Cannes Struggles for Relevance in Shrinking Movie Business
Cannes 2019: While the U.S. was riveted by the last episode of “Game of Thrones” on Sunday, Cannes fiddled to the tune of Terrence Malick’s three-hour opus “A Hidden Life”
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Cannes at the Halfway Point: How Did Elton John Become King of the Fest?
Cannes 2019: While most of the attention has gone to a pair of major-studio flicks, “Rocketman” and the yet-unseen “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,” the festival is also full of dark films for a dark age
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‘A Hidden Life’ Film Review: Is This Where Terrence Malick Gets His Mojo Back?
Cannes 2019: Anchored in story in a way his last few movies have not been, this World War II drama is the director’s most monumental work since “The Tree of Life”
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‘Pain and Glory’ Film Review: Antonio Banderas Plays Pedro Almodóvar – Sort Of
Cannes 2019: Almodóvar’s gentle memory piece replaces the youthful provocation of his early films with mature reflection
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How Antonio Banderas Learned to Relax and Play His Old Friend (and Director) Pedro Almodóvar
TheWrap Cannes magazine: “I don’t know how many times people have worked performing a character that not only exists but is directing you,” says Banderas of his eighth movie with Almodóvar, “Pain and Glory”
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16 of Cannes’ Hottest Directors, From Pedro Almodóvar to Céline Sciamma (Exclusive Photos)
TheWrap Cannes magazine: Our biggest portfolio ever tracked down festival-bound directors from Madrid to Montreal, Paris to Taipei, Moscow to Darjeeling
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10 Best Cannes Films of the Last 10 Years, From ‘Melancholia’ to ‘Amour’ (Photos)
TheWrap Cannes magazine: Our critics reflect on the best of what they’ve seen at the French festival in the decade TheWrap has attended
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Cannes Film Festival Opens With More Netflix Drama and Too Few Female Directors (Again)
TheWrap Cannes magazine: Nowhere else in the world does a single ecstatic ovation have the power to change a director’s life
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Heavyweight Cannes Lineup Ties Record for Female Directors in Competition
Four female filmmakers are represented in the main competition, along with such past Cannes directors as Pedro Almodovar, Ken Loach, Xavier Dolan, the Dardenne brothers and Terrence Malick
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Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem Film ‘Everybody Knows’ to Open Cannes Film Festival
Asghar Farhadi’s thriller will be only the second non-English, non-French film to open the festival
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Cate Blanchett Named Cannes Film Festival Jury President
Oscar winner will preside over 71st annual fest in South of France
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‘Chavela’ Review: Powerful Doc Captures Singer Chavela Vargas, Mexican and LGBT Icon
From Vargas’ affair with Frida Kahlo to a late-in-life career boost from Pedro Almodóvar, this dazzling film chronicles an extraordinary life
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Cannes Winds Down: Who’s Going to Win the Palme d’Or?
The decision is now in the hands of Pedro Almodovar’s jury, with contenders including “Loveless,” “120 Beats Per Minute” and “Good Time”
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‘Amant Double’ Cannes Review: Festival Gets a Shot of Perverse Adrenaline
Francois Ozon’s film is the silliest, most sordid and least tasteful film at Cannes this year — and it’s an absolute gem
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Netflix’s ‘Okja’ Booed at First Press Screening in Cannes
The streaming service has raised hackles at the famed festival for cineastes, but technical problems contributed to the film’s initially hostile reception
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Inside Cannes Festival Jury Deliberations: Snubs, Feuds and ‘Passionate’ Abstentions
CannesWrap magazine: From Francis Coppola and Atom Egoyan to Ethan Coen and Xavier Dolan, here are six times Cannes jurors didn’t get along
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Cannes 2017: Red Carpet Arrivals on the Croisette (Photos)
Nicole Kidman, Al Gore, Colin Farrell and more stars and filmmakers hit the Grand Palais in style
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Cannes Film Festival Finds Reason to Celebrate, Even With That Netflix Problem
French exhibitors aren’t happy the streaming service got an invite to the Croisette, but the stacked lineup of international auteurs should be a cinema lover’s dream
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Cannes: Will Smith, Paolo Sorrentino Join Main Jury
Pedro Almodovar presides over this year’s Cannes Film Festival jury
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Jessica Chastain Joins Jury of 2017 Cannes Film Festival
Pedro Almodóvar will preside over this year’s jury
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Pedro Almodovar Named Cannes Film Festival Jury President
“Julieta” director says he’ll devote himself “body and soul to this task”
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2016 TheWrap’s Original Photography in Review
From Steve Carrell to Annette Bening, Kit Harington and Issa Rae
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‘Julieta’ Review: A Subdued Pedro Almodovar Is Still Weird Enough
At a Cannes Film Festival full of the kind of transgressive filmmaking he pioneered, Almodóvar has gotten downright decorous
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‘Toni Erdmann,’ ‘The Salesman,’ ‘My Life as a Zucchini’ Advance in Oscars Foreign Language Race
List is dominated by European countries, but “Neruda,” “Julieta” and “Elle” don’t make the cut
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11 Best Movies of 2016, From ‘La La Land’ to ‘Queen of Katwe’ (Photos)
TheWrap Best & Worst 2016: Film reviews editor Alonso Duralde breaks down the highlights from a very competitive year
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‘Neruda’ and ‘Desierto’ Star Gael Garcia Bernal Talks Making Political Art in Troubled Time (Video)
TheWrap Magazine: “Worldwide, there is a feeling of brokenheartedness, and I hope we can incorporate a narrative and a perspective of goodwill and compassion,” actor says
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Governors Awards Bring Celebrating, Schmoozing – and an Oscar for Jackie Chan
Editor Anne Coates, casting director Lynn Stalmaster and documentary director Frederick Wiseman are also honored at the awards ceremony and campaign stop
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Pedro Almodovar Apologizes to Meryl Streep for Shooting ‘Julieta’ in Spanish (Exclusive Video)
TheWrap Screening Series: “I felt very insecure about the language and the culture,” Oscar-winning director says
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TheWrap Launches 2016 Awards and Foreign Screening Series With Pedro Almodovar’s ‘Julieta’
The screening series at the Landmark movie theater in Westwood hosts live interviews with the talent behind the season’s best films
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Oscar Foreign Language Race Breaks Record With 85 Entries
Frontrunners for the hotly contested prize include “Toni Erdmann,” “The Salesman,” “Neruda” and “Julieta”
