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In Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman,” which had its premiere in competition here in Cannes, part of the difficulty of playing Ron Stallworth is that Stallworth, an undercover police officer, is often a performer himself, playing different roles...

Here is Chaz Ebert’s fourth video dispatch from the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, accompanied by a transcript of the video… Will Cannes Do The Right Thing: Spike Lee is back in Cannes with a film about...

When I learned that “Book Club,” Hollywood’s latest bid to please the senior-discount demo with a glittering array of big-screen notables of a certain age, was partly inspired by the “Fifty Shades of Grey” trilogy—aka “The...

Walking around the streets of Cannes, it’s evident that miniature dogs are the ultimate French totem. Small fluffy dogs with bright beady eyes are all over, and welcome everywhere—the bar and café, and even the department...

Let’s set the scene: Bill Holderman’s driving down a long, long road in rural Georgia, headed to or from the set of “A Walk in the Woods,” the 2015 Robert Redford and Nick Nolte film for...

In writing a tribute to the great Tom Wolfe, who passed away yesterday in a Manhattan hospital at the age of 88, it is tempting to try and emulate the innovative writing style that made him...

As unnecessary prequels go, “Solo: A Star Wars Story” isn’t bad. It’s not great, either, though—and despite spirited performances, knockabout humor, and a few surprising or rousing bits, there’s something a bit too programmed about the...

One of my favorite memories of Cannes is of being in the journalists’ wi-fi lounge in 2011, watching a press conference for “Melancholia” on a TV. In a vaguely free-associative ramble, Lars von Trier suddenly decided...

When I last interviewed filmmaker Paul Schrader almost exactly ten years ago, he seemed deeply pessimistic about the state of filmmaking, at least as he knew it. In reference to a massive article he wrote for...

If today’s competition films at the Cannes Film Festival have a common theme, it is: Who do you belong to; Who is your tribe, your family, your group? Spike Lee hits this theme with a sledgehammer,...