Cannes
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Pierre Le Gall, won the inaugural Queer Palm Revelation Prize @ CANNES for his excellent debut Flesh and Fuel
As the Cannes Film Festival shuts down its screens after another year, there are the usual rumblings about its relevance for the film industry and beyond. The ongoing debate is between those who view it as the essential “cathedral” of global cinema and critics who see it as an insular, elitist “bubble” struggling to adapt…
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Queer Belgian Filmmaker LUKAS DHONT’s love affair with Cannes Film Fest continues.
Congratulations to queer Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont, whose two stars in his latest film COWARD (which is only his 4th!) Valentin Campagne and Emmanuel Macchia both won Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival. It’s part of a mutual love affair between Dhont and the Festival that began with his first film GIRL, which won…
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First glimpse of MOONAGE DAYDREAM the definitive documentary on the iconic DAVID BOWIE
Two giant music icons are being celebrated on the big screen in Cannes this week. The first is a stunning documentary on DAVID BOWIE from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Brett Morgen (who also made Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck) For the feature-length film MOONAGE DAYDREAM on Bowie’s creative, musical and spiritual journey, Morgen was given unfettered…
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Diamantino
This sophomore feature from American filmmakers Gabriel Abrantes, and Daniel Schmidt is a joyous bizarre tale that is a result of their wonderfully warped imagination. It won’t play well with everyone but if you get pulled in by their sheer lunacy you will so love how it all pans out. It’s the tale of Diamantino (Carloto Cotta) the…
