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When Morrissey attempted to reunite the New York Dolls in 2004 for a performance at London’s Meltdown festival, he thought his odds of success were low. “I expected David [Johansen] to laugh at me and put the phone down,” he said that year. “But he was very agreeable and it seemed like now was the right time. He said, ‘Yes, they are great songs.’ I said, ‘Yes, and that’s the reason why you should sing them. That’s the reason why people still want to hear them.’”

Prior to Morrissey’s call,...

Editor's note: This is a review of a classic, much-studied film, and contains plot spoilers.

Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is the second full length film by Chantal Akerman that has a distinct narrative. It is three days in the life and context of Jeanne Dielman (Delphine Seyrig).

Jeanne goes about her daily routine. It is repetitive and meticulously ordered. Each action she takes is taken at the correct time and in the correct sequence. She cleans, cooks; as a prostitute she has sex with one of her client; serves food to her son Sylvain (Jan Decorte) on his return from school, listens to the radio, leaves the apartment with Sylvain for some unexplained reason and on return goes to bed. Every piece of fabric she comes across, she folds with obsessive purpose. Her existence seams dull and boring. The colour scheme in her apartment is drab; what few.

Universal has unveiled the trailer for “Jurassic World Rebirth.” This feature will mark the seventh film in the 31-year-old cinematic franchise.

The official synopsis for “Jurassic World Rebirth” reads: “Five years post-‘Jurassic World Dominion,’ an expedition braves isolated equatorial regions to extract DNA from three massive prehistoric creatures for a groundbreaking medical breakthrough.”

Scarlett Johansson plays Zora Bennett, a covert operations expert hired to lead an expedition to secure genetic material from three dinosaurs. The cast also includes Jonathan Bailey, Rupert Friend, Ed Skrein, Mahershala Ali, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Luna Blaise, Philippine Velge, David Iacono, Audrina Miranda and Bechir Sylvain.

Bailey plays paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis; Ali plays Duncan Kincaid, Zora’s partner; and Friend plays Martin Krebs, a representative for the drug corporation financing the mission. Velge, Sylvain and Skrein are said to play team members reporting to Zora.

The film is directed by Gareth Edwards from a script...

A 50th-anniversary release for Chantal Akerman’s meticulous masterpiece, voted the best film of all time by Sight and Sound

A woman’s work is never done in Chantal Akerman’s icily deadpan, degree-zero movie from 1975, now on rerelease for its 50th anniversary. Over three hours and 20 minutes, from a sequence of fixed camera positions, it blankly transcribes the ordinary life of Jeanne Dielman, a fortysomething widowed single mother, living with her teenage son Sylvain in a modest one-bedroom apartment in central Brussels (he sleeps in a foldout sofa bed in the front room).

The flat is heavily furnished in a style that clearly dates from before the second world war, the glass-fronted dresser weirdly reflecting the flashing blue lights from the store across the street, a touch which the audience will come to notice in time and which may be a premonition of the police’s future arrival. The...

Jurassic World Rebirth prioritized real locations over green screen backdrops. Four new images have revealed the lengths director Gareth Edwards went to in giving the long-running dino franchise its much-needed "rebirth."

Entertainment Weekly debuted the new look at Jurassic World Rebirth as part of its 2025 Preview series, showing the cast — Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, Rupert Friend, and Bechir Sylvain — wading through a mangrove swamp and trekking through a lush jungle environment. Filming on Rebirth primarily took place in Thailand and Malta, a decision that was part of Edwards' "back to basics" approach for the hotly-anticipated sequel, which includes real filming locations, less blue screen, and a simple but compelling story with fresh leads. Indeed, the four new images do feel like they could have been pulled from one of the two Steven Spielberg-directed Jurassic Park movies, specifically 1997's The Lost World. Check out the new Jurassic Park Rebirth images below.

Rumours opens with a sarcastic "thank you" to the leaders of the G7 (Group of Seven) a political organization consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States (along with the non-enumerated European Union) for their help with the film. This is an opening broadside from Canadian filmmakers Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson before a dark, hilarious, and often bewildering evisceration of utter ineptitude and fecklessness. The damning point made is that the most powerful people in the world, who should be working together to solve critical problems, are flawed bureaucrats incapable of accomplishing anything.

G7 summits are held annually during the summer. The meetings rotate between member countries to not show any preference. In Rumours, the G7 leaders have gathered in rural Germany under the leadership of Chancellor Hilda Ortmann (Cate Blanchett), who smiles nonstop like the Cheshire cat. French President Sylvain...

Why is the Joker so beloved? It's a question worth pondering, primarily because the character's worship seems baffling on paper. Sure, it makes sense why he's popular; he's one of the all-time great villains, and a hero like Batman is only as good as their villain. Yet the Joker's status as an icon has grown beyond his function as a foil to the Dark Knight. The hysteria surrounding the late Heath Ledger's portrayal of the character in "The Dark Knight" was totally explicable given Ledger's James Dean-esque tragic mystique, yet Joker mania has only increased since that film. The character is on the same level as other fictional villains like Walter White, Michael Corleone, and Freddy Krueger. In terms of morality, none of these characters should be revered, yet they are.

There is an easy answer to this question, of course: such despicable villains have always drawn the...

Back in January, Universal Pictures made a surprising announcement: not only did they have a new Jurassic World movie in development, but the screenplay – by original Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp, returning to the franchise for the first time since The Lost World: Jurassic Park – had already been written, and the movie was on the fast track to production. Soon after, we learned that it’s aiming for a July 2, 2025 theatrical release. Assembled in a mad scramble, the movie is now filming with Godzilla director Gareth Edwards at the helm… and Variety has revealed that Béchir Sylvain, who may be best known for his role as Roman on the BET+ series Diarra from Detroit, his role as Braithwaite on the Netflix series Black Summer, or his appearances on episodes of the Starz series Bmf: Black Mafia Family, is in the cast. Details on the character Sylvain is playing in the...

Actor Bchir Sylvain, known for his roles in Diarra From Detroit and Black Summer, has joined the cast of the upcoming Jurassic World film. This latest instalment in the long-running dinosaur franchise is being directed by Gareth Edwards and written by David Koepp, who penned the original Jurassic Park as well as its sequel, The Lost World. Sylvain is a rising star, with this film marking another significant step in his career. He recently joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe with a role in the upcoming Wonder Man series for Disney+.

“Diarra From Detroit” and “Black Summer” actor Béchir Sylvain has joined the starry cast of Universal’s next installment of the “Jurassic World” franchise.

The Gareth Edwards-directed dinosaur movie is written by David Koepp (screenwriter of “Jurassic Park” and its sequel “The Lost World”) and boasts an ensemble led by Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Rupert Friend, Mahershala Ali, Luna Blaise, David Iacono and Audrina Miranda.

Beginning with Steven Spielberg’s 1993 blockbuster “Jurassic Park,” Universal and the filmmaker’s Amblin Entertainment banner have produced six films that have collectively earned more than $6 billion worldwide. The latest movie — which ushers in a new era of “Jurassic World” films following the original storyline’s cross-generational conclusion with 2022’s “Jurassic World Dominion” — is set to be released in theaters on July 2, 2025.

Spielberg returns to executive produce the new film for Amblin alongside Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley, who produce via Kennedy-Marshall.

Zombie flicks are a unique kind of survivalist horror. They usually feature rotting flesh, chase scenes, headshots, and a lot of biting. Robin Campillos 2004 directorial debut, They Came Back (Les Revenants in French), refuses to humor these genre staples. This French film favors a slow-burn, psychological angle to scare its audience. They Came Back follows three families in a provincial French town after 13,000 dead people suddenly reappear over the course of two hours. The mayors wife, Martha (Catherine Samie), a couples six-year-old son, Sylvain (Saady Delas), and young widow Rachel's (Graldine Pailhas) husband, Mathieu (Jonathan Zacca), are the primary focuses of the film. A nationwide phenomenon, the town hesitantly releases the returned to their families and allows for reintegration into the workforce. Rather than cloaking the film in darkness, Campillo purposefully keeps most of his horror in the daylight. There, he forces the audience and the characters to confront the...

Filmmaker Monia Chokri loves a zoom lens. Such is the fun aesthetic of her third feature The Nature of Love. Often the image jumps forwards or backwards, accenting an emotional moment with a punchy, visual exclamation point. It shouldn’t work, yet it does. The film stars Magalie Lépine Blondeau as Sophia, a 40-year-old professor in a comfortable marriage to Xavier (Francis-William Rhéaume). “Not unhappy,” she describes herself at one point. Early on, Sophia is intrigued and quickly entranced by Sylvain (Pierre-Yves Cardinal), the craftsperson renovating Sophia and Xavier’s country home. The affair is immediately sexy, exciting, and passionate.

Cinematographer André Turpin’s camera matches the excitement. When things are turbulent––be they good or bad––the camera gets a bit impatient. When things are stale, the camera gets a bit complacent. Consider one of the best moments of the film: Sylvain’s seductive introduction. The camera runs slowly down a corridor,...

The task of crafting an intellectual definition of love — a feeling so indescribable and transcendent that empires have crumbled and countless lives have blown up just because humans craved a little more of it — is, by definition, an impossible task. It’s a feeling that inspires so much art because it can’t be explained or rationalized away. At its best, it’s so overpowering that even the smartest among us have no choice but to suspend their need to analyze and accept that they’ve fallen prey to an emotion better summarized by a three-minute pop song than anything in a textbook.

But the impossibility of the assignment hasn’t stopped the great thinkers of every generation from trying. From ancient Greek philosophers who argued that love couldn’t be separated from unfulfilled sexual desire and obsession to more modern interpretations that see it as a state of being...

The Nature of Love explores binaries like passion vs. companionship, beauty vs. intelligence, and realism vs. fantasy in relationships. The film's intense emotional scenes and stylistic choices create a dream-like atmosphere, but the extreme thematic binaries may not be convincing. The impressive visual style and creative efforts enhance the film's world, but the overemphasis on symbolism and exaggeration detract from the overall experience.

The Nature of Love is a movie obsessed with binaries. From short-lived passion vs enduring companionship to beauty vs intelligence, and sophistication vs messiness, every major theme in the narrative has its opposition. The story itself centers around Sophia (Magalie Lpine Blondeau), a woman whose stable life is complicated when she meets Sylvain (Pierre-Yves Cardinal), and their connection threatens her established long-term relationship.

The film's primary concern is to address the age-old question of whether fidelity and commitment are realistic. By building layers of contrast at each turn,...

Heart in the Right Place: Chokri Lets the Body & the Camera Do the Talking in Rom Dramedy

French Canadian filmmaker Monia Chokri adds another notch to the bedpost focusing on the romantic relationships we begin and the romantic relationships we begin to … ponder. If fellow 514 filmmaker Denys Arcand had a knack for philosophizing what makes opposites attract, with Simple Comme Sylvain we get into complex hierarchies about our role within the couple, the roles that are assigned to us and our active role-playing of sorts — dog leash et al. Working with more of a formal visual strategy that actually reminds of 70s and giallo cinema, Chokri’s tendency to overstuff the narrative with a lot of dialogue and discord as in her first two features (2019’s A Brother’s Love and 2022’s Babysitter) is replaced by more introspection, nuance and fluff.…...

Monia Chokri’s 2023 film The Nature of Love offers insight into humanity’s most complex emotion. Set in Montreal, it centers on Sophia, a university philosophy teacher played brilliantly by Magalie Lépine-Blondeau. For a decade, she’s been with her partner, Xavier, but their relationship has lost its spark. This changes when rugged contractor Sylvain, portrayed with charm by Pierre-Yves Cardinal, is hired to renovate Sophia’s country home. Their connection is electric, sweeping Sophia into a passionate affair behind Xavier’s back.

As a philosophy professor, Sophia is well-versed in the theories of love put forth by great thinkers. Yet finding herself irresistibly drawn to Sylvain exposes how imperfectly her intellect aligns with her heart. Chokri explores how even the most well-read among us can struggle to understand love in practice.

She depicts Sophia swept up in irrational desire, grappling with conflicting emotions as passion for Sylvain collides with loyalty to Xavier.

A middle-aged woman’s has a giddy fling in Monia Chokri’s latest film – at first all is roses, but then moral murkiness creeps in

Middle-aged women enjoying torrid flings were treated with solemnity in Claire Denis’s Both Sides of the Blade and Harry Wootliff’s True Things. The Québécois actor-director Monia Chokri takes a gentler, livelier tack in her third movie and first as solo screenwriter. It kicks off at a choppily edited dinner-party where a gaggle of erudite pals are bantering about the end of the world (“We’re in extinction denial”), then narrows the focus to one couple. Sophia (Magalie Lépine-Blondeau), a philosophy professor whose lectures amount to little more than listing quotes about love from the likes of Schopenhauer, Spinoza and Plato, is a decade into her cosy, unchallenging relationship with Xavier (Francis-William Rhéaume). Hiring the rugged labourer Sylvain (Pierre-Yves Cardinal) to spruce up her holiday chalet,...

The premise of writer-director Monia Chokri’s Quebec-set The Nature of Love makes it sound like your standard-issue rom-com. Sophia (Magalie Lépine-Blondeau), a university philosophy teacher stuck in a static relationship with Xavier (Francis-William Rhéaume), is one day suddenly swept off her feet by Sylvain (Pierre-Yves Cardinal), the hunky, charming contractor tasked with renovating Sophia and Xavier’s lakeside getaway.

But after scenes depicting Sophia lecturing her classes about history’s great thinkers and their philosophies of love, it becomes clear that Chokri isn’t so much interested in the central couple’s meet-cute as she is in all that the affair triggers for Sophia. And much like what Todd Haynes’s Far from Heaven did with the aesthetic of the Sirkian Hollywood melodrama, The Nature of Love engages with the stylings and bubbly tonality of the classic rom-com in ironic fashion, along the way exploring complex aspects of human behavior.

A new trailer has been revealed for Space Marines 2, and gamers are already looking forward to the blood and gore that will be coming to their consoles and PCs later this year. Currently, there are a few different announcements that gamers are looking forward to.

However, during the recent trailer, there was one part of the game that players had some confusion about, as the trailer didn’t explain this very well, and that is regarding the campaign and the three-player operations.

Space Marines 2 Allows Co-op Through the Whole Campaign and More Space Marines 2 allows co-op in both campaigns and operations.

After the recent trailer for Space Marines 2 was revealed by Focus Entertainment, players were more than hyped for the game to finally get the release date, but there was one question that they were begging for an answer to, which is whether or not the campaign is co-op or single-player.

Remember the communiqué from the Rambouillet G7 conference back in 1975? Of course they do. Tramping through a wooded estate somewhere in Germany, pursued by the zombie remains of Iron Age chieftains recently exhumed from the grounds of the nearby stately home, the leaders of the world’s richest democracies recite it by heart. What could be more stirring than a well-rounded public announcement that sounds grand, but doesn’t commit anyone to doing anything? A successful joint statement is a work of art.

These leaders – the chancellor of Germany (Cate Blanchett), the prime ministers of the UK, Japan and Canada, and the presidents of the United States, Italy and France – clearly think they are masters of that art in Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson’s Rumours. Surges of orchestral music as they wave in...

Despite promises of a major plot twist, Retribution's ending became predictable, leaving viewers wanting more. The storyline in Retribution remained conventional and rote, failing to live up to the potential of a thrilling action film. The real reason Anders targeted Matt was solely to steal money, showing the film's lack of morally complex motivations.

Retributions ending explained a major plot twist that was supposed to surprise viewers but the conclusion of Liam Neesons latest thriller was surprisingly predictable. The third remake of 2015s Spanish sleeper hit El desconocido, Nimrod Antal's Retribution stars Neeson as a banker whose life is thrown into disarray during a school run with his children. After Matt Turner gets into his car, he ignores his children while finishing an important work deal with his colleague Anders. Matt finishes that call and a mysterious second phone begins ringing.

Matt answers this call and a distorted...

Last year’s Un Certain Regard section had a treasure trove of highlights in Kamal Lazraq’s Hounds, Rodrigo Moreno’s Los Delincuentes, Asmae El Moudir’s The Mother of All Lies, Monia Chokri’s Simple comme Sylvain and Felipe Gálvez’s The Settlers and Un Certain Regard section winner in Molly Manning Walker’s How to Have Sexhas been playing like gangbusters on the festival and awards circuit. This year should offer some more national cinema gems.

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Is the honeymoon already over for Bash and Mags? 

Maybe that's a little harsh. But York Memorial's hot new couple suffered from growing pains on Transplant Season 3 Episode 2.

Things started well as Amira spent the weekend with a friend, so Bash didn't have to leave Mags' apartment.

Things took a turn when Mags' parents visited Toronto and invited her and her new boyfriend to dinner.

Mags knew it was too soon in their relationship but extended an invitation to Bash anyway.

Bash knew it was a bad idea, but being the nice guy he is, he went along with it for Mags' sake.

The dinner could have gone worse. It went about as expected, as her parents began interrogating Bash and then told stories about young Mags, which embarrassed her.

Then her dad, Sylvain, started choking, and Bash jumped into action, performing the Heimlich Maneuver and turning opinion firmly in his favor.

Monia Chokri’s “The Nature of Love” has been acquired for U.K. and Ireland distribution by Vertigo Releasing.

The film stars Magalie Lépine Blondeau and Pierre-Yves Cardinal. In the film, the cosy married life of lecturer and intellectual Sophia (Blondeau) takes a bold new turn when she meets Sylvain (Cardinal), the ruggedly charming handyman at her new chalet and she embarks on a steamy and all-consuming affair.

“The Nature of Love” premiered at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard strand earlier this year and since then has played Toronto and Zurich among other festivals. It has its U.K. premiere at the BFI London Film Festival on Oct. 13 and will play Chicago post that.

“Female mid-life crises are not explored in this mode of storytelling as often their male counterpart: While the tragedy of the woman who f—s around and finds out is a mainstay of plenty of great literature and cinema,...

The Toronto International Film Festival has added 59 more films to the lineup of its 2023 festival, including 47 international films in the Centrepiece program, which in previous years was known as Contemporary World Cinema. New films were also added to the Galas, Special Presentations and Documentary sections.

World premieres among the new selections include “Finestkind,” a crime thriller from Brian Helgeland (screenwriter of “L.A. Confidential”) starring Tommy Lee Jones and Ben Foster; The Movie Teller,” a film set in Chile starring Berenice Bejo from “An Education” director Lone Scherfig; and Jessica Yu’s “Quiz Lady,” with Sandra Oh and Awkwafina.

The Centrepiece selections include a number of films from May’s Cannes Film Festival, among them Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days,” Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “About Dry Grasses,” Aki Kaurismaki’s “Fallen Leaves,” Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s “Banel & Adama,” Amjad Al Rasheed’s “Inshallah a Boy,” Joanna Arnow’s “The Feeling That the...

Canadian director Monia Chokri isn’t big on Hollywood romance movies that glorify unavailable men who eventually become the prize of women chasing them.

“It’s been done, so I don’t need to do another Pretty Woman,” she dismissively tells The Hollywood Reporter about The Nature of Love, a French-language film about two people from different classes falling in love at first sight, that has been screening at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival’s Horizons section after its world premiere in Cannes.

For Chokri, romance is a surrogate for female expression as her tragicomedy tackles how women view themselves sexually and behave among men. “It’s about what she feels in her mind,” the director says of Sophia, a 40-year-old Montreal philosophy professor played by Magalie Lépine-Blondeau.

Sophia is in a stable, yet sex-less relationship with her partner Xavier (Francis William Rheaume), but finds her sexual desire is reawakened,...

A taboo question about modern relationships – what is more important: sexual compatibility or intellectual compatibility? That's the core of this smart new romantic comedy film from Quebec titled Simple comme Sylvain (in French) or The Nature of Love (in English). After watching it, I prefer the original French title more. The direct translation is "Simple as Sylvain", or "Easy as Sylvain". The guy she falls for in the film is named Sylvain, and it's a story about how he is both a simple man (translation: not so smart), and also how simple/easy it is to fall for him and fall for his charms and all of that. The Nature of Love is a bit more abstract and doesn't quite have the sharpness of Simple as Sylvain. Though if you haven't seen the film yet, how do you know who Sylvain is? But I digress. This clever film hasn't left my mind since watching,...

The rom-com has always appeared to be in safe hands with French-language cinema, but Quebecois director Monia Chokri wanted to push the boundaries of the genre even further with her new film “Simple comme Sylvain.”

“French people like to talk about love but they always do it in the same way of toxic relationships. And there aren’t so many [rom-coms] made by women,” says Chokri, who was last in Cannes in 2019 with her debut feature, “A Brother’s Love,” which won Un Certain Regard’s Jury Cup de Coeur.

“Simple comme Sylvain” centers on a posh French-Canadian woman in a sexless marriage who turns her life upside down when she has an affair with her contractor.

The Quebec-born actor broke out in meaty roles in Canadian auteur Denys Arcand’s “The Age of Darkness” and Xavier Dolan’s “Heartbeats” and “Laurence Anyways.” She also acts in “Simple comme Sylvain,” playing her protagonist’s outspoken best friend,...

Monia Chokri’s “The Nature of Love” opens by introducing us to 40-year-old philosophy professor Sophia (Magalie Lépine Blondeau) and her husband Xavier (Francis-William Rhéaume), as they enjoy a dinner party with friends. Said friends (one of whom is played by the director) are similarly middle-class progressive types with nice homes and comfortable lives; Sophia’s job in particular allows a strand of metatextual self-commentary in an otherwise predominantly broad and sexy comedy. It is, of course, a cast-iron rule of cinema that if a film opens with a middle-class dinner party, you’re about to see somebody’s bourgeois certainties undermined, and Chokri doesn’t disappoint.

On the drive home, Sophia and Xavier gossip about their friends’ love lives. Supposedly one of the other couples has sex three or four times a week, but also fights constantly. Xavier is of the opinion that a peaceful but sexless life is preferable,...

In Monia Chokri’s “The Nature of Love” (“Simple comme Sylvain”), a posh French-Canadian woman in a sexless marriage turns her life upside down for an affair with her contractor.

The film, which is being shopped to buyers in Cannes by Mk2 Films, will world premiere in Un Certain Regard on May 18.

Magalie Lépine-Blondeau delivers a powerhouse performance as Sofia, a 40-year-old philosophy professor in a stable yet stifling relationship with long-term partner Xavier.

When they buy a chalet to refurbish, she meets the strapping, jovial Sylvain (Pierre-Yves Cardinal), who arrives one day to provide a quote for the renovations. The pair jump headlong into a steamy relationship, but as their romance wears on, Sofia realizes that their backgrounds and interests make them far more different than she first thought.

Chokri previously directed “My Brother’s Wife,” which won the Jury Prize in Un Certain Regard in 2019. Chokri, who directs and wrote the screenplay,...

Personality Crisis: One Night Only, the Showtime documentary on David Johansen which was co-directed by Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi, made its world premiere at The New York Film Festival, the same venue Scorsese’s Mean Streets debuted in 1973. That was the same year The New York Dolls’ first album came out.

During the Q&a which followed the screening, Scorsese said he would play the Dolls’ music to the actors before shooting scenes in Mean Streets. “I heard this song, ‘Personality Crisis,’ the rhythm and blues roots, the energy of it, the sense of humor, particularly when he sings ‘yeah, yeah, yeah’ and the band answers ‘no, no, no,’ it’s no game, we’re in,” Scorsese remembered from the panel. “I had played it for the guys, and I showed them the album cover and they said ‘what is this?’ It generated the energy of the whole movie.

New films from Wes Anderson, Todd Haynes, Jonathan Glazer, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Alice Rohrwacher will premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, Cannes President Iris Knobloch and General Delegate Thierry Fremaux announced at a press conference in Paris on Thursday morning.

The Main Competition, the most prestigious section at the festival, will include films by Anderson (“Asteroid City”), Haynes (“May December”), Glazer (“The Zone of Interest”), Kore-eda (“Monster”), Ceylan (“About Dry Grasses”) and Rohrwacher (“La Chimera”). Other directors in the competition, which is a mixture of Cannes veterans and relative newcomers, include Ken Loach, Aki Kaurismaki, Nanni Moretti, Catherine Breillat and Wim Wenders, who has two different movies at the festival, one a documentary about artist Anselm Kiefer and one a fiction film set in Japan.

Cannes had already confirmed four high-profile films that will premiere at the festival. Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” will...

The selection includes films by Wes Anderson, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Wim Wenders, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes and Steve McQueen.

The Official Selection of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival has been announced.

Scroll down for the line-up

The selection includes films by Wes Anderson, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Wim Wenders, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes and Steve McQueen.

As previously announced, ’s Jeanne du Barry, starring the director opposite Johnny Depp, will open the festival on May 16.

The festival’s longtime director Thierry Frémaux revealed the Official Selection at a press conference at the Ugc Normandie theatre in Paris today alongside incoming festival president Iris Knobloch.

The press conference kicked off in central Paris at 11.10am local time (10.10am BST).

The Cannes Film Festival (May 16-27) is announcing the line-up for its 76th edition.

The festival’s longtime director Thierry Frémaux is revealing the Official Selection at a press conference at the Ugc Normandie theatre in Paris alongside incoming festival president Iris Knobloch.

Two-time Palme d’Or-winning Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund will preside over the jury that will vote on the festival’s top prizes in the international competition.

As previously announced, Maiwenn’s Jeanne du Barry, starring the director opposite Johnny Depp, will open the...

You know what January needs? Sequins. So it's just as well that Dancing on Ice is back with its final series (sob). We won't get too sad about things coming to an end, though, because it's an All-Stars spectacular this time around!

The first seven celebrities will be taking to the ice during tonight's show, but who'll face the indignity of being voted out first? Join Digital Spy at 6.15pm as we'll bring you all the action...

20:56But that's that! The other seven celebrities will be taking to the ice to strut their stuff next Sunday... who are you excited about seeing? It's anyone's game...

20:55Phillip says they're sad to be saying goodbye to Joe, too. "Don't be sad, I'll be sad," he replies. But that's that - we've already lost Joe and Jorgie! How are you feeling about that? Pleased? Distraught? Let us know below!

20:54Are...

In Robin Campillo's darkly original The Returned, the life of a quiet French town is changed forever when thousands of the recently deceased inexplicably come back to life. With a major Canal+ television series based on the Campillo's original film currently wowing audiences here in the UK, what better time to release the film on DVD. To celebrate the home entertainment release of The Returned this coming Monday (22 July), we have Three DVD copies of the film to give away to our readers, courtesy of Arrow Films. This is an exclusive competition for our Facebook and Twitter fans, so if you haven't already, 'Like' us at facebook.com/CineVueUK or follow us @CineVue before answering the question below.

The recently dead return to life and seem content merely to go back to their former lives, but their return causes a myriad of complications. Isham and Véronique have their trepidations,...

It's the week we've all been waiting for on Dancing on Ice. It's time to bring out the props!

However, that doesn't mean we'll be seeing a return for Lauren Goodger. Instead, it's the infamous week where the five skaters still (just about) standing are being handed the baton (or hats or chairs or whatever items were lying about in ITV's reception) as they take to the ice in a bid to make it to next week's semi-final.

So sit back, relax and let Digital Spy be your armchair companion for what could be the last ever chance we get to see celebs throwing hula hoops at each other on primetime telly...

20:55That's it! Another week gone, and only two to go. It's semi-final time next week, with Luke, Gareth, Beth and Matt going all-out to make it to the final. Join us back here next Sunday to see them all fly (well,...

With Valentine's Day around the corner, inevitably this means that the cheesy themes are back in business for Dancing on Ice.

Of course it's 'Love Week', so we can probably expect plenty of heart cartoons projected onto the ice, pink costumes and more mention of Samia and Sylvain's 'romance' than you can shake a sparkly stick at.

So dig out the chocolate and sparkling wine (ITV cutbacks etc) and join Digital Spy for all of the luurvely action…

20:55Thanks for joining Digital Spy this evening, and don't forget to put a bid on Pasquale's jockstrap on eBay tomorrow morning. Night, all!

20:55Well, not exactly a shock result - but a bit of a sad one at the same time as at least Joe brought a few lols to the ice. Although I can't say I'm going to miss talk of his prostate or bowel movements.

20:52Teflon...

Yes, it's that time again on Sunday night, which can only mean one thing… Welcome to another Dancing on Ice live blog!

This week, there's no kooky 'theme' to the show. It's all about 'The Leveller' - a task which means that the stars will have to skate solo for 30 seconds.

And with Keith Chegwin's rib injury putting his performance in doubt and Gareth Thomas's foot causing him jip, there's worry aplenty in the Doi camp tonight. Quite literally anything could happen. Jason Gardiner might even liken someone's skating to having locked-in syndrome. Again.

So stick with Digital Spy as we see which couples pull it out of the bag, who face-palms the floor and what awful outfits are paraded about. It's going to be great…

20:57Anyway, thanks for joining Digital Spy this evening. Hope you - like I - are just pleased that some goodies (Beth,...