Would you rather?

Okay so we had the roughest night of insomnia ever (which is saying a lot) followed by crashing which is why we're so slow today. While we prep more Cannes posting, a daydream about celebrities. Would you rather...?

• rock climb with Dominic Cooper?
• try a new mirror affirmation with Shailene Woodley?
• protest the Supreme Court's support of Forced Birth legislation with Cyndi Lauper and Laura Dern?
• join a pole dancing workout class with Brie Larson?
• go see Pamela Anderson in Chicago with Miley Cyrus?
• read Selma's Blair "Mean Baby" with Michelle Pfeiffer?
• learn how to shuck oysters with Lupita Nyong'o?
• try a pole dancing workout class with Brie Larson?
• smell the flowers with Anne Hathaway?
• do the splits with Chris Meloni (or just admire them)?
• drink wine with Glen Powell at Cannes?
• take a day off with Ana de Armas?
• eat hot dogs with "everything" with Florence Pugh?

Pictures are after the jump to help you decide...

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Cannes at Home: Day 1 - 'One Cut of the Dead'

by Cláudio Alves

Last year, I had a lot of fun with the Cannes at Home project. It was meant as a way to dispel FOMO by running a homebound parallel companion to the most prestigious film festival in the world. Since we couldn't screen the new titles on the Croisette, we discussed their directors' past works. In other words: I'm back on my bullshit this year, and you're invited to play along. While this miniseries will focus on the Main Competition and its auteurs, the festivities didn't start with any competing titles. Instead, Michel Hazanavicius' latest film, Final Cut, opened the festival. It's the French remake of a Japanese zombie comedy, and you can read about it in Elisa Giudici's first Cannes Diary.

It only seems appropriate to kick off this parallel project with some thoughts on the original film – Shinichiro Ueda's One Cut of the Dead…

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Cannes Gowns, Round 2

Round 1 if you missed it

The stars came out for the Opening Ceremony, Opening Film (Coupez! - read Elisa's review) and an Out of Competition Top Gun Maverick premiere.

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Doc Corner: The Hollywood history of 'Cane Fire'

By Glenn Dunks

A history of exploitation unfurls in Anthony Banua-Simon’s Cane Fire like the plot of a Hollywood movie. A deeply empathetic documentary, Cane Fire takes its title from a Lois Weber film, White Heat. That film, Weber’s last from 1934, is considered lost and survives only in images and fragments. As Banua-Simon shows, that is a lot like the non-white population of the island of Kaua’i, where it was filmed, who have been worked until their backs were broken by a series of industries that have crushed and sapped the non-white population like you would strip bare sugar cane.

First it was sugar cane and pineapples, then Hollywood who used locals as extras in bright and colourful productions starring big names like Elvis Presley and John Wayne. Today it’s tourism—an industry that has caused Hawaii more broadly to become the most expensive state to live in, something that is inceasingly out of grasp to many of the population who predominantly work as service staff at hotels and resorts. If you saw The White Lotus, then maybe you could consider this its darker companion piece...

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Cannes Gowns, Round 1

We'll do this in quartet rounds, to bring you beauty on the regular, and so as not to overwhelm ourselves.

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