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The other Palme D’Or entries shot on film include Sean Baker’s “Red Rocket” (DP Drew Daniels), Ildikó Enyedi’s “The Story of My Wife,” (DP Marcell Rév), Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Bergman Island” (DP Denis Lenoir), Juho Kuosmanen’s “Compartment No. 6” (DP Jani-Petteri Passi), Sean Penn’s “Flag Day” (DP Daniel Moder), Joachim Trier’s “The Worst Person in the World” (DP Kasper Tuxen), and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Memoria” (DP Sayombhu Mukdeeprom). Additionally, a number of movies shot on Kodak 35mm and 16mm color or black-and-white film stock can be found elsewhere in the programming, including those under the Un Certain Regard banner: Justin Chon’s “Blue Bayou” (DPs Matthew Chuang and Ante Cheng) and Yohan Manca’s “Mes Freres Et Moi” (DP Marco Graziaplena)....

“I was so young I didn’t even know what it was, and I just handed it back and said ‘I’m not taking that,’” Debra said. “It just sounded ridiculous to me. But somebody else could have really succumbed.” When asked where the confidence to reject Hollywood marching orders came from, Winger responded, “I certainly wasn’t taught that by my mother. I didn’t have great men around me, growing up. I just felt strong [enough] to say no to these fucking assholes....

Directed by Haruo Sotozaki from a story by Koyoharu Gotoge, “Demon Slayer: Mugen Train” is set after the events of the wildly popular 2019 anime television series “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.” The show centered around a young man’s search for a cure to save his sister, who turned into a demon after their family was slaughtered by demons. The movie picks up with the characters Tanjiro, Nezuko, Zenitsu, and Inosuke as they team up with a powerful swordsmen, Flame Hashira Kyojuro Rengoku, to investigate the mysterious disappearance of over 40 people aboard the Mugen Train....

Deadline’s report on the shareholders’ meeting noted that Chapek said he doesn’t “really see Disney as characterizing itself as left-leaning or right-leaning.” One stockholder asked the CEO about “the Disney black list,” noting that both Carano and co-star Pedro Pascal had social media posts referencing Nazi Germany but only Carano was fired. As Deadline reports: “Chapek didn’t speak to the Carano incident directly but said Disney stands ‘for values that are universal: respect, decency, integrity and inclusion and we seek to have the content that we make reflective of the rich diversity of the world we live in....

“That group of people could not have been happier to be in that fake Oval Office, doing that scene,” McKay told Deadline. “Laughing, improvising. They almost were a little intimidated by Meryl Streep because she’s arguably the greatest film actor ever, and we discover she’s just a delight with this big generous laugh, who can improvise all day long. Jonah Hill is one of the great film improvisers, and that was inspiring to Jen and Leo to throw stuff in, and Rob Morgan too....

“Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel” is less about where the hotel has been and more about where it’s headed. Directors Maya Duverdier and Amélie van Elmbt head into the Chelsea with an eye toward capturing the ghosts of the hotel’s past, but there are still plenty of living relics moving past them. Wordless passages allow the camera to take in the bare walls, broken ladders, and the other remnants of a location that is being slowly picked away at....

Think “Tiny Furniture” by way of “Paper Moon”: In a tender and playful riff on the art-imitating-life conceit, Ulman acts opposite her real-life mother, Ale Ulman, an acting novice who nevertheless gives a fun and zany performance as a diva in denial. The pair apparently did endure a bout of homelessness in their time together, and Ulman truly went to London for school. No matter how much the movie departs from the specifics of their experiences — and the way things work out, it’s pretty clear that it does — the real-life bond between the women helps cement the movie in genuine chemistry even as it zigs and zags through a leisurely plot....