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Editors note: Deadline presents the 22nd episode of its video series in which Pete Hammond and Todd McCarthy tackle the artistry of films. Each has reviewed and written about the craft for decades and built a remarkable breadth of knowledge of films past and present. What we hoped for when we asked them to do this was…

The Cannes Film Festival has a long and distinguished track record of spotlighting landmark works in the history of cinema with its highest honor, the Palme d’or. The festival first gave out its highest honor in 1939, but the award hasn’t always been called the Palme d’or, nor has it always been given to just one…

UPDATED with winners list: Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund led one of his now trademark primal screams inside the Palais on Saturday night as his latest film, Triangle of Sadness, was crowned with the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d'Or. This is the second time Östlund has won the prestigious prize, following 2017's The…

A diet of rice and tofu, plenty of regular, gentle exercise and excellent hospitals: the Japanese have nailed the formula for getting old prolifically. With a little less than 30% of the population over 65, Japanese society is now officially termed as "super-aged." Meanwhile, thanks to a low birth rate and an…

Kevin Spacey, facing charges of assault in the UK, has received the support of the producers of Peter Five Eight, the film intended to mark his comeback after five years off screen. The actor's return to work has been overshadowed by the UK police confirming they have charged Spacey with four charges of sexual assault…

The directing duo of Adil El Arbi and Billal Fallah helmed Bad Boys for Life, which grossed $426.5M worldwide in 2020. Now they are back and at Cannes with their new film Rebel, which is a departure from the blockbuster content they usually delve into. Starring Aboubakr Bensaihi, Tara Abboud, and Lubna Azabal and…

While the evening belonged to castmembers Ahmed Sylla, Annabelle Lengronne, Stephane Bak and director Leonor Serraille, Helen Mirren and Andie MacDowell provided an entertaining diversion at the Cannes screening of Mother And Son (Un Petit Frere). The glamorous duo did an impromptu dance together as they made their…

When his mother spoke, Ernest remembers, everything sounded important. "I cling to her light," he tells us in voiceover, an adult remembering how that felt. The Ernest he is recalling is just a little boy (Milan Doucansi), snuggled against Rose (Annabelle Lengronne, a wonderfully vivid presence), with his grave and…

EXCLUSIVE: Buffalo 8 has acquired North American rights to the musical drama Love Gets a Room from director Rodrigo Cortés (Buried) out of the Cannes Film Festival, slating it for a limited theatrical release this fall. The film starring Clara Rugaard (I Am Mother) and Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (Sing Street) is a romantic…

Javier Bardem addressed a packed Salle Bunuel on Friday as part of the Cannes Film Festival's 75th birthday celebrations. Dressed down, relaxed and very, very funny, the actor addressed a wide range of topics in a Q&A that covered a lot of ground, from his marriage to Penélope Cruz to his experience on the Pirates of t…

SPOILER ALERT: If you still have questions after watching Decision to Leave, then watch our interview with filmmaker Park Chan-wook. If you haven’t seen the movie yet, however, you might want to wait.  While The Handmaiden dropped jaws in a lot of ways from kink to its opulence at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, Decisio…

Coming away from Cannes this year with his cop-suspect romance noir Decision to Leave, Park Chan-wook told Deadline recently that his next project is the HBO series The Sympathizer based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel about Vietnamese-Americans in the mid-'70s. While a series can take some time to get off the conveyor…