rogerebert.com —  10+ hour, 49+ min ago

...Before the jury president, Ruben Östlund, announced the award, the presenter, Jane Fonda, noted that there were a record seven women competing for... ...Palme d'Or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival on Saturday.... ...Glazer also thanked the director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, saying that the film was only possible because of the museum's support.... ...Merve Dizdar won Best Actress for Nuri Bilge Ceylan's ropey, dialogue-heavy drama "About Dry Grasses."...

rogerebert.com —  1+ day ago

...Catherine Breillat's "Last Summer," her first feature since the more-or-less-autobiographical "Abuse of Weakness" 10 years ago, finds her returning... ...Giving the jury time to think about its decisions is not a Cannes requirement.) Let's take the final four in turn.... ...Koji Yakusho plays Hirayama, a bathroom janitor who is not mute but for the most part doesn't speak.... ...), under the nose of her husband and his father, Pierre (Olivier Rabourdin)....

rogerebert.com —  1+ day ago

...When was the first time that Robert De Niro did a flat-out comedy?... ...Sebastian Maniscalco as Sebastian Robert De Niro as Salvo Leslie Bibb as Ellie Anders Holm as Lucky Collins David Rasche as Bill Brett Dier as Doug... ...Ellie's mother, Tigger (Kim Cattrall), a senator, and father, Bill (David Rasche), invite Sebastian to attend the family's annual get-together at...

rogerebert.com —  1+ day ago

...Hell, even “Where Eagles Dare”--the 1968 epic described by Robert Zemeckis as “the one where Clint Eastwood kills more guys than anybody else in... ...movie history”--comes across as a model of subtlety by comparison.... ...Scheer as von Starnfeld Marie Hacke as Elsa Florian Schmidtke as Dörfler Petra Zieser as Irmgard... ...Sadly, he is stopped by a squad of Nazis led by the sadistic von Starnfeld (Alexander Scheer), who wears a Phantom of the Opera-style mask to cover...

rogerebert.com —  1+ day ago

...In this picture directed by Ric Roman Waugh (who guided Butler through 2019"s “Angel Has Fallen” and 2020"s “Greenland”) Butler plays Tom Harris,... ...a CIA black ops agent we first see planting explosives to stymie Iran"s nuclear program.... ...Gerard Butler as Tom Harris Navid Negahban as Mo Ali Fazal as Kahil Bahador Foladi as Farzad Asadi Olivia-Mai Barrett as Ida Harris Rebecca Calder... ...When Harris pulls a fancy maneuver in a pickup truck, one of the observers says, “I like this guy, he's good,” like a sports commentator or something...

rogerebert.com —  1+ day ago

..., directors and other filmmakers, and many documentaries about films and filmmakers, including Steve James" documentary about Roger, “Life Itself... ...Started by current fest director Thierry Fremaux back in 2004, the section has been home to restorations of classic films, master classes with actors... ...Joachim Trier, Asghar Farhadi, Arnaud Desplechin, Nadav Lapid, Claire Denis, Davy Chou – while some are more eloquent than others, the result is... ...Some, like Jean-Luc Godard and Steven Spielberg, provided a bit of world-weary optimism, while others decried the then-current state of cinema, believing...

rogerebert.com —  1+ day ago

...where Abbie Vandivere, a conservator and researcher at the Mauritshuis Museum in The Netherlands, describes the first time she held Vermeer's The... ...There's a moment in Suzanne Raes's "Close to Vermeer," a documentary about the curation of a Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam,... ...People like Abbie Vandivere and Jonathan Janson, a painter and Vermeer expert.... ...The main figure in "Close to Vermeer," besides the artist himself, is George Weber, curator of the Vermeer exhibition, feeling the pressure to add...

rogerebert.com —  1+ day ago

...But not in the case of Tina Turner.  For once, I can understand this reaction.... ...Because the woman who became known to the world as Tina Turner was a survivor of the first order.... ...Her bio became a biopic 30 years ago, and even before then the details of her life had been common knowledge: born Anna Mae Bullock in poverty in... ...If Tina Turner struggled with this she kept it to herself....

rogerebert.com —  1+ day ago

...To the delight of audiences all over the world, composer Nicholas Britell has provided the score for some of the most critically acclaimed, influential... ...I was very, very close and still am very, very close with Jeremy Kleiner and Dede Gardner from Plan B, amazing producers who have really been mentors... ...That was the first ever track I wrote for Adam. What did you take from your memories of working at Bear Stearns?...

rogerebert.com —  1+ day ago

...We soon learn that the lead actor from the scene, Julio Arenas (Jose Coronado), disappeared, and that the film he was starring in, "The Farewell... ..."Close Your Eyes," the first feature from the Spanish director Víctor Erice ("The Spirit of the Beehive") in more than 30 years, opens in Paris in... ...(Ana Torrent), and Lola (Soledad Villamil), who had relationships with both men.... ...the scrapped film's director, Miguel Garay (Manolo Solo), down a rabbit hole to seek closure....