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Qatar's Doha Film Institute (DFI) has announced that Leos Carax, Claire Denis, Atom Egoyan, Martín Hernández and Jim Sheridan will serve as Qumra Masters at the 10th edition of its respected talent incubator event, running from March 1 to 6. They join a long list of top professionals to have…

French filmmaker Claire Denis has been announced as the jury president for the Official Section of the 71st San Sebastian Film Festival, running from September 22-30. Denis will be joined by the German director Christian Petzold; Chinese actress Fan Bingbing; Colombian producer, director, and writer…

Marie Amachoukeli's Ama Gloria has won the Best International Film Prize at the 40th edition of the Jerusalem Film Festival, running from July 13 to July 26. The feature, which world premiered as the opening film of Cannes Critics' Week in May, revolves around a motherless six-year-old girl who…

Juliette Binoche spoke about what she described as the challenging process of working with Jean-Luc Godard during a press conference at the San Sebastian film festival. Binoche — who is at the festival to receive a Donostia award, the festival’s prestigious lifetime achievement gong — was asked to talk about Godard…

The 60th New York Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled its main slate of movies from established and upcoming directors including Cannes’ Palme d'Or winner Triangle of Sadness by Ruben Östlund, Claire Denis' Stars at Noon (tied for Cannes Grand Prize), Park Chan-wook's Decision to Leave (Cannes Best Director) and…

Asked this morning at the Cannes presser about how the fest sidelines female filmmakers, Stars at Noon director took the high road, and didn’t throw the event, which lauded her with the Directors’ Fortnight prize for 2017’s Let the Sunshine In, under the bus. In recent days, Cannes has been dinged on social media for…

Given the combustible subject matter and the director's reputation, French auteur Claire Denis has made a remarkably listless and unpersuasive film in Stars at Noon. Set during the Nicaraguan Sandanista revolution circa 1984, this adaptation of Denis Johnson's novel published two years later centers on a couple of…

The first time Joe Alwyn came to the Cannes Film Festival in 2018, he walked away with the Trophée Chopard. Now he is back to help director Claire Denis compete for the Palme d'Or with Stars at Noon, based on the novel by Denis Johnson. Alwyn stars in the romantic thriller as a mysterious businessman in Nicaragua who…

EXCLUSIVE: IFC Films has set a July 8 stateside release date for Claire Denis’ Berlin Film Festival winner Fire, starring Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon. The movie, which won Denis the Best Director prize in Berlin, is a love triangle story about a woman caught between two men, her long-time partner and his best…

Winners have been announced at the 72nd Berlin Film Festival, with Carla Simon’s Alcarràs scooping the coveted Golden Bear prize as the best film of the festival's International Competition. Scroll down for the full list of winners, which were revealed Wednesday night at the Berlinale Palast. Alcarràs follows the life…

Juliette Binoche puts in another tremendous performance in Claire Denis' drama Both Sides Of The Blade (aka Fire, and also aka Avec Amour Et Acharnement). The Berlin Film Festival competition title is an intimate slow-burner that sets a credible scene, but doesn't quite deliver on the mystery it promises.  Binoche…

The latest movie from French filmmaker Claire Denis, Fire (or Both Sides Of The Blade), premieres tonight at the Berlin International Film Festival. Ahead of the screening, Denis, her producer Olivier Delbosc, and their cast, French acting royalty duo Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon, co-starring in a movie for the…