Tag: 2024 Cannes Critic Panel
2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Rasoulof, Kapadia, Audiard, Baker & Schrader are Top 5
On awards day, there is what they call le reprise des films de la Compétition - essentially each film in the comp receives one...
2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig Tops Our Grid
And finally, it came down to the wire for not one, but two films that disrupted what had been the top-ranked film among our...
Michel Hazanavicius’ The Most Precious of Cargoes – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11
The only animated film in the competition, Michel Hazanavicius has been a favorite of the festival landing several competition berths beginning with 2011’s The...
Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11
The narrative behind Mohammad Rasoulof's journey to the Cannes competition (his first) will be talked about for a long time. Escaping his homeland (and...
Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10
It's been a solid three decades since Shaji N Karun's Swaham competed for Palme in 1994, making this a significant moment for Indian auteur...
Gilles Lellouche’s Beating Hearts – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10
The popular French actor working in just about every film genre has been on the Croisette on a couple of occasions but as a...
Karim Aïnouz’s Motel Destino – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9
One of the favorited Brazilian filmmakers of the Cannes film festival with Madame Satã (2002), O Céu de Suely (2006), and winner A Vida...
Miguel Gomes’ Grand Tour – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9
I still recall when Miguel Gomes took over the Directors' Fortnight section with not one, but three films for the The Arabian Nights trilogy (Volume...
Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8
If he has the option between the Croisette or the Lido, Paolo Sorrentino is going to... France. His Cannes journey began with 2004’s The...
Christophe Honoré’s Marcello Mio – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8
Having sprinkled his films in the competition section twice before with Les chansons d’amour (2007) and Sorry Angel (2018), Christophe Honoré has also populated...
Sean Baker’s Anora – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8
Returning to the official competition for a second time, this is American indie filmmaker Sean Baker's third consecutive trip to Cannes after The Florida...
David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7
In his late career resurgence with Crimes of the Future having been showcased in the comp in 2022, David Cronenberg makes his entrance with...
Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7
Making it three features in a row that'll have premiered on the Croisette, Iranian-Danish filmmaker Ali Abbasi saw his sophomore feature Border play like...
Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6
Many were left scratching their heads when Cannes topper Thierry Frémaux made The Substance a part of the competition (and conversation) and the reason...
Kirill Serebrennikov’s Limonov: The Ballad – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6
Thierry Frémaux sure does like mister Kirill Serebrennikov. Since showcasing The Student in 2016's Un Certain Regard section, the Russian filmmaker (in exile) has...
Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5
His has a longstanding tradition with the Cannes Film Festival this former Palme d'Or winner for Dheepan (2015) moved into a completely different language,...
Jia Zhangke’s Caught By the Tides – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5
Both a Venice and Cannes Film Festival veteran, Jia Zhangke is coming to Cannes packing not one but two projects - one being a...
Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4
Writer of the 1976 Palme d'Or winner Taxi Driver, and having been in comp with Mishima (1985) and Patty Hearst (1988), this is Paul...
Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4
A film that went into production as they were still doing post-production on Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness becomes Yorgos Lanthimos' third trip to...
Emanuel Pârvu’s Three Kilometres to the End of the World – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4
One of the last trio of entries to be included in the competition was completely off our radar. Actor turned director Emanuel Pârvu's third...
Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3
Winner of two Palme d'Ors, Francis Ford Coppola's makes a huge return to Cannes with a film that will not go unnoticed in Megalopolis....
Andrea Arnold’s Bird – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3
We have two English-language items with two very different price tags in today's double pairing for the competition. The first item out of the...
Magnus von Horn’s The Girl with the Needle – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2
The slot belonging to the second film of the competition belonged to Magnus von Horn's The Girl with the Needle (aka Pigen med nålen)...
Agathe Riedinger’s Wild Diamond – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 1
We kicked off the competition of twenty-two films with a debut feature, which is worth noting given the rarity of newbies in the competition...
Live From Cannes!!! Meet the Jury For Our 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel
Except for the pandemic year, we've hosted our bi-daily (sometimes tri-daily) Palme d'Or competition Cannes Critics' Panel since 2011. Over the years, our panel...