There are a lot of streamers out there, but none quite like Dropout. "I'm a determined hipster," jokes Dropout owner and CEO Sam Reich. "I can't do anything that the rest of the industry is doing — I'm just too determined to be unique."  Unique is not difficult to find on Dropout, which was created…

Established in 1932, Japan's Toho Group has grown into a film-industry powerhouse, not only at home but globally. Working across production, distribution and exhibition, it has recently been on an expansion spree, reeling in box office around the world and with recognition from major awards…

Nadya Tolokonnikova, co-founder of the feminist protest art collective Pussy Riot, was in Berlin when news broke on February 16 of the sudden death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in an Arctic penal colony. Two days later, she was protesting in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin…

When Lee Sung Jin's limited series Beef wrapped production back in 2022, the cast and crew were so happy with the profound camaraderie they'd developed that they've attempted to meet for dinner at least once a week ever since — some irony for a story originally borne out of anger and resentment. Some…

Terry Gilliam has been to Cannes with three of his own films since 1983, but one of his favorite memories of the festival takes him back to that very first time, at the 36th edition, as the co-writer and co-star of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. Along with Graham Chapman and the film's director Terry…

It has been seven years since Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Emmanuel Lubezki presented CARNE y ARENA at the Cannes Film Festival. In an airport hangar 20 minutes down the coast from the Palais, the pair had created a vast volume with a sand floor as participants strapped into a virtual reality headset and…

Strange but true: after 15 years as an international movie star, propelled to fame in 2004 by Wolfgang Petersen's historical epic Troy, German-born Diane Kruger won the Best Actress award in Cannes for her first-ever performance in her native language. Fatih Akin's provocative 2017 drama In the Fade, in…

Reflecting on her career, Lena Waithe says, "I think about legacy a lot."  The writer-producer-actor, whose body of work includes creating Showtime drama The Chi and BET's Twenties, has been on a steady upward trajectory since winning a primetime Emmy Award in 2017 for outstanding writing on Netflix's Mast…

Mikey Madison says the call from Sean Baker came entirely out of the blue. "I guess he'd seen a horror film I did, Scream [2022], on the opening weekend, and decided to call my agent the very next day. I met him and Samantha Quan, his producing partner, for coffee, and they pitched me this amazing, crazy…

The anarchic spirit of Julia Ducournau's Palme d'Or winner Titane lives on in Emma Benestan's Critics’ Week closer Animale, the genre-busting debut of a director who cites Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark, and the naturalist films of Chloé Zhao as influences. More surprisingly, she…

The first iteration of the Cannes Film Festival, planned for 1939, was scuppered when Germany invaded Poland to trigger the start of World War II. But when the festival finally got off the ground in 1946, Indian cinema came out swinging. Mounted shortly after the conclusion of the war, the first “real&#8221…

Surreal. That's how Misan Harriman describes his first time at the Academy Awards earlier this year. Six years before, his wife had bought him a Fujifilm X100 for his 40th birthday and encouraged him to start taking pictures with it. Then there he was, surrounded by the global industry's most…