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Netflix Makes Debut at Cannes; ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Trailer Drops [Podcast]

April 18, 2017 9:00 am

Welcome back to another episode of The Playlist Podcast. On this episode, I'm joined again by Playlist Editor-in-Chief Rodrigo Perez to discuss the film news that has been on everyone's mind this week: "Star Wa...

Netflix’s Cannes Film Festival Selections Run Afoul Of French Exhibitors

Matthew Monagle

April 17, 2017 9:18 am

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The times, they are a changin'. Last week, the Cannes Film Festival turned a few heads when it announced the addition of two Netflix titles to the festival. Bong Joon-ho's "Okja" and Noah Baumbach's "The Meyero...

Cannes Chief Thierry Fremaux Says Amazon Are “Good For Cinema,” Throws Shade At Netflix

Oliver Lyttelton

May 5, 2016 12:40 pm

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This year’s Cannes, which is now less than a week away, may serve as something of a watershed for the rise of streaming services in the cinema world. Before now, no film that played in competition in the world’...

After Hollywood Outcry, Polanski Backlash Starts To Build

Rodrigo Perez

September 30, 2009 8:31 pm

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The Roman Polanski case — or the Roman Polanski cultural wars as some are putting it — has obviously hit a collective cultural nerve and created polarized factions: the pitchfork-touting crowds and defenders bo...

‘Antichrist’ Gets Misogyny “Anti-Prize” At Cannes

Rodrigo Perez

May 26, 2009 12:46 pm

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Charlotte Gainsbourg may have won the Best Actress prize at Cannes '09 for her harrowing portrayal of a mother gone almost suicidal after losing her child (and then batshit nuts, or possessed later on depending...

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