The World’s Biggest Jewelry Box: Kristin Joseff on Hollywood’s Favorite Jeweler, Joseff of Hollywood The family-owned jewelry firm Joseff of Hollywood has been providing sparkle and glamor to the movies for almost a century. At the… Read More → May 28, 2024
Cannes 2024 Video #6: Ben Kenigsberg on The Substance, Anora, Emilia Perez, and Napoleon In this video dispatch from the Cannes Film Festival, Chaz Ebert and our contributor Ben Kenigsberg discuss several of the… Read More → May 27, 2024
A Larger Kind of Career: Morgan Spurlock (1970-2024) While the final chapter of his story was shrouded in allegations and controversy, the impact of Morgan Spurlock’s breakthrough film,… Read More → May 27, 2024
Cannes 2024: Armand, The Kingdom, September Says Away from the pandemonium of the Croisette and the festival’s main competition, Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section offers a consistently… Read More → May 27, 2024
Cannes 2024 Video #7: Award Winners Chaz Ebert reveals the winners of the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. The prizes for the 77th edition… Read More → May 27, 2024
Cannes 2024: Sean Baker’s Anora wins Palme d’Or Sean Baker’s “Anora,” starring Mikey Madison as a Brighton Beach sex worker who gains a shot at wealth and happiness… Read More → May 26, 2024
Cannes 2024: The Seed of the Sacred Fig, All We Imagine as Light, The Most Precious of Cargoes Sometimes screenings at Cannes are showstoppers for reasons that exist apart from the films themselves. The Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof… Read More → May 26, 2024
Kidnapped Set in 1800s Italy and based on a true story, “Kidnapped” is so primally upsetting that you would think it… Read More → May 25, 2024
Cannes 2024: My Sunshine, Rumours, The Balconettes I can’t think of three films more tonally disparate than these. There’s a coming-of-age drama with queer elements, a raucous… Read More → May 25, 2024
Cannes 2024: On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, The Village Next to Paradise, Viet and Nam In the three films for this Cannes dispatch, each selection is not only competing in Un Certain Regard. They’re also… Read More → May 25, 2024