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Top Gun: Maverick arrived directly to number 1 at the box office in France. Directed by Joseph Kosinski with Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, and Jennifer Connelly, this sequel is about Pete “Maverick” Mitchell who continues to push his limits as a test pilot and in charge of training a detachment of young graduates from the Top Gun school for a special mission that no pilot would have ever imagined.

With territory stretching from the Sea of Japan to the edge of present-day Poland, and from the Arctic in the north to India in the south, the Mongol Empire of the 13th and 14th centuries represents the largest contiguous land kingdom in history. Directed by Robert H.

All of the different awards bestowed at Cannes can become a bit confusing to absorb. There’s the Palme d'Or, the most coveted award at the festival, if not in the entire film industry, which goes to the best overall film in contention.

(First of two parts of our round-up of women directors whose films were in competition for Palme d'Or and Un Certain Regard. ) At the recent Cannes Film Festival, we applaud women directors who bagged awards, including Claire Denis (Stars at Noon, Grand Prix, jointly awarded), Charlotte Vandermeersch (Le Otto Montagne or The Eight Mountains, Jury Prize, shared with co-director Felix Van Groeningen, jointly awarded), Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret (Les Pires or The Worst Ones, Un Certain Regard Award), Lola Quivoron (Rodeo, Coup de Coeur Award), Riley Keough and Gina Gammell (War Horse, Camera d’Or), and Chie Hayakawa (Plan 75, Camera d’Or Special Mention).

"Frances is bisexual," Bobbi (Sasha Lane) exclaims, unprompted while grilling Nick (Joe Alwyn), an actor, about his character’s sexuality in a play. “Don’t you feel a bit conflicted… you’re playing a gay character and you’re a straight man.

Con la presencia de uno de sus fundadores, el ganador del Globo de Oro a mejor actor Edward James Olmos, dio inicio el Festival Internacional de Cine Latino en Los Angeles (LALIFF), que se celebra anualmente en esta ciudad californiana. En esta ocasión, el festival se llevará a cabo desde el 1 al 5 de junio en el icónico Teatro Chino de Hollywood.

Politics, religion, and sex are the trinity that always dominate Arab cinema in international film festivals, especially in Cannes. The Cannes International Film Festival is used to welcoming and celebrating these controversial films, which are not allowed to be screened in their original countries for various reasons.

It was a film, Boys Don’t Cry by Kimberly Peirce (1999) that dramatized a tragic real-life story of a boy in the body of a girl long before most of the population even was aware of the term “transgender”. It was a film, Philadelphia by Jonathan Demme, (1993) that evoked deep sympathy and compassion for a loving couple of two men, one of them dying of AIDS.

High above the bustle and heat of the 75th Cannes Film Festival, in the penthouse suite of the Five Seas Hotel, Alejandro Nones - star of the smash-hit Netflix series, Quien Mato A Sara? (Who Killed Sara?) - now in its third season - sits, relaxed, open and exuding a huge dose of the appeal that has more than a million fans following him on Instagram. Being a brand ambassador for a house like Chopard, one of the official sponsors of the Cannes Film Festival is a gig many would covet, but the way Nones tells it, the partnership came about by accident.

Its first official week outdid even better than expectations. Top Gun: Maverick, out in Italy since March 25th, already raked in over 4 million euros: 4.