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“Crash” won the Special Jury Prize at Cannes back in 1996, its press screening has now become the stuff of legend, but Cronenberg believes that if it weren’t for Francis Ford Coppola, who was the Jury President at the time, then his film may have very well won the Palme d’Or. Speaking to the Canadian Press, Cronenberg revealed the lack of support he got from Coppola during Cannes 49: “Coppola was totally against it,” said Cronenberg....

“I’ve finished shooting Crimes Of The Future. I’ve now gone into the editing room and have worked with my editor. I almost forgot how much fun editing can be because it’s been a while since I did it. We’re expecting the movie to be finished by May. There are a lot of visual effects that have to be developed and the sound, the music – all of that. We figure it’ll be ready to be premiered somewhere, maybe at the Cannes Film Festival, in May....

The show is set in the world of soccer, Puck adds that Paramount has a deal with Russell to direct two other projects, no details on whether they are specifically for TV. Russell hasn’t directed any television in his career, I theorized last month on the idea that maybe Russell should go to the small screen next after “Amsterdam.” It’s clear that there’s a bias against him right now and that almost anything he does, film-wise, will be met with sharpened knives by critics....

Cinephiles have been talking about the candid, very blunt talk Bogdanovich just had with Vulture’s Andrew Goldman‘s [Interview]. Hollywood Elsewhere’s Jeffrey Wells said “It’s the kind of interview that almost never happens — the kind in which the interview subject says exactly what he thinks. Exactly as “fuck it, I don’t care.” That’s about the gist of it. The whole thing is around a 15 minute read and goes through the money Bogdanovich made in Hollywood, the 7000 sq ft, $15M Bel Air House he owned, his days at the Playboy mansion, the massive ego, the turning down of great movies, the women etc....

In this blog, we’ll outline just three must-visit movie locations in Sin City. Tropicana: The Godfather Is The Godfather the best movie of all time? It’s hard to disagree. Even fifty years after its release, it packs a tremendously powerful punch. The Godfather doesn’t actually feature any scenes in the Tropicana, but it does feature scenes in the Tropigala, which is the exact same place! Today, the hotel doesn’t look quite the same as it did back then (probably a good thing), but it holds a similar aesthetic....

Wait until Cunningham watches “The Whale”! This is akin to a person acknowledging to a woman that she is pregnant when she isn’t. Major face palms all around. Goldberg decided to fact-check Cunningham this week on an episode of “The View”: “I have to say something because there was a young lady who writes for one of the magazines, and she was distracted by my fat suit in her review,” Goldberg said....

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Speaking to Variety, Guillermo del Toro expressed his unadorned love for “The Counselor,” calling it “brilliant” and a film he loves on a “molecular level.” The filmmaker states how “underappreciated” the film is, acknowledging that Hollywood is a business, but “we can’t lose track of the art inherent in filmmaking.” Even Ridley Scott himself has been on-record as saying that he believes 20th Century Fox didn’t market ”The Counselor” properly and that it deserved better than being tossed over by the studio....

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Citing “Dark Phoenix” “The Secret Life of Pets 2” “Rocketman" and “Godzilla,” Sakoui goes on to add that moviegoers getting more picky with Hollywood studios having “force-fed movie moviegoers for years.” Basically, were all waiting for the big gunners to show up: “The Lion King,” “Toy Story 4," “Shaw and Hobbs" and “Spider-Man: Far From Home." I can’t really see any of these big kahunas underperforming, but if a few of them do then, watch out, Hollywood will be hitting the panic button....

Berlinger already has “The Ted Bundy Tapes” on Netflix and, given that the streaming giant also bought Extremely vile’ at Sundance for $13 million, a double-feature is damn-near impossible to resist between these two films. Don’t listen to the mixed reviews “Extremely Wicked” has received since its premiere more than two weeks ago, it was a given the reception would be polarizing, because this is a film that refuses to adhere to our own conventions of what evil is supposed to look like, Berlinger doesn’t portray Bundy murdering on-screen, we don’t see the brutally evil side which most of us knew he had....

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Excerpt: “But if you insist that a movie is important, you don’t really have to deal with whether or not it’s good. You can shame people into seeing it as a political statement, rather than as an entertainment or cultural selection. Excerpt: “Part of this language is the result of our commenting culture choosing to see everything through a political lens. There must be a political reason for Tarantino giving so few lines to a female actor in his latest film, and that political reason must be he does not respect or have any interest in women....

When it comes to bad ideas, this might just take the cake. Director Luciano Silighini Garagnani showing off his homemade “Weinstein is Innocent” T-shirt during the red carpet premiere of Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria” at the Venice Film Festival. I’m not sure if this is supposed to be a joke, but now people know who he is. Contribute Hire me Advertise Donate Team Contact Privacy Policy

“The hardest part for me in that entire situation was all of the criticism that came from a racially motivated point of view. Growing up, being black, and wanting to be an artist — which is a very challenging and brave thing to do, it’s not easy — we’re always faced, as black artists, with this idea of being a sellout. We have our guard up when it comes to being portrayed as an Uncle Tom, a racist stereotype, or anything that makes you, as a black person, look less than....

After a few years of delays, we’re getting this semi-anticipated film during the time of the year when studios dump their middling films on clueless moviegoers? A very bad omen for “Bigbug.” Although he’s most known for “Amelie,” Jeunet created his singular visual language with “Delicatessen” and “City of Lost Children” in the ’90s, not to mention his polarizing “Alien Resurrection,” which was the closest he ever came to Hollywood in 1997....

Greenwood has been composing his iconic brand of violin-tinged scores for nearly two decades. He’s collaborated with Paul Thomas Anderson on many of his films, scoring 2007’s “There Will Be Blood”, 2012’s “The Master”, 2014’s “Inherent Vice”, and 2018’s “Phantom Thread” — the latter for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. Greenwood has been very busy of late, composing the scores for two of the festival season’s most praised films: Jane Campion’s “Power of the Dog,” and Pablo Larrain’s “Spencer....

Here’s a little gift while we await the actual trailer being released online (potentially next week). Is that Albert Einstein in conversation with Oppie? If you can’t wait, a full-length trailer has been stitched up next to “Avatar: The Way of Water” screenings. As you can see from the above footage the cast includes Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh. Rami Malek and Robert Downey Jr. A quarter of “Oppenheimer” was shot in on IMAX black and white....

Best Picture:“Roma”Runner up: “Burning” Best Director:Debra Granik, “Leave No Trace”Runner up: Alfonso Cuarón, “Roma” Best Actress: Olivia Colman, “The Favourite”Runner up: Toni Collette, “Hereditary” Best Actor: Ethan Hawke, “First Reformed”Runner up: Ben Foster, “Leave No Trace: Best Supporting Actress: Regina King, “If Beale Street Could Talk”Runner up: Elizabeth Debicki, “Widows” Best Supporting Actor: Steven Yeun, “Burning”Runner up: Hugh Grant, “Paddington 2” Best Animation:“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”Runner up: “Incredibles 2” Best Screenplay: Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?...

Variety has more details: “The still-untitled film is expected to chronicle the band’s formation in the Bay Area as the ’60s psychedelic counterculture movement started to take off.” The movie is being developed at Apple, where Scorsese worked on his upcoming film “Killers of the Flower Moon.” The great writing duo (and World of Reel friends) Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who recently wrote “American Crime Story: Impeachment,” will write the screenplay....