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Set in 1917, Berger decides to take the bird’s eye view on things in his brutal depiction of the First World War. This is a war movie from the perspective of the losers, a fly-on-the-wall depiction featuring a mosaic of characters. Anti-war filmmaking with, at the start, at least, not any apparent lead. It’s striking filmmaking but also feels eerily familiar. The last century ended with two all-timers of the war genre: Steven Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan” and Terrence Malick’s “The Thin Red Line....

“Parasite” won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, which probably caught the attention of an incalculable amount of moviegoers, mostly due to the fact that Bong already had a loyal fanbase due to his movie-geek sensibilities in such visually stunning films as “Snowpiercer,” “Okja,” “The Host,” and “Mother.” Not all were perfect movies, but they were incredibly well-liked, so much so that the director’s loyal following actually has a name for itself — they are knowns as being part of the Bong Hive....

Last year, THR detailed Pixar‘s Lasseter taking a leave of absence for behavior that their source qualified as “missteps,” but which also left the staff Lasseter was working with feeling “disrespected or uncomfortable.” When more details came to fruition, it turned out that Lasseter was accused of “grabbing, kissing, making comments about physical attributes” towards women, “to the extent that employees created a move known as “the Lasseter” to avoid having him touch their legs....

I can dig this. Spielberg is not aiming to remake the 1968 original. This would be his return to action set pieces, which he is an absolute master at. How can you not get excited for a grittier Spielberg film? Set up at Warner Bros. the as-of-yet untitled film will not be penned by Spielberg’s regular writing partner Tony Kushner, but, rather, Josh Singer (“Spotlight,” “The Post”). Directed by Peter Yates, the original “Bullitt” had to go with intense San Francisco cop Lt....

And so, they have cut down their usual lineup of 300+ films to just 50 titles this year, which makes it far easier to navigate and decipher what may be worthy of a watch. Well, anyway, it turns out that most of the titles chosen this year deserve to be given a shot. From in-house World Premieres, to titles from film festivals such as Venice, Cannes, Sundance, Tribeca, and SXSW (There are zero Berlin titles) — this is an eclectic bunch of films....

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Last month, I broke the news that Jury President Spike Lee wanted Asghar Farhadi “A Hero” to win the Palme d’Or. He also wanted to reward Catherine Corsini’s “La Fracture.” How the jury decided on Julia Ducournau’s “Titane” remains a total mystery to this day, but it does look as though it was a compromise pick by them — they all either liked or loved it, so they gave it the top prize....

Of course, the schedule hasn’t been released yet — I’m hearing this week — but we are being told the prestigious Monday evening slot (5/23) will be occupied by Park Chan-wook’s “Decision to Leave,” and David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future.” Wednesday May 18th, the first official day of competition titles screening, Kirill Serebrennikov’s “Tchaikovsky’s Wife” & Van Groeningen/Vandermeersch’s “Eight Mountains” will be unveiled. Jerry Skolimowski’s “Hi-Han” is on Thursday May 19th at 10pm....

Here’s hoping they don’t ban Russian films, as that would make absolutely zero sense considering that many Russian directors have been openly against Russian government over the years. From what I can see, only Kirill Serebrennikov is set to be part of this year’s competition with “Tchaikovsky’s Wife.” Serebrennikov has been a target of Russian government since 2017, and might still be under house arrest (we’re not entirely sure). He didn’t attend last year’s festival when his “Petrov’s Flu” was part of the official competition as the Russian government had banned him from travelling overseas....

Judging by some of the reactions gathered from last night’s screening of Chazelle’s “Babylon,” this is going to be the writer-director’s go-for-broke epic. Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street” was mentioned more than a few times, ditto Fellini’s “Satyricon.” The film, which clocks in at 185 minutes, is said to take place between 1925 and 1952, tackling Hollywood’s wobbly transition from the silent era to sound. Margot Robbie’s performance as Clara Bow is said to be the big takeaway & a likely Best Actress contender....

In a new interview with Un Giorno de Pecorca, the 78-year-old director said the remake failed to “excite” him and said it felt more like a “betrayal.” When asked directly about the new film, Argento said: “It did not excite me, it betrayed the spirit of the original film: there is no fear, there is no music. The film has not satisfied me so much,’ adding the remake was a “refined film, even if Guadagnino, himself, was “a fine person”....

Mamet is set to make a comeback as Deadline is reporting that he has signed up to direct “2 Days/1963”, a drama about how notorious Chicago mobster Sam Giancana arranged the assassination of President John F Kennedy as revenge for trying to bring down organized crime, this after the mob helped put JFK in the White House. It’s still a conspiracy theory to this day, but Mamet, and plenty of others, believe this was what sealed JFK’s untimely fate....

Perry does have to mention at the very beginning of his op-ed that ‘Endgame,’ was produced by Disney, for whom he worked on the screenplay of “Christopher Robin” from 2015-2018. With all that said, he goes on to claim “I love Disney movies, Disney theme parks, and Disney clamshell VHS tapes. So unlike (apparently) a lot of people, I actively root for Disney’s success” OK, thanks for the warning, Alex....

The greatest Elton John songs, as far as I’m concerned, are “Your Song,” “Tiny Dancer,” “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” “Daniel,” Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word," “Crocodile Rock,” “Bennie and the Jets,““Levon” “Mona Lisa and the Mad Hatters,” and “Some Saved My Life Tonight.” With all that being said, John’s lived a chaotic life, I won’t get into everything here, but a film has been made about the singer’s life despite him still being very much alive at the still active age of 71....

In a new interview with Collider, longtime Coen composer Carter Burwell shed a clearer light as to why Ethan is absent for this latest venture. According to him, quite simply, Ethan didn’t want to do it. “It’s a little different, even just the conversations I’ve had,” Burwell said. “Yeah, it’s a little different to have one of the brothers there. And I know Ethan, I saw him towards the end of last year and Joel was out prepping the shoot in LA, he said it felt strange that Joel is out there getting ready to make a movie....

Rudyard Kipling, the author of the seminal poem on masculinity ‘If’ was also responsible for one of the most loved stories of modern times – The Jungle Book. In 1893 Kipling released his first Jungle Book story which introduced the world to Mowgli & co. These initial stories were vastly different to The Jungle Book as we know it today. The 19th century versions were a mixture of childish fables and political allegories that provided a cutting social commentary on the rule of the British Empire in India....

At least we have a few minutes of behind-the-scenes footage from this Le Mans documentary (go to the three-minute mark). Not much to chew on, but we’ll take it for now. Fincher was said to have a 3-hour cut of the film, but one look at its Wikipedia page and it lists “The Killer” as being 158 minutes. Not too sure how trust-worthy that can be since just about anyone can edit the page....

Now, speaking to GQ magazine, Coppola is once again bashing Hollywood studio films and Marvel’s monopoly: “There used to be studio films,” Coppola said. “Now there are Marvel pictures. And what is a Marvel picture? A Marvel picture is one prototype movie that is made over and over and over and over and over again to look different.” Coppola went on to give a few examples of “good” films that still seem to follow the Marvel blueprint: “The talented people — you could take “Dune,” made by Denis Villeneuve, an extremely talented, gifted artist, and you could take “No Time to Die,” directed by Cary Fukunaga — extremely gifted, talented, beautiful artists, and you could take both those movies, and you and I could go and pull the same sequence out of both of them and put them together....

Adam Driver is set to play the lead role in the film, which is said to start shooting in September and has had its cast set aside 6 months of their time for production (until February). Coppola was in Sicily for the Taormina Festival and he spoke about “Megalopolis”. This is a translated from an interview he did with an Italian newspaper: Driver will be part of a cast that also includes Forest Whitaker, Laurence Fishburne and Jon Voight....

Despite opening in more than 3,000 theaters, with a $22 million budget, not to mention an intense marketing campaign by Universal, “Bros” has so far grossed a limp $10.8 million. As Grafstein notes, “Bros” is definitely not ‘groundbreaking’. When Jack tells Ennis, in Brokeback Mountain, ‘I wish I knew how to quit you’—that was groundbreaking. Fact of the matter is that “Bros” was a typical rom-com that happened to be made via LGBTQ lens....