Kristen Stewart's New Film Is Booed At Cannes Film Festival Screening

When Kristen Stewart last collaborated with director Olivier Assayas as a headliner in Clouds of Sils Maria, she won a coveted César for her performance. She is also being lauded for her performance in Assayas’s most recent production, Personal Shopper, though the film itself has elicited some nasty reactions. In…
These Are the True Queens of Cannes
The Cannes Film Festival is currently underway in its 69th year, and we’re already luxuriating in the glamour it offers. And yet, when we look back upon its nascent days—like say, 1956, a mere decade after it began—we all once again must admit that today’s vampish models and slinky ingenues got nothing on the queens…
Cannes Film Festival Won't Admit Women Wearing Flat Shoes
The Cannes Film Festival is reportedly not allowing women into screenings if they’re wearing flat shoes. I’m not sure I could’ve come up with a better metaphor for sexism in the film industry if I was really, really trying. If you wrote this into a novel about sexism in the film industry, it would seem heavy-handed.…
Jessica Chastain Rocks Liz Taylor's Giant Gem
The Bulgari sapphire-and-diamond “sautoir” (with a 65-carat center stone!) used to belong to Liz; Richard Burton bought it for her when she turned 40. Hot damn.
