Cannes Film Festival Archive
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Richard Lawson on Bong Joon-ho’s Okja
Posted on May 19, 2017 | No CommentsThough festival tiredness (and madness) may be partly to blame, I’m going to give most of the credit for my weepy Friday morning to Okja, the new film from South […] -
Bruce Dern speaks … and speaks
Posted on November 14, 2013 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com In one sense, actor Bruce Dern is an interviewer’s dream: He’s pithy, quotable and voluble. In another sense, Dern is an interviewer’s nightmare: You ask one question and never […] -
Adams on Reel Women: Maiwenn Pulls no Punches in ‘Polisse’
Posted on June 10, 2012 | No CommentsAmericans want the French with baguettes and berets,” the actress-writer-director Julie Delpy (“Before Sunrise”) told me last month, “The way French people handle sexuality is too controversial for American audiences.” […] -
Movie Review: ‘Moonrise Kingdom’
Posted on May 26, 2012 | No CommentsI try to love Wes Anderson. Really. I do. Give me “The Fantastic Mr. Fox” any day, or “Rushmore;” even “The Royal Tenenbaums.” But his latest twee tableau shortchanges story […] -
Adams on Reel Women: The Cannes Sex Scandal part deux
Posted on May 25, 2012 | No CommentsFact: Men directed all 22 films in competition for the Palme d’Or at the 65th Cannes International Film Festival. Fact: The only woman to win that coveted prize was Jane […] -
Thelma Adams on Reel Women: What Does Cannes Have Against Women?
Posted on May 18, 2012 | No CommentsNo one ever claimed that women had bridged the director’s-chair gender gap, but it’s a complete kick in the can that this year’s Cannes Film Festival has not a single […]