PARIS, this morning - One tweet. That’s all I could manage to send from the Cannes Festival’s press conference, the yearly event before-the-event held in a large movie theater at the top of the Champs Elysées. The network (wifi or cellular) quickly crashed, enveloping the event in a blanket of secrecy. After the conference I rushed into a bar nearby so that I could order myself a 7 euro-bottle of water with fizz and do some work.

Santiago Mitre was born in Buenos Aires and studied at [...]

MARGUERITE ET JULIEN, which comes out this week, had everyone talking before its premiere at the 2015 Cannes Festival--the story deals with incest, after all, a taboo subject which should probably always remain taboo. Adapted from an original screenplay written by Jean Gruault for none other than French new wave master François Truffaut, MARGUERITE ET JULIEN stars French actors Jérémie Elkaïm and Anaïs

Everything's right with the world once again. Leo DiCaprio who had been snubbed several times before has finally landed his first major Oscar win. It was like THE moment of these 88th Academy Awards, and everyone assembled and those watching got what they predicted and expected. Leo DiCaprio walked up on the stage to receive his Oscar for Best Actor for his turn in THE REVENANT. For once, everything

Tensions between Jews and Muslims are increasing worldwide. Why not make them break bread together and see what happens? This seems to be the premise of DOUGH, a dramedy headed for the theaters at the end of April that has already been favorably received on the festival circuit. Crusty widower Nat Dayan (Jonathan Pryce, who appears in HBO's "Game of Thrones") is really set in his ways as the owner of a

A conflict that now seems as old as the world (and perhaps it is, as old as the world). The mother of all of humanities' travails for most, the one reliable litmus test for some, a Gordian knot that will probably never be resolved for the rest of us. What is zionism? Most importantly, how does the idea of Zionism today differ from that of seventy years ago? How much has the concept been distorted? Filmmakers Joseph Dorman and Oren

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