Tag: Films
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…
Woo L.A. Bonus Podcast: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Hey everybody, this is our bonus episode of the Write Out of LA Podcast that Jonathan, Eric, and I recorded where we discuss the Marvel…
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…
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…
