Award Winners at ÉCU 2026: Theodoros Tziatzios, Yash Saraf, Henri Ikonen & Ella Koponen, Guillaume Levil and Philos Maurice Klein Written by Pia Stoffers At this year’s ÉCU, the independent film scene showed what truly great cinema is all about. Packed with creativity, bold storytelling, and distinctive artistic voices, the films turned the cinema into […]
Christopher Nolan is set to be featured in a complete retro by the Toronto International Film Festival’s summer marquee series that will start ahead of the July 17 North-American theatrical premiere of “The Odyssey.” The series at TIFF Lightbox cinema, titled “Christopher Nolan: Grand Designs,” will run July 8–Aug. 20 and feature screenings of Nolan’s works […]
Oscar-winning Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore will be honored during the upcoming Taormina Film Festival with the Golden Globes Prize for Documentary in partnership with Artemis Rising Foundation for his docufilm “Brunello: The Gracious Visionary” about Brunello Cucinelli, the fashion designer known as Italy’s “King of Cashmere.” Tornatore will receive the award in Taormina’s large...
Fatherland and Fjord towered above the rest on our 2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel — but how did the competition stack up across the other jury grids floating around the Croisette?
FINAL CRITICAL CHECK-IN BEFORE CANNES AWARDS
Updated as of this morning at 10:30 am (EST) for all 22 Palme competition tiles
IONCINEMA (5 point scale)
1) Fatherland 3.7
1) Fjord 3.7
1) Coward 3.7
4) Minotaur 3.5
5) A Man of His Time 3.4
5) The Man I Love 3.4
7) All of a Sudden 3.3...
SPECIAL FRIDAY UPDATE: CANNES AND THE CRITICS
With the awards now only hours away in France. MTFB is updating our window on the critical response there.
Additional titles have screened and continued adding of critics' responses puts us with 12 films we're including in our analysis of what's what at Cannes
Here's the rundown on each film from each critical accumulator...
Standing at the Cannes podium Saturday night to collect the Grand Prix for “Minotaur,” exiled Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev used his acceptance speech to issue a direct, personal plea to Vladimir Putin to bring the war to an end. Set in Russia in 2022, “Minotaur” follows Gleb (Dmitriy Mazurov), a successful company director whose carefully […]
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