This year’s Palm Springs Film Festival saw not one but two international feature panel discussions hosted by The Hollywood Reporter. The first, moderated by THR’s own Kevin Cassidy, highlighted some of the most exciting non-English-language films of the year. Matteo Garrone’s Io Capitano is Italy’s submission for the Oscar this …

The second of two panels hosted by The Hollywood Reporter at the Palm Springs International Feature Film featured a breadth of official Oscar submissions from around the world. The discussion, moderated by The Hollywood Reporter’s Mia Galuppo, highlighted how these films varied greatly in both tone and scope. One such …

Angela Bassett, collecting an honorary Oscar, gave an impassioned speech about the history of Black actresses in Hollywood, and Michelle Satter, becoming just the 45th recipient of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, paid tribute to her son Michael, who was murdered just weeks ago, at the Academy of Motion Picture …

Entering May December, Charles Melton was best known as a TV star on the soapy teen drama Riverdale as former football player Reggie Mantle. Next to his castmates Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman, he was virtually an unknown talent in the film world. But with Todd Haynes’ latest melodrama, Melton …

The five international directors featured in the second of The Hollywood Reporter’s Palm Springs Film Festival panels helmed stories ranging from the expansive — tales of overthrowing dictatorships such as Santiago Mitre’s Argentina, 1985 — to intimate, tragic portraits of adolescent friendship, like in Lukas Dhont’s Close.  Some of these …

The Hollywood Reporter’s first panel of international directors at this year’s Palm Springs Film Festival features movies with atypical lead actors. Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO, starring several camera-ready Sardinian donkeys, stands out as perhaps the most unlikely casting choice. Projects such as Pan Nalin’s The Last Film Show and Colm Bairéad’s …