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This is Me…Now: A Love Story is a film starring Jennifer Lopez and directed by Dave Meyers.

I must confess, at first I had no desire to watch this film, but as a professional, I felt obligated. However, I must also confess that we were pleasantly surprised by this original musical, written and starring Jennifer Lopez, which revolves around her own life and love affairs, as one may expect.

However, “This is Me…Now: A Love Story” is not just about the romances known from magazines and television. It is a futuristic video clip with several musical numbers, each with high quality in terms of photography and set design. Although it may seem self-centered and geared towards her fans, I must admit that “This is Me…Now: A Love Story” is of great quality and production.

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Leonie Benesch

Germany • The Teachers’ Lounge

The German actress, who has appeared in The Crown and Around the World in 80 Days, stars as an idealistic teacher trying to solve a series of thefts at her school in the film that was selected as Germany’s entry for the 2024 Academy Awards. Her performance has been lauded by critics; The Hollywood Reporter’s Sheri Linden described Benesch’s portrayal as “veering masterfully between openhearted hope and tense physicality.” The film itself holds a score of 98 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and even beat out four-time Oscar-winning All Quiet on the Western Front at this year’s German film awards, known as the Lolas.

Juliette Binoche

France • The Taste of Things

The French actress delivers yet another exceptional performance in The Taste of Things, with Vanity Fair writing that Binoche “does some of the best onscreen cooking you’ll ever see.” The film beat...

Winning Best Actor at Cannes for Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days” (Neon) was a surprise for veteran Japanese star Koji Yakusho (“Shall We Dance?”). “I’m a very lucky man,” he told IndieWire on Zoom. And when he and Wenders heard that “Perfect Days,” despite its German director, was submitted by Japan for the Oscar, they cheered over dinner at Telluride “like we had just won the Academy Award,” said Yakusho. “Director Wim thought it would be more of a handicap that he’s not a Japanese director. But for the Japanese people, he knows the culture really well. And he also has spent a lot of time there. We were very proud to have him be selected as Japan’s entry.”

Yakusho knew Wenders’ work when he was asked to play Hiroyama, a public toilet cleaner in Tokyo. “He was always looking for a new challenge in his filmmaking,” the actor said,...

Clockwise from left: The Departed (Warner Bros.), True Lies (20th Century Studios), Some Like It Hot (United Artists), 12 Monkeys (Universal)Graphic: The A.V. Club

Of all the challenges in the moviemaking universe, redoing a beloved foreign film for an American audience would seem pretty low on the list. You already...

Actress, singer Jennifer Lopez is the 'global ambassador' for Italian lingerie brand Intimissimi and creator of the new #ThisIsMeCollection:

Lopez started out as a 'Fly Girl' dancer on the TV series "In Living Color"...

....where she remained a regular until she decided to pursue an acting career in 1993.

For her first leading role in the 1997 "Selena" biopic, Lopez became the first Latin actress to earn over $1 million for a film.

She went on to star in "Anaconda" (1997) and "Out of Sight" (1998).

Lopez' debut studio album "On the 6" (1999), was followed by het starring in the feature "The Cell" (2000).

With the simultaneous release of her second studio album "J.Lo" and her romantic comedy feature "The Wedding Planner" in 2001, she became the first woman to have a number-one album and film in the same week.

Her 2002 release, "J to tha L–O! The Remixes", became the first remix album in history to...

Japanese actor Koji Yakusho, winner of Cannes’ best actor prize this year for his universally acclaimed performance in Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days, has been selected 2023 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival’s filmmaker in focus.

Yakusho will attend the Taiwanese festival in person and present a selection of seven of his films during the event’s 17-day duration. The titles shown will include Perfect Days and the erotic classic Lost Paradise (1997), as well as five titles selected by Yakusho himself, including Kamikaze Taxi (1995), Shall We Dance (1996), Cure (1997), Eureka (2000) and The Woodsman and the Rain (2011).

“With these seven films, cinephiles will be able to witness the charm and versatile acting of a legendary actor,” Taipei’s organizers said in a statement.

Across his four-decade career, Yakusho has been nominated for the Japan Academy of Film Prize 23 times, including seven consecutive nominations in the best leading actor category, which he has won three times,...

Yakusho Koji, the Japanese star who was named best actor at Cannes this year in Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days,” is set as the subject of a seven-title showcase at the upcoming Golden Horse Film Festival in Taiwan.

Among the septet are classic erotic film “Lost Paradise” from 1997, this year’s “Perfect Days” and 1996 film “Shall We Dance,” which was later remade in Hollywood.

Yakusho Koji (Photo: Courtesy of the Golden Horse Film Festival.)

A former civil servant who first ventured into Taiga drama (long-running TV series broadcast by Nhk), then played in several films by Kurosawa Akira, Yakusho became a major 1990s star in Asia as a result of “Shall We Dance?,” in which he portrayed a ball room dancer, and “Lost Paradise.” He also starred in Itami Juzo’s “Tampopo.”

Directed by Morita Yoshimitsu, “Lost Paradise” is a tale of a man and a woman whose marriages no longer make them happy,...

One of the pleasures of Telluride is watching a master auteur accept the Silver Medallion. Telluride Executive Director Julie Huntsinger was shocked to discover that in the 50 years of the festival, no Silver Medallion was ever awarded to German filmmaker Wim Wenders. So this year, he brought his two Cannes selections, 3D documentary “Anselm” (Sideshow and Janus) and Competition title “Perfect Days” (Neon), whose star Koji Yakusho (“Shall We Dance?”) won Best Actor at Cannes. Despite its German director, Japan has chosen to submit the film for the Oscar.

At Thursday night’s first tribute, Werner Herzog dug into his pocket to fish out the Silver Medallion, and placed it around his old friend’s neck. “The same time several years ago Tom Luddy put this on my neck,” said Herzog. “I kept thinking, ‘this is an injustice if you hadn’t received this medallion in 1978, and 1981, and 1995, and 2015.’ Because...

Actress, singer Jennifer Lopez poses for the "Jlo Jennifer Lopez x Revolve" 16-piece shoe collection campaign, photographed by Dennis Leupold:

Lopez started appearing as a 'Fly Girl' dancer on the TV series "In Living Color", where she remained a regular until she decided to pursue an acting career in 1993.

For her first leading role in the 1997 "Selena" biopic, she became the first Latin actress to earn over $1 million for a film. She went on to star in "Anaconda" (1997) and "Out of Sight" (1998).

Lopez' debut studio album "On the 6" (1999), was followed by het starring in the feature "The Cell" (2000).

With the simultaneous release of her second studio album "J.Lo" and her romantic comedy feature "The Wedding Planner" in 2001, she became the first woman to have a number-one album and film in the same week.

Her 2002 release, "J to tha L–O! The Remixes", became the first remix album in...

Actress, singer, dancer Jennifer Lopez poses for the "Coach" Mother’s Day 2023 'Rogue' and 'Tabby' bags campaign, photographed by Joshua Woods:

Lopez debuted as a 'Fly Girl' dancer on the TV series "In Living Color", remaining a regular until pursuing an acting career in 1993.

For her first leading role in the 1997 "Selena" biopic, she became the first Latin actress to earn over $1 million for a film. She went on to star in "Anaconda" (1997) and "Out of Sight" (1998).

Lopez' debut studio album "On the 6" (1999), was followed by het starring in the feature "The Cell" (2000).

With the simultaneous release of her second studio album "J.Lo" and her romantic comedy feature "The Wedding Planner" in 2001, she became the first woman to have a number-one album and film in the same week.

Her 2002 release, "J to tha L–O! The Remixes", became the first remix album in history to debut atop the US 'Billboard 200'.

Actress, singer Jennifer Lopez poses for the "Jlo Jennifer Lopez x Revolve" 16-piece shoe collection campaign, photographed by Dennis Leupold:

Lopez started appearing as a 'Fly Girl' dancer on the TV series "In Living Color", where she remained a regular until she decided to pursue an acting career in 1993. For her first leading role in the 1997 "Selena" biopic, she became the first Latin actress to earn over $1 million for a film. She went on to star in "Anaconda" (1997) and "Out of Sight" (1998).

Lopez' debut studio album "On the 6" (1999), was followed by het starring in the feature "The Cell" (2000).

With the simultaneous release of her second studio album "J.Lo" and her romantic comedy feature "The Wedding Planner" in 2001, she became the first woman to have a number-one album and film in the same week.

Her 2002 release, "J to tha L–O! The Remixes", became the first remix album in...