Cannes2018 – What's Worth Seeing…

Japanese film Shoplifters wins Palme d’Or at Cannes 2018, under the spectre of Harvey Weinstein.

20th May 201820th May 2018Jason Korsner

The Japanese film Shoplifters has won the top prize at a Cannes Film Festival, overshadowed by the spectre of Harvey Weinstein. [click for more...]

Un Certain Regard prizes at 2018 Cannes Film Festival

18th May 201818th May 2018Jason Korsner

A Swedish fantasy romance thriller has won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard strand at the Cannes Film Festival. Gräns, about [click for more...]

Cannes 2018 – The Second Wednesday

16th May 201818th May 2018Jason Korsner

It was my last day in Cannes, so for once, I had to make sure I was up for the 8.30am screening. In Under the Silver Lake, Andrew Garfield stars as a guy who’s just lost his job and is on the verge of losing his LA apartment, when he gets involved with a girl who disappears and then turns up dead, alongside a missing businessman. [click for more...]

Cannes 2018 – The Second Tuesday

15th May 201826th May 2019Jason Korsner

Spike Lee explains why he takes a pop at the US President at the end of his Palme d’Or-nominated film, BlacKkKlansman. Press conferences [click for more...]

Cannes 2018 – The Only Monday

14th May 201824th August 2018Jason Korsner

Today started with more talk of how to improve inclusion in the UK film industry with an all-woman panel discussion at the UK [click for more...]

Cannes 2018 – The Only Sunday

13th May 201813th May 2019Jason Korsner

My day started with a sobering experience; I found out what it was like to be part of a minority in the film [click for more...]

Cannes 2018 – The First Saturday

12th May 201813th May 2018Jason Korsner

As I took my place at this morning’s press conference for Jean-Luc Godard’s Image Book, in the hope that I’d end up with [click for more...]

Cannes 2018 – The First Friday

11th May 20189th May 2019Jason Korsner

Today’s early film was from the Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski, whose previous film Ida won the Oscar for the Best Foreign Language film. [click for more...]

Cannes 2018 – The First Thursday

10th May 201819th May 2018Jason Korsner

I’d forgotten how tough Cannes is, being out late, staying up even later to file contemporaneous articles and then waking up early enough [click for more...]

Cannes 2018 – The First Wednesday

9th May 201810th March 2019Jason Korsner

Every festival delegate was given a post-card to remind them not to commit the grotesque sin of taking selfies on the red carpet [click for more...]

Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote to close the Cannes Film Festival

19th April 201820th April 2018Jason Korsner

After twenty years in the making, Terry Gilliam’s ill-starred The Man Who Killed Don Quixote will finally receive its world premiere at next [click for more...]

Actresses Kristen Stewart & Léa Seydoux and directors of Loveless, Selma & Blade Runner join Cannes Palme d’Or jury

18th April 2018Jason Korsner

The organisers of the Cannes Film Festival have confirmed the film-makers who will join the Australian actress Cate Blanchett in choosing the winners [click for more...]

Spike Lee, poster boy Jean-Luc Godard & 8 newcomers join Cannes competition

13th April 201813th April 2018Jason Korsner

Spike Lee is back in competition in Cannes for the first time since Jungle Fever, 28 years ago, with (read it carefully) BlacKkKlansman [click for more...]

Star Wars side project Solo to premiere at Cannes

6th April 20187th April 2018Jason Korsner

The second Star Wars spin-off film, Solo, is to receive its World Premiere at next month’s Cannes Film Festival. The film stars Alden [click for more...]

Asghar Farhadi’s Spanish-language Everybody Knows to open Cannes

5th April 20186th April 2018Jason Korsner

The latest film from the double-Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi is to open the 71st Cannes Film Festival next month. Penélope Cruz and [click for more...]

Cate Blanchett to chair Palme d’Or jury at 2018 Cannes Film Festival

4th January 201814th March 2025Jason Korsner

The double-Oscar-winning Australian actress Cate Blanchett has been appointed to preside over the jury that will hand out the prestigious Palme d’Or award [click for more...]