Deauville 2023: The Winners

Posted by Speakeasy News > Thursday 14 September 2023 > What's On

There were three big winners at 49th edition of Deauville American Film Festival. Three films showing different aspects American life today. The Grand Prize, the Audience Prize and the Critics Prize all went to LaRoy, a début feature film by by Shane Atkinson. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. In this quirky … Continue reading “Deauville 2023: The Winners”

Deauville : Back to America

Posted by Speakeasy News > Wednesday 09 August 2023 > What's On

The 49th edition of Deauville American Film Festival will run from September 1st to September 10th, 2023. The official competition jury will be presided by Guillaume Canet and the jury for “La Révélation” will be chaired by Mélanie Thierry. 80 films will be screened during the event and fourteen films have been selected for the … Continue reading “Deauville : Back to America”

News of the West

Posted by Speakeasy News > Monday 26 April 2021 > Ready to Use

News of the World is a not-so-classic Western starring Tom Hanks as a newsreader travelling across the U.S. during a violent and tumultuous period after the American Civil War. In a neat inversion of Indian abduction narratives like John Ford’s classic The Searchers, the Confederate veteran here is trying to return a child to her … Continue reading “News of the West”

Juneteenth

Posted by Speakeasy News > Sunday 14 June 2020 > Celebrate

June 19 is marked in Texas and 41 other states as the commemoration of the end of slavery. Another “independence day” that grew spontaneously out of an accidental date, and flourished thanks to former slaves.  On June 19, 1865, news of the end of the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation finally reached Texas, … Continue reading “Juneteenth”