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There are many different ways to measure a terrific film awards season.

Last year, “Barbenheimer” put two billion-dollar blockbusters at the center of the awards chatter. “Barbie” settled for an Oscar and a “box office achievement” Golden Globe, while “Oppenheimer” fulfilled its promise as the first (much-needed) awards season megahit and awards juggernaut in many years. Besides sweeping up multiple Oscars, Christopher Nolan’s opus also garnered both Oscar and Golden Globe best picture wins.

Twenty-five years ago, the Oscar race was a Weinstein-era slugfest for best picture, with the Harvey-handled “Shakespeare in Love” keeping Steven Spielberg’s WWII epic “Saving Private Ryan” out of the top Oscar perch, while both films took home Golden Globe best picture trophies. This year has been knocked by some critics and some awards season pundits as perhaps not one for the history books, with a less than stellar lineup of key contenders.

Former mk2 films acquisition and sales agents Olivier Barbier and Ola Byszuk are joining forces with ex-Orange Studio exec Lenny Porte to create international sales company Lucky Number.

The trio, who have worked on hundreds of auteur titles between them, including Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, Celine Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist to name but a few – are currently building their slate for an early 2025 market launch.

Their aim is to handle 10 French and international auteur films a year, split roughly between two to three animated features, and seven to eight fiction films and docs, including work by new voices.

The trio want to offer a boutique service, which also involves financing and distribution strategies from the earliest stages of development, to ensure maximum impact on international markets.

“In an industry that has become increasingly complex both in terms of production and distribution,...

A monument of independent filmmaking is coming to a cinema near you. Brady Corbet’s 3.5-hour-long, seven-years-in-the-making historical epic The Brutalist finally secured a U.S. distribution deal over the weekend. The movie, which won Corbet the Venice Film Festival’s best director prize Saturday, will be released by indie tastemaker A24 sometime later this year with a major awards season campaign expected to follow.

The buzz around The Brutalist has been building into a roar ever since its first press screening in Italy a little over a week ago. First came the curious talk surrounding the 10-minute intermission that bisects the movie — a commercially challenging choice that nonetheless feels integral to its construction. Then there were excited comparisons to Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood, or favorable references to the works of László Nemes and Jonathan Glazer. Awards season pundits, meanwhile, have already projected the film’s star,...

Actress Kristen Stewart poses for “Who What Wear” magazine, wearing Chanel, Piaget, Saint Laurent and a whole lot more, photographed by Matt Jones:

Stewart is noted for playing 'Bella Swan' in "The Twilight Saga" film series (2008–2012)…

…collectively grossing over $3.3 billion worldwide.

This was followed…

…by the feature "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012)...

..."Camp X-Ray" (2014), "Still Alice" (2014)...

...."Sils Maria" (2015) "Equals" (2015)...

...."Personal Shopper" (2016), "Charlie's Angels" (2019), "Underwater" (2020). Spencer (2021) and a whole lot more...

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Actress Kristen Stewart, poses for the latest issue of “Porter” magazine, wearing Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Tom Ford and a whole lot more, photographed by Zoey Grossman:

Stewart is noted for playing 'Bella Swan' in "The Twilight Saga" film series (2008–2012)…

…that collectively grossed over $3.3 billion worldwide.

This was followed by the feature "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012)...

..."Camp X-Ray" (2014), "Still Alice" (2014)...

...."Sils Maria" (2015) "Equals" (2015)...

...."Personal Shopper" (2016), "Charlie's Angels" (2019), "Underwater" (2020). Spencer (2021) and a whole lot more...

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Hollywood as an institution is generally known for taking a strong stance towards positively promoting feminism. Kristen Stewart took aim at this trend in a recent interview. Stewart has been facing difficulties in getting funding for her directorial feature film, The Chronology of Water.

The actress pulled no punches and went after Hollywood for congratulating itself for its progressiveness while not doing enough to further it. Stewart made it clear that she thinks the industry has a long way to go when it comes to dismantling the patriarchal nature of society. The actress also pointed out that favoring the projects of a certain few actresses does not make the whole system inherently less patriarchal.

Kristen Stewart Takes On Hollywood’s Token Feminism Margot Robbie in Barbie

After the pop culture-breaking Twilight films, Kristen Stewart was thrown into Hollywood’s stratosphere. Since then, the actress has been making smart moves in her career.

Actress Kristen Stewart, poses for the May 2024 issue of “Porter” magazine, photographed by Zoey Grossman:

Stewart is noted for playing 'Bella Swan' in "The Twilight Saga" film series (2008–2012)…

…that collectively grossed over $3.3 billion worldwide.

This was followed…

…by the feature "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012)...

..."Camp X-Ray" (2014), "Still Alice" (2014)...

...."Sils Maria" (2015) "Equals" (2015)...

...."Personal Shopper" (2016), "Charlie's Angels" (2019), "Underwater" (2020). Spencer (2021) and a whole lot more...

Click the images to enlarge...

It’s been a few months since I saw Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow at Sundance Film Festival and I haven’t been able to shake its overwhelming, ultimately terrifying power. Telling the story of Owen (played early on by Ian Foreman and later by Justice Smith in a revelatory performance) we follow a journey questioning his identity through childhood and adulthood, and particularly a special infatuation with a late-night TV show and the ineradicable bond it creates with another lonely soul, Maddy (Brigette Lundy-Paine).

As I said in my review, “The deeply expressive, imaginative ways in which Schoenbrun is able to articulate one’s struggle with identity is nothing short of staggering. This may not be a horror film in the conventional sense––in fact, every directorial decision assertively refutes convention––but I Saw the TV Glow emphatically argues nothing is more terrifying than being trapped...

For actress Kristen Stewart, starring in “Twilight” has been both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, the worldwide popularity of the five-film vampire series helped to make Stewart one of the most recognizable actresses on the planet. Unfortunately, with that fame came the tabloids, and before long, Stewart became better known for being in gossip magazines than for her considerable skills as an actress, seemingly destined to be tagged forever as “that girl from ‘Twilight.'” Fortunately, a number of international directors such as Olivier Assayas and Pablo Larrain came to the rescue, looking past the gossip to see the potential and creating roles for Stewart that were finally worthy of her talents.

Stewart’s filmography encompasses a wide range of genres, from biopics and mother/daughter dramas (“Still Alice”) to romantic comedies and nail-biting thrillers (“Panic Room”). While she has inhabited a wide variety of characters,...

Actress Kristen Stewart, poses for the March 2024 issue of “Who What Wear” magazine, wearing Chanel, Piaget, Saint Laurent and a whole lot more, photographed by Matt Jones:

Stewart is noted for playing 'Bella Swan' in "The Twilight Saga" film series (2008–2012)…

…collectively grossing over $3.3 billion worldwide.

This was followed…

…by the feature "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012)...

..."Camp X-Ray" (2014), "Still Alice" (2014)...

...."Sils Maria" (2015) "Equals" (2015)...

...."Personal Shopper" (2016), "Charlie's Angels" (2019), "Underwater" (2020). Spencer (2021) and a whole lot more...

Click the images to enlarge...

Cinephiles will have plenty to celebrate this April with the next slate of additions to the Criterion Channel. The boutique distributor, which recently announced its June 2024 Blu-ray releases, has unveiled its new streaming lineup highlighted by an eclectic mix of classic films and modern arthouse hits.

Students of Hollywood history will be treated to the “Peak Noir: 1950” collection, which features 17 noir films from the landmark film year from directors including Billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock, and John Huston.

New Hollywood maverick William Friedkin will also be celebrated when five of his most beloved movies, including “Sorcerer” and “The Exorcist,” come to the channel in April.

Criterion will offer the streaming premiere of Wim Wenders’ 3D art documentary “Anselm,” which will be accompanied by the “Wim Wenders’ Adventures in Moviegoing” collection, which sees the director curating a selection of films from around the world that have influenced his careers.

Contemporary cinema is also well represented,...

Oscar-winning French actress Juliette Binoche is the new president of the European Film Academy.

The Efa board on Thursday said they voted unanimously to name The English Patient and The Taste of Things star to succeed Polish director Agnieszka Holland (The Green Border) as president.

Binoche’s appointment will be put to a vote by Efa members and, assuming she receives majority support, she will take over as president on May 1, 2024.

The French star will be only the second female head of the Efa, after Holland, who took over the role in 2021, succeeding German director Wim Wenders.

“I am not a person to easily step aside, but I have come to the conclusion that I am a filmmaker first and foremost. And this is what I want to focus on in the years to come,” said Holland. “For me, it is time to step aside now. Knowing that Juliette Binoche...

Indie icon Kim Gordon, whose excellent solo album “The Collective” dropped last week, is this month’s featured film curator for Galerie, the new online film club launched by Indian Paintbrush. Below, Gordon shares a deeply personal curation of eight films that influence and reflect audio, visual art, and personal style. While best known as a musician and cofounding member of Sonic Youth, Gordon’s art has long stretched into multiple other disciplines, with film being just one.

“Morvern Callar,” dir. Lynne Ramsay, 2002

I love the way Lynne Ramsay uses sound dynamics. In this movie the music is like another character. The mixtape that her dead boyfriend made and left for her (saying “Keep the music to yourself”) becomes a thread throughout the film. He is the music — it not only keeps him alive for her but replaces him.

“Clouds of Sils Maria,” dir. Olivier Assayas, 2014

The relationship in this...

Nowadays, it seems odd to remember a time when the acclaimed, Oscar-nominated Kristen Stewart wasn’t considered a great actor, or even a good one. But from 2008 to 2012, that was the prevailing opinion about the Los Angeles-born performer’s abilities — or, at the very least, the prevailing opinion about her on the internet.

A child actor who worked consistently since she was 12, when she portrayed Jodie Foster’s daughter in David Fincher thriller “Panic Room,” Stewart practically exploded into a global film star when she headlined 2008’s “Twilight,” based on the popular vampire teen romance novels by Stephenie Meyer. Opposite instant sex symbol Robert Pattinson, Stewart was the moody, shy, awkward Bella Swan, the type of female heroine whose specificity takes a backseat to general relatability, so the tween girls reading the books can imagine themselves in her shoes.

“Twilight” was a massive success, grossing over $400 million on a worldwide...

Personal Shopper Photo: Carole Bethuel Personal Shopper, 10.55pm, Great Movies, Monday, March 4, also on the same channel at 12.02am on Sunday, March 10

This left-field ghost story from Olivier Assayas is built around a pitch perfect performance from Kristen Stewart. Reteaming with the French director after Clouds Of Sils Maria, she plays clothes-buying gofer Maureen to insufferable A-lister Kyra (Nora Von Waltstätten), while also trying to come to terms with the death of her twin brother to a genetic condition she may share. Assayas maintains a cool and steady mood as Maureen begins encountering what she believes is the ghost of her brother. The writer/director employs that most commonplace of modern tools - the smartphone - as an unexpected conduit, while Stewart delivers a performance that takes you to the edge of your seat. Speaking after the Cannes premiere, Assayas said, "It's the closest I can get to a happy ending.

Olivier Assayas, the celebrated French director of “Clouds of Sils Maria” and “Irma Vep,” is making his Berlinale competition debut this year with “Suspended Time,” his most personal film to date.

Speaking to Variety ahead of the movie’s premiere at the Berlinale, Assayas says the film retells his experience during the lockdown and is based on his personal diary.

“When I was writing this diary, I felt that despite my anxieties and doubts or fears, it was an idyllic period, to be confined in the countryside,” he says. “It was a time where we believed in a form of utopia and as soon as society got back in action, it dissolved.”

Narrated by Assayas and woven with archival material, the comedy stars Vincent Macaigne as the director’s alter-ego, Paul, a well-known filmmaker who is confined with his music journalist brother Etienne (Micha Lescot) and their girlfriends Morgane (Nine d’Urso...

Between Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out” sequel “Glass Onion,” the terrible quarantine “Purge” ripoff “Songbird,” and Doug Liman’s inert Covid heist movie “Locked Down”, movies have tried — and usually failed — in depicting the everyday horrors and quirks of the pandemic. Admittedly, turning the absence of interaction and drama into good cinema is an unenviable challenge. Olivier Assayas is the latest to try and, unfortunately, the latest to largely fail.

Set in April 2020, “Suspended Time” follows Paul (Vincent Macaigne) a frustrated filmmaker confined to his late parents’ picturesque country house with his wife Morgane (Nine d’Urso), his short-tempered brother Etienne (Micha Lescot), and Etienne’s wife Carole (Nora Hamzawi). In the very first scene, Paul receives an Amazon package like it’s radioactive material — it’s just a pair of socks — as a confounded Etienne asks why it all need be such a choreography. Paul explains that the virus can...

Ready for another deliciously outré performance from Lars Eidinger, everybody’s favorite German arthouse weirdo (known for his work in Personal Shopper, Clouds of Sils Maria, White Noise, and on and on)? Well, strap in for Sterben (Dying) from German director Matthias Glasner.

In the exclusive first trailer from The Match Factory (see below), Eidinger plays Tom, a Berlin conductor with more than a few personal issues to deal with.

Dying is a rare new feature from Glasner who, unlike his prolific star, has kept his filmography tight. (His last feature was 2012’s Gnade.) Judging by the trailer, and Glasner’s previous work, including 2006 Silver Bear winner The Free Will, Dying looks like another powerful mix of melodrama, wry humor and philosophical ponderings about the “big questions” of life and, given the title, of death.

“The name of the piece… is ‘Dying’,” a high-strung composer, played by Robert Gwisdek, instructs the orchestra.

Kristen Stewart is coming back on the big screen with her new project, Love Lies Bleeding alongside The Mandalorian star, Katy O’Brian. Given that the movie earned an electrifying premiere at the Sundance Film Festival 2024, they have high hopes for the new project.

Kristen Stewart in 2019’s Charlie’s Angels

While promoting her new project, the actress reflected on her conversation with director, Rose Glass as latter talked about a strong female lead in her next movie.

Kristen Stewart’s Idea of Female Empowerment in Hollywood

Kristen Stewart in Love Lies Bleeding (2024) [ Pic Credit: A24/ Love Lies Bleeding Trailer ]Kristen Stewart became globally popular for portraying the role of Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga film series (2008–2012). The film franchise went on to become over a billion-dollar franchise, gaining a cult following.

While her acting received a mixed response from the critics, she continued to hone her skills working in movies like Clouds of Sils Maria...

Kristen Stewart Is Strong as fuck, and I do not mean this metaphorically. I am not, for instance, talking about any experience from her past that she has quote-unquote risen above, like that time she was in those vampire-werewolf movies and dubbed the World’s Most Hated Actress because she did not appear sufficiently stoked to sit in a room full of journalists and discuss making out with her co-stars. Or the time she was photographed kissing her much older (and married) Snow White and the Huntsman director, and, due to the horror this engendered,...

Exclusive: Ruaridh Mollica says he had a year to prepare for his “role of a lifetime — so far” in Finnish filmmaker Mikko Makela’s powerful new film Sebastian, which premieres at Sundance on Sunday.

The film follows a culture journalist who goes undercover and leads a double life as a sex worker to research a debut novel. The 24-year-old Mollica, born to a Scottish mother and an Italian father, gives a superlative performance in his first feature film lead role, as he assumes the split personalities of Max, a young wannabe literary sensation, and Sebastian, who hires himself out to desirous older male clients.

The intimate moments, though at times full-on, actually serve the narrative to reflect Max/Sebastian’s state of mind.

Between his initial self-tape, first audition and screen tests, Mollica had 12 months to enter into full character research mode before officially being handed the part, and the...

Actress Kristen Stewart, poses for a January 2024 edition of "Variety" magazine, photographed by Emily Soto:

Stewart is noted for playing 'Bella Swan' in "The Twilight Saga" film series (2008–2012)…

…collectively grossing over $3.3 billion worldwide.

This was followed…

…by the feature "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012)...

..."Camp X-Ray" (2014), "Still Alice" (2014)...

...."Sils Maria" (2015) "Equals" (2015)...

...."Personal Shopper" (2016), "Charlie's Angels" (2019), "Underwater" (2020)…

… "Spencer (2021) and a whole lot more...

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At the Cannes Film Festival in 2018, Kristen Stewart announced that her feature directorial debut would be an adaptation of “The Chronology of Water,” the 2011 memoir by author Lidia Yuknavitch. Since then, Stewart has been pounding the pavement to drum up financing for the project. But despite her track record of headlining some of the most well regarded independent films of the last 10 years — from “Clouds of Sils Maria” to “Spencer” — and despite the fact that Imogen Poots is attached to star as Yuknavitch, and that Ridley Scott is producing through his production company Scott Free, Stewart has been unable to secure the backing she needs to move forward.

This frustrating experience has pushed Stewart to make a surprising announcement about “The Chronology of Water” during her interview for Variety’s Jan. 11 cover story.

“I’m going to make this movie before I ever work for someone else,” she says, before breaking into nervous laughter.

“I will quit the fucking business.”

Kristen Stewart is jabbing her finger into the couch we’re sharing, speaking with increasing speed and ferocity about what has driven her to this brink. She’s spent five years fruitlessly trying to drum up financing for what she hopes will be her feature directing debut, “The Chronology of Water,” based on the stream-of-consciousness memoir by bisexual author Lidia Yuknavitch. She’s so hacked off about it that she’s about to ruin the furniture.

“I won’t make a-fucking-nother movie until I make this movie,” she declares. Then she sits back and breaks into nervous laughter. “Can’t wait for my agents to read that.”

Stewart has clearly entered the “fuck it” phase of her career.

Don’t worry: She isn’t going anywhere yet. Next week, Stewart is packing her snow boots for her eighth trek to the Sundance Film Festival,...

Fundraiser gala to take place January 18, 2024.

Kristen Stewart will receive the 2024 Sundance Visionary Award at the festival’s 40th anniversary opening night gala fundraiser on January 18, 2024.

Stewart is being honoured “in recognition of her work as an uncompromising artist and contributions to the field of independent film”.

The actress earned an Oscar nomination for playing Diana Spencer in Spencer and became the first American actress to receive the Cesar Award for her role in Clouds Of Sils Maria.

Her latest films will both premiere at Sundance in January. Rose Glass’s Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize winner Love Lies Bleeding...

Kristen Stewart will be lauded with the Visionary Award at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival’s opening-night gala January 18 at the DeJoria Center in Utah.

The Visionary Award is given to a recipient in recognition of their work as an uncompromising artist and contributions to the field of independent film.

“Stewart’s profound work as an actor has exemplified the bold, risk-taking storytelling that Sundance has championed for many years,” the festival said Thursday in a release.

During her career Stewart counts 10 movies that screened at Sundance including The Runaways, Adventureland and Lizzie. She made her directorial debut with Come Swim at the 2017 Sundance. At the 2024 fest she has Love Me premiering in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section, which is also the recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize, as well as Love Lies Bleeding, premiering in the Midnight section.

Stewart was nominated for an Oscar for her...

Actress Kristen Stewart, poses for the Chanel 2023 'Ready-to-Wear' collection, photographed by Inez & Vinoodh:

Stewart is noted for playing 'Bella Swan' in "The Twilight Saga" film series (2008–2012), collectively grossing over $3.3 billion worldwide.

This was followed by the feature "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012)...

..."Camp X-Ray" (2014), "Still Alice" (2014)...

...."Sils Maria" (2015) "Equals" (2015)...

...."Personal Shopper" (2016)...

..."Charlie's Angels" (2019), "Underwater" (2020), "Spencer (2021) and a whole lot more...

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Mubi has unveiled their December 2023 lineup, featuring notable new releases such as Rodrigo Moreno’s The Delinquents, Argentina’s Oscar this year; the Lily Gladstone-led drama The Unknown Country; Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s The Beasts; and the José González documentary A Tiger in Paradise. Additional highlights include films from Olivier Assayas, Takeshi Kitano, Jean-Luc Godard, Kelly Reichardt, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, the Shaw Browers, Lars von Trier, Arnaud Desplechin, and more.

Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.

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Breaking the Waves, directed by Lars von Trier | Chaos Reigns: The Films of Lars von Trier

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Europa, directed by Lars von Trier | Chaos Reigns: The Films of Lars von Trier

Epidemic, directed...

Adapted from Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Netflix’s limited series “All the Light We Cannot See” sets two unlikely kindred spirits on a collision course as World War II begins in France when Germany occupied the country. Shawn Levy directed all four episodes of Steven Knight’s scripts.

Marie-Laure LeBlanc (Aria Mia Loberti) and Werner Pfennig (Louis Hoffman) share curiosity and empathy, which translates across their opposing countries and positions in the war. Werner’s skill for fixing and translating radios leads him to a high position in the Nazi effort to decode secret broadcasts that their targets might send. Marie-Laure herself becomes a broadcaster after her father moves her to her uncle’s home in a small, seaside French town.

Here are the cast and characters of “All the Light We Cannot See”:

Aria Mia Loberti in “All the Light We Cannot See” (Netflix)

Marie-Laure LeBlanc...

Actress Kristen Stewart ("The Twilight Saga") poses for "Chanel" wearing jackets, pleated skirts and tweed designs, photographed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino:

Stewart is noted for playing 'Bella Swan' in "The Twilight Saga" film series (2008–2012), which collectively grossed over $3.3 billion worldwide.

This was followed by the feature "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012), "Camp X-Ray" (2014), "Still Alice" (2014), "Sils Maria" (2015) "Equals" (2015), "Personal Shopper" (2016), "Charlie's Angels" (2019) and "Underwater" (2020).

Upcoming features include “Sacramento”, “Love Lies Bleeding” and “Love Me”.

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Actress Kristen Stewart is 'the face' of the Chanel 2023 Fall/Winter Makeup collection campaign:

Stewart is noted for playing 'Bella Swan' in "The Twilight Saga" film series (2008–2012), that has collectively grossed over $3.3 billion worldwide.

This was followed by the feature "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012), "Camp X-Ray" (2014), "Still Alice" (2014)...

..."Sils Maria" (2015) "Equals" (2015), "Personal Shopper" (2016), "Charlie's Angels" (2019), "Underwater" (2020), "Spencer (2021) and "Crimes of the Future" (2022).

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Actress Kristen Stewart, is 'the face' of theChanel2023 Fall/Winter Makeup collection campaign:

Stewart is noted for playing 'Bella Swan' in "The Twilight Saga" film series (2008–2012), that has collectively grossed over $3.3 billion worldwide.

This was followed by the feature "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012), "Camp X-Ray" (2014), "Still Alice" (2014)...

..."Sils Maria" (2015) "Equals" (2015), "Personal Shopper" (2016), "Charlie's Angels" (2019), "Underwater" (2020), "Spencer (2021) and "Crimes of the Future" (2022).

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[Editor’s note: The following interview was conducted before the SAG-AFTRA strike began on July 14, 2023.]

The following interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

Juliette Binoche has made her career out of playing characters who are independent, searching, unsatisfied, restless. From playing Czech protest photographer Tereza in her breakout movie, the Philip Kaufman erotic classic “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” to playing a composer’s wife left grieving and with his baggage in Krzysztof Kieślowski’s “Three Colors: Blue,” the Academy Award-winning French actress plays women pulling themselves through confusing situations, political intrigue, and perverse romantic entanglements. Often at once.

Her body of work eschews a pat introduction, but the Quad Cinema in New York has put together a syllabus of sorts with “Beautiful Binoche,” a series of films running from August 4-10 in the lead-up to next week’s release of her new film “Between Two Worlds”, about a famous author who goes undercover as a cleaning lady to investigate the exploitation of...

Actress Kristen Stewart, poses for the Chanel Summer 2023 'Ready-to-Wear' collection, photographed by Inez & Vinoodh:

Stewart is noted for playing 'Bella Swan' in "The Twilight Saga" film series (2008–2012), collectively grossing over $3.3 billion worldwide.

This was followed by the feature "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012)...

..."Camp X-Ray" (2014), "Still Alice" (2014)...

...."Sils Maria" (2015) "Equals" (2015)...

...."Personal Shopper" (2016)...

..."Charlie's Angels" (2019), "Underwater" (2020), "Spencer (2021) and a whole lot more...

Click the images to enlarge...

From the films of Krzysztof Kieślowski to Claire Denis, Oscar winner Juliette Binoche has starred in many of your favorite European arthouse classics, and she’s probably the reason we return to them again and again. This summer, New Yorkers — or any ambitious traveling cinephiles — will have the chance to see many of her all-time greatest performances on 35mm thanks to a new retrospective set for the Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village.

IndieWire exclusively announces “Beautiful Binoche,” which will take place August 4–10 at New York City’s longest-running, four-screen multiplex. In addition to some of the great Binoche titles from the ’80s, ’90s, and 2000s, the Quad Cinema will also present Binoche’s latest film, “Between Two Worlds,” opening from Cohen Media Group on August 11.

The French actress has long made a career playing determined women pulling themselves through confusing situations — from perverse erotic entanglements to political intrigue and isolating grief.

Actress Kristen Stewart, poses for the July 2023 issue of “Elle” (Japan) magazine:

Stewart is noted for playing 'Bella Swan' in "The Twilight Saga" film series (2008–2012)…

…collectively grossing over $3.3 billion worldwide.

This was followed…

…by the feature "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012)...

..."Camp X-Ray" (2014), "Still Alice" (2014)...

...."Sils Maria" (2015) "Equals" (2015)...

...."Personal Shopper" (2016), "Charlie's Angels" (2019), "Underwater" (2020)…

… "Spencer (2021) and a whole lot more...

Click the images to enlarge...

Actress Kristen Stewart, poses for the July 2023 issue of “Elle” (Japan) magazine:

Stewart is noted for playing 'Bella Swan' in "The Twilight Saga" film series (2008–2012)…

…collectively grossing over $3.3 billion worldwide.

This was followed…

…by the feature "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012)...

..."Camp X-Ray" (2014), "Still Alice" (2014)...

...."Sils Maria" (2015) "Equals" (2015)...

...."Personal Shopper" (2016), "Charlie's Angels" (2019), "Underwater" (2020)…

… "Spencer (2021) and a whole lot more...

Click the images to enlarge...

Actress Kristen Stewart, poses for the Chanel Spring-Summer 2023 'Ready-to-Wear' collection, photographed by Inez & Vinoodh:

Stewart is noted for playing 'Bella Swan' in "The Twilight Saga" film series (2008–2012), collectively grossing over $3.3 billion worldwide.

This was followed by the feature "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012)...

..."Camp X-Ray" (2014), "Still Alice" (2014)...

...."Sils Maria" (2015) "Equals" (2015)...

...."Personal Shopper" (2016), "Charlie's Angels" (2019), "Underwater" (2020), "Spencer (2021) and a whole lot more...

Click the images to enlarge...

Arianna Bocco, IFC Films President, is out at the distributor, Deadline has confirmed.

The shocking news to the NYC indie world comes within days after the 17-year IFC vet was feted at the New York Women in Film & Television (Nywift)’s flagship fundraising event, the annual Muse Awards gala.

Bocco will be replaced in the interim by IFC Head of Acquisitions Scott Shooman. The Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group and CBS Films vet joined last year. The search for a new long-term replacement is underway. Talk about a revolving door at IFC.

We’re still sorting through what went down here. In the meantime, Bocco posted the following statement on social media, “I have big news to share! After much thought, I have stepped down from my post as President of IFC Films to pursue other opportunities. I’m so proud of the IFC Films team I’ve worked...

Actress Kristen Stewart, poses for the Chanel Spring-Summer 2023 'Ready-to-Wear' collection, photographed by Inez & Vinoodh:

Stewart is noted for playing 'Bella Swan' in "The Twilight Saga" film series (2008–2012), collectively grossing over $3.3 billion worldwide.

This was followed by the feature "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012)...

..."Camp X-Ray" (2014), "Still Alice" (2014)...

...."Sils Maria" (2015) "Equals" (2015)...

...."Personal Shopper" (2016)...

..."Charlie's Angels" (2019), "Underwater" (2020), "Spencer (2021) and a whole lot more...

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Nearly a decade after its debut in competition at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, where it premiered alongside the likes of Goodbye to Language, Winter Sleep, Clouds of Sils Maria, Maps to the Stars, and Two Days, One Night, Naomi Kawase’s drama Still the Water is getting a North American home courtesy of Film Movement. Ahead of a March 3 digital release, we’re exclusively debuting the new trailer for the film starring Nijirô Murakami, Junko Abe, Miyuki Matsuda, Tetta Sugimoto, and Makiko Watanabe.

On the subtropical Japanese island of Amami, traditions about nature remain eternal. Following a typhoon and during the full-moon night of traditional dances in August, 16-year-old Kaito (Nijirô Murakami) discovers a dead body floating in the sea. His girlfriend, Kyoko (Junko Abe), will attempt to help him understand this mysterious discovery. Together, Kaito and Kyoko will learn to become adults by experiencing the interwoven cycles of life,...

The industry event will take place from October 17-19.

Vanja Kaludjercic, festival director of the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Julien Rejl, new director of Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, and Olivier Barbier, head of acquisitions at mk2 films, will sit on the jury of the fifth edition of the European Works In Progress Cologne (Ewip)

The industry event will take place from October 17-19, in the run up to Germany’s Cologne Film Festival (October 20-27). Thirty European co-productions will pitch to an international industry audience for several prizes worth a total of €52,500.

Also on the five-personjury is Saralisa Volm, a German filmmaker,...

The industry event will take place from October 17-19.

Vanja Kaludjercic, festival director of the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Julien Rejl, new director of Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, and Olivier Barbier, head of acquisitions at mk2 films, will sit on the jury of the fifth edition of the European Works In Progress Cologne (Ewip)

The industry event will take place from October 17-19, in the run up to Germany’s Cologne Film Festival (October 20-27). Thirty European co-productions will pitch to an international industry audience for several prizes worth a total of €52,500.

Also on the five-personjury is Saralisa Volm, a German filmmaker,...

The Scene 2 Seen podcast is back in a major way!

This week I’ve already published conversations with actor Michael Greyeyes and Naturi Naughton. Today, I chat with legendary actress Juliette Binoche about her newest film that tackles a difficult subject.

Paradise Highway, directed by Anna Gutto, is a riveting thriller set in the trucking industry and underbelly of human trafficking. The film stars Binoche, ​​Morgan Freeman and Frank Grillo.

To save the life of her brother Dennis (Grillo), Sally (Binoche), a truck driver, reluctantly agrees to smuggle illicit cargo: a girl named Leila (Hala Finley). As Sally and Leila begin a danger-fraught journey across state lines, a dogged FBI operative (Freeman) sets out on their trail, determined to do whatever it takes to terminate a human-trafficking operation—and bring Sally and Leila to safety.

Binoche has won an Academy Award, a BAFTA award and multiple European Film Awards. An...

Perhaps you know Kristen Stewart best for her role as Bella Swan, the sensitive, lip-biting heroine of the mega-popular "Twilight Saga." Or perhaps you know her better for her career since the "Twilight" films ended, which has seen her evolve into a darling of the art house scene thanks to movies like "Clouds of Sils Maria," "Personal Shopper," and "Spencer." Really, whether you prefer to watch KStew romance vampires or wrestle with the pangs of her existence, her work offers something for everyone.

She's once again getting weird and wild with her role in this year's "Crimes of the Future." Stewart stars...

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The face of an upscale U.S. independent cinema which climaxed with “The English Patient” and a go-to actress for many of the world’s greatest directors from Krzysztof Kieślowski to Claire Denis, France’s Juliette Binoche will receive one of this year’s San Sebastian Donostia Awards, the Spanish festival’s prestigious plaudit for career achievement.

The Award will be presented to Binoche before a screening of Denis’ “Both Sides of the Blade,” a Silver Bear winner for best director at February’s Berlin Festival.

An actor with a prolific career reaching back to her first breakout in Philip Kaufman’s “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” – one of her many movies which have been literary adaptations – Binoche will also feature on the poster of this year’s 70th San Sebastian Film Festival, snapped by French photographer Brigitte Lacombe.

Binoche’s presence gives a first French touch to San Sebastián,...

Alicia Vikander makes her return to the small screen in HBO’s “Irma Vep,” based on Olivier Assayas’ own 1996 feature film.

Oscar winner Vikander stars as Mira, an American movie star who is disillusioned by Hollywood and a recent breakup. Mira jets to France to star as Irma Vep in a remake of the French silent film, “Les Vampires,” but life soon imitates art as Mira struggles to see where Irma ends and her reality begins.

See Vikander transform into Mira (and Irma) in the first look photos below.

Writer-director Assayas returns for the limited series, which will make its debut at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival before premiering on HBO on Monday, June 6 at 9 p.m. “Irma Vep” will also be available to stream on HBO Max.

Produced in partnership with A24, the series additionally stars Vincent Macaigne, Jeanne Balibar, Devon Ross, Lars Eidinger, Vincent Lacoste, Nora Hamzawi, Adria Arjona,...

French filmmaker Olivier Assayas has spent has spent decades crafting unforgettable stories and establishing himself as a major international talent well worth following. His collaborations with actor Kristen Stewart on "Clouds of Sils Maria" and especially 2016's "Personal Shopper" did a lot to pave the way for the actor's Best Actress nomination in last year's "Spencer" (but we still maintain that she should've won that award handily!). Meanwhile, earlier efforts such as "Sentimental Destinies," "Demonlover," and "Clean" helped turn him into a regular presence at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival year in and year out. After so much success on the big...

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Horror films have long served as a breeding ground for Hollywood A-listers, with many of out most decorated performers getting their start in the genre of grotesque and gore. While "Twilight" may have been that film that put Kristen Stewart on the map in terms of public consciousness, the Academy Award-nominee has enjoyed an impressive acting career since she was nine-years-old. After the success of "Twilight," Stewart had her lion's share of film opportunities, and the availability to pick just about any role of her choosing. She wowed audiences with films like "Clouds of Sils Maria" and "Personal Shopper" while stealing hearts in films...

The post Kristen Stewart Turned Down An Iconic Homage in Scream 4 appeared first on /Film.

(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they've been watching, why it's worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)

Movie: "Personal Shopper"

Where You Can Stream It: Hulu, AMC+

The Pitch: After becoming the first female actor from the United States to win a César Award for her performance in the tremendous "Clouds of Sils Maria," Kristen Stewart reteamed with director Olivier Assayas for the even more entrancing "Personal Shopper," which would earn Assayas the Best Director award at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival (in a tie with Cristian Mungiu for "Graduation"). Stewart stars...

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