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Renate Reinsve after the rapturous reception for FJORD (📸 by me)
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Cannes 2026: A Quick Bande-Annonce
Cannes 2026: Notebook #1
Cannes 2026: Notebook #2
See my final Cannes screening schedule at my L...
He Got The Shot: The Ovation For Volker Schlöndorff (photo by me)
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Cannes 2026: Preview
Cannes 2026: A Quick Bande-Annonce
Cannes 2026: Notebook #1
Follow my full Cannes screening schedule at my Letterboxd
It’s th...
The Fancy Bus! (Photo by Me)
Previously:
Cannes 2026: Preview
Cannes 2026: A Quick Bande-Annonce
Follow my full Cannes screening schedule at my Letterboxd
I am so happy to be back in Cannes for this year’s film festival. I str...
The 2026 Cannes Film Festival Key Art
Previously:
Cannes 2026: Preview
A quick update for all of you who have stuck with me here on Substack— I am headed to France tomorrow for the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, and will be attending...
Sugar, 2026.
In the middle of the 1980s, with the Reagan administration unleashing failed “trickle down” economic policies and anti-Union rollbacks that were in the process of decimating my hometown, I was a teenager addicted to my local r...
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Artistic Director & Co-Head, Montclair Film & The Clairidge Cinemas
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