Looking back, Cannes 2021 feels very much like a dream. Or, to be specific, a series of dreams, ninety minutes to three hours at a time, punctuated by lineups and spit tests and brief rain showers and rushed meals. So much mental energy was spent navigating ever-changing travel requirements, hustling for professional opportunities, and simply getting…

Anthony Bourdain shot to stardom after the release of his memoir Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. He was 44 years old at the time and was unprepared for how drastically his life would change after its publication. He became one of the most well-known names in both the world of film and television,…

RogerEbert.com publisher Chaz Ebert’s eighth video dispatch from the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, directed and edited by Scott Dummler of Mint Media Works, reveals this year’s winners of the Palme d’Or and the other major awards. Included in the video embedded below are Chaz’s interactions with jury president Spike Lee and Ron and Russell Mael…

RogerEbert.com publisher Chaz Ebert’s seventh video dispatch from the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, directed and edited by Scott Dummler of Mint Media Works, features a critics roundtable with Lisa Nesselson, Jason Gorber, and Ben Kenigsberg. The trio discuss their favorite films from the festival, including Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Memoria,” Paul Verhoeven’s “Benedetta,” Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch,” Sean Baker’s…

“Titane,” a movie whose protagonist has a titanium plate in her head, added to its hardware collection with a Palme d’Or on Saturday night at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. The director, Julia Ducournau (“Raw“), is only the second woman to win the festival’s top prize, after Jane Campion for “The Piano” in 1993. “I’m…