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Nothing Human Loves Forever: Cassavetes’ Feature Debut Gloriously Vintage Xan Cassavetes joins the family directorial legacy with her feature debut, Kiss of the Damned, a...

The Official Selection for the 66th Cannes Film Festival has been unveiled and noticeable absentees in the list of 19 Main Comp films and...

We doubt that it'll be as populated as Sundance was, but if this year’s Cannes Film Festival should be remembered for anything, it will...

#36. Francois Ozon’s Just 17 Gist: For his fourteenth feature, Ozon has chosen to film from a closed set with a media blackout pertaining to...

Herzog likewise reduces cinema to its most basic expressive formula: using the medium of the camera to transform the literal, untouched reality before us into something estranging and miraculous. ‘Cave’ accomplishes what all great art strives to do: wrench us from out of the entrenched armor of our mundane solipsisms and give us a glimpse of the eternal. The mutated albino alligator writhing aimlessly in a vast, expensive simulation, its natural impulses irrelevant and forgotten, is the perfect symbol for contemporary humanity. Herzog ominously warns us all: “The site is expanding.”