Cannes is not so much a festival for new films and talent as a closed shop for the film industry’s elite.
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Netflix’s Chief Content Officer has said the streaming service is the future of film. But cinemas have survived many other threats to their dominance.
Films funded and streamed by Netflix and Amazon are playing an important role in this year’s festival.
The French capital will light up to the sights and sounds of Cleverman, Samson and Delilah, and The Sapphires.
Does it matter that money plays such a big role in festivals like Cannes?
As the longest-running avant-garde movement of the 20th century, Surrealism’s scope and richness is perhaps unparalleled in its influence of modern art and culture.
“Who came first” may be a good game, but it doesn’t lead to any clear answers.
Abuse of Weakness, currently screening at the Melbourne International Film Festival, reflects on French director Catherine Breillat’s experience of being swindled by con-man Christophe Rocancourt. The…
A delayed start to a performance of La Traviata at the Bastille Opera may not seem like the stuff of politics, but it made headlines in France. The Saturday night show went ahead an hour late, but by the…
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Emeritus Professor of Global CInema and Creative Cultures, University of St Andrews
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Reader In French Cinema, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor of Film and Screen Studies, University of Portsmouth
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Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University
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Lecturer - Screen Studies, The University of Melbourne
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A.R. Chisholm Professor of French, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies, University of Leeds
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Associate Research Fellow, Heritage Destruction Specialist, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Cultural Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Professeur économie-gestion, École polytechnique
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Maître de conférences en ethnologie, Université de Bretagne occidentale
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Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Keele University
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Professor of Film and Television & Director, Institute for Creative Enterprise (ICE), Edge Hill University
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Senior Lecturer in Architectural HIstory and Theory, UNSW & Honorary Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage (ACAHUCH), UNSW Sydney
