Intro for April 10, 2026
Dear Gossips, The Cannes Film Festival begins in just over a month, and the lineup was announced yesterday. Notably, there is only one American film in competition, Ira Sachs’ musical, The Man I Love, starring Rami Malek. There is a noticeable lack of US-produced studio films at Cannes, which usually
John C. Reilly in Heads or Tails?
Italian cinema has a long love affair with the American west, most notably producing the mid-20th century genre of “Spaghetti western”, Italian-made tales of the American west dominated by Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood, which imagine the American west as a place of violence, revenge, possibility, and manifest destiny. In
