Robert de Niro, Benicio Del Toro, Harris Dickinson, more

Always makes me laugh when the stars go to holidays, then to kidnap the rope VIP enclaves being practiced by dark videos and personal publicists in the eyes of the Eagle. There was this strange view of Ed Guiney, from Element Pictures, leaning from the outside to converse with Emma Stone sitting inside the private after-part area for the competition film of the Cannes Festival Eddington Directed by Ari Aster.

Guiney could have been invited or Stone could have come out. I respect and admire the actors of all ranks, and I understand their meaning in our culture. And I understand that they fear others – I mean simple mortals. They might have an unprecedented snap of themselves taken by someone. Me, for example. Or they could have a conversation on which they did not give discussion points in advance.

Anthony Hopkins always says – or he used to, anyway – that species cannot act real life on stage or the screen if they do not really practice real life in real life.

I understand. We see them, these temporary gods and goddesses, up there on the big screen, and we exalt them. We want to mix, and sometimes we want to breathe the same air as they breathe.

But, as Meryl Streep told me there are some, “We are all going to the toilet, you know.”

Speaking of this, the only time I saw Joaquin Phoenix was when he slipped out of the inner circle and walked with a goal in the toilet, then again.

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Mr. Phoenix is ​​the star of Mr. Aster’s film, a masterpiece on corruption and self-inflicted destruction during the United States of America. It is a difficult watch. But it also made me scream sometimes with the absurdity of the way I, a stranger, see America – a country where I have always felt a kin in – sink.

Lars Knudsen, aster production partner, lives in Austin, Texas. My immediate reaction was to ask him if he kept a gun in his house. “No, but my neighbors do it,” was his answer.

The film has a great distribution which includes British actor Micheal Ward and William Belleau, who gives, in my opinion, the most vital performance.

Harris Dickinson was at Eddington party organized by A24. He is not in the film, but I guess he was invited because he played with Nicole Kidman in Halina Reijn Babygirlalso an A24 production.

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The two stars had a discreetly placed security outside the restaurant, but they were accessible. Interestingly, the more people are kind, the more we are respectful of it. This thing works in both directions, do you know?

Cuba Gooding Jr. was at L’Ecaille with Claudine de Niro, the former daughter-in-law of Robert.

Gooding reminded me that he and I met for the first time in 1991, when the classic photo of John Singleton Boyz n the hood Created in Cannes. Singleton slipped Gooding into the gala party of the film, and we discussed it. Then I remembered interviewing them the next day.

Gooding showed me a clip on his cell of a science fiction film Quantum supremacy. “I am the only live actor,” says Gooding. “The rest is all AI.”

I suddenly felt nauseating but I found my balance after Tom Hooper explained that he used live actors in his Film photograph 51, With Natalie Portman representing the pioneer of DNA Rosalind Franklin. I know Franklin’s story well and how his contributions to the discovery of the structure of DNA in the 1950s were overlooked, because I followed very closely a play in which Nicole Kidman represented Franklin on the London scene, led by Michael Grandage.

Franklin could never share the Nobel Prize awarded to the men with whom she had worked on the pioneering studies of DNA. Hooper says that his own mother has always talked about how women in science and other disciplines were “always” dismissed by their male colleagues. Unfortunately, misogyny has not come out.

Always like to catch up with Sony Pictures Classics Michael Barker and Tom Bernard and Le Gang de Focus: President Peter Kujawski, Vice-President Jason Cassidy and Stephanie Phillips, EVP adverty. Ditto Netflix attributes the Supremo Lisa Taback, who was The rabbit’s foot Shindig with the London -based price director of Netflix, Cai Mason.

The formidable Claire Ingle-Finch, director director at Finch & Partners, organized the dinner with her team which included Rosie Viles and Yasar Torunoglu.

Francesco Melzi of Eril, the frequent production collaborator of Luca Guadagnino, was at the bottom of the conversation with Daniel Battsek, president of the film at Lincoln Center.

I saw Battsek earlier in the day at the United in Cannes organized by the BFI, Bata, BBCFILM and FILM4. I try to ignore it because he is an unconditional fan of the Chelsea Football Club. He chatted with Christine Langan from Bobbie Productions, another supporter of Chelsea.

Seriously, however, I put this aside because Battsek and I have known since, if the memory serves me properly, he tried to prohibit me from entering a film party in the 1980s. He is much smaller than me, so I forgave him, and he always makes me laugh. And he knows tons on the film.

The United Bash was an intelligent idea, and I liked to see Ben Roberts from the BFI, Jane MilliChip of Bafta, Eva Yates of BBCFILM and Ollie Madden of film4 Metaphorically bind the weapons.

I do not remember the other parties where I went Friday evening to Saturday morning, which is probably a good thing.