Festivals

What's In Store At This Years Cannes Film Festival

by The Daily Eye Team April 21 2017, 4:23 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 37 secs

The lineup at each year’s Cannes Film Festival typically includes a few surprise entries. But the announcement of this year’s offerings brought the first, grudging acknowledgement of a real paradigm shift at one of the oldest, most revered celebrations of filmmaking. That being: Maybe this whole television thing isn’t just a fad. For its 70th anniversary, Cannes is screening episodes from the TV projects of two former winners of its highest honor, the Palme D’Or: Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake, due to air its second season later this year, and David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, which will return to screens on Showtime after 26 years off the air.

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