How Julia Child Provided the Comfort a Pandemic-Wracked World Craved (Guest Column)

Whenever Frances McDormand brought up the notion of her husband and frequent collaborator Joel Coendirecting her in her dream role of Lady Macbeth, he demurred – bluntly. “He said absolutely not,” she recalled; “I had no interested in theater,” he explained, and that was that.

The 59th annual New York Film Festival kicked off Friday night with back-to-back world premiere screenings of Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth as the Frances McDormand, Denzel Washington-starrer met with loving applause at Lincoln Center’s full Alice Tully Hall.

The Tragedy of Macbeth.”Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, who play Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in the adaptation of the beloved Shakespeare drama, received a rapturous standing ovation after the film’s first (of two) screenings at 6 p.m.A24 and Apple will release the black-and-white movie, which is being positioned as an awards contender in next year’s Oscars race.The screening adhered to strict COVID protocols, as guests were told twice before the movie played to keep their masks on —

The plot for “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” adapted from William Shakespeare’s classic play, is almost too familiar to waste space for explanation. Even so, the basic premise sees Lord Macbeth (Denzel Washington), a well-respected soldier, spurred by three witches’ prophecy and the aspirations of his wife, the Machiavellian Lady Macbeth (Frances McDormand), transfixed by an ambition for the Scottish crown.

EXCLUSIVE: Tomorrow, the New York Film Festival opens with the World Premiere of The Tragedy of Macbeth, the Shakespearean thriller adapted and directed by Joel Coen, and starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, alongside an accomplished cast. Coen, Washington and McDormand have 10 Oscars between them, and the film from A24 and Apple lands smack in the middle of another awards season and I expect it to quickly establish itself in the race.

England head coach Shaun Wane met with the media on Wednesday to discuss the upcoming Test match against France, his plans for next year's World Cup and much more. Here are the key points Wane covered in his press briefing.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentAlthough the pandemic has pole-axed many independent distributors, some like Alexandre Mallet-Guy at Paris-based Memento Distribution have managed to weather the storm.The company has had prestige auteur films playing in the festival circuit this year; at Cannes with multiple films in competition, including Jacques Audiard’s “Paris, District 13th,” Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s “A Hero” and Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s “The Worst

Despite the title, “The Worst Person in the World” isn’t, in fact, about the literal worst person on the planet. There are people in the world way worse than the character of Julie in Joachim Trier’s new film.

Julia Roberts lights up while shooting a commercial for Lancome on top of a water taxi on The Seine in Paris, France, on Friday afternoon (September 17).

First Lady Dr. Jill Biden and Prince Harry virtually reunited on Monday.

The Duchess of Cambridge - alongside her husband Prince William - watched her beloved younger brother marry in France at the weekend. When James Middleton, 34, married the "love of his life" in France on Saturday, in a village in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, there was no way his much-adored royal relatives would not be there to see him tie the knot.

After directing the Oscar-nominated “RBG,” Cohen and West traveled to France to talk with chefs and contemporaries of Child from her days of training at Le Cordon Bleu before becoming a TV star with “The French Chef.” In an interview with TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman at the Toronto International Film Festival, Cohen and West discussed how COVID-19 hit right as they finished filming and how the experience of editing the film under quarantine deepened their appreciation for both Child and French

Work eats our lives. For nine, 10 hours a day — often more — we are either at work, traveling to work or catching up on work at home. Yet, for whatever reason, the process and patina of working life is rarely the subject of cinema. Except in the films of Stéphane Brizé, the French director who has made the workplace his stomping ground.

Stéphane Brizé’s “Another World” could make for a worthy conclusion to an unofficial trilogy on contemporary economic relations, following the French filmmaker’s recent efforts “The Measure of a Man” and “At War.” Each work deploys the empathy machine of cinema to demonstrate the brokenness of a system powered by a dehumanizing focus on profits over all else, albeit leveling that critique from a different vantage point at each step along the way.

EXCLUSIVE: French filmmaker Stéphane Brizé reteams with frequent collaborator Vincent Lindon for Another World (Un Autre Monde), a Venice Film Festival competition entry that debuts today. Above is a clip from the drama that focuses on an executive, his wife and their family, at the point when his professional choices are about to overturn all their lives. Wild Bunch has international sales with CAA on North America.