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Harlan Jacobson Previews The Oscars 2020
Ratings for the Oscars have fallen off a cliff in recent years, as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has done everything but one to stop the slide: be first out of the gate. In the year of the plague when nothing was released in theaters, the Academy always after every other conceivable awards pageant, didn’t jump forward but instead catapulted backwards to the end of April, 2021.
Harlan Jacobson reports from The Cannes Film Festival 2021: Arnaud Desplechin's Deception
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CANNES, Wednesday July 21 –
By Harlan Jacobson
Harlan Jacobson Reports from The Cannes Film Festival 2021: At the End of the Plague Year
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CANNES, Thursday, July 8 –
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Harlan Jacobson reports from The Cannes Film Festival 2021: Eva Husson's Mothering Sunday
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CANNES, Sunday July 18 –
By Harlan Jacobson
Harlan Jacobson reports from The Cannes Film Festival 2021: Julia Ducournau's Titanium
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CANNES, Monday July 26 –
By Harlan Jacobson
Harlan Jacobson reports from The Cannes Film Festival 2021: Sean Baker's Red Rocket
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CANNES, Monday July 19 –
By Harlan Jacobson
Harlan Jacobson reports from The Cannes Film Festival 2021: Sean Penn's Flag Day
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CANNES, Tuesday July 20 –
By Harlan Jacobson
Flag Day, directed by Sean Penn, concerns the Family Vogel, late 20th century Minnesotans, played by the Family Penn, Sean as John Vogel, his daughter Dylan as Jennifer Vogel and son Hopper as son Nick, both from his time with Robin Wright.
Harlan Jacobson Reports from The Cannes Film Festival 2021: Todd Haynes' and Christine Vachon's The Velvet Underground
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CANNES, Friday, July 9 –
By Harlan Jacobson
Harlan Jacobson reports from The Cannes Film Festival 2021: Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch
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CANNES, Saturday July 17 –
By Harlan Jacobson
Waiting for The French Dispatch, which held over for a year from the Cannes that wasn’t in 2020, has been talked about in some circles as one of the key cinema torments of Covid 19, not equal to the dislocation if not outright suspension of animation and death of civilization, but definitely in the mix.
