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What scares Ari Aster these days? His answer is dividing Cannes, so we sat down with him

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Cannes, France – “The sun is my mortal enemy,” Ari Aster says, squinting as he sits on the sixth-floor rooftop terrace of Cannes’ Palais des Festivals, where most of the screenings happen. It’s an especially bright afternoon and we take refuge in the shade. Aster, the 38-year-old filmmaker of “Hereditary” and “Midsummer,” wears a olive-colored … Read more

At this year’s Cannes, bleak is the new black and miserable endings are très chic

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Cannes, France – In Cannes, the weather changes so fast that you can enter a theater in sandals and exit in desperate need of rain boots and a scarf. On Friday, I ran to my room to grab a warmer shirt for an overcast outdoor party. I checked the window and added a jacket, then … Read more

Early Oscar buzz builds at Cannes Film Festival

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Early Oscar buzz builds at Cannes Film Festival – CBS News Watch CBS News Film critic Siddhant Adlakha joins “CBS Mornings Plus” from France to discuss the biggest premieres at the Cannes Film Festival, including “The Phoenician Scheme,” “Eddington,” and “Die, My Love,” starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson. Be the first to know Get … Read more

Disneyland’s new water show: ‘Inside Out’s’ ‘Be happy’ message irks, while the Muppets charm

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The Disneyland Resort’s new “World of Color” show begins with some regal nostalgia. Standing before a lagoon in Disney California Adventure, we hear the voice of Walt Disney, and see a host of Disney’s animated classics — “The Little Mermaid,” “Pinocchio,” “The Lion King” and more — projected on fountains to a patient, stately interpretation … Read more

Later, alligator: Adam Sandler pens tribute to his reptilian ‘Happy Gilmore’ co-star

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Adam Sandler has no crocodile tears for “Happy Gilmore” co-star Morris the alligator — he has fond jokes instead. The “Punch-Drunk Love” actor and comedian on Wednesday shared a playful tribute honoring his reptilian co-star who died Sunday of old age at a gator farm in southern Colorado. In the tribute, shared to Instagram and … Read more

Cannes: Even bad exposition can’t trip up Tom Cruise, flying high with ‘Mission Impossible — The Final Reckoning’

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Cannes, France – Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt arrived in France in 1996’s “Mission: Impossible” clinging to a high speed train through the Chunnel, pursued and nearly skewered by a helicopter. It was, as the French might say, A dramatic entry. In 2018’s “Mission: Impossible — Fallout,” he leapt from an airplane to plummet four-and-a-half miles … Read more

How unfair representation led to the creation of a Chinese film studio in NYC

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In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we’re taking a look back at how unfair representation in early Hollywood led to the creation of one of the first Chinese American film studios in the country. Frustrations with “one-dimensional,” “demeaning” characters Sandy Lee can trace her family’s history in America back to the … Read more

Robert Benton, Oscar-winning ‘Kramer vs. Kramer’ filmmaker and screenwriter, dies at 92

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Robert Benton, the Texas-born filmmaker who surpassed the difficulties of severe dyslexia in his childhood to become the Oscar-winning director and screenwriter behind films including “Kramer vs. Kramer” and “Bonnie and Clyde,” has died. John Benton, the filmmaker’s son, said the director died Sunday at his home in Manhattan of “natural causes.” He was 92. … Read more