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At this point in Cannes, exactly half the competition titles have premiered, which means that audiences are now primed to engage in a classic festival ritual. If you subject viewers to six days of some of the most demanding cinema on the planet, then suddenly confront them with a stylish and funny (yet sufficiently academic)…

It takes a lot of courage to play a buffoon, and Dabney Coleman, who passed on May 16 at the age of 92,  had it in spades. Not many character actors of his constitution in 1980 — white, male, middle-aged, thick mustache parting only to deliver his baleful bass of a voice — would have dared…

The Cannes Film Festival is underway, and Chaz Ebert is on the ground to report on every development. In this video, critic Isaac Feldberg joins Chaz to briefly discuss Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Kinds of Kindness,” Paul Schrader’s “Oh Canada,” Andrea Arnold’s “Bird,” and Agathe Riedingers’ “Wild Diamond.” Watch the video below.

Over sixty years ago, directors Henry Hathaway, John Ford, and George Marshall joined forces to tell the story of America’s push toward the pacific. “How The West Was Won” was a tremendous undertaking. Produced through the three-strip Cinerama process, it featured a deep ensemble of high-wattage stars—James Stewart, Spencer Tracy, John Wayne, Gregory Peck, Henry…

On Monday, May 20th at 2:00PM CEST Chaz Ebert will be moderating a panel at Roger Ebert Conference Center in the American Pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival. Entitled “Purpose-Driven Filmmaking: Empathy and the Movies,” panelists will discuss the trend toward purpose-driven filmmaking in today’s industry and how that is impacted by the diversity of…