Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Paul Schrader has offered a withering assessment …
CANNES, France: After a string of hospitalizations for long COVID, Paul Schrader had a realization. “If I’m going to make a film about death,” Schrader told himself, “I’d better hurry up.” The health of the 77-year-old filmmaker, whose films and scripts have covered half a century of American movies, from “Taxi Driver” to “First Reformed,” has since improved. But that …
When the red carpet is rolled out from the Palais des Festivals on Tuesday, the 77th Cannes will unfurl against a backdrop of war, protest, potential strikes and quickening #MeToo upheaval in France, which for years largely resisted the movement. And for a potentially powder keg Cannes there’s also the firebomb of “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.” The film, a …
LOADING ERROR LOADING Robert De Niro is shutting down rumors that he’s resurrecting his role from “Taxi Driver” in an upcoming Uber The Sun reported last week that the Oscar winner was set to play paranoid misfit Travis Bickle from the hit 1976 film and would deliver the character’s famous line: “You talkin’ to me?” A representative for De Niro …
