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Damon Wise
Film Editor, Awards
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Damon has contributed to Deadline since 2017. As a journalist, his film features, interviews and reviews have been published in publications such as Empire, Total Film, The Guardian, The Times and The Financial Times, and as well as covering set visits and junkets, he is a regular attendee at key international film festivals. In 1998 he published his first book, Come By Sunday (Sidgwick & Jackson), a biography of British film star Diana Dors, and he is currently an advisor to the London Film Festival.
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‘Victorian Psycho’ Scares Up 7-Minute Standing Ovation At Cannes; Filmmaker Zachary Wigon Dedicates Pic To Late A.D.
Bleecker Street’s horror thriller Victorian Psycho provided an oasis of fun in a sea of serious pics during the wind-down at Cannes, earning a seven-minute standing ovation on Thursday afternoon.
The pic, which is playing in Un Certain Regard, is directed by Bronxville, NY born Zachary Wigon and…
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Cannes Film Festival 2026: Read All Of Deadline’s Movie Reviews
The 2026 Cannes Film Festival is underway with French filmmaker Pierre Salvadori's The Electric Kiss serving as the opening-night pic.
Among the headline filmmakers debuting new works on the Croisette this year are previous Palme d'Or winners Cristian Mungiu and Hirokazu Kore-eda, two-time…
Ones To Watch: Milo Machado-Graner, 17, Reflects On ‘Goodbye Cruel World’ After ‘Anatomy Of A Fall’: “This Role Took Me To A Different Place”
At the age of 17, Milo Machado-Graner is already familiar to audiences in Cannes. First, he appeared as the sight-impaired son in Justine Triet's 2023 arthouse smash Anatomy of a Fall, then he came back the following year with Filmlovers!, Arnaud Desplechin's poetic ode to cinema. This year, you'll…
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‘The Mandalorian And Grogu’ Review: Latest In ‘Star Wars’ Franchise Makes Magic Of ‘A New Hope’ Seem Far, Far Away
Walk into any bar, on any street, in any city, on any planet and you'll find a Star Wars fan who thinks they know what's going wrong with the franchise and how to fix it. Their knowledge goes deep; they've kept up with the spinoffs, they're familiar…
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‘Her Private Hell’ Review: Pino Donaggio’s Score Is The Secret Sauce In Nicolas Winding Refn’s Trippy Return To Cinema – Cannes Film Festival
Memories of cinema past and present come rushing at you like 2001's Star Gate sequence in Nicolas Winding Refn's Her Private Hell, his first return to cinema since 2016's Neon Demon and his first project since dying for 20 minutes from a serious heart…
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‘Moulin’ Review: Gilles Lellouche Earns His Stripes In László Nemes’ Tenebrous Wartime Tale Of Bravery And Resistance – Cannes Film Festival
After two period movies dealing very specifically with the history of Hungary, László Nemes returns to the subject matter than brought him an Oscar for his debut feature Son of Saul (2015) — the Second World War. Set roughly a year before its…
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‘Garance’ Review: Adèle Exarchopolous Steals The Limelight In A Lightweight Story Of Alcohol Addiction – Cannes Film Festival
This year's Cannes Film Festival has been good for actresses across the board, and if the percentage of female directors doesn't seem to be moving very far forward, the types of female-fronted story reaching the Competition are definitely progressing…
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‘The Beloved’ Review: Javier Bardem Stuns As A Director On The Verge In Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Psychological Drama – Cannes Film Festival
Spain's Rodrigo Sorogoyen has proven himself a master of the psychological thriller, whether the serial-killer kind (May God Save Us, 2016) the political kind (The Realm, 2018) or the true-crime kind (The Beasts, 2023). The Beloved, his first film in Competition at Cannes, is an incredible…
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‘Sheep In The Box’ Review: Hirokazu Koreeda Turns The Stuff Of Dystopian Nightmares Into A Beautiful Fairytale Study Of Loss – Cannes Film Festival
Who do the dead belong to? This strange but thoughtful question is incredibly on brand for Japan's Hirokazu Koreeda, and he explores it in one of his purest, most dreamlike films to date. Built around three extraordinary performances, including one from first-timer Kuwaki Rumi, it's a light yet…
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Ones to Watch: 10-Year-Old Rimu Kuwaki Proves To Be A Quick Learner In Hirokazu Koreeda’s Cannes Competition Entry ‘Sheep In The Box’
Japanese newcomer Rimu Kuwaki makes his debut as a savvy robot child surrogate in auteur Hirokazu Koreeda‘s Sheep in the Box, premiering in Competition today at the Cannes Film Festival.
Palme d’Or winner Koreeda is a regular in Cannes, largely returning to present films that deal with issues of…
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The Beatles In Cannes: All The Times John, Paul, George And Ringo Had A Groovy Time At The Festival, But Never As The Fab Four…
Picture yourself in a boat on the Riviera… Most rock superstars have been seduced by the glamor of the Cannes Film Festival at some point in their career. The Rolling Stones went twice, first with Gimme Shelter in 1971 and then with Stones in Exile in 2010. The Who closed the festival in 1975 with…
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John Travolta Receives Surprise Honorary Palme d’Or At Premiere Of His Directorial Debut ‘Propeller One-Way Night Coach’ – Cannes
Cannes Boss Thierry Frémaux presented 2x Oscar nominee John Travolta with a surprise honorary Palme d’Or before the world premiere of the actor’s feature directorial debut Propeller One-Way Night Coach.
Frémaux makes this kind of magic happen for legends at the Cannes Film Festival. Sometimes…
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