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May December | Review

Tarnished Angels: Haynes Curates a New Dazzling Cult Classic Had Brian De Palma been keen on rehashing Douglas Sirk instead of Hitchcock, he might have...

Todd Haynes’ May December – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4

After a quick trip to Paris for a retrospective of his career at the Centre Pompidou, Todd Haynes comes back to Cannes for his...

Lucy in the Sky | Review

Loosey Goosey: Hawley Gets Histrionic with Uneven Melodrama At the end of Now, Voyager (1942) the chain-smoking Bette Davis delivers her iconic line to Paul...

Vox Lux | Review

A Star is Worn: Corbet Confirms his Talent with Daring Sophomore Effort 2015’s The Childhood of a Leader (review) was a surprising debut in many ways,...

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #7. Brady Corbet’s Vox Lux

Vox Lux Haneke, Bonello, Von Trier, Campos, Ostlund, Assayas, Hansen-Løve, Baumbach. He cut his teeth working with some of the most gifted filmmakers of our...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #69. Xavier Dolan’s The Death and Life of John F. Donovan

The Death and Life of John F. Donovan Established Canadian auteur Xavier Dolan embarks on his most ambitious endeavor yet with his long gestating seventh...

Planetarium | Review

Night of the Shooting Stars: Zlotowski’s Mysterious Glance at a World on a Wire As one character observes to another upon a chance reunion in...

Song to Song | Blu-ray Review

Terrence Malick runs into his usual refrain in his latest, Song to Song, a film replete with aching, lost souls whose various interconnected narratives...

Song to Song | Review

Music Makes the People: Malick Slathers Austin, Texas with Signature Emotional Ennui Fragments of lovers drowning beneath the weight of their own expectations and stagnant...

Jackie | Review

The Safety of Objects: Larrain Revisits Traumatic Chapter of Iconic First Lady There have been very few First Ladies either before or after Jacqueline Kennedy...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Christopher Dillon Quinn’s Eating Animals

It's been a long decade plus wait since Christopher Dillon Quinn's Sundance Grand Jury Prize/Audience Award winning God Grew Tired of Us (2006) disarmed...

Knight of Cups | Blu-ray Review

The term ‘masterpiece’ has been bandied about too often and for too long to rightly mean anything anymore, and yet, should such terminology actually...

Knight of Cups | Review

They Knew Him Well: Malick’s Sublime Existential Search for the Pearl To many, Terrence Malick, perhaps the most revered of modern American auteurs, has ascended...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #28. Rebecca Zlotowski’s Planetarium

Planetarium Director: Rebecca Zlotowski Writers: Rebecca Zlotowski, Robin Campillo We're expecting French director Rebecca Zlotowski's third feature, Planetarium to enhance the burgeoning auteur's status on international radar....

2015 Cannes Film Fest: Main Comp 1st Timers Include Kurzel, Lanthimos, Donzelli, Villeneuve, Brize, Joachim Trier & Laszlo Nemes

Returnee former Palme d'Or winners and their latest in Nanni Moretti (Mia Madre), Gus Van Sant (Sea Of Trees) are joined by several Main Comp...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #60. Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups

Knight of Cups Director: Terrence Malick Writer: Terrence Malick Producers: Nicolas Gonda, Sarah Green, Ken Kao U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Joel Kinnaman, Christian Bale, Natalie Portman, Imogen Poots,...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #81. Terrence Malick’s Untitled Romantic Drama

Lawless Director: Terrence Malick Writer: Terrence Malick Producers: Nicolas Gonda, Sarah Green, Ken Kao U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Christian Bale, Natalie Portman, Ryan Gosling, Michael Fassbender, Cate Blanchett,...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #126. Gavin O’Connor’s Jane Got a Gun

Jane Got a Gun Director: Gavin O'Connor Writers: Brian Duffield, Anthony Tambakis Producer: Chris Coen, Terry Dougas, Aleen Keshishian, Scott LaStaiti, Mary Regency Boies, Natalie Portman, Zack...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #13. Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups

Knight of Cups Director: Terrence Malick Producer(s): Nicolas Gonda, Sarah Green, Ken Kao, Daniel Newman U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Christian Bale, Natalie Portman, Cate Blanchett, Teresa Palmer,...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #18. Untitled Terrence Malick project (formerly titled Lawless)

Director/Writer: Terrence Malick Producer(s): Nicolas Gonda, Sarah Green, Ken Kao U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, Natalie Portman, Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Rooney Mara,...

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