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Cannes Film Fest Dispatch: 5 Things This Newbie Learned

As a first-timer at the Cannes Film Festival who came to town to talk to the cast and director Wes Anderson about his Moonrise Kingdom, which opened the 65th annual fest this year, I had no idea what to expect no matter how much advice and information I got from people who’d been there before.  Full Article…

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Exclusive: Hear David Bowie’s Italian ‘Space Oddity’ in This Clip from Bernardo Bertolucci’s ‘Me and You’

Here's an exclusive clip from Bernardo Bertolucci's "Me and You" ("Io e Te"), which will make its world premiere in the Cannes Film Festival as an out-of-competition official selection May 23. It's Bertolucci's first film in nearly 10 years ("The Dreamers") and his first Italian-language film since "Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man" in 1981. David  Full Article…

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Out This Week: 13 Reviews of New Indie Releases

Capsule Options is a new weekly column intended to provide reviews of nearly every new indie release. REVIEWS THIS WEEK "American Animal" "Beyond the Black Rainbow" "The Color Wheel" "Elena" "Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story" "Hysteria" "Lovely Molly" "Mansome" "Never Stand Still" "One Hundred Years of Evil" "Poliss" "The Samaritan" "The Yankles" "American Animal"  Full Article…

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Kristen Stewart Hopes To Shoot ‘Cali’ This Summer

Kristen Stewart is a badass. Skeptics judging her based solely on her work in the “Twilight” series might not feel the same way, but brace yourselves for “Snow White and the Huntsman.” Early buzz is very positive for the film, Stewart’s heroic performance included. It’s not the last time Stewart will get into action hero  Full Article…

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This Tea-Time with Alan Rickman Is Truly Epic

Many thanks to Tor.com, which brought the most amazing thing to hit the interwebs in days to our attention. “Epic Tea-Time with Alan Rickman” is probably the perfect blend of the artistic, the absurd, and the needlessly overwrought. The original video is simply several seconds of footage of Rickman preparing tea and then getting rather  Full Article…

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Can Edgar Wright Shoot Ant-Man This Year?

First off, we should point out that director Edgar Wright (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) is shooting a new movie this year for sure: The World’s End with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. The third in Pegg and Wright’s Cornetto ice cream–inspired “Blood and Ice Cream” trilogy (which started with Shaun of the Dead and  Full Article…

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Why ‘Being John Malkovich’ Tops Indiewire’s 5 DVD Picks This Week

This week on DVD/Blu-ray: The best film of Cameron Diaz's career; a powerful AIDS documentary that rocked last year's Sundance Film Festival; the most controversial film to come out Cannes in 2011; Glenn Close's passion project; and the latest collaboration between Woody Harrelson and Oren Moverman. #1. "Being John Malkovich" (Criterion Collection) Spike Jonze and  Full Article…

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What Will Rock at Cannes This Year? Indiewire’s Critic Picks 12 — and Another Dozen Questionables

Every year, Cannes Film Festival hype suggests a cinephile's heaven on earth. There's some truth to that, but the reality is more complicated. The grand environment often obscures the particulars, which in this case breaks down to 22 films screening in the main competition, another 16 in the Un Certain Regard sidebar, seven out-of-competition titles,  Full Article…

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Ant-Man to Possibly Shoot This Year

It seemed improbable that Ant-Man was heading into production anytime soon, especially since director Edgar Wright has already announced principle photography will begin on The World’s End, his trilogy ending collaboration with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, sometime this September. He is then set to follow that up immediately with The Night Stalker starring Johnny  Full Article…

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