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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.

Cannes was the first full return of the red carpet in a manner we recognize, and the closing night did not disappoint. .

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.

Just when we think Cannes has all it's got to show us, it surprises - see the new trends. .

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.

Simplicity rules. It's hot.

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.

Past the mid-point, we focus on true trends in fashion and style at Cannes. Some to become our #ootd! .