EARLY RETURNS FROM CANNES
Though we're only through the first few days of the Cannes International Film Festival, we're already seeing the emergence of some potential prize-winners for the fest. Here's the early version of the Screen Daily panel of critics:
SCREEN DAILY
As you can see the early films making a mark here are Pawlikowskis' Fatherland and Hamaguchi's all of a Sudden. Both films have been fairly consistently on the various lists I have posted since the Oscar ceremony and before. Meanwhile. Ioncinema's chart echoes the status of both Father land and All of a Sudden:
Meanwhile, we're awaiting a sufficient number of reviews to be accumulated at Cannes-ratings.org to truly make any assumption regarding where films are truly standing withe regard to that metric.
Couple of other notes here. Both Farhadi's Parallel Tales, Kore-eda's Sheep in a Box and Kruetzer's Gentle Monster seem on shaky ground as regards prizes at Cannes and perhaps as contenders for TFF #53.
COUSINS NEW DOCUMENTARY (ABOUT DOCUMENTARIES) GETS DISTRIBUTION
Telluride regular Marc Cousins (The Story of Film, A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things among several others) has garnered distribution for his next project: The Story of Documentary Film) Kino Lorber has nabbed the North American rights for the 16 part doc about docs.
The question as to its possible appearance at Telluride rises from its inclusion at Sundance earlier this year. My best guess is that owing to Cousins frequent presence at TFF and his current position as a Resident Curator and his past position on the fest's Board of Advisors. as well as being a TFF Tributee in 2022...my bet is we get some of the 16 episodes.
The story reagrding the Kino Lober acquisition is linked here from Variety.
https://variety.com/2026/film/global/kino-lorber-mark-cousins-the-story-of-documentary-film-1236751389/
PICS FROM GENTLE MONSTER
https://theplaylist.net/2026-cannes-film-festival-27-most-anticipated-films-20260511
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