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Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 9:30PM 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.
Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 6:31PM 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...
Doc Corner, Hawaii, Lois Weber, Reviews, The White Lotus, White Heat, documentaries Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 4:30PM 
We'll do this in quartet rounds, to bring you beauty on the regular, and so as not to overwhelm ourselves.
Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 1:30PM by Nathaniel R
You've all heard about Bros by now, surely. It's the first major studio romantic comedy about two men. The first major studio gay male drama was way back in 1982 (Making Love) and it only took another 40 years to get a romantic comedy. So, yes, it truly feels like an event! After the jump at statement from Billy Eichner and we'll talk about the trailer, too...
Billy Eichner, Bros, LGBTQ+, Romantic Comedies Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 11:13AM Elisa Giudici reporting again from Cannes!
Cannes is back again trying to rewrite its new normal. After the skipped 2020 edition and the anomalous summery one in 2021, the 75th Cannes Film Festival is has kicked off with the Croisette in full blossom. Masks are almost gone in theatres (even if before every movie a recorded voice “strongly suggests” to wear one), Marché du film (the huge Film Market's event in Cannes) has ended a period of crisis and low presence. COVID-19 changed the French festival and some changes are here to stay...
Cannes, Final Cut, Michel Hazanavicius, Romain Duris, film festivals 