Gregg Kilday

2 weeks ago | theankler.com | Gregg Kilday

A massive, five-hour power outage that hit southeastern France on Saturday morning nearly shut down closing ceremonies at the 78th annual Festival de Cannes, but with the Palais resorting to backup power and the town’s electric grid buzzing again by 3 p.m., the show went on as scheduled.

2 weeks ago | theankler.com | Gregg Kilday |Claire Atkinson

Denzel Washingtonmay not have been nominated for an Oscar this year for his virtuosic turn in Gladiator II, but Monday night at the Cannes Film Festival, he got a nice consolation prize. Taking advantage of the fact that Othello, in which he’s currently starring on Broadway alongside Jake Gyllenhaal, is dark on Monday nights, the actor jetted into Cannes for the day to attend the gala premiere of Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest, in which he also stars.

2 weeks ago | theankler.com | Gregg Kilday |Claire Atkinson

If there’s one director capable of bringing a film to the Cannes Film Festival with a guarantee of populating the red carpet with boldface names, it’s the idiosyncratic Wes Anderson, whose latest feature, The Phoenician Scheme, had its world premiere Sunday night at the festival’s Grand Theatre Lumière.

2 weeks ago | theankler.com | Gregg Kilday |Claire Atkinson

DirectorRichard Linklater faced a big question as he walked the red carpet at Cannes’ Grand Theatre Lumière, where his latest film Nouvelle Vague was about to debut on Saturday night. The black-and-white movie, shot largely in French, scrupulously documents the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 breakthrough Breathless (À Bout de Souffle), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo as a small-time criminal and Jean Seberg as the American free spirit he meets on the streets of Paris.

3 weeks ago | theankler.com | Gregg Kilday |Claire Atkinson

It’s been five years since the Cannes Film Festival — along with pretty much every other major public gathering — was canceled because of the worldwide Covid pandemic, a dismal interlude now relegated to the history books. But haunting memories of the wreckage caused by the pandemic and its subsequent lockdowns seeped back into the festival’s Grand Theatre Lumière Friday night as writer/director Ari Aster’s Eddington had its world premiere.