Tag: filmmaking
Film Honors: 1983
My own personal choices for the year. They reflect not just necessarily what I think is the best or essential cinema, but perhaps resonate with…
Genre Blast: Adventure – "We’re Going to Need a Bigger Boat!"
It will probably happen one of two ways at some point in your life: you will search out adventure on your own, or, in some…
Film Honors: 2006
My own personal choices for the year. They reflect not just necessarily what I think is the best or essential cinema, but perhaps resonate with…
10 Female Directors Who Could Have Won At Cannes
Sofia Coppola’s Best Director win at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival not only put a huge pin in the map of film history, it also…
Cannes Compétition Prospectus – You Were Never Really Here
You Were Never Really Here Lynne Ramsay United Kingdom, United States, France CRITICAL RESPONSE “Male directors are often criticized for having a taste for gratuitous…
Cannes Compétition Prospectus – L'amant double
L’amant double François Ozon France CRITICAL RESPONSE “A sexy, deliciously silly and twisty thriller that laughs in the face of commonplace reason and ecstatically dials…
Cannes Compétition Prospectus – In the Fade
In the Fade Fatih Akin Germany CRITICAL RESPONSE “For good or bad, Akin has to grapple with the fact that everyone continues to compare his…
Cannes Compétition Prospectus – A Gentle Creature
A Gentle Creature Sergei Loznitsa Ukraine, France CRITICAL RESPONSE “Loznitsa has always been a director fascinated by faces, the sheer variety of human expressions and…
Cannes Compétition Prospectus – Good Time
Good Time Joshua and Ben Safdie United States CRITICAL RESPONSE “Good Time is a poignantly ironic title: it means the reduction of jail time for…
Cannes Compétition Prospectus – Rodin
Rodin Jacques Doillon France, Belgium CRITICAL RESPONSE “Jacques Doillon delivers a useful educational tool for the armchair traveler too lazy to go to a museum….
Cannes Compétition Prospectus – The Beguiled
The Beguiled Sofia Coppola United States CRITICAL RESPONSE “Coppola completely sucks out any of the original’s over the top sequences for more art house, painterly…
Cannes Compétition Prospectus – Radiance
Radiance Naomi Kawase Japan, France CRITICAL RESPONSE “Kawase’s work demonstrates an interest in the metaphysical, whether it involves speculation on the afterlife or the meaning…
Cannes Compétition Prospectus – The Day After
The Day After Hong Sang-soo South Korea CRITICAL RESPONSE “The Day After has its share of wry musings and twitchy banter between characters to counter…
Cannes Compétition Prospectus – Happy End
Happy End Michael Haneke France, Germany, Austria CRITICAL RESPONSE “Haneke’s magisterial control of tone, actor and shot is not to be underestimated: there are scenes…
