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20-10-2025 Vol 19

Day: May 20, 2025

Cannes 2025 Video #3: Festival Dispatch with Robert Daniels

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival is underway, and Chaz Ebert is on the ground to report on every development. In today’s video,…

Cannes 2025: My Father’s Shadow, Enzo, Dalloway

Normally, for these dispatches, we try to pair films within their respective sections. But Cannes is such a massive undertaking…

Cannes 2025: The Chronology of Water, Urchin

The Cannes Film Festival has a long-standing tradition of showcasing actors-turned-directors; one of the great thrills of this edition’s Un…

MUBI’s June 2025 Lineup Includes Twin Peaks, Việt and Nam, Gregg Araki & More

MUBI’s June 2025 selections have arrived, featuring the previously announced mammoth drop of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks:…

Lee Chang-dong Plans Fall Shoot for Next Film Possible Love

While it’s been an interminably long seven years since 2018’s Burning premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, Lee Chang-dong has…

Cannes Review: Eagles of the Republic is a Playful Comedy-Thriller About an Egyptian Movie Star

George Fahmy (Fares Fares) is an A-list movie star of the highest order, something Eagles of the Republic establishes at…

Cannes Review: The Phoenician Scheme Finds Wes Anderson Losing the Plot in Breakneck, Tiresome Spy Comedy

We begin with music that’s uncharacteristically tense for a Wes Anderson film––chugging cellos leading a full orchestra that’s more Mission:…

Cannes Review: Pillion is a Provocative, Funny, and Touching Anti-Romance

It wouldn’t be Cannes without a good scandal film. For 2025, British director Harry Lighton’s feature debut Pillion may be…