in an interview with Variety, Michele Williams spilled the beans about her frequent collaborator/director Reichardt working so infrequently, and at such a low budget, that she has “spent a lot of time on [friends’] couches.

Poor Kelly McGillis, despite being Tom Cruise’s girlfriend in the original “Top Gun,” she wasn't even asked if she wanted to be in the sequel “Top Gun: Maverick.”

The only titles missing are Gray’s “Armageddon Time,” Reichardt’s “Showing Up,” and Ostlund’s “Triangle of Sadness.” No doubt all three will be screened during the thick of the festival. Stay tuned …

A week after reporting that David Cronenberg’s next movie will be “Shrouds,” the trades have joined the party and made it “official.

In a write-up for Spanish media outlet El Diario, Pedro Almodóvar praised Andrew Dominik’s “Blonde.”

As you may already know, Cannes usually has 4 or 5 spots reserved in its competition lineup for French filmmakers. Some years that quota turns out to be a crutch and other years it works tremendously well. Last year was the latter.

Back in July, Neon took over the U.S. rights to Ninja Thyberg’s “Pleasure, her debut feature, which premiered to strong reviews at Sundance Film Festival in 2021. A24 had originally bought it, but then got cold feet.

The first trailer for “Avatar: The Way of the Water” has been released. Hate to say it, but it looks like a state-of-the-art video game.

The runtime for Cannes competition titles has been revealed and it seems as though the three marathons will be Roustaee’s “Leila’s Brothers (165 min), Serra’s “Pacification” (165 min) and Ostlund’s “Triangle of Sadness” (150 min).

Much like Cannes, I’ll be doing monthly updates with my Venice predictions. A lot of things are surely going on behind the scenes of this the 90th edition of the Venezia.

I didn’t want to believe the rumors going around that Chinese master Hou Hsiao-Hsien was gravely ill. Some even thought we would never see another Hou film due to his being diagnosed with early on-set dementia.

I can't say I loved “Everything, Everywhere All At Once,” but it's well directed and well-acted, with a special shout out to the film’s top-notch tech departments.

The Cannes Film Festival has rejected press accreditations for practically all Russian journalists this year. This as a result of their stance against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

On 04.02.22 I pondered whether Apple TV was going to kick the football and delay Will Smith’s upcoming Oscar- bait vehicle “Emancipation.”

Buried in the lede of today’s Variety piece concerning the Will Smith/Emancipation schedule move:

It looks like one of the great world filmmakers of the last 30+ years will be coming out of her unannounced retirement for, at least, one last film. Catherine Breillat has cast Léa Drucker for her upcoming L’été dernier (Last Summer).

As far as I’m concerned this is the most comprehensive film list on the internet because there are no biases, just the data. Ask most critics/directors/historians and they would say that the list is reputable, especially the top 200.