As he hits a career peak with First Reformed, we speak to the Hollywood actor about what life has taught him so far. Read More here

Fresh from his Palme d’Or triumph in Cannes, the Japanese director of “Shoplifters,” Hirokazu Kore-eda, confirmed that his next film will feature two of France’s biggest stars Juliette Binoche and Catherine Deneuve. They are to be joined by Ethan Hawke and Ludivine Sagnier (“8 Women”). “La Verite” (which translates as ‘The Truth’ in English) will shoot entirely in France in October and November this year. The film is being jointly produced by French firm 3B Productions and Kore-eda’s Bunbuku. Paris-based Wild Bunch is set as the international sales agent. A release in 2019 is penciled in, with Gaga set as the Japanese distributor and sales agent in Asia, excluding China. Read More here

An early 2019 U.S. theatrical release is planned for the Canadian indie, which is based on the true story of a 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis in Stockholm. Read More here

The actor gives a stunning performance in Paul Schrader’s new film – a part he feels his whole career has been building to. Read More here

At age 47, Ethan Hawke is finding himself with the career everyone anticipated he might have had fifteen years ago. Read More here

When Ethan Hawke was born, his great-grandmother believed he was destined to become a minister—to heed God’s calling where the other men in his family hadn’t. Looking back, Mr. Hawke believes, this was just “wishful thinking.” His grandfather, for example, served as a minor-league baseball commissioner and was elected to five terms in the Texas state legislature, but Hawke’s great-grandmother “always thought that he wasted his talents in politics, when he should have been converting souls instead of votes,” Mr. Hawke said in a recent interview with America. “I think she was just projecting that I would pick up where he had dropped the ball. Read More here

Usually when rock stars talk of their wasted lives they mean something entirely different than what’s at the plot of Jesse Peretz’s Juliet, Naked, the critically charmed new rom-com based on the novel by Nick Hornby (About a Boy, High Fidelity). Read More Mhere

It’s hard to believe, but four-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke has celebrated over three decades in the film business. Hawke made his film debut in Joe Dante‘s 1985 film, “Explorers” and 33 years later has received some of the best reviews of his career for 2018’s “First Reformed,” which is currently playing in theaters across the country. Read More here

Best Actor: Ethan Hawke, “First Reformed”
Director Paul Schrader may have drawn out Hawke’s career-best work in a film that amounts to a full-blown cinematic existential crisis. The four-time Oscar nominee wrangles with Schrader’s questions, searching in vain for their answers, internalizing brimming panic with aplomb. It’s a tour de force. (KT)
Other Standouts: Jason Clarke, “Chappaquiddick”; Ben Foster, “Leave No Trace”; Brady Jandreau, “The Rider”; Joaquin Phoenix, “You Were Never Really Here”
Read More here