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Asteroid City | Review
June 13, 2023The Lost City of Twee: Anderson Continues Quest of Counterfeit Sentiments Somewhere along the way, over...
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Reviews
Nobody’s Hero (Viens je t’emmène) | Review
June 12, 2023We Don’t Need Another Hero: Guiraudie Gets Kooky in Political Comedy of Errors Alain Guiraudie migrates...
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Foreign Film News
Day for Night: Production Begins on Tolga Karacelik’s “Shallow Tale” with Steve Buscemi
June 10, 2023Production has officially begun on Tolga Karacelik‘s fourth feature film. Following 2018’s Sundance/Rotterdam preemed Butterflies –...
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American Indie Films News
A Therapist’s Therapist: Mary Bronstein Set to Direct “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
June 9, 2023More than a dozen years (plus some change) since she premiered her feature debut Yeast (a...
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American Indie Films News
Tunnel Vision: Calvin Lee Reeder Sees Into the Future with “The A-Frame”
June 9, 2023It’ll be a full decade between features (he was nonetheless busy directing tons of shorts including...
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American Indie Films News
Shut Up and Direct: Painter Titus Kaphar Moves Behind the Camera with “Exhibiting Forgiveness”
June 9, 2023Moving from the paintbrush to behind the camera, Titus Kaphar the “painter whose work reconfigures and...
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Reviews
Scarlet (L’Envol) | Review
June 9, 2023Come Sail Away: Marcello Runs Aground in Muddled Adaptation Pietro Marcello returns to literature for inspiration...
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Foreign Film News
Shepherd’s High: Sophie Deraspe Currently Filming “Berger” with Félix-Antoine Duval
June 8, 2023French Canadian filmmaker Sophie Deraspe is currently taking big gulps of the French Alps for her...
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Foreign Film News
Nursing the Wound: Payal Kapadia Embarks on Roadtrip for “All We Imagine As Light”
June 8, 2023A project we’ve earmarked for a possible Cannes Film Festival showcase next year, Payal Kapadia‘s fiction...
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Foreign Film News
Father Figure: Anders Danielsen Lie & Woody Norman Find a Cabin in Vladimir de Fontenay’s “Sukkwan Island”
June 7, 2023After focusing on the rift between single mother and young child in his Directors’ Fortnight selected...
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Foreign Film News
Benoît Magimel is a Slave to the Trade: Simon Moutaïrou Begins Production on “Ni chaînes ni maîtres”
June 7, 2023He managed to “outdo” his 2022 Cannes experience of Revoir Paris and Albert Serra’s masterwork Pacifiction,...
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Foreign Film News
Tricolour Fourth: Monia Chokri Moves to France for Her Next Feature
June 6, 2023Another small blurb in the Le film français provides us with an update on what is...
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Foreign Film News
Leos Carax Currently Lensing “C’est pas moi” & Arnaud Desplechin Prepping “Spectateurs”
June 6, 2023A small blurb in the Le film français profiling Charles Gillibert (and his prod company CG...
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Interviews
Interview: Faouzi Bensaïdi – Déserts
June 6, 2023The very first image we find in Déserts informs the viewer that we need directions and...
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Film Festivals
2023 Cannes Film Festival: Nicholas Bell & Eric Lavallée’s Top 10
June 5, 2023We arrived. We watched. We reviewed. We lost a lot of sleep and we battled the...
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Interviews
Interview: Charlotte Le Bon – Falcon Lake
June 5, 2023Selected for the Directors’ Fortnight in 2022, Charlotte Le Bon‘s assured directorial debut was among the...
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Reviews
Past Lives | Review
June 2, 2023Tell Me That You Love Me, Nora Moon: Song Explores Destiny and Longing in Potent Debut...
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Reviews
Lynch/Oz | Review
June 2, 2023Follow the Celluloid Road: Philippe Explores the Magnificent Ozsessions of David Lynch The next best thing...
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Foreign Film News
Dude (Looks Like A Lady): Sandra Hüller Toplines Markus Schleinzer’s Gender Bender “Rose”
June 1, 2023Austrian filmmaker (and a supporting player on a slew of recent films) Markus Schleinzer is finally...
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Reviews
Padre Pio | Review
May 31, 2023In the Name of the Father: Ferrara Explore Infamous Saint with Guerrilla Branded Biopic Like many...
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Falcon Lake | Review
May 30, 2023Baptism by Water: Unrequited Longing & Fear Found in Le Bon’s Simmering Debut In a perfect...
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Reviews
Unclenching the Fists | Review
May 29, 2023So Daddy, I’m Finally Through: Kovalenko Explores Familial Dysfunction in Rural Melodrama The suppression of women...
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Film Festivals
2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: The Zone of Interest, Fallen Leaves, La Chimera & Anatomy of a Fall Top Grid
May 27, 2023It was hovering around the 4.0 average and would settle for a final 3.9 grade and...
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Film Festivals
Ken Loach’s The Old Oak – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10
May 26, 2023Will Ken Loach three-peat with what could be his last-ever feature? This is the question that...
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Film Festivals
Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10
May 26, 2023A Cannes mainstay since her humble beginnings in the Directors’ Fortnight section with Corpo celeste, Alice...
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Film Festivals
Catherine Breillat’s L’Été dernier (Last Summer) – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9
May 26, 2023Almost a full decade away from the camera since, Catherine Breillat returns to the competition with...
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Film Festivals
Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9
May 26, 2023A notable year for the New German Cinema filmmaker with two (or three if you include...
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Film Festivals
Nanni Moretti’s Il sol dell’avvenire – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8
May 26, 2023Palme d’Or winner (The Son’s Room in 2001) Nanni Moretti makes another trip to the competition...
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Film Festivals
Tran Anh Hung’s The Pot au Feu – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8
May 26, 2023Winner of the Camera d’Or (and the Award of the Youth French Film) for The Scent...
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Reviews
L’Été dernier (Last Summer) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
May 25, 2023One Deadly Summer: Breillat Agitates Another Sexual Taboo Suddenly, last summer, a successful lawyer who has...
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Reviews
Il sol dell’avvenire (A Brighter Tomorrow) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
May 25, 2023If You Don’t Die Today: Moretti Can’t Find the Rhythm in Musical Delusion To say the...
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Reviews
Rien à perdre (All to Play For) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
May 25, 2023Other People’s Children: Deloget Butts with Bureaucracy in Familial Drama Virginie Efira continues to explore the...
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Film Festivals
Marco Bellocchio’s Kidnapped – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7
May 25, 2023If we don’t count the pandemic year, it will be four consecutive showings in Cannes for...
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Film Festivals
Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7
May 25, 2023Technically speaking the great American filmmaker Wes Anderson has now appeared in the Cannes competition with...
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Film Festivals
Jessica Hausner’s Club Zero – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6
May 25, 2023She officially graduated to the main competition section in Cannes with Little Joe in 2019 she...
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Reviews
Kidnapped (Rapito) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
May 24, 2023A Soul to Take: Bellocchio Deliriously Dissects a Papal Delictum Marco Bellocchio has lost none of...
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Film Festivals
Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6
May 24, 2023Following Drifting Clouds (1996), The Man Without a Past (2002), Lights in the Dusk (2006), and...
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Film Festivals
Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5
May 24, 2023A mainstay in the Un Certain Regard section (with a whopping four films as director/writer) and...
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Reviews
The Buriti Flower (Crowrã) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
May 23, 2023Rites of Resistance: Messora & Salaviza Provide Historical Ellipses of the Krahô Researching a community without...
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Power Alley (Levante) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
May 23, 2023That Time of the Month: Halla Offers Ringside Seats to the Courts – Both On and...
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Firebrand | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
May 22, 2023One Survived: Ainouz Attempts to Give a Queen Her Due The Tudor era has maintained public...
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Banel & Adama | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
May 22, 2023A Place in the Sun: Sy’s Fascinating Debut on Ruinous Social Obligations It takes a village…to...
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Film Festivals
Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5
May 22, 2023French filmmaker Justine Triet was born in Cannes and will likely re-engage with the fest well...
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Film Festivals
Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s Banel & Adama – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4
May 22, 2023It’s extremely rare for a first-time filmmaker to crack the competition and this is case it...
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Film Festivals
Todd Haynes’ May December – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4
May 22, 2023After a quick trip to Paris for a retrospective of his career at the Centre Pompidou,...