Ira Sachs on american auteur cinema fading out of the global picture

With only two US films in the Cannes Official Competition, director Ira Sachs warns that the economic model for American independent filmmaking has completely collapsed.

May 19, 2026

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This year, the Cannes Official Competition features only two American films: James Gray’s Paper Tiger and Ira Sachs’ The Man I Love (starring Rami Malek). For Sachs, this meager showing is not an art…

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