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Today is the first day of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. 22 films are competing to win the coveted top prize in cinema - the ...

In ten days, I’ll be on the Croisette for the Marché du Film, the business end of the Cannes Film Festival.

To prepare, I have gone through the conference sched...

Predicting who will be the next James Bond has become one of the great communal conversations. Whether that’s via prediction markets, ...

Andrew Sarris, in his 1963 essay “The Auteur Theory and the Perils of Pauline” reflected on the emerging idea of a film auteur like this:

After a given number of films, a pattern is established, and we can s...

Here is a 36-page guide I wrote for Raindance on how to best navigate the Cannes Film Festival and Marché du Film. Download your free copy below: