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Ewan McGregor and travel mate Charley Boorman hit the road again for another motorcycle adventure for Long Way Home. The Apple TV+ docuseries mark the next leg of their 20-year odyssey that started with Long Way Round, which took the two on a 19,000-mile journey across 12 countries. It’s there they immersed themselves in diverse cultures from London through Europe and Asia to New York. From there, the duo’s globe-trotting in 2007 took them more than 15,000 miles from John o’ Groats in Scotland to Cape Town, South Africa through 18 countries with Long Way Down. Three years later they reunited for Long Way Up, logging 13,000 miles from Ushuaia in Argentina through 13 countries up to Los Angeles while also exploring the scenic South and Central America. Here five years later McGregor and Boorman, who first struck up a friendship while working on The Serpent’s Kiss in 1997, have set their eyes on familiar places.

Poland’s EnergaCamerimage Intl. Film Festival is honoring Oscar-winning French cinematographer Philippe Rousselot this year with its Camerimage Lifetime Achievement Award.

Celebrating the art of cinematography and its creators, the festival described Rousselot as “an incredibly versatile cinematographer whose body of work encompasses a wide variety of genres and styles.”

Rousselot, who received an Academy Award for his work on Robert Redford’s “A River Runs Through It” in 1993, has worked with such acclaimed filmmakers as John Boorman (“Emerald Forest”), Neil Jordan (“Interview with the Vampire”), Stephen Frears (“Dangerous Liaisons”), Miloš Forman (“The People vs. Larry Flynt”), Tim Burton (“Big Fish”), Guy Ritchie (“Sherlock Holmes”), Patrice Chéreau (“Queen Margot”), David Yates (“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”), Philip Kaufman (“Henry & June”), Jean-Jacques Annaud (“The Bear”) and Shane Black (“The Nice Guys”).

“He has shot independent European artistic films as well as visually impressive Hollywood blockbusters,” the festival added.

As much as people have quibbles with (much more democratically voted-on) awards like the Oscars, the decisions by juries at film festivals tend to be even more contentious. Usually drawn from practitioners and actors, with a few other curious participants in there as well, jurors often come in with their own likes, dislikes and agendas, and in the absence of a unanimous choice, often end up settling for compromises.

Indeed, this year's Cannes Film Festival jury president Nanni Moretti said, after the awards were unveiled this past weekend, that none of the them were unanimously voted for (word is Andrea Arnold in particular was a fervent opponent of Leos Carax's "Holy Motors"). That being said, their Palme D'Or winner was a popular one: while a few critics were rooting for "Holy Motors," almost everyone was delighted that Michael Haneke's "Amour" picked up the prize (his second in four years,...

Julie Andrews, Gemma Arterton, Matthew Goode, and Gabriel Byrne have signed on to star in an adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel Crooked House.  In the murder mystery is set against "the backdrop of three generations of a family that lives together in a large and seemingly crooked house."  Every member of the eccentric family has motive to have killed the multimillionaire patriarch, Aristide Leonide.  Neil Labute (Death at a Funeral) will direct from a script by Julian Fellowes (The Tourist) and Tim Rose Price (The Serpent's Kiss).  The $20 million production is scheduled to shoot this summer in the U.K.  The story calls for a large ensemble, so expect more casting notices in the near future.  Andrews, Goode, and Byrne -- and sure, let's throw in the lovely Arterton -- is a very good start. Read a quote from Labute and the full book synopsis after the jump. Labute...