Tag: 2014 Cannes Film Festival
Alleluia | Review
In the Mood For Love: Du Welz Returns With Gloriously Dark Rendering of Insatiable Passion
His first film since 2008’s underappreciated Vinyan, Belgian director Fabrice...
Saint Laurent | Review
Once again, Make it the Same Only New
With this biopic on the great French fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent, Bertrand Bonello streamlines for himself...
Amour Fou | Review
Love Fool: Hausner’s Latest an Exquisitely Shot, Humorous Exploration of Love and Death
With her fourth feature film, Amour Fou, Austrian director Jessica Hausner reveals...
Maps to the Stars | Review
What’s the Matter with Havana?: Cronenberg’s L.A. Story a Hot Mess of Tangled Ideas
Couched within its episodic instances of harpooning Hollywood stereotypes, there is...
Li’l Quinquin | Review
Life of Quinquin: Dumont’s Foray into Miniseries Format Filled with His Brand of Peculiar Humor
Provocative auteur Bruno Dumont lets loose his comedic side with...
Leviathan | Review
On the Waterfront: Zvyagintsev’s Sprawling Opus of a Modern, Devouring Regime
Back with his fourth feature, Leviathan, Russian auteur Andrey Zvyagintsev succeeds in cinematic sublimity...
2014 Cannes Film Festival: Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure
With previous screenwriting-directing gigs in The Guitar Mongoloid (04), Un Certain Regard selected Involuntary (08), and the Directors' Fortnight selected Play (11), it is...
The Homesman | Review
Jumping Claims: Jones’ Attempt at Revisionist Western Withers Under its Own Intentions
Try as it might, The Homesman, Tommy Lee Jones’ first directorial effort since...
Bird People | Review
Tweets and FaceTimes: Pascale Ferran Returns with Uneven But Adventurous Realist-Fantasy
There are a number of films scattered throughout that are intent on depicting how...
National Gallery | Review
Museum Hours: Wiseman's Three-Hour Documentary Is a Riveting Essay About Narrative Construction
The latest entry in Frederick Wiseman's tireless career project, which attempts to capture...
Darker Than Midnight | 2014 Cannes Review
Midnight Toil: Riso’s Debut Ambient Yet Ultimately Remote Tale of Teenage Woe
You might forget the ‘based on a true story’ warning during the opening...
Winter Sleep | 2014 Cannes Review
Ceylan's Talky Theatrical Epic unlikely to have Many Nodding Off
Since it was first announced to go into production more than a year ago, Nuri...
2014 Cannes Film Fest: Always the Bridesmaid, but Now the Bride: Nuri Bilge Ceylan Wins the Palme d’Or for “Winter Sleep”
We might have changed the notion and definition of what the La Nouvelle Vague at the 67th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Youth...
2014 Cannes Critics’ Panel Predictions: Palme d’Or Toss Up Between “Deux Jours, Une Nuit” & “Mommy”
Last year our Cannes Critics' Panel accurately predicted how the Steven Spielberg jury would vote. Will we repeat it this year with the...
The Search | 2014 Cannes Review
Good Intentions Cobbled: Hazanavicius Chokes on War Story Update
It’s clear to see that there were good intentions behind the making of Michael Hazanavicius latest...
2014 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Assayas Doubles Down with “Sils Maria” & Zvyagintsev Drinks to Sweet Tragic Notes with “Leviathan”
Cannes - May 23rd Sunny Day 9
And just like that, the Cannes Film Festival is coming to an end. Tomorrow is when the awards...
2014 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 8: Loach Breaks out in Dance for “Jimmy’s Hall” & Dolan’s “Mommy” Receives Excellent Ratio Among Critics
May 22nd - Rainy Thursday in Cannes.
It appears that both the oldest, and the youngest filmmakers in the Main Comp happen to be those...
2014 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 6: Dardennes Receive a Bonus with “Two Days, One Night” & “Still the Water” Floats
Cannes May 20th - Day 6.
Past the midway point, this morning's 8:30 a.m. screening proved that The Dardennes might be the first to three-peat....
2014 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 5: Miller’s Foxcatcher is Gold Medal Greek Tragedy & Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars Charts Familiar/Familial Grounds
Cannes Monday 19th -
Despite its rather grim subject matter and ultimate denounement, the reception was warm and positive for this morning's 8:30 a.m. Grand...
That Lovely Girl | 2014 Cannes Review
Tammy & the Bachelor: Yedaya’s Bid for Controversy Grimly Punishes Audience
Keren Yedaya is back to punish us like never before with her latest film, That...
The Captive | 2014 Cannes Review
Ego-Yawn: Kiddie Porn Ring thriller less than Captivating
While, in many respects, The Captive represents a return to form for the Toronto-based Cannes mainstay, the...
2014 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4 | “Homesman” is Strong Marriage Material & Rohrwacher Farms a Solid Sophomore Pic with “The Wonders”
Due to some unfortunate circumstances (laptop's hard drive went kaput), I wasn't able to update our grid for Day 3, but we're finally back...
Cannes 2014 Day 3 Recap: Ceylan’s Winter Sleep Receives Standing O, Amour Fou Delights
Cannes - May 16th
When the mind needs sleep, the body follows. I started off the day on the wrong foot, missing my 9:00 a.m....
2014 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 2: No Sweet Hereafter Found in Egoyan’s “The Captive” & Ceylan Shines with Gender Role Malaise in “Winter Sleep”
Cannes - Friday May 16th
The first title out of the gate at this morning's 8:30 a.m. showing was the first of three Canadian films...
Cannes 2014 Day 2 Recap: Leigh’s British Landscape via “Mr.Turner”, UCR in “Party Girl” Mode, Quinzaine Dances to “Girlhood”, CW in Love with “FLA”
(Cannes - May 15th) The press were treated to their first 8:30 a.m. Grand Lumiere screening and were taken back to the late seventeen...
2014 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 1: Leigh Paints Strong Canvas with “Mr. Turner” & Sissako’s Mixes Humor & Sorrow in “Timbuktu”
According to our Cannes Critics' Panel, it may not top Topsy Turvy, but Mike Leigh's 2 plus hour portrait starring Timothy Stall paints a strong...
Chainsaws & Drumsticks: Interview with the Quinzaine’s Edouard Waintrop
What first caught my attention when Edouard Waintrop announced the make-up of the 46th edition of the Directors' Fortnight (also known as La Quinzaine)...
Cannes 2014 Day 1 Recap: Pink, Yellow and Definitely Blue — Grace of Monaco + Jury Duty
At the Cannes Film Festival we rest on the first day, not the seventh day. Traditionally the first Wednesday of the fest sees an...
Grace of Monaco | 2014 Cannes Review
Coup de Grace: Embellishment Can’t Save Dahan’s Fairy Tale
Try as it might, Grace of Monaco can’t seem to wring any significant interest out of...
Live from Cannes 2014: Meet Our Cannes Critics’ Panel
Jeez. Time sure does fly by. It's hard to fathom that we're now in year number four with our world film critic on the...
Cannes 2014 Derby: David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars Tops Blake’s Palme d’Or Predictions
So let’s get one thing straight: the stylistic tendencies of the jury president’s own work doesn’t make much of an impact in the grand...
Cannes 2014 Derby: Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep Tops Eric’s Palme d’Or Predictions
Jane Campion. Sofia Coppola. Jia Zhangke. Nicolas Winding Refn. If ever there was a competing year that favored a more "personalized" avant-garde cinema, this...
Cannes 2014 Derby: Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep Tops Nicholas’ Palme d’Or Predictions
He’s won the Grand Jury Prize for Distant (2002) and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011), plus the FIPRESCI for Climates (2006) and...
Bruno Dumont, Du Welz, Chazelle, Sciamma & Wiseman Among 2014 Directors’ Fortnight Selections
Bruno Dumont finds a special place on the croisette to premiere his latest work (his television mini-series Li’l Quinquin) and Frederick Wiseman makes another...
2014 Critics’ Week: Djinn Carrénard, David Robert Mitchell, Nadav Lapid & Mélanie Laurent Populate 53rd Edition
It's almost astonishing that we've managed to guess two (we also had Nadav Lapid pegged for the Main Comp) of the eleven titles unveiled by...
67th Cannes Film Festival: Ostlund, Alonso, Argento, Ferran, Hausner & Ryan Gosling Make the Cut
Best Director winner Mathieu Amalric moves down from the Main Comp, Ryan Gosling changes the title of his film, Ned Benson trims an hour...
67th Cannes Film Festival: Xavier Dolan, Egoyan & Rohrwacher Among Main Comp Surprises!
How sweat it is for Canadian film. There'll be a maple syruppy touch to the Cannes Film Festival presence to the 67th Cannes Film...
2014 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Main Competition, Un Certain Regard & Special Screenings
With only hours ago before the official selection for the Main Competition is announced, we've narrowed our final predictions to the following titles that...
2014 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: 46th Directors’ Fortnight
Hovering around the twenty-one to twenty-four feature film mark with at least a quarter of those films belonging to first time filmmakers, the Quinzaine...
2014 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: 53rd Critics’ Week
A good four days after all hullabaloo of Thierry Frémaux's Main Comp plus Un Certain Regard announcement takes hold the film world, it is...
Antonio Méndez Esparza, Pablo Giorgelli and Guy Édoin Among Selected 15 for Cinéfondation’s Atelier
In its first year, Cannes' Cinéfondation’s Atelier invited projects from relative filmmaker unknowns such as Gerardo Naranjo (I'm Gonna Explode), Lisandro Alonso (Liverpool) and...
