Stories By Blake Williams
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Reviews
The Strange Little Cat | Review
August 1, 2014In a Word: Pulchritude Buried in Cannes’ most unassuming and roundly ignored sidebar, ACID (an acronym...
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Features
Blake Williams’ Top 10 Best of 2014 So Far…
July 21, 2014#10. The Grand Budapest Hotel Had I not revisited this upon its blu-ray release earlier this...
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Reviews
Winter Sleep | 2014 Cannes Review
June 2, 2014Ceylan’s Talky Theatrical Epic unlikely to have Many Nodding Off Since it was first announced to...
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Reviews
The Captive | 2014 Cannes Review
May 18, 2014Ego-Yawn: Kiddie Porn Ring thriller less than Captivating While, in many respects, The Captive represents a...
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Film Festivals
Cannes 2014 Derby: David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars Tops Blake’s Palme d’Or Predictions
May 13, 2014So let’s get one thing straight: the stylistic tendencies of the jury president’s own work doesn’t...
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Film Events
Restoration of Alain Resnais’s Time Travel Masterpiece Arrives at the TIFF Bell Lightbox
May 11, 2014Whether grappling with the horrific realities and scars left over from World War II or the...
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Reviews
Young and Beautiful | Review
April 23, 2014Airy & banal, Ozon’s Latest is as Indistinct as its Title Moving right along the trajectory...
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Reviews
Only Lovers Left Alive | Review
April 11, 2014Eternity and a Day: Jim Jarmusch’s Vampire Flick Is Typically Jarmuschian After his droll yet audience-friendly...
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Disc Reviews
Edition Filmmuseum 76: casting a glance / RR | DVD Review
February 4, 2014To the extent that there can be a household name in contemporary avant-garde cinema, James Benning...
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Film Festivals
Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2013: Katell Quillévéré’s Suzanne
May 15, 2013Suzanne – Katell Quillévéré Section: Critics’ Week Buzz: I know her debut feature, Love Like Poison,...