home, Venice Film Festival, Vietnamese cinema

Featuring movies from a variety of countries and in a variety of styles, NYFF’s curation sparkles

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Is Maggie O’Farrell’s New Novel ‘Land’ Just Grief Porn?

July 19, 2026July 24, 2026 Katie Smith 0

The ‘Hamnet’ author’s charts Ireland’s history

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‘The Invite’ Prompt Was — Bergman, But Make It Funny!

July 11, 2026July 14, 2026 Laura Pruden 3

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Traumatized Young Woman?

July 10, 2026July 14, 2026 Neal Pollack 1

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‘Reading Lolita in Tehran’ With the Revolutionary Guard

July 8, 2026July 10, 2026 William Schwartz 0

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