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Sandra Miju Oh has every reason to celebrate. The daughter of Korean immigrants, who was born and raised in Nepean, a suburb of Ottawa in Ontario, Canada, she is at the height of her career that began when she beat out over 1,000 others for her first TV appearance.

Space Jam: A New Legacy rocketed to the top spot and throttled Black Widow to second place in the domestic box office. Soaring with $31.

Cecil B. deMille recipient Morgan Freeman, interviewed by the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 1997 about Amistad directed by Steven Spielberg, spoke about the history of slavery in America.

There was both high anxiety and high anticipation before this year’s Cannes Film Festival, still the most important event in the calendar of global cinema. The 74th edition kicked off July 6, two months later than usual, and after skipping one year, amid safety concerns due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

With his new film, The Worst Person in the World, the acclaimed Danish-born Norwegian Joachim Trier (Louder Than Bombs, starring Isabelle Huppert, The Oslo Trilogy) continues to impress critics and viewers with his melancholy meditations about love, ambition, memory, and identity. The movie, which world-premiered in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, offers a subtle portrait of a young woman named Julie, who is very much a product of her times.

Tokyo Story, Good Morning, Early Spring, Floating Weeds, Late Autumn, Equinox Flower, The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice are just a few of the most movingly memorable films directed by Yasujirō Ozu.   Besides a legacy of many unsurpassed masterpieces, the prolific filmmaker also left 32 pocket agendas in which he diligently recorded facts and events of his daily life, from 1933 until a few months before his death in December 1963, at age sixty.

Egyptian Omar El Zohairy’s seriocomedy, Feathers, won the Nespresso Grand Prize at the Critics’ Week, the Cannes Film Festival’s section dedicated exclusively to first or second films. The 2021 program, which marks the sidebar’s 60th edition, featured 13 world premieres.

A love letter to cinema, shot across the US, Iran, Chile, China and Thailand by seven of today's most vital filmmakers, The Year of the Everlasting Storm is a timely anthology about the impact of the global pandemic on various countries and cultures. The anthology, which is world-premiered here in the Special Screenings sidebar will be released domestically by A24.

In Lamb, a supernatural folktale from first-time director Valdimar Jóhannsson, Noomi Rapace and Hilmir Snaer Gudnason star as a childless couple who discover a mysterious newborn creature. A24 picked up the rights for the film's release in the U.

What a year this was! A rich crop with some of the best filmmakers came to the Croisette: Antonioni (L'avventura), Fellini (La Dolce Vita), Carlos Saura (Los golfos), Minelli (Home From the Hill), Jules Dassin (Never on Sunday), Buñuel (The Young One), Bergman (The Virgin Spring), Roberto Farias (A cidade ameaçada) - and Peter Brook, with Seven Days.