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Breaking Baz @ Cannes: Sony’s Tom Rothman On How Movies Endure, Charles Finch Throws Swish Soiree Honoring Columbia Pictures & Josie Rourke Gives Voice To The Irish


Charles Finch's annual Filmmakers Dinner at the Cannes Film Festival honored 100 years of Columbia Pictures and the endurance of classic movies.

Hours earlier, Rothman had introduced a gloriously restored print of Charles Vidor’s 1946 movie Gilda, starring Rita Hayworth as the eponymous nightclub temptress and Glenn Ford as the hardboiled gambler from her past. Guest list included: Adil El Arbi, Alexa Chung, Billal Fallah, Pascal, Barnaby Thompson, Bill Kramer, Bryan Lourd, Charles Finch, Chloé Zhao, Chris Miller, Édgar Ramírez, Efe Cakarel, Francesco Melzi, Gaspar Noe, Isabelle Huppert, J.A Bayona, J.C Chandor, Jean Pigozzi, Jeffrey Godsick, Jena Malone, Jeremy Thomas, Ben Roberts, Joe Alwyn, Josie Rourke, Karim Ainouz, Laurence Fishburne, Luke Wilson, Lorenzo Gangarossa,, Matthias Schweighöfer, Michael Barker, Mstyslav Chernov, Noor Alfallah, Ollie Madden, P.J van Sandwijk, Phil Lord, Sanford Panitch, Shebnem Askin, Tarak Ben Ammar, Tom Bernard, Rothman, Will Gluck, Woody Harrelson, Michael Stranney and more. EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Josie Rourke ( Mary Queen of Scots, Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads) has joined forces with her partner, comedy writer, producer and character comedian Michael Stranney ( 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown) on a new feature project called Being Gerry.

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