Why Do We Miss Cannes So Much?, Ask New York Times Movie Writers

A.O. Scott, in conversation with Manohla Dargis and Kyle Buchanan:
“For 11 or 12 days, the festival becomes a cinematic universe in its own right. When you’re inside it, the rest of the world seems unreal. From outside, it looks like a strange snow globe full of movie stars. But it matters because, behind all the frantic photo calls and yacht parties and swanny red carpet marches is an almost religious devotion to cinema, an ardor for the art that isn’t snobbish or cynical.” – The New York Times

Does It Make Sense For Amazon To Buy AMC?

“Everybody thinks about it one way. They think, Okay, Amazon is going to buy movies or produce movies. AT&T or Comcast is going to start skipping theater distribution and go straight to your TV set. It makes sense, right? But there are opportunities to go the other way. And that is, I think, if Amazon owned AMC, it might release the first four episodes of season three of Jack Ryan in the theater.” – New York Magazine

Philanthropists Are Trying To Take The Baltimore Sun Non-Profit

The Baltimore Sun is owned by Tribune Publishing. Alden Global Capital, a New York-based hedge fund infamous for purchasing, then gutting, newspapers across the US, owns a 32% stake in Tribune Publishing.” The campaign, called “Save Our Sun” and led by the Goldseker and Abell Foundations, “mirrors that of The Salt Lake Tribune, which transitioned to non-profit status in 2019.” – The Guardian

Live Classical Concerts Gingerly Return To London

They’ll take place in an empty venue, though — the Wigmore Hall, where such artists as Stephen Hough, Angela Hewitt, Iestyn Davies, Mark Padmore and Mitsuko Uchida will perform for BBC Radio 3. “Twenty hour-long concerts featuring soloists or duos will take place at 1pm each weekday throughout June and will be livestreamed on [Wigmore’s] website and broadcast on Radio 3 and BBC Sounds.” – The Guardian

Slowly, Carefully, Berlin Starts Reopening Its Museums To Public

“Berlin State Museums, an umbrella group overseeing 17 museums in the city, … decided to start small, reopening just four of the institutions under its control on Tuesday. Christine Haak, the organization’s deputy director general, said in a phone interview that she wanted to observe how visitors behave in the spaces before deciding about the rest.” – The New York Times