‘Nagi Notes’ Review: Koji Fukada’s Quietly Resonant Drama Examines Lives No Longer Defined by Patriarchy

The 2026 Cannes Film Festival is underway with French filmmaker Pierre Salvadori’s The Electric Kiss serving as the opening-night pic. Among the headline filmmakers debuting new works on the Croisette this year are previous Palme d’Or winners Cristian Mungiu and Hirokazu Kore-eda, two-time Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi and American indie veteran Ira Sachs. The […]

Warner Bros. Discovery co-heads of sales Ryan Gould and Robert “Bobby” Voltaggio kicked off the company’s upfront Wednesday by acknowledging the looming $110 billion Paramount acquisition. “Before we go on, we do want to address the Ellison – I mean, the elephant in the room,” Gould said, alluding to Paramount CEO David Ellison (and perhaps […]

Takako Matsu and Shizuka Ishibashi star as two women who redefine their relationship as friends while one sits for the other as an artist's model in this contender for Cannes' top prize.

In Tokyo Story, perhaps Yasujirō Ozu’s most famous movie, an elderly Japanese couple brave the bustle of the hectic capital to visit their adult children. Writer-director Kōji Fukada’s latest feature, his first in Competition at Cannes, is a meticulously detailed reversal that flips that premise in an intriguing way. Unusually for a film about a […]