Tuesday, Jul. 11, 2023

Production company Object & Animal has added Ruben Östlund to its directorial roster for commercial representation spanning the U.S., U.K. and Netherlands. Östlund individually earned two Oscar nominations this year--Best Director and Best Original Screenplay--for Triangle of Sadness...

Tuesday, May. 16, 2023

The Cannes red carpet sprang to life again Tuesday with the premiere of the Louis XV period drama "Jeanne du Barry," with Johnny Depp, as the French Riviera movie pageant launched a star-studded and potentially controversy-rife 76th edition.

Throngs of onlookers shouted "Johnny!" as Depp...

Friday, Jan. 27, 2023

The awards season norm has seen the nearly annual occurrence of at least one difference between the lineups of Best Director Oscar and the DGA Award nominees. In only five of the 75 years of the DGA Awards have the Guild nominations exactly mirrored their Academy Award counterparts.

This...

Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022

Writer-director Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness, a satire about the privileged passengers and not-so-privileged workers aboard a luxury yacht, was the big winner at the 35th European Film Awards, topping the European Film, Director, Screenplay and Actor (Zlatko Buric) categories....

Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022

The question of worth flows through Ruben Östlund's " Triangle of Sadness," a handsomely grotesque satire about the guests and workers aboard a luxury yacht. The ideas might not be new, and the targets might be easy, but the Swedish filmmaker who has made a cottage industry out of picking at...

Saturday, May. 28, 2022

Swedish director Ruben Ostlund's class warfare comedy "Triangle of Sadness" won the Palme d'Or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, giving Ostlund one of cinema's most prestigious prizes for the second time.

Ostlund, whose art-world send-up "The Square" took the Palme in 2017,...

Sunday, May. 22, 2022

Fashion models, Instagram influencers and Russian oligarchs collide on a yacht — and some very extreme sickness ensues — in Ruben Östlund's "Triangle of Sadness," a social satire that had viewers at the Cannes Film Festival in hysterics.

The Swedish filmmaker's latest, co-starring Woody...

Friday, Oct. 27, 2017

Swedish filmmaker Ruben Ostlund's last film, "Force Majeure," began with the rumble of an alpine avalanche and the wallop of a shattered self-image. When a swelling white tide appears headed straight for an outdoor cafe, a panicked father flees with his iPhone, but not his children or wife....

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