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Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 7: Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly
We’re officially past the midway point of the festival, and it’s sort of fitting that in a U.S. heavy year that we wind up with Andrew Dominik’s third feature film and second in the
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Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 6: Hong Sangsoo’s In Another Country
By design, Isabelle Huppert’s second film in the competition sees the actress play three versions of the same character in Hong Sangsoo’s In Another Country. His seventh film presented at the festival has a
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Cannes 2012: Like Someone in Love | Review
Kiarostami Baffles and Electrifies with his own Brand of Tokyo Story Having morphed into a predictably unpredictable filmmaker so far in the 21st century, the extent to which Abbas Kiarostami’s new film Like Someone
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Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 6: Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone in Love
A second straight film outside his native Iran, Kiarostami’s set in Japan tale known as Like Someone in Love will not be receiving the same fate as his Palme d’Or winning The Taste of
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Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 6: Alain Resnais’ Vous n’avez encore rien vu
Prior to the fest announcing the line-up, there was talk that the 90 year-old Alain Resnais’ latest would be receiving an April domestic release in France spoiling its chances for a festival showing, but
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Inside Cannes 2012 Day 6: Michel Franco’s After Lucia (Despues de Lucia)
One of the major new discoveries in the Directors’ Fortnight section back in 2009 for Daniel & Ana, Michel Franco’s second visit to the Croisette brought him to the Debussy theatre and an Un
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Inside Cannes 2012 Day 6: Rodney Ascher’s Room 237 Cannes 2012
When you cover a film festival either solo or as a team, you manage to always have a title that “got away”, which happened to be the case in Park City earlier in the
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Inside Cannes 2012 Day 6: Pablo Stoll Ward’s 3
Early in the morning, the Directors’ Fortnight section hosted the international premiere to Pablo Stoll Ward’s 3. Starring a broken up family of the father (Humberto De Vargas), mother (Sara Bessio) and late teens
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Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 5: Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt
It’s been a long time since we saw this Dane at the Cannes Film Festival in the Main Competition capacity. Thomas Vinterberg ‘s second feature film Festen (The Celebration) in 1998 claimed the Jury Prize
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Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 5: Michael Haneke’s Love
If the festival would conclude today, Michael Haneke would most likely walk away with his second Palme d’Or win (following 2009′s The White Ribbon) as the critical reaction to Haneke’s now 13th feature film
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Inside Cannes 2012 Day 5: Five Quotes from the Love Press Conference
1. “It think that Michel Haneke is one of the greatest filmmakers in the world. But I won’t do others”. – Jean-Louis Trintignant The current stage actor lists the filmmaker as the principle reason
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Cannes 2012: Reality | Review
Garrone Explores Religious Devotion via Society’s Addiction to Reality Television Gloriously produced and appropriately unhinged, Italian filmmaker Matteo Garrone returns for his second trip to the Cannes Competition with this compelling network of topical
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Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4: Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills
Once again, it appears as if we’ll be associating the name of Cristian Mungiu with the Palme d’Or. By the looks of how the trades, critical mass and the results of our critics’ panel,
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Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4: John Hillcoat’s Lawless
Formerly know as “The Wettest County,” before shifting to a title which was once being used by Terrence Malick on a project currently in post, Lawless is John Hillcoat’s fifth feature film, third based
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Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4: Matteo Garrone’s Reality
Imagine the headlines if this year’s Best Actor prize goes to Aniello Arena. The male lead in Matteo Garrone’s sixth feature fiction film has been serving a prison term for the past two decades
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Inside Cannes 2012 Day 4: Five Quotes from the Lawless Press Conference
1. “I actually play Scrabble”. – Tom Hardy What Tom Hardy does in between takes to prepare in order to be badass in his current string of tough guy roles. 2. “It was child’s
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Inside Cannes 2012 Day 3: Xavier Dolan’s Laurence Anyways
Having played earlier in the day to standing ovation, the scene was set for further applause at the night screening as the Un Certain Regard selected Laurence Anyways had it’s well received night premiere
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The Color Wheel | 2nd Review
A sibling rivalry relationship film about a brother and sister that can’t seem to get along, yet can’t find anyone else to remotely understand them, is the basis for Alex Ross Perry’s sophomore feature,
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Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 3: Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise: Love
Originally set up to be one film with “three women, three holidays and three loves“, Ulrich Seidl decided to break them apart with Paradise: Love being launched in Cannes, with Paradise: Faith, Paradise: Hope to
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Inside Cannes 2012 Day 3: Pablo Larrain’s No
It was a triumphant return for Pablo Larrain today in the sidebar that helped push his sophomore film Tony Manero into the film circuit stratosphere of 2008. With his fourth feature film “No,” this U.S-Mexican
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Cannes 2012: Paradise: Love | Review
Seidl Pads out his Humanist/Colonialist Fairytale a bit too Thinly Right off the bat, the first of Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy – this first one being subtitled Love and the next two Hope and
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The Color Wheel | Review
Don’t Believe The Color Wheel’s Promise to “entertain you with wit and charm the entire ride” It’s hard to think of a movie more undeserving than Alex Ross Perry’s ultra-indie narcissistic exercise ‘The Color Wheel’
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Inside Cannes 2012 Day 2: Rufus Norris’ Broken
The 51st edition of the Critics’ Week opened with an award-winning British theatre director Rufus Norris’ feature debut, Broken. A tragi-drama that works with a tone that is one part whimsical and the other
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Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 2: Yousry Nasrallah’s After the Battle
It appears that we’ve got our first dud of the fest in only day 2 by way of Yousry Nasrallah‘s After the Battle. While we can admire the quick shooting pace of the filmmaker
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Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 2: Jacques Audiard’s Rust & Bone
Just before it receives its domestic France release, Jacques Audiard’s 7th feature film Rust & Bone (his 4th presented at the Cannes Film Festival) is an adaptation from Craig Davidson’s novel of the same name.
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