Catherine Shoard

2 days ago | msn.com | Catherine Shoard

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2 days ago | theguardian.com | Catherine Shoard

It is no surprise that Austrian newspaper Kurier’s Clint Eastwood interview went viral over the weekend. An audience with a 95-year-old film legend containing stern words about the current state of cinema was always going to go like a rocket. Particularly during cinema’s dregs season: the thin period post Cannes and pre the summer proper, with Mission: Impossible fever fading fast and Lilo & Stitch ruling the box office – a success from which only so many stories can be spun.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Catherine Shoard

The dissident Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi has won the top prize at the Cannes film festival for his drama It Was Just an Accident, inspired by his stints of imprisonment at the hands of the Iranian government. The film was the first in many years made by the director after a ban on film-making was lifted – although he has continued to direct despite being expressly forbidden to do so.

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Catherine Shoard

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2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Catherine Shoard

The actor Paul Mescal has hit out at critics who have drawn comparisons between The History of Sound, a gay romance in which he stars opposite Josh O’Connor, and Ang Lee’s landmark western Brokeback Mountain.