Stories By Blake Williams
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Festival Predictions
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Julia Leigh’s Disquiet
April 2, 2013#91. Julia Leigh’s Disquiet Gist: Like her feature debut – the 2011 Main Competition alum Sleeping...
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Festival Predictions
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Liu Jiayin’s Oxhide III
April 2, 2013#93. Liu Jiayin’s Oxhide III Gist: No word yet on what the Liu family will be...
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Interviews
Interview: Alejandro Landes (Porfirio)
February 11, 2013[Editor’s note: This interview was originally conducted by Blake Williams at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival...
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Reviews
The Loneliest Planet | Review
October 24, 2012Two lovers hiking — Oh damn did that just happen? — We’ll call it ‘Event’ In...
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Reviews
Holy Motors | Review
October 15, 2012The kind of film the Cannes Film Festival, and cinema itself, was meant for, Leos Carax’s...
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Film Events
Toronto’s TIFF Bell Lightbox in the Midst of Majestic French Cinema Retrospective
July 23, 2012Who knew that some septuagenarian films in a non-English language about class conflicts, prisoners of war,...
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Film Festivals
Locarno Roars with a Slate of Hot Art House Superstars
July 12, 2012While Cannes’ Quinzaine struggles to reframe its identity, its former artistic director Olivier Père continues to...
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Reviews
Corpo Celeste | Review
June 6, 2012Solid Debut Casts a Divine Spell, if never Quite Ascending to its Promised ‘Heavenly’ Heights Alice...
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Film Festivals
Cannes 2012: Room 237 | Review
May 24, 2012Cinema 3.0 is in Full Bloom, and it’s Turned some of us into OCD Madmen Stanley...
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Reviews
Cannes 2012: Like Someone in Love | Review
May 22, 2012Kiarostami Baffles and Electrifies with his own Brand of Tokyo Story Having morphed into a predictably...