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Xavier Dolan, the Canadian filmmaker who rose through the ranks at Cannes with films like the Jury Prize winner Mommy, has been named President of the Un Certain Regard Jury, celebrating emerging talent, for the 77th edition of the festival, taking place this summer.

“I am humbled and delighted to return to Cannes as President of the Un Certain Regard Jury,” said Dolan. “Even more than making films myself, discovering the work of talented filmmakers has always been at the very heart of both my personal and professional journeys. I see, in this responsibility I’m assigned, the opportunity to focus with the members of the Un Certain Regard Jury on an essential aspect of the art of film : stories told truthfully.”

A self-taught filmmaker, Dolan made his feature directorial debut at 19 with I Killed My Mother, an adaptation of his own short story, which was chosen to represent Canada at the Academy Awards.

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.

David Lynch: The Art Life (Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes, and Olivia Neergaard-Holm)

Before David Lynch was a filmmaker, he was a struggling painter, whose lifeblood was to “drink coffee, smoke cigarettes, and paint.” That’s what he dubbed “the art life,” and what an image – as featured in the many contemporary photos seen in this new documentary – it is, the bequiffed 20-something Lynch sitting back in his Philadelphia studio,...

An adaptation of a play about a gay man’s return to the bosom of his family is not easy to watch – or listen to

The latest picture from the prolific Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan is certainly not the easiest watch. An adaptation of a play by Jean-Luc Lagarce that tells of the return of a sensitive, successful gay son to his tempestuous family home, this is stridently confrontational in its approach. Dolan favours so many extreme, spittle-flecked closeups of shouting family members that it leaves you gasping for breath and longing for a wide shot.

Gaspard Ulliel plays prodigal son Louis, Nathalie Baye is screechy and lurid as his mother and Marion Cotillard delivers sensitive work as the browbeaten sister-in-law he has never met. But it’s Vincent Cassel’s character who is the most problematic – older brother Antoine is furious but it’s a hollow, noisy anger that...

The “Canadian Oscars” feature innovative nominees in both film and television.

On Tuesday morning, actors Maxim Roy, Amanda Brugel, and Simu Liu announced the nominees for the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television’s 2017 Canadian Screen Awards. The awards honor outstanding works in film, television, and digital media productions. Both the film and television categories include innovative works made by young talent, and it is refreshing to see the unique work being done in the Canadian media industry.

French-Canadian director Xavier Dolan’s film, It’s Only the End of the World (Juste la fin du monde) leads the nominations in the film categories, scoring nine nods including Best Motion Picture. Dolan’s film won the Grand Prix at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, and has been submitted as Canada’s entry for the 2017 Academy Awards. Dolan did an incredible job adapting Jean-Luc Lagarce’s play of the same name, which was beautifully brought to life by stars...

Regardless of country, language, budget size or subject matter, five international directors confirmed one thing on Monday night: Making a film is hard.

At “Eyes on the Prize: Foreign Language Oscar Directors in Discussion,” the Palm Springs International Film Festival’s annual panel, the directors behind titles on the Oscar shortlist talked about the painstaking process of bringing their films to life and the ups and downs of festivals and awards season.

The Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Feinberg moderated the evening’s talk, which included Asghar Farhadi (“The Salesman”), Xavier Dolan (“It’s Only the End of the World”), Claude Barras (“My Life as a Zucchini”), Erik Poppe (“The King’s Choice”) and Hannes Holm (“A Man Called Ove”). (Farhadi and Barras delivered their responses via respective interpreters.)

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‘My Life as a Zucchini’ (Courtesy: Rita/Blue Spirit/Gebeka/Knm)

By: Carson Blackwelder

Managing Editor

With a shortlist announced, the best foreign language film category is quickly whittling down and gearing up for the 2017 Oscars. A grand total of 85 movies were accepted from the record 89 submissions, but now the Academy is only eyeing nine of them to eventually nominate five from. Let’s take a closer look the lucky ones to make the shortlist — as controversial as they are — and get to know them better and see if history can provide context for what makes them so special.

Tanna (Australia)

Tanna, Australia’s submission, is set on the titular island that is a part of Vanuatu in the South Pacific and focuses on the Romeo and Juliet-esque romance between a couple who decide to marry for love instead of obeying their parents’ wishes. The film — co-directed by Martin Butler...

If you’re a lover of French cinema, Xavier Dolan’s It’s Only the End of the World is a dream to behold. Based on Jean-Luc Lagarce’s play of the same name,...

Xavier Dolan’s film will fly the flag for his country, Telefilm Canada announced at a press conference on Friday.

The film (French-Canadian title Juste La Fin Du Monde) is a Canada majority co-production with France and marks Dolan’s third Academy Award submission after I Killed My Mother in 2009 and Mommy in 2014.

The story was financed through Telefilm’s Canada Feature Film Fund and is based on the play by dramatist Jean-Luc Lagarce about a young writer’s homecoming to announce his impending death.

Gaspard Ulliel, Nathalie Baye, Marion Cotillard, Léa Seydoux and Vincent Cassel star.

Nancy Grant and Dolan produced with Sylvain Corbeil and Nathanaël Karmitz.

“This will be a wonderful journey into Us territory for It’s Only The End Of The World and its director,” said Carolle Brabant, executive director of Telefilm Canada.

“This selection by Canada will kick off an exciting promotional campaign in the United States. We are confident...

At only 27 years old, Quebecois filmmaker Xavier Dolan has already firmly established himself at the forefront of international cinema. Since his 2009 film I Killed My Mother played as part of the Director’s Fortnight at the Cannes, he has been a regular guest of the festival, showcasing a half-dozen of his films to great acclaim. His previous work Mommy won the Jury Prize, and last year he was invited to sit on the Jury for the Palme D’or. Days after that jury duty he flew to work on his latest project, It’s Only The End Of the World, a quiet, complex film about family based on a play by Jean-Luc Lagarce. Dolan chose to interpret the play using some of the most powerful actors in contemporary French cinema, setting Marion Cotillard, Gaspard Ulliel, Vincent Cassel, Léa Seydoux and Nathalie Baye within the world of the film and capturing...

★★☆☆☆ Xavier Dolan has adapted theatrical works before. 2013's Tom at the Farm was a divisive feature but rendered Michael Marc Bouchard's play in a widescreen cinematic landscape. Premièring in Cannes, It's Only the End of the World sees Dolan adapt Jean-Luc Lagarce's play of the same name. In the film's press notes, the director records how he dithered about adapting the play suggested by his friend Anne Duval as tailor-made for him, but in the end succumbed. He shouldn't have. The material is weak, overly familiar and cliché-ridden. Dolan throws the cinematic sink at it but his latest feels like a shorter, not particularly watchable sequel to August, Osage County.

Xavier Dolan has directed six feature films at the young age of 27, and at a press conference in Cannes on Thursday, the writer-director called his latest movie "It's Only the End of the World" his best work to date. (So far, critics don't agree.) "That's something you should always believe," Dolan said. "How can you move forward and proceed with things you’ve committed so much time to if you don't think they’re the best?" The writer-director (who edited the movie himself) is also an actor, though not in this film, which was adapted from a play of the same name by Jean-Luc Lagarce. The story focuses on a terminally ill writer named Louis (Gaspard Ulliel) who comes home to his family's small house in France for the first time in 12 years to reveal he is dying. The cast playing Louis' utterly dysfunctional family is comprised of Léa Seydoux as Louis' sister Suzanne,...

Jean-Luc Lagarce was 38 when he died of AIDS, four years older than Louis, the protagonist of his play “It’s Only the End of the World.” Though he never comes right out and names the disease, Louis is going home to tell his family that he is dying. What he doesn’t realize is that they don’t want to hear it, or maybe they already know. After disappearing for 12 long years, Louis may as well already be dead to his family, and how does someone in that position tell his mother that he’s going to die?

Adapted for the screen by Canadian director Xavier Dolan, Lagarce’s play permits the ambitious young helmer (whose burning desire to win Cannes’ coveted Palme d’Or was merely stoked by the jury prize he shared with Jean-Luc Godard in 2014) to assemble a dream cast of great French actors: Nathalie Baye, Vincent Cassel,...

After sharing the Jury Prize with Jean-Luc Godard back in 2014 for Mommy, Xavier Dolan is returning to the Cannes Film Festival competition line-up with It’s Only the End of the World, translated from Juste La Fin Du Monde. The French-language film, coming from Jean-Luc Lagarce‘s play, stars Marion Cotillard, Léa Seydoux, Vincent Cassel, Nathalie Baye and Gaspard Ulliel, and today the first clips have arrived.

The first clip finds all of our characters at the dinner table discussing wanting to visit an old house, while the second shows a tender exchange between Ulliel and Baye’s characters. If anything can be gleaned from these, it looks like Dolan has a fantastic ensemble and is perhaps returning to more formally standard techniques after experimenting with Mommy. Check them out below after the official synopsis, followed by the poster, and return for our review from the festival for the film running 95 minutes.

One of the most anticipated films of this year's Cannes Film Festival has to be filmmaker Xavier Dolan's "It's Only The End Of The World". With under a month to go before its world premiere on the Croisette, a new poster for the feature based on the Jean-Luc Lagarce play has arrived.

Lea Seydoux, Vincent Cassel, Nathalie Baye, and Gaspard Ulliel star in the story of a writer who returns home after a 12-year absence to announce his impending death. No U.S. distributor or release date is currently set.

It's less than a month until the red carpet is rolled out at the Cannes Film Festival, and one of the movies that's very, very high on our must-see list is Xavier Dolan's "It's Only The End Of The World." And today comes another tease with the first poster for the drama.  Read More: Review: Xavier Dolan's Strange, Complex, And Impressive 'Tom At The Farm' Inspired by the play by Jean-Luc Lagarce, and starring a great cast featuring Marion Cotillard, Léa Seydoux, Vincent Cassel, Nathalie Baye, and Gaspard Ulliel, the story follows a writer who returns home after a 12-year absence to announce his impending death. "It's Only The End Of The World" opens in Quebec on September 21st, but there's no U.S. distributor or date just yet.

Juste la fin du monde

Director: Xavier Dolan

Writer: Xavier Dolan

During the substantial critical praise following Mommy (which tied with Jean-Luc Godard for the Jury Prize at Cannes, 2014) his fifth film in a six year period, the twenty-five year French Canadian director Xavier Dolan announced plans for an English language, Los Angeles set film The Death and Life of John F. Donovan. But following a flurry of casting news, Dolan announced he was delaying the title to shoot the French film, Juste la fin du monde (It’s Only the End of the World), an adaptation of Jean-Luc Lagarce’s play. Featuring an extravagantly notable cast, including Gaspard Ulliel, Lea Seydoux, Marion Cotillard, Vincent Cassel and Nathalie Baye (who returns to work with Dolan after 2012’s Laurence Anyways), the film concerns a terminally ill writer who returns home after a long absence to announce his death.

Cast: Vincent Cassel,...

Heading into the market eOne’s boutique sales arm has announced key territories on Xavier Dolan’s upcoming drama to star Marion Cotillard, Léa Seydoux, Vincent Cassel, Nathalie Baye and Gaspard Ulliel.

Deals on Juste La Fin Du Monde (It’s Only The End Of The World) have closed in the UK with Curzon Artificial Eye, Italy‎ with Lucky Red and Japan with Pictures Dept.

Seville International handles all international sales excluding France, where Diaphana/MK2 will distribute. eOne and Les Films Séville will release in English-speaking and French-speaking Canada.

Production is scheduled to start at the end of the month. The drama follows a prodigal writer who returns to the family homestead to announce his imminent death.

Sons Of Manual’s Dolan — a Cannes jury member this year — and Nancy Grant produce alongside MK2’s Nathanaël Karmitz as well as Sylvain Corbeil.

The film is based on the play of the same name by Jean-Luc Lagarce.

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