Tag: Cannes Film Festival
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Matteo Garrone’s Dogman
After 2002’s The Embalmer and 2004’s First Love, Matteo Garrone would receive proper international acclaim with Gomorrah - winning the Grand Prix for the...
The Gentle Indifference Of The World | 2018 Cannes Film Festival Review
World, Hold On: Yerzhanov Conjures Camus with Doomed Love Story
Kazakhstani director Adilkhan Yerzhanov continues his fascination with Albert Camus in his latest feature, The...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Lee Chang-dong’s Burning
The former high-school teacher and an acclaimed novelist makes his movies like he writes his books - Lee Chang-dong's films take their time to...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
This Cannes edition becomes a 3-peat for director David Robert Mitchell. After unveiling (a rare SXSW Austin to Cannes trip) for The Myth of...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Stéphane Brizé’s At War (Un Autre Monde)
Now on eighth feature, in a year of few French filmmakers we are expecting another great performance from Stéphane Brizé's muse in Vincent Lindon...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman
With only Do the Right Thing (1989) and Jungle Fever (1991) as competition entries, it's been a long time coming for number three to...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s Asako I & II
With his fifth feature in 2015's Happy Hours making a notable presence at and winning Locarno, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi's Cannes debut in Asako I &...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters
Hirokazu Kore-eda‘s sixth trip to Cannes comes after Our Little Sister in 2015, and the one before that was Like Father, Like Son (which took home...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6 – Alice Rohrwacher’s Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro Felice)
Winner of the 2nd highest prize offered at the Cannes Film Festival with her sophomore film The Wonders in 2014, and she previously made...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6 – Jafar Panahi’s Three Faces
Winner for the Camera d'Or in 1995 (Directors' Fortnight) for The White Balloon, winner of the Un Certain Regard Jury for Crimson Gold in...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6 – Eva Husson’s Girls of the Sun (Les filles du soleil)
Eva Husson tackles some heady subject matter with her third feature, and first Cannes entry. After shoring up at TIFF in 2015 with Bang...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – Jia Zhangke’s Ash Is Purest White
An habitual of both Cannes and Venice, now in his third decade of filmmaking, Jia Zhangke first arrived in Cannes for 2002's Unknown Pleasures, then...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – Jean-Luc Godard’s The Image Book (Le livre d’images)
Walking up and down the Croisette we are reminded of his presence at the festival with the 1965's Pierrot le Fou and so after...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4 – Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War
Hailing from a docu background, Pawel Pawlikowski's sixth feature film in a little more than two decades sees the filmmaker reunite with Joanna Kulig...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Christophe Honoré’s Sorry Angel (Plaire, aimer et courir vite)
Only his second time in the competition (he was there in 2007 with Les chansons d'amour), Christophe Honoré has moonlighted with the Cannes film...
Leto | 2018 Cannes Film Festival Review
Goodbye Lenin: Serebrennikov’s Vibrant Time Capsule More than a Feeling
Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov’s on-going house-arrest in Moscow lends his latest film, the period piece...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Kirill Serebrennikov’s Summer (Leto)
Sadly, under house-arrest since post-production, Kirill Serebrennikov, the Russian stage, film director, and theatre designer would have loved the Croisette reaction to Summer (aka Leto). Following...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Abu Bakr Shawky’s Yomeddine
Rare are the films from debut filmmakers to crack the Competition line-up and perhaps the first title to be funded by a Kickstarter campaign, Yomeddine...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 1 – Asghar Farhadi’s Everybody Knows
Best known for winning a pair of Best Foreign Language Film for his films A Separation (2012) and The Salesman (2017) the festival opener...
Live from Cannes: 2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!
Celebrating our seventh year, for the 71st edition of Cannes, we decided to switch things up for our Cannes Critics' Panel. First, we expanded...
What’s Up Doc?: Sheffield & AFI Docs Signal the Summer Fest Drought
Well folks, after a rather long and brutal winter (at least for me here in Buffalo), we are finally heading into the wonderful warmth...
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...
