In the recent issue of Fotogramas, Albert Serra talks about his upcoming Cannes polarizer “Pacifiction” (highly recommended).

As I was watching Ali Abassi’s “Holy Spider” at Cannes this past May, never did I imagine this film would be one of the few from this year’s competition with decent post-fest legs.

Just a week ago, Best Supporting Actress had the most comfortably placed frontrunner of any category. When Universal decided to pull Michelle Williams out and campaign her as Lead Actress, a total and utter unpredictability showed up.

Sasha Stone’s 09.27.22 piece titled How to Fix the Oscars: Save Them or Kill Them has caught the ire of film twitter in unimaginable ways. The hate stems from this specific paragraph:

They decided to lift the embargo a week earlier for David O. Russell’s “Amsterdam.” Not sure why they did that, the floodgates are now open for critics to bash it before its October 7th release.

We are around 5 weeks away before production is said to begin on Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis.”

The title speaks for itself.

Jeffrey Wells over at HE has posted a fascinating graph of the most referenced/taught film directors in US film schools.

Vittorio Storaro was interviewed by an Italian newspaper on the set of Woody Allen’s new movie set in Paris. The film has officially started production.

As if we didn’t need enough indication that Ryan Coogler is hitting for the fences with this one, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” is officially 2 hours and 41 minutes.

The lineup for 73rd Berlin Film Festival is starting to take shape. Philippe Garrel’s “Le Grande Chariot,” formerly titled “La lune crevée,” now has a French release date set for March 8th, 2023.

Christina Newland’s sparring match, err, interview with Andrew Dominik about “Blonde” is umm … interesting. It’s clearly a film Newland detested. At moments, she decides to interview Dominik for debate.

Yesterday’s “Napoleon” news came with a nicely added update I received on “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Supposedly, the film is much more ready than “Napoleon.”

Lainey has a very damning article about the whole “Don’t Worry Darling” drama, which claims to have spoken to three crew members of the film.

This goes along well with what I had reported since July, which is when Maria Schrader’s film test-screened in New Jersey.

The Ankler’s Tatiana Spiegel surprised many with her latest report this early afternoon.

It will be very interesting to see if there is an audience for Nicolas Stoller’s “Bros” this coming weekend. You know the drill: critics will definitely be pushing it …

Here’s an interesting topic. Do you just nullify “The Cosby Show” from history? That’s what Rolling Stone has just done with their “updated” list of the 100 Greatest TV Shows of All-Time.

I seemed to have missed the release of the trailer for M Night Shyamalan’s “Knock at the Cabin.” It’s amassed 10 million views on YouTube in just four days.

The LA Times’ Glenn Whipp has already planted the flag, so to speak, in support of Mia Goth’s “Pearl” performance.