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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...
Filmworker | Review
By The Power Of Kubrick: Zierra’s Delightful Spotlight On Vitali Ultimately A Mixed Bag
Stanley Kubrick has inspired artists the world over, creating movies so...
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...
Revenge | Review
Follow The Blood Trails: Fargeat Impresses And Disappoints With Feature Debut
Coralie Fargeat’s feature debut makes a bold attempt at redirecting the well-worn rape and...
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...
Interview: Paul Lieberstein – Song Of Back And Neck
Paul Lieberstein — perhaps better known as Toby Flenderson from NBC’s The Office—made his feature film debut at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival with...
Top 50 Future TV Binge List: Prepping for the Summer with Sharp Objects & Succession
Almost a dozen new entries have been added to Top 50 Future TV Binge List chart most notably Marco Bellocchio's Esterno, Notte - but...
The Conversation: Producer David Thion
French producer David Thion has spent the past eighteen years gambling on untested talents, fostering the filmography of several Gallic novices into full-fledged auteurs....
Maine | 2018 Tribeca Film Festival Review
Trail Mix: Brown Offers Ephemeral Romance on Appalachian Hike
The anti-thesis of a fight-against-the-elements type narrative a la Wild or Tracks, Maine unfolds quietly and emphasizes...
Interview: Andrea Pallaoro – Hannah
Rare are the film narratives that place so much emphasis on the backstory without...divulging it. Rare in cinema do we find unflappable and muted...
Backstabbing for Beginners | Review
The Oil and the Pussycat: Fly’s English Debut Sinks to the Bottom
Danish director Per Fly makes his English language debut with Backstabbing for...
Mrs. Hyde | Review
Sing the Body Electric: Huppert Glows in Bozon’s Eccentric Take on Robert Louis Stevenson
“Things one can’t do are the one I want to,” utters...
Interview: Deniz Gamze Ergüven (Kings)
We sat with Turkish-French director Deniz Gamze Ergüven after the premiere of her sophomore directorial effort Kings at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival....
Kings | Review
Ease on Down the Road: Ergűven Presents Tone-deaf, Head-Scratching Portrait of L.A. Race Riots
Joining Kathryn Bigelow (whose searing Detroit, depicting the 1967 riots of...
Interview: Sam Boyd – In A Relationship
An expansion of his 2015 short film starring Dakota Johnson that went viral due to some fortuitous timing, Sam Boyd's In A Relationship (which just had...
The Conversation: Producer Janine Jackowski
Producer Janine Jackowski has quietly fostered a new era of art-house German cinema off lauded output from directors Maren Ade and Ulrich Kohler (who...
Interview: Wim Wenders – Submergence
Globe-trotting, geopolitics and civil war are the wedges that place romantic connections in flux. No stranger to the human condition or working in a...
Interview: Michel Hazanavicius – Godard Mon Amour (aka Redoubtable)
Declared sacrilege the moment the project was announced, Michel Hazanavicius focuses on a critical, artistic, existential, and perhaps creative calamity period in both the masses...
Kodachrome | Review
Picture This: Raso’s Estranged Road Movie Wrecks At The Starting Gun
Coming across like a thin coat of bright paint over dated decorative wallpaper sans...
I Feel Pretty | Review
More Than a Feeling: Kohn & Silverstein Compose Meaningful, Imprecise Satire on Body Shaming
Screenwriters Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein, known for adolescent minded portraits...
Exclusive: Poster & Trailer Premiere for Natalia Almada’s Everything Else
Via the arthouse label who gave us the Gastón Solnicki's Argentine gem Kékszakállú, the Cinema Tropical folks have provided us with the exclusive first...
Criterion Collection: Eclipse #46 – Ingrid Bergman’s Swedish Years | DVD Review
If her status as one of the most prominent fixtures of the Criterion Collection had been in contention before, Ingrid Bergman’s presence is now...
2018 Cannes: Ciro Guerra, Gaspar Noé, Romain Gavras, Jaime Rosales & Debra Granik Fill Directors’ Fortnight
Heavy on Spanish language films (including a Brazilian film not in its mother tongue) and the usual block of French film items, after seven years...
The Conversation: Producer Jean Labadie
Jean Labadie is a name which perhaps remains a tad obscured despite his formidable influence on the French film industry. In 1986, Labadie founded...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Week: Paul Dano’s Wildlife (Opener) & Agnieszka Smoczynska’s Fugue Selected
As per usual, Artistic Director Charles Tesson unveiled the line-up to the Cannes Critics' Week via the savoury film description friendly video. A program...
Zama | Review
Mortal Transfer: Martel Returns with Lush, Dark Comedy on Colonial Maneuvering
Unfairly disposed to doomed distribution prospects and perhaps unfortunate dismissal during its initial reception...
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc | Review
The Passion of the Joan: Dumont Approaches Ecclesiastical Fervor in Musical Comedy
If cinema could approach the same sacred realm as any pre-ordained religious doctrine,...
Come Sunday | Review
Preaching to the Choir: Marston Tackles Modern Heresy in Orthodox Glance at Evangelical Hypocrisy
There are numerous epithets various strands of Christianity tend to utilize...
Marrowbone | Review
Love & Marrow: Sanchez Rattles Familiar Skeletons in Vintage Themed Debut
Spanish screenwriter Sergio F. Sanchez consults the bones for his directorial debut, Marrowbone, an...
Wildling | Review
The Kids Are Not Alright: Böhm Bares His Fangs In Tepid Feral Frightfest
Children are scary enough without them being feral, and that fear is...
Beirut | Review
Going Hamm in Beirut: Sharply Written, Compelling, Old school Hostage Drama
Set in guess-where, Beirut is a snappy foreign diplomacy thriller so smart and steeped in detail...
Interview: Tony Gilroy & Jon Hamm – Brad Anderson’s Beirut | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Foreign diplomacy thriller Beirut might have been an unusual, counter-programming choice made by Sundance programmers, but it was the right project match and three person...
The Conversation – Cannes Predictions VI: Middle East Repped by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Jafar Panahi & Hiner Saleem
We can anticipate a handful of items from the Middle East, Africa, and India will populate several sidebars, if not the competition itself. Turkey,...
The Conversation – Cannes Predictions V: Jia Zhangke & Kirill Serebrennikov Lead the Far East
Cannes 2017 had a strong crop of Russian titles on hand, and several 2018 possibilities could be poised for entry in this year’s program....
Video Interview: Laura Mora – Killing Jesus
They say write what you know, but to what degree and to what depths is a whole other issue. Colombian filmmaker Laura Mora's second...
The Conversation – Cannes Predictions IV: Brit Helmers Leigh, Hogg & Strickland Lead Anglo Contingency
On the British side, Mike Leigh’s Peterloo was once assumedly a for sure thing (he won the Palme in 1996 for Secrets & Lies),...
The Conversation – Cannes Predictions III: Italy’s Sorrentino, Garrone & Rohrwacher Lead Europa Europa
It’s less than a week before the official program is unveiled for Cannes 2018 and this year’s festival already promises to be one of...
