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hollywoodreporter.com | Patrick Brzeski
When Satyajit Ray’s 1970 film Aranyer Din Ratri (Days and Nights in the Forest) returned to Cannes this May, it was far from a faded relic. Restored by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur and the Film Heritage Foundation, the film, in ravishingly revived form, was selected for the prestigious Cannes Classics section as a testament to Ray’s enduring influence on world cinema through classics like 1955’s Panther Panchali, which is the first film in the director’s celebrated Apu Trilogy.
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freerepublic.com | Patrick Brzeski
Free RepublicBrowse · SearchNews/ActivismTopics · Post ArticleSkip to comments. Republicans Push to Defund PBS After ‘Sesame Street’ Pride Month Post: ‘Grooming Children on American Taxpayers’ Dime’Breitbart ^ | June 3, 2025 | Simon KentPosted on by MorganaPBS stands accused of “grooming” children after Sesame Street, one of the nonprofit TV network’s premier programs, shared a social media post hailing LGBTQ Pride Month that drew an immediate response from a group of Congressional Republicans.
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hollywoodreporter.com | Patrick Brzeski
Lost in Starlight will probably come to be seen as a major breakthrough for both the career of 36-year-old filmmaker Han Ji-won and for the Korean animation industry at large. A vividly realized sci-fi romance set in Seoul in the year 2050, the film is Netflix‘s first original animation produced in South Korea, and it has won praise from none less than the country’s most decorated director.
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msn.com | Patrick Brzeski
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hollywoodreporter.com | Patrick Brzeski
Solo Leveling was the big winner Sunday night at the 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards, taking home anime of the year, best action, best new series, and multiple performance and music honors in a starry ceremony that brought together anime’s most passionate global fans. Held at the Grand Prince Hotel Shin Takanawa in Tokyo, the annual celebration honored the top talent in Japanese animation across 28 categories — drawing a record-breaking 51 million fan votes worldwide to decide the winners.
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hollywoodreporter.com | Patrick Brzeski
January 2024, Oscar-winning filmmaker Bong Joon Ho ascended a stage in Seoul flanked by 15 friends and colleagues from across the South Korean film industry. Collectively, the assembled directors, actors and producers, all dressed head to toe in black, had won more than two dozen Grand Bell Awards, South Korea‘s equivalent to the Oscars. They were there, in force, to condemn their country’s police and media for the tragic fate of a friend and collaborator, actor Lee Sun-kyun.
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hollywoodreporter.com | Patrick Brzeski
Michael Covino‘s directorial debut The Climb was the exciting American indie discovery of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. A hilariously offbeat buddy dramedy co-starring and co-scripted by Covino and his creative partner Kyle Marvin, the film’s long-take bravura and emotional subtlety earned it an Un Certain Regard Coup de Coeur award and established the director as a new talent with a devious eye for the contradictions of friendship and modern masculinity.
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yahoo.com | Patrick Brzeski
Michael Covino’s directorial debut The Climb was the exciting American indie discovery of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. A hilariously offbeat buddy dramedy co-starring and co-scripted by Covino and his creative partner Kyle Marvin, the film’s long-take bravura and emotional subtlety earned it an Un Certain Regard Coup de Coeur award and established the director as a new talent with a devious eye for the contradictions of friendship and modern masculinity.
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hollywoodreporter.com | Patrick Brzeski
Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa made a quiet but unforgettable entrance onto the world stage with her 2022 feature debut Plan 75, a haunting dystopian vision of state-sponsored euthanasia for the elderly. Selected for Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section, the film earned the Camera d’Or Special Mention and introduced Hayakawa as a director with an artfully restrained style and a compassionate eye for human frailty.
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hollywoodreporter.com | Patrick Brzeski
It’s hard to imagine an American indie movie more suitable for a Cannes red-carpet premiere than Richard Linklater‘s Nouvelle Vague. The maverick director’s black-and-white love letter to the French New Wave premiered to a rapturous response Saturday night inside Cannes’ Palais des Festivals, drawing a 10-minute-plus standing ovation from the black-tie crowd. “Cinema is magic,” Linklater said as the house lights came up inside the cinema and the applause finally began to dwindle.
