A private screening of the Israeli film Bearing Witness was abruptly canceled due to a serious security threat. The 47-minute film, organized by WestEnd Films co-founder Sharon Harel-Cohen, was set to showcase raw, graphic footage from the October 7 Hamas attack in southern Israel. The screening, scheduled for May 17 at the Exclusive Hotel Belle Plage, about a mile from …
R Madhavan's Rocketry: The Nambi Effect gets deafening 10-minute long roar at Cannes 2022 Rocketry: The Nambi Effect, the biographical drama starring R Madhavan, based on the life and times of Nambi Narayanan, was received with a deafening standing ovation from the full-house at Palais des Festivals for ten whole minutes. Actor R Madhavan’s Rocketry: The Nambi Effect was India’s …
Film Critic In the newly released comedy “Godard Mon Amour,” Michel Hazanavicius’ playful flashback to France in the fateful year of 1968, a young Jean-Luc Godard marches with an enormous crowd in Paris. And so the 1969 Cannes official competition screened such titles as Éric Rohmer’s “My Night at Maud’s,” Ronald Neame’s “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,” Dennis Hopper’s …
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