| Stephanie Goodman Film Editor | | With the Carpetbagger scoping out the best of world cinema in Cannes, I'm here with a look at the week in movies. | | Speaking of Cannes, the festival got off to a rousing start Tuesday with Jim Jarmusch's zombie tale, "The Dead Don't Die." The director is a familiar presence at the annual event, going back to "Stranger Than Paradise" in 1984. "Man, we didn't even know why we were here," he told our critic Manohla Dargis this week. "It was like, 'Hey, we're from the Lower East Side, man, this is cool.'" | | Also making a mark at the festival was "Rocketman," the Elton John biopic filled with flashy musical interludes. John was at the after-party and, besides performing a duet with the movie's star, Taron Egerton, the singer spoke with the Carpetbagger. Even if the film isn't a hit, he told Kyle Buchanan, "it is the movie I wanted to make. And that is sometimes a rare thing." | | In the office stateside, we're talking about "Booksmart," the raucous teen comedy directed by the actress Olivia Wilde. In a long conversation with our writer Dave Itzkoff, she spoke about the sense of fulfillment she got from directing, and though she has no plans to quit acting, she said she had a new understanding of her position in Hollywood. She used to think it was her responsibility to embody "everyone's version of a perfect woman," and now has learned, "I don't have to carry that." | | On a more somber note, we mourned the passing of Doris Day. Though she's often thought of as the quintessential virginal star, our critic A.O. Scott calls that view "the literal-minded gloss on a text that was only there to beckon us toward the subtext." He argues that she was actually a sex goddess, and I, for one, am convinced. | | I'm going to revisit a few Doris Day gems on streaming, then I hope I'll see you at the movies! | | |
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