Tag: Alexandre Desplat

2026 Oscars: ‘Sinners’ Lands Most Noms, but ‘One Battle After Another’ & ‘Sentimental Value’ are the Frontrunners

It was a great morning for the folks at Warner Bros. A really solid morning. With a record-breaking sixteen nominations, Ryan Coogler's Sinners might...

Frankenstein | Review

The Seat of the Soul: Del Toro Takes Aim at Shelley’s Monster Much like its title has been confused as reference to an abominable creation...

The Most Precious Of Cargoes | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review

The Zone of Disinterest: Hazanavicius Reanimates the Holocaust in Moral Fable What’s most interesting about director Michel Hazanavicius are his valiant attempts at dabbling in...

The Palace | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review

It’s Only the End of the World: Polanski Checks Out with Broad Satire As many are likely to avoid The Palace, the latest film from persona...

Final Cut (Coupez!) | Review

Primetime Cut: Hazanavicius Returns to Absurdity with Overdone Zombie Remake Michel Hazanavicius has certainly established his affection for the nonsensical, making a name for himself...

Asteroid City | Review

The Lost City of Twee: Anderson Continues Quest of Counterfeit Sentiments Somewhere along the way, over the past twenty years, Wes Anderson’s style completely...

The French Dispatch | Review

Repetition Commission: Anderson Flatlines with Twee Aesthetic Since cinema requires a semblance of participation by the audience, a passive relationship of sorts, the latest curio...

The Midnight Sky [Video Review]

World, Hold On: Clooney Presents the End Times in Tedious Apocalyptic Exercise It’s been a year wherein it seems the end we’ve forever been pondering...

Isle of Dogs | Review

A Dog’s Tale: Anderson Returns to Animation with Scruffy, Eclectic Fantasy We’ve come to expect a certain technical formality from Wes Anderson, even across a...

The Shape of Water | Review

Creature from the Red Lagoon: Del Toro Gets Sentimental in Cold War Monster Drama Monsters return as metaphors in Guillermo Del Toro’s latest, The Shape...

The Imitation Game | Blu-ray Review

Shut out at the BAFTAs, and nominated for eight Academy Awards and winning Best Adapted Screenplay for screenwriter Graham Moore, Morten Tyldum’s The Imitation...

The Imitation Game | Review

Cracking the Code: Tyldum's English Debut Delivers Thrills Although mathematician Alan Turing OBE was responsible for creating a machine capable of solving the unsolvable Nazi...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard...

Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.

Interview: Eivind Landsvik – Low Expectations | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Exploring themes of mental health, emotional recovery, companionship, and...