JAKE COYLE

Film writer and critic

Coyle is a film writer and critic for The Associated Press.

The gonzo trans Mexican drug lord musical ‘Emilia Perez’ lights up Cannes

On paper, Jacques Audiard’s buzzed-about Cannes Film Festival entry “Emilia Perez” would not seem anything like a good idea for a movie.

The stuff that Coppola’s dreams are made of: The director on building ‘Megalopolis’

Of the many quotations and slogans that flitter through Francis Ford Coppola’s idea-stuffed, open-hearted, unabashedly optimistic “Megalopolis,” one that particularly resonates with the director is: “When we leap into the unknown, we prove that we’re free.”

Paul Schrader felt death closing in, so he made a movie about it

After a string of hospitalizations for long COVID, Paul Schrader had a realization. “If I’m going to make a film about death,” Schrader told himself, “I’d better hurry up.” The health of the 77-year-old filmmaker has since improved.

In Cannes, Francis Ford Coppola talks Trump, self-financing ‘Megalopolis’ and why he has no regrets

Much attention has been paid to the $120 million of his own fortune that Francis Ford Coppola put up to make the futuristic epic “Megalopolis.” The director himself isn’t much concerned.

Francis Ford Coppola debuts ‘Megalopolis’ in Cannes, and the reviews are in

Francis Ford Coppola on Thursday premiered his self-financed opus “Megalopolis” at the Cannes Film Festival, unveiling a wildly ambitious passion project the 85-year-old director has been pondering for decades.

All eyes are on Coppola in Cannes. Sound familiar?

Francis Ford Coppola will soon premiere at the Cannes Film Festival a film on which he has risked everything that’s arriving clouded by rumors of production turmoil. Sound familiar?

#MeToo struggled to find traction in France. Then Judith Godrèche came forward

Before Judith Godrèche kickstarted a #MeToo wave in the French industry, she was one of the first prominent actors to go on the record against Harvey Weinstein. Now, Godrèche is in Cannes at another pivotal juncture in the #MeToo movement.

‘Mad Max’ has lived in George Miller’s head for 45 years. He’s not done dreaming yet

The world of “Mad Max” has lived in George Miller’s head for nearly half a century. Unlike most other long-running film franchises, it’s exclusively his.

CANNES DIARY: Behind the scenes of the 2024 film festival

How Cannes works, from the standing ovations to the juries to the Palm Dog

The Cannes Film Festival is hallowed ground in cinema but understanding its unique landscape can be confounding.

Messi the dog comes to Cannes for an encore

The first star to arrive on the red carpet at the 77th Cannes Film Festival came on four legs. Messi, the dog from the film “Anatomy of a Fall,” walked up and down the Cannes carpet on Tuesday ahead of the opening ceremony.

Cannes kicks off with a Palme d’Or for Meryl Streep and a post-'Barbie’ fête of Greta Gerwig

Beneath intermittent rainy skies, the Cannes Film Festival opened Tuesday with the presentation of an honorary Palme d’Or for Meryl Streep and the unveiling of Greta Gerwig’s jury, as the French Riviera spectacular kicked off a potentially volatile 77th edition.

Iranian filmmaker flees to Europe after prison sentence ahead of his Cannes premiere

After being sentenced to eight years in prison, the award-winning Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof says he’s fled to Europe shortly ahead of the Cannes Film Festival premiere of his latest film.

A combustible Cannes is set to unfurl with ‘Furiosa,’ ‘Megalopolis’ and a #MeToo reckoning

The Cannes Film Festival rarely passes without cacophony but this year’s edition may be more raucous and uneasy than any edition in recent memory.

Movie Review: A radiant teenage road trip in ‘Gasoline Rainbow’ Slugline Update 4

In sibling directors Bill and Turner Ross’ latest, “Gasoline Rainbow,” five Oregon teens just out of high school make their meandering way some 500 miles to reach the coast for what’s been billed as the “End of the World” party.

★★★★

‘The Fall Guy’ gives Hollywood a muted summer kickoff with a $28.5M opening

“The Fall Guy,” the Ryan Gosling-led, action-comedy ode to stunt performers, opened with a below-expectations $28.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday, providing a lukewarm start to a summer movie season that’s very much to be determined for Hollywood.

Review: Nature and human nature mingle in the beguiling ‘Evil Does Not Exist’

The films of Ryusuke Hamaguchi unspool with elegant everyday ease and yet anything can happen. Lives take sudden detours. Seemingly minor characters become primary ones. People are brought together by mysterious connections.

Movie Review: In ‘The Idea of You,’ a boy band is center stage but Anne Hathaway steals the show

In the warmly charming rom-com “The Idea of You,” Anne Hathaway plays a 40-year-old divorcee who becomes romantically involved with a 24-year-old heartthrob in a boy band called August Moon.

★★★★

‘I Saw the TV Glow’ is one of 2024’s buzziest films. It took Jane Schoenbrun a lifetime to make it

Since its debut at the Sundance Film Festive, Jane Schoenbrun’s “I Saw the TV Glow” has been hailed as an acutely intense psychodrama of self discovery.

How to be a ‘Fall Guy': Stunt performers on their rough-and-tumble life

Since the early days of Hollywood, stunt performers have fueled the mayhem of movies, playing a vital role in sustaining the illusion of countless car chases, bar fights and rooftop leaps. By its nature, stunt performance is nearly anonymous work.

Jerry Seinfeld’s commitment to the bit

Nearly three decades after Jerry Seinfeld was, in one episode of “Seinfeld,” cajoled into bootlegging the movie “Death Blow,” he has finally made his first film.

Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist on the steamy love triangle of ‘Challengers’

How sexy can a qualifying tennis tournament in New Rochelle, New York, be? When the on-court drama involves Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, the answer turns out to be quite a bit more than your average USTA singles match in Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers.”

‘Civil War’ continues box-office campaign at No. 1

“Civil War,” Alex Garland’s ominous American dystopia, remained the top film in theaters in its second week of release. That’s according to studio estimates Sunday.

Critic’s Notebook: ‘Civil War’ and the elusiveness of the of-the-moment movie

The movies are good at resurrecting the past or imagining the future, but pinning down the present can be tricky. “Civil War,” Alex Garland’s election-year release, is seemingly very of the moment but goes to great lengths to avoid the here and now.

Movie Review: ‘Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’ amps up a true-tale WWII heist

The latest Guy Ritchie flick “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” has a spine of true story to it, even if it does all it can to amplify a long-declassified WWII tale with enough dead Nazis to make “Inglourious Basterds” blush.

★★★★

Eleanor Coppola, matriarch of a filmmaking family, dies at 87

Eleanor Coppola, who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of “Apocalypse Now,” and who raised a family of filmmakers, has died. She was 87.

Cannes sets lineup with Lanthimos, Coppola and Trump film ‘The Apprentice’

Organizers announced that new films from Yorgos Lanthimos, Andrea Arnold and Francis Ford Coppola, as well as a portrait of 1980s Donald Trump, will compete for the Palme d’Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.

Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ to premiere at Cannes

Nearly half a century after Francis Ford Coppola won the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or for “Apocalypse Now,” he will return to the French Riviera festival to premiere his self-financed epic “Megalopolis.”

‘Civil War’ might be the year’s most explosive movie. Alex Garland thinks it’s just reporting

Kevin Costner’s Western epic ‘Horizon, An American Saga’ will premiere at Cannes

Kevin Costner’s multi-episode epic “Horizon, An American Saga” will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next month, festival organizers announced Monday.