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If both your parents were famous and beguiling filmmakers, at some point you have to make a choice between turning your back on lineage to become a teacher or lawyer or something completely non-showbiz, or just embracing your genealogy and accepting the struggle to emerge from two very imposing shadows. For Mathieu Dem…

Following Alamo Drafthouse with its virtual cinema offerings (including today’s announcement of the online offering of the 1981 cult film Roar, which they are billing as the “original Tiger King”) and AFI with its innovative daily Movie Club with introductions of various film classics from the likes of Steven…

When director Agnès Varda came out with her 2017 Oscar-nominated documentary Faces Places, co-directed with the artist JR, many people assumed it would be her final film. In her late 80s at that point, her eyesight was failing—if not her unquenchable curiosity. But in fact she would complete one more film before her…

Ava DuVernay continues to champion inclusivity and global film perspectives with ARRAY 360 film series to mark the completion of the ARRAY Creative Campus and the brand-spankin’ new, state-of-the-art Amanda Theater. The series will kick off September 27 and continue through November 2. Located in the Historic…

Always a fun update, the Cannes Film Festival has revealed its latest poster. This year’s is a poignant one, but as ever, it’s sprinkled with cinema magic. The festival’s newest poster pays tribute to the late French filmmaker Agnès Varda who passed away just last month. It captures the director precariously perched…

Tributes are pouring in for Oscar-winning filmmaker and French cultural icon Agnès Varda, who has died aged 90. In a statement sent to Deadline, Martin Scorsese said, "I seriously doubt that Agnès Varda ever followed in anyone else's footsteps, in any corner of her life or her art … which were one in the same. She…

Agnès Varda, the French director who helmed films including La Pointe Courte and Cleo from 5 to 7 and won an Honorary Oscar and multiple Cannes Film Festival awards, died Thursday evening due to complications from cancer. She was 90. "She was surrounded by her family and friends,” the family said in a…

The Berlin Film Festival has added movies by Agnès Varda, Agnieszka Holland, Hans Petter Moland, Isabel Coixet and Wang Quan’an to its competition programme. Chiwetel Ejiofor’s directorial debut The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind will play in the Berlinale Special strand. Scroll down for the full list of additions to the…

Cate Blanchett, Ava DuVernay, Patty Jenkins, Kristen Stewart, Marion Cotillard, Salma Hayek and Agnes Varda were among 82 women to take part in a gender equality protest on the red-carpet in Cannes this evening. The actors, directors, writers, producers, and distributors stood half way up the red carpet as a symbol of…

EXCLUSIVE: In an unprecedented move in its 71-year history, the Cannes Film Festival is understood to be signing “concrete, strong commitments” around diversity on Monday. In a statement sent to Deadline, the festival said: “The Festival de Cannes is partnering with a united positive action, initiated by the 50/50 By…

For a documentary that has won numerous awards and enters the Oscar homestretch a strong contender, Faces Places began modestly enough. "We didn’t aim big at the beginning, we aimed to just work together and do it on a scale that would be small enough that it would be no pressure and we could have fun," co-director JR…

While it touched all the bases—celebrity, diversity, independence, global reach—the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences seemed not quite to hit a home run with its latest round of Governors Awards, announced early Wednesday afternoon. This year, honorary Oscars, to be presented at a dinner on November 11, will…