Eric Lavallee

British filmmaker Andrea Arnold is packing her bags for the Cannes Film Festival. She’ll need to make some space in her luggage for Directors’ Fortnight Golden Coach Award but the will she replicate the double showcase that Kelly Reichardt had in 2022 when she was honored in the Quinzaine and shored up ( Showing Up ) in Palme d’Or competition as well? The competition line-up for the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival will be unveiled on Thursday and the perennial favorite Arnold is among the best bets for a Palme d’Or competition berth.

Today we’ve got a baker’s dozen thirteen added to the Cannes 2024 edition. We learned beforehand that Mohammad Rasoulof and Michel Hazanavicius we competition entries and one more title trickled in from Romanian actor/director Emanuel Parvu and his Trois kilomètres jusqu’à la fin du monde

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Following in the footsteps of Woody Harrelson, Keanu Reeves is the next actor in line for a special kind of miserablism reserved for air travellers in Ruben Östlund ’s The Entertainment System Is Down. The project which was set to shoot only next year might be taking flight earlier than projected – it’s entirely possible that the film project could be pushing for a Cannes 2025 drop —

The filmmakers of My Life as a Courgette and Persepolis are set to return to the big stage with their latest films as the Cannes Film Festival have pumped in the very last titles for the 2024 edition pumping a pair of animated films in the Screening for Young Audiences section and a quartet of premieres for Cinéma de la Plage section.

For his third feature (in a row), László Nemes is going back into the history books for his next project set to month into production this June. Set in 1957’s Budapest, Orphan follows a young Jewish boy whose mother has raised him in the hope that his father will return from the camps. These hopes are shattered when a brutish stranger appears on the doorstep to take his family back. Variety

The folks at ScreenDaily have unveiled the 10 projects (nine fiction/one docu) selected for the 2024 FeatureLab training programme (for debut and sophomore projects in the development stage) and among the names we can the likes of Jacqueline Lentzou, André Hayato Saito and Ashmita Guha Neogi — all filmmakers who’ve presented in Cannes. Moon, 66 Questions

In our second piece of news concerning a Hungarian filmmaker (and producer Alexander Rodnyansky), we’ve learned via the Deadline that Kornel Mundruczó has still got the Bostonian vibes and will boat out to At the Sea – a drama with Amy Adams in the top role. Set to enter production in Boston in June, this is produced by Ryder Picture Company’s Aaron Ryder and Andrew Swett, Stuart Manashil, Hammerstone Studios’ Alex Lebovici, Jon Oakes, Viktória Petrányi, Mundruczó and AR Content’s Rodnyansky. Exec producers are include Paul J. Diaz, Maria Breese, Lee Broda, Jeff Rice and Michael Kupisk. Zsofi Oblath and Rachel Rubin are co-producing.

Except for the pandemic year, we’ve hosted our bi-daily (sometimes tri-daily) Palme d’Or competition Cannes Critics’ Panel since 2011. Over the years, our panel has gained some steadfast members (a few have been with us since the inaugural edition), while we’ve bid farewell to others due to sporadic attendance or missed years. Sadly, we also lost one member permanently. A longstanding Croisette aficionado, Marc-André Lussier from Montreal’s La Presse departed on June 30th — had he been here, he’d have seen all twenty-two films. We was a ninja.

Burgeoning filmmakers that we had the chance to meet this past January in Jane Casey Modderno, Kristine Gerolaga, Hanna Gray Organschi, Sara Crow + David Rafailedes