May 25, 2023 Cannes - The most anticipated film this year at the 76th Cannes Film Festival was Killers of the Flower Moon directed by one of just about every cinema lover’s modern heroes, Martin Scorsese, adapted from New Yorker writer David Grann’s 2017 historical account. I don’t begrudge Marty another Mob movie, it’s what he does and what often needs being done.

Ratings for the Oscars have fallen off a cliff in recent years, as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has done everything but one to stop the slide: be first out of the gate. In the year of the plague when nothing was released in theaters, the Academy always after every other conceivable awards pageant, didn’t jump forward but instead catapulted backwards to the end of April, 2021.

À LA MOUCHE / À LA VOLÉE (ON THE FLY)…
CANNES, Thursday, July 8 –
By Harlan Jacobson

À LA MOUCHE / À LA VOLÉE (ON THE FLY)…
CANNES, Monday July 26 –
By Harlan Jacobson