Culture

Roschdy Zem appears on a studio set, with a direct smile and cinematic lighting. This composed portrait accompanies his appointment as president of the Deauville jury for 2026. Credits: Monika Nguessan / Ecostylia Media.

Cinema

Roschdy Zem’s Deauville 2026 jury role points to the French festival’s American cinema focus and open choices

2026-06-11

‘Alice and Steve plays like a light comedy at first, but the couple’s impossible relationship quickly cracks the family dynamic. The series turns embarrassment into a generational x‑ray. Credits: What’s On Disney Plus.’

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Alice and Steve on Disney+ turns a wrong-com premise into a sharp portrait of boomer control and family panic

2026-06-11

Steven Spielberg stares into the lens, jaw set and gaze steady, in a Berlinale portrait that has become part of cinema news. The photo here accompanies his return to the grand extraterrestrial narrative with Disclosure Day. Credits: Martin Kraft / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cinema

Disclosure Day turns Spielberg’s UFO comeback into a 2026 story about truth, proof and fractured public trust

2026-06-10

Artwork for the soundtrack of the film ‘Moi qui t’aimais.’ Credits: Music Box Records / PAN Distribution.

Cinema

On Canal+, Moi qui t’aimais revisits Signoret and Montand through fame, aging and French cinema memory today

2026-06-10

Leïla Slimani at the Fronteiras do Pensamento series in São Paulo, June 2018. The novelist already appears as a public voice, between literature, cultural policy, and social debate. Credits: Fronteiras do Pensamento / Greg Salibian, via Wikimedia Commons.

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At France’s national theater, Jolly and Slimani signal a Comédie-Française season built for public transition

2026-06-10

Maïa Mazaurette signs books at the Paris Book Fair on March 15, 2009. The scene places the journalist in her authorial territory prior to the ‘Quotidien’ years. Credits: Georges Seguin (Okki) / Wikimedia Commons.

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As Ambre Chalumeau and Maïa Mazaurette leave Quotidien, TMC faces a culture and society gap on air in 2026

2026-06-09

Nadav Lapid poses with the Golden Bear awarded for ‘Synonymes’ at the 2019 Berlinale. The trophy recalls the international aura of a filmmaker swept up in the Marseille controversy. Credits: Martin Kraft / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cinema

At Marseille FID, Nadav Lapid becomes a test case for Israel cultural boycotts, artists and festival politics

2026-06-09

Nicole Scherzinger receives congratulations backstage at the 2025 Tony Awards, in a highly institutional prestige archive. The shot illuminates the media setting of a ceremony that, by 2026, has become a cultural and political marker. Credit: The Tony Awards / CC BY 3.0.

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Tony Awards 2026 winners put Schmigadoon !, Liberation and Cats at the center of Broadway’s political turn

2026-06-08

In Buenos Aires in October 1993, Michael Jackson performs ‘Jam’ amid the shine of an already monumental tour. The archival footage places the pop icon before the legal battle that Netflix now retells. Credits: Wikimedia Commons via PICRYL.

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Netflix’s Michael Jackson documentary turns the 2005 acquittal into a true-crime culture clash for US viewers

2026-06-08

At the 2026 Berlinale, Dua Lipa and Callum Turner present a composed, controlled couple image. This portrait contrasts with the Sicilian narrative, where private glamour meets a lived city. Credit: Harald Krichel / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Dua Lipa and Callum Turner’s Palermo wedding turns private glamour into a local battle over overtourism

2026-06-08

The official image for ‘Alice and Steve’ positions Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement on the brink of a very British family crisis. Between domestic unease and platform promise, the series advances its caustic humor. Credits: Disney+ / Hulu.

Debate

Alice and Steve brings Canneseries-winning wrong-com unease to Hulu with Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement

2026-06-08

Victim of a stroke in 2004 that left her hemiplegic, Catherine Breillat never gave up on filmmaking. Despite physical fragility and industry obstacles, she continued her work with the same rigor. Proof that an artistic body of work can survive life's accidents and sometimes draw strength from them. Credits: Montage Ecostylia Media (DALL·E) — photo Ecostylia Media (Cinémathèque française, 2023); background: Jeliotb / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Montage distributed under CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

Cinema

French filmmaker Catherine Breillat revisits the ‘Romance’ controversy through documents and chronology

2026-06-05