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CANNES FESTIVAL – Short films slate announced
Presided over by filmmaker Claire Denis the Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury will be awarding three prizes in ceremony on the 23rd of May. The Short Film Palme d’or will be awarded during the closing ceremony, to be held on May 25th.The 2019 Short Films Competition includes eleven (nine fiction-based shorts, one documentary and one animated film) from countries as diverse as Albania, Argentina more >
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CANNES FESTIVAL – Alain Delon to be feted with Honorary Palme
Throughout the sixties and beyond, and today, still, you could ask many a woman (man?) from Tehran to Trieste or Tucson who their favorite on-screen male heartthrob was and, ... more >
Agnès Varda, doyenne of this year’s Cannes Festival
August 1954, Sète (South of France). In the bright summer light, Silvia Monfort and Philippe Noiret experiment with their fragile love, surrounded by struggling fishermen, bustling ... more >
EDITORIAL : Advertising’s phenomenon Karim Huu Do, and some soul searching
(EDITORIAL) What is this site's future, how do we talk about all filmmakers who matter, no matter their industry? Thinking of new ways for Screen Comment to get more reach has ... more >
THE WEEK IN REVIEW
QUICK TAKES | “This is not Berlin,” playing at Tribeca Festival soon
After premiering at the Sundance Film Festival last January, “This is not Berlin” (“Esto no es Berlín” in the original Spanish), the fifth feature by writer-director Hari Sama, will have its ... more >
Mike Leigh tells us the story of “Peterloo”
You’re not alone if you don’t know much—or anything, for that matter—about the Peterloo Massacre of August 16th, 1819, when a confrontation between protestors in Manchester, England and the ... more >
“UNDER THE SILVER LAKE,” an enjoyable faux-David Lynch procedural scorched by L.A.’s sunshine
Summer 2011. Los Angeles. After he has breakfast, Sam goes home and tears up a note that's stuck to his door. It says that he has five days to pay his rent or else. Between taking a call ... more >
“Game of Thrones” season 8 to begin airing tonight on HBO
What's "Game of Thrones," you ask? This Shakesperean tragedy with plenty of parallels to be drawn with our century, chockfull of epic battles, sex and betrayal and set in a fantasy ... more >
“Tel Aviv on Fire,” an acid and humorous take on Palestinians, Israelis and DYIsm
This Israeli film by Sameh Zoabi, an Arab Israeli, comes to us boasting a number of awards but that doesn’t prepare us for the treat of this thoroughly enjoyable and unpretentious story. ... more >
“Girls of the sun,” Eva Husson’s retelling of the Kurdistan girl fighter batallion
Bahar (Golshifteh Farahani) is commander of the Daughters of the Sun battalion in Kurdistan. They are preparing to free her city from the hands of Islamists and find her son who is behind ... more >
“Trial by fire,” or when the Texas penal system is put under the microscope for negligence
“Trial by Fire” is the true story of the unlikely bond that developped between a death row inmate (Jack O'Connell) and a mother of two from Houston (Laura Dern) who, although she faced great ... more >
“Photograph,” a made-in-Bombay fairytale
She’s a young, well-educated and well-to-do woman studying to become an accountant. He is poor, works as a street photographer, comes from the countryside and is, in the eyes of his ... more >
PEOPLE TO WATCH
Born and raised in North London, Christian Tye has already made his mark on Hollywood by producing a short, entitled “Trip’s Duplage” at 22. There’s already some Cannes buzz about the film, which was produced by Tye with Mosaic Media Group. It stars British actress Stephanie Beacham and Spencer Squire. Tye has starred in stage productions and also had a part in Rupert Everett’s 2018 directorial debut “The Happy Prince,” alongside Everett and Colin Firth. He has various projects lined up for 2019, including roles in two major feature films. Not only does Christian excel at acting but also he is an incredible screenwriter, having written several scripts. more >
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