It's a wrap! For my last Notebook Cannes dispatch, I wrote about a few festival gems, works by new & emerging directors that left me galvanised. On EEPHUS, CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER'S POINT, GOOD ONE, VIET AND NAM, and of course, ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT mubi.com/en/notebook/po…

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Ham on Rye

Practicing great blue heron diplomacy

Gene Kelly & Cyd Charisse in SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952) dir. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly

David Cronenberg calls out 'ignorant, stupid' reviewers who didn't get the conspiracy aspect of #TheShrouds . 'The idea of a conspiracy theory is a grief strategy, it's a strategy to cope with grief.' bit.ly/4bsAufj

Not the type of dog that helps motivate you to get out of bed….

If you’re at Cannes and you have a chance to catch Tyler’s film — do not miss it! A director who truly has a vision and delivers on it.

CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER’S POINT [Tyler Taormina] Continues HAM ON RYE’s interest in abstracted American ritual, in a lovingly synthetic greatest-hits suburbia. Comically abundant extended-family ensemble and intergenerational nostalgia—TOO MANY COOKS meets Joyce’s “The Dead.”

Tyler Taormina's narrative pointillism, in Christmas Eve in Miller's Point—fragments of memory fused without hiding fault lines—gives the bittersweet memories a sensory form; it's a collective coming of age with hints of unbreakable bonds and forebodings of things coming apart...

I’m starting a new Canadian film funding stream called ‘Talent 2 Watch’ and we’re only funding direct sequels to Talent to Watch movies.