Author: France 24

Francis Ford Coppola faces the press Friday after his epic “Megalopolis” sharply divided critics at the 77th Cannes Film Festival. He explains how his team participated in the editing of the film – particularly lead actor Adam Driver who decided to delete a scene. “Megalopolis” had been the most anticipated film of this year’s festival. It is one of 22 films in competition for the Palme d’Or. Source link

Eve Jackson brings you the latest from the Cannes Film festival including the premiere of Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Kinds of Kindness” with Emma Stone, Willem Defoe, Margaret Qualley and Jesse Plemons. His last movie “Poor Things” took four Oscars earlier this year. It’s the third time the filmmaker has worked with Stone on a feature film. Also on the programme we hear from the team behind Syrian drama “Ghost Trail” about the little-discussed realities that face people displaced by war. Source link

A slew of announcements from OpenAI and Google this week brought us to the brink of human-like AI assistants. Generative artificial intelligence is getting faster, and being applied to an increasing number of tasks. But without a major breakthrough to the models underpinning such projects, it has led some to emerge from the parapets and ask whether the technology will continue getting smarter given its exponential hunger for data. One of them is Dr. Michael Pound, Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham. Source link

It’s said to have been re-written up to 300 times in 40 years … Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” finally premiered in Cannes on Thursday, with star Adam Driver on the red carpet. The director won the festival’s top prize – the Palme d’Or – in 1974 with “The Conversation” and then a second time in 1979 with the now legendary “Apocalypse Now”. FRANCE 24’s Eve Jackson reports from the red carpet. Source link

The Women’s World Cup will take place in South America for the first time after Brazil was chosen to host the 2027 edition at a FIFA congress Friday marked by debate about the war in Gaza. Source link

Israel will respond to charges of genocide at the International Court of Justice on Friday, after South Africa filed an urgent request with the court to order a ceasefire in Gaza. South Africa told the court on Thursday that the situation in Gaza had reached “a new and horrific stage”, and urged the 15 judges to take urgent action to halt Israel’s offensive in the southern city of Rafah. Follow our liveblog for all the latest developments. Source link

The 77th Cannes Film Festival welcomed the world premiere of “Furiosa”, the latest instalment of George Miller’s post-apocalyptic “Mad Max” franchise, with Anya Taylor-Joy in the no-holds-barred title role, playing alongside “Thor” star Chris Hemsworth. Taylor-Joy revealed on Thursday the secrets behind the filming of her stunts and explained how her stunt double became one of her “best friends in the world”. Watch our video. Source link

Welcome to “Destination Paris”, FRANCE 24’s new weekly show ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympics. Every Thursday we will be getting you into the Olympics spirit with the latest news, reports and guests. The world will be watching this summer as 10,500 athletes compete in 32 sports in Paris and elsewhere in France. FRANCE 24 has been following a few of them as they prepare for the Games. We speak to canoe sprinter Saman Soltani, who will be competing at her first Olympics with the IOC Refugee Team. Our correspondents meet Senegalese judoka Mbagnick Ndiaye, who hopes to bring back a…

The Arab League called on Thursday for a UN peacekeeping force in the “occupied Palestinian territories” at an international summit dominated by the war between Israel and Hamas. Source link

Hollywood legend Francis Ford Coppola brought his decades-in-the-making “Megalopolis” to the Cannes Film Festival and Cambodia’s Rithy Panh delivered another sobering chronicle of the Khmer Rouge genocide on a day that saw dozens of women join France’s #MeToo icon Judith Godrèche on the red carpet to denounce sexual violence and impunity. Source link