Tag: top-stories
Cancel Culture: André Téchiné to Reunite with Isabelle Huppert on “La révocation”
More of a Catherine Deneuve, Marie-France Pisier and/or Emmanuelle Béart type filmmaker, oddly these two have only worked together on one occasion. Showing absolutely...
Larger Ecosystems: Valérie Donzelli Leads Virginie Efira and Melvil Poupaud to “L’amour et les forêts”
A lawyer and client pairing in Justine Triet's In Bed with Victoria, Virginie Efira and Melvil Poupaud will team up as an admirer and...
Five Under The Radar Titles Gunning For Cannes 2022!
With less than a week until they announce the line-up for the Cannes Film Festival line-up (Directors' Fortnight and Critics' Week will unveil their...
Ambulance | Review
Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: Bays Busts the Panic Button in Rambunctious Heist Remake
For a director who cut his teeth in music videos, Michael...
All the Old Knives | Review
The Worst Cut is the Deepest: Metz Revels in Tasty Romantic Thriller
Emerging somewhere between the thorny love pacts of Graham Greene and the surefire...
You Won’t Be Alone | Review
Practical Magic: Stolevski Impresses with Eloquent Folk Horror Trauma
Nature and Nurture are the affixed ingredients in a codependent dance swirling under the surface of...
The Girl and the Spider | Review
A Roommate of One’s Own: The Zurcher Bros. Cast a Spell in Weirdo Existential Melodrama
The two central characters of Ramon and Silvan Zurcher’s enchantingly...
Donbass | Review
Come and See: Loznitsa Crafts Overwhelming Nightmare of Modern War-torn Ukraine
Dropping us directly into the wartime propaganda machine of modern-day eastern Ukraine, which has...
Bull | Review
All the Rage: Williams Returns with a (Familiar) Vengeance
After a decade working in television, British director Paul Andrew Williams finally returns to narrative filmmaking...
The Rose Maker (La fine fleur) | Review
In the Name of the Rose: Frot Elevates Formulaic Melodrama from Pinaud
“What is life without beauty?,” inquires antiquated rosarian Eve Vernet in Pierre Pinaud’s...
Sonne | 2022 Berlin International Film Festival Review
The Sun Also Scheisse: Ayub Explores Identity Politics in Modern European Diaspora
For her directorial debut, Sonne, director Kurdwin Ayub draws on her background as...
The Bubble | Review
The Exterminating Sound Stage: Apatow Skewers Hollywood’s Pandemic Age in Moderately Amusing Satire
Straddling a blurry line between satirizing Hollywood’s franchise cupidity and a queasy...
Zero Fucks Given (Rien à foutre) | Review
Ground Control: Exarchopoulos Takes Flight in Portrait of Repressed Anguish
For their directorial debut Zero Fucks Given, Julie Lecoustre and Emmanuel Marre opt for a...
Criterion Collection: Adoption (1975) | Blu-ray Review
Women face a complex and compounded pressure of perfection when it comes not just to initial reception of their artistic achievements, but also their...
Nitram | Review
A Pleasure to Burn: Kurzel Explores the Making of a Murderer in Disturbing Portrait
On April 28, 1996, lone gunman Martin Bryant shot and killed...
The Contractor | Review
Harper Does It Better: Saleh Taps Pine for Pluralistic Espionage
“It’s much easier to kill, but it’s harder to survive,” is the most useful line...
Gagarine | Review
Favorites of the Moon: Liatard and Trouilh Stargaze Through the Rubble of Resistance
Yuri (Alseni Bathily) seems to be the glue holding his community together...
The Lost City | Review
The Jungle Lewk: The Brothers Nee Conjure Expected Charm in Casual Comedy
For their third feature, brothers Aaron and Adam Nee concoct something of studio...
Infinite Storm | Review
White Woman in a Blizzard: Szumowska Pitts Watts Against the Elements in True Life Trauma Drama
Polish director Małgorzata Szumowska unleashes her tenth narrative feature...
Mothering Sunday | Review
Woman in Love: Husson Mounts Reticent Portrait of Living Life Out Loud
At first glance, Mothering Sunday has all the impeccable furnishings evident in the...
Everything Everywhere All at Once | Review
In the Realm of the Senses: The Daniels Explore Meaning in the Eye of the Storm
“It’s not having what you want, it’s wanting what...
Umma | Review
Sorry to Mother You: Shim Takes Familiar Conceits to Logical Conclusions with Innocuous Debut
From Aronofsky to Roger Michell, from Pearl S. Buck to Georges...
Ahed’s Knee | Review
Kneedful Things: Lapid Highlights Complex Conflicts in Indignant Screech
The entirety of Ahed’s Knee, the fourth film from Israel’s Nadav Lapid, is formatted to aggravate...
Bloody Oranges | Review
Strange Fruit: Meurisse Gets Gonzo with Slice of Cinema Bizarre
Director Jean-Christophe Meurisse follows up his 2016 comedy Apnee with something a bit more uncomfortable...
Alice | Review
What the Dormouse Said: Linden Squanders a Significant Subject in Earnest, Flat Rendering
“If a story is no good, being based on Hamlet won’t save...
X | Review
The Pornographer Always Shoots Twice: West Taps into Grindhouse Sleaze with Backwoods Romp
It was Foucault, proponent of classifying the orgasm as a ‘little death,’...
Deep Water | Review
An Affair to Dismember: Lyne Returns to Remind Us of the Adult in Adultery
“The love story is never the whole story,” is a fitting...
2022 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 24 Palme d’Or Hopefuls
We've looked at the non-competing sections (10 predictions). We've visited (20 predictions) the possible Critics' Week programme. We explored (20 predictions) options for the...
2022 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Un Certain Regard
Hovering around the eighteen to twenty film selection range, the Un Certain Regard section wasn't necessarily overhauled but there was an unofficial memo that...
2022 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Directors’ Fortnight
Last month we learned that the upcoming 2022 edition of Directors' Fortnight (aka Quinzaine) taking place between May 18th to the 27th will be...
Great Freedom | Review
Laws of Attraction: Rogowski Shines Bright in Recuperative Queer Prison Drama
Although there’s nary an upside down pink triangle in sight, Austria’s Sebastian Meise cultivates...
2022 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Critics’ Week
There have been some past editions that have been French/Euro heavy, but for the most part, the programme Critics' Week (Semaine de la Critique)...
2022 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Out of Comp, Midnight & Special Screenings
The 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival begins in just over two months from now and we can still feel the effects of...
Written on the Wind (1956) | Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review
Despite having directed several dozen films across a career which ranged from 1930s Germany to late 1950s Hollywood, Douglas Sirk is best remembered for...
The Batman | Review
Gotham, Open City: Reeves Reconstitutes an Anti-Hero in Moody Reboot
Who would have ever predicted in the fifty-plus years since Adam West first donned the...
Interview: Lenny & Harpo Guit – Mother Shmuckers
Lenny Guit and Harpo Guit are the masterminds behind Mother Shmuckers (Fils de Plouc), one of the most unhinged comedies to grace Sundance’s Midnight...
Mother Schmuckers | Review
O Brother, Why Art Thou?: The Guit Bros. Get Down & Out in Bizarre Debut
Something is rotten in the state of Belgium, or so...
Fresh | Review
Meats for the Meat: Cave Goes for Broke in Gross Out Horror Debut
You are what you eat is an adage taken to literal extremes...
Interview: Christopher Makoto Yogi – I Was a Simple Man | 2015 January Screenwriters Lab
Having just held the world premiere to August at Akiko in Rotterdam, Christopher Makoto Yogi has a slate full of feature film projects including...
After Yang | Review
Before and After Yang: More Human than Humans
Kogonada’s After Yang opens with the most exhilarating dance sequence since Gaspar Noé’s Climax—but don’t be misled....
Kiersey Clemons & Leon Bridges Say I Do to Tayarisha Poe’s “The Young Wife”
American indie helmer Tayarisha Poe is moving from school courtyards of Selah And The Spades to the courting period before officially tying the knot...
Hannah and Her Sydney: Julia Garner is First Hiree on Kitty Green’s “The Royal Hotel”
It'll be Van Diemen's Land and The Assistant reunion of sorts for Kitty Green this summer as the filmmaker will reteam with actor (and...
Passenger’s Seat: Happening’s Anamaria Vartolomei Cast as “Maria” Schneider
Winner of the Cesar award for best Female Newcomer this past Friday for her perf in Audrey Diwan's Golden Lion winning L’Événement (Happening), actress...
Miao Now: Long Day’s Journey Into Night’s Bi Gan Set to Shoot in 2022
As of late Chinese filmmaker Bi Gan has been keeping busy with one finger on the shutter button, and one eye in the viewfinder....
Blame it on the Rain: Guillaume Canet & Laetitia Dosch to Get Soaked for Just Philippot’s “Eau-forte”
Launching his feature filmmaking career with one of the buzz titles of the canceled 2020 Cannes edition (the Cannes Critics' Week did highlight five...
Shu Qi Flows into Taipei: Hou Hsiao-Hsien Set to Begin Production on “Shulan River”
Thanks to the interwebs, we learn that master filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien is finally set to begin pre-production on the long gestating Shulan River. Unsurprisingly...
Love At First Bite: Thomas Cailley Reins In Exarchopoulos, Romain Duris & Paul Kircher for “Le Règne animal”
Winner of multiple awards in Cannes (C.I.C.A.E. Award, FIPRESCI Prize, Label Europa Cinemas, SACD Prize) along with major wins for Best First Film via...
New Carlos Reygadas Cinema in 2023? Mexican Filmmaker Heading to Poland with “Wake of Umbra”
2022 has already been a fruitful year for Carlos Reygadas. Working in a producer capacity for some time now, he saw the fruit of...
My Best Part (Garçon chiffon) | Review
Green Eyes, They’re Crying: Maury Mines Sorrow in Tragicomic Debut
Actor Nicolas Maury crafts his own starring vehicle in My Best Part (Garçon chiffon) as...
Servants | Review
A Separate Peace: Ostrochovský Crafts a Church Noir for Sophomore Feature
For his sophomore narrative feature, Slovak director Ivan Ostrochovský recuperates a uniquely chilling scenario...
