Porumboui’s much-admired “Police, Adjective,” about a cop’s reluctant surveillance of a pot-smoking teen, won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize.
Cannes Film Fest 2009: Un Certain Regard Prize Winners (“Dogtooth,” “Police, Adjective”)
July 31, 2025 by
Is This Thing On?: Bradley Cooper’s Dramedy, Starring Oscar Winner Laura Dern, Set as Closing Night of 2025 N.Y. Film Fest
July 30, 2025 by
“Is This Thing On?” is Cooper’s third directorial effort after “A Star Is Born” and “Maestro.”
Directors: Laxe, Óliver–French-Born Spanish Director, Sirāt (Jury Prize, Cannes Film Fest 2025)
July 27, 2025 by
Born Óliver Laxe Coron11 April 1982 (age 43) Óliver Laxe Coro (Galician: born April 11, 1982) French-born Spanish director, screenwriter and actor of Galician ancestry. Laxe was born in Paris to Galician emigrants. His parents met at Bataclan at dance party for emigrants. Laxe’s maternal family comes from Vilela, Navia de Suarna, Lugo. He has […]
History of Sound, The: Gay Romance between Music Scholars–Released September 12 (by Mubi)
July 23, 2025 by
Hermanus’s idiosyncratic gay romantic tale, “The History of Sound” hits theaters Sep. 12 by Mubi.
Grace of Monaco (2014): One of Cannes Fest (and Nicole Kidman’s) Worst Films–Boos
July 23, 2025 by
Convention and uninspiring from its first frame to its last, Grace of Monaco is a piece of hagiographic fluff that cobbles together tropes from other recent biopics of famous women.
