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This is the toughest review I’ve had to write in a long time. It borders on impossible, as I stopped noting down plot points for Megalopolis very early on in my attempt to take notes during the screening, as this insane baroque fever dream billed as a “Roman epic” and "A Fable” defies all description. Megalopolis has to be seen to be believed. And I don’t mean that in a good way. I don’t care if it’s the likely swansong from the veteran filmmaker behind such classics as The Godfather, Apocalypse Now and The Conversation. Nor do I care to entertain those who’ll delude themselves into thinking t...
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Paris (AFP) - This year's Cannes Film Festival hosts a trio of heartthrobs from the back end of the 20th century, making their comeback on the red carpet: Demi Moore, Kevin Costner and Richard Gere. From "Ghost" to "Pretty Woman" to "Dances with Wolves", they are responsible for some of Generation X's favourite movie moments. AFP looks at what they've been up to since. Demi Moore: ghost girlOn the Croisette, 61-year-old Moore will be making her unexpected return in slasher-horror "The Substance", competing for the festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or. It has been a long time since Moore came a...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A new exhibition opening in California this weekend traces the Jewish origins of Hollywood. "Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital" tells the story of how the then-small city of Los Angeles became the global center of filmmaking, partially because of the challenges Jews faced at the start of the 20th century. Jewish migrants escaping pogroms and persecution in Europe flocked to the New World where they hoped for better opportunities, said exhibition curator Dara Jaffe. "Even in America, Jews would have been restricted from entering any industry th...
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Cannes (France) (AFP) - Hollywood titan Francis Ford Coppola returned to the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday to unveil his enormously hyped, wildly experimental and deeply divisive "Megalopolis". The 85-year-old director's arrival at the world-famous movie festival -- where decades earlier he twice scooped the top prize Palme d'Or -- has been the frenzied talk on cafe terraces in the swanky Cote d'Azur city. Would the epic $120-million project that he self-funded, and that has been gestating for some 40 years, be another masterpiece emerging from chaos, like "Apocalypse Now" all those decades...
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For many, watching Mad Max: Fury Road in 2015 was a jaw-on-the-floor affair, witnessing a modern blockbuster masterpiece which somehow managed to turbo charge the tension and themes within a high-octane dystopian ride. It left audiences with the question: How the fuck did they do that? Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, which premieres in Cannes this year, may leave viewers with a different question: Why the fuck did they do that? Taking place years before Furiosa meets Max Rockatansky, Furiosa is an origin story that follows how our soon-to-be Wasteland badass is kidnapped from her utopian home in the ...
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The newest blockbuster from George Miller's legendary "Mad Max" film series, in which a couple of criminal gangs rule a post-apocalyptic desert, proves that films don't need a fancy plot to be good. Miller has created an iconic franchise from spectacular stunts, great sets, crash scenes and unusually turbulent camera angles, which earned him six Oscars for the fourth film in the series in 2016. With its cult status and star-studded cast, the blockbuster was made for the Cannes Film Festival. The fifth instalment, "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga," celebrated its premiere there - just like its predeces...
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The newest blockbuster from George Miller's legendary "Mad Max" film series, in which a couple of criminal gangs rule a post-apocalyptic desert, proves that films don't need a fancy plot to be good. Miller has created an iconic franchise from spectacular stunts, great sets, crash scenes and unusually turbulent camera angles, which earned him six Oscars for the fourth film in the series in 2016. With its cult status and star-studded cast, the blockbuster was made for the Cannes Film Festival. The fifth instalment, "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga," celebrated its premiere there - just like its predeces...
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His return to the Croisette this year is one of the major talking points amongst cinephiles. However, veteran filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, who is in Competition for the Palme d’Or with his latest project Megalopolis, is now facing reports that he ran a chaotic set, which included him smoking pot, leaving cast and crew stranded for direction, and behaving in “an old school manner” with female extras on set. The story was first reported by TheGuardian, which cited sources who said Coppola, 85, made women sit on his lap and tried to kiss several topless or scantily clad female extras. Megalopo...
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Cannes (France) (AFP) - Meryl Streep shared intimate anecdotes from her career at the Cannes Film Festival Wednesday, including falling in love when Robert Redford washed her hair and leaving her Oscar in the toilet. A long-standing critic of gender inequalities in Hollywood, she also said why she thinks there were so few good roles for women in the past... 'Out of Africa'Streep recalled the famous scene in which co-star Redford washed her hair in a river. "We had lions. They were imported from California and supposedly tame, but they were not... And we were shooting in the river and there w...
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Opening films at the Cannes Film Festival are rarely all that good. In recent years, Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die, Michel Hazanavicius’ Final Cut and Maïwenn’s Jeanne Du Barry singularly failed to raise pulses, and the opening gala slot has increasingly felt like a way for critics to get warmed up by getting some early venom-spitting out of the way before the Competition starts off in earnest. Now, with the backdrop of war, possible #MeToo scandals, strikes, one of the Competition directors fleeing his home country to avoid prison time, and the festival’s artistic director Thierry Frémaux...
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