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The big winners from this year’s Cannes Film Festival have been announced. The prestigious Palme d’Or went to Ruben Östlund for his new film The Square, starring Elisabeth Moss. The movie is a followup to Östlund’s Force Majeure, which won the festival’s Jury Prize in 2014. From Indiewire: Technically, The Square was inspired by a […]
Published time: 28 May, 2017 18:15 Edited time: 28 May, 2017 18:49 The Square, directed by Ruben Ostlund, has landed the prestigious Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival. The Swedish 43 year old director secured the most significant award of his career to date. “Oh my god! OK,” he exclaimed after he bounded onto […]
At Cannes yesterday evening, Isabelle Huppert played co-host for the festival’s 70th anniversary celebration, and sang “Happy Birthday” to…Cannes. The moment was captured by a few people on social media, and while it’s brief, it also feels like something of a portrait of Huppert at her Huppert-iest. I of course do not know personally Huppert at her […]
See the stars hit the red carpet at Cannes 2017. Entertainment Weekly
HP chose the Cannes festival as a way to draw attention to its latest creativity-oriented high-end laptops and hybrid tablets. The most interesting device is the Spectre x2, a Surface Pro-like tablet with a detachable keyboard and stainless steel kickstand. HP is targeting Windows Ink users and other graphics pros with the 2.5-pound tablet, which […]
Getty The big stars are in the South of France looking their most glamorous for this year’s Cannes Film Festival and getting their photos shared across the world. Following her eye-catching red dress at last year’s Cannes, model Bella Hadid returned to the festival to grace the legendary red carpet. But fellow model Emily Ratajkowski […]
We’ve covered a handful of VR experiences here on the site, but I’ve never heard of anything quite like the new virtual reality project that Birdman and The Revenant director Alejandro G. Iñárritu has cooked up. It’s called Carne y Arena, and it’s the first VR installation to screen in the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival. […]
A24 The Cannes Film Festival generates more attention and excitement than any other film festival in the world, but each year is an unpredictable journey. The Official Selection, alongside the sidebars of Directors Fortnight and Critics Week, offer up a tightly-curated into a range of international cinema from both familiar sources and surprising newcomers. This […]
When the Cannes Film Festival competition line-up was announced last month, there was much chatter and consternation about the inclusion of Okja and The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) – not because of any presumptive quality issues with the films themselves (they’re the new features from Bong Joon-Ho and Noah Baumbach, respectively), but because they […]
Kevin Healey, 43, has been raising awareness of the mental disorder since he was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome almost two decades ago. His twin brother Shaun was diagnosed as non-verbal autistic at 18 and has lived in a residential home for 20 years. Kevin wrote a book about living with the disability in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, […]
