Paweł Pawlikowski’s striking Cannes standout, ‘Fatherland’
Postwar Europe is nothing new for Polish “Fatherland” writer and director Paweł Pawlikowski. Known best for “Cold War” and “Ida,”…
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Don’t Watch Yourself, Watch the Movie: ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’
Jane Schoenbrun isn’t one for subtlety. Although their sophomore breakthrough “I Saw The TV Glow” was derided by some for…
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Caretaking and Friendship Intertwine In the Stunning Drama ‘All of a Sudden’
“All of a Sudden” is the third film from Japanese auteur Ryusuke Hamaguchi to compete in The Cannes Film Festival…
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‘The Meltdown’: How Should a Missing Person’s Story End?
The “missing persons” subgenre of film is a strange one — repetitive at times, nearly impossible to perfect, yet often…
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‘Propeller One-Way Night Coach,’ made by, for and about John Travolta
Flaunting a skin-tight beret and suspicious beard, John Travolta walked the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday…
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Cannes First Impressions
After nearly 20 hours of travel and a nine-hour time difference — including a red-eye flight where none of my…
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A Call for Film Festivals to Choose Bravery: The Story of Jafar Panahi’s ‘It Was Just An Accident’
With the potential for films to champion a diverse array of voices and stories, one of the most powerful spaces to protect this freedom is in the film festival realm.
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‘The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo’ Review, Star Matías Catalán Talks Cannes, Character Complexities and a Mysterious Gaze Called Love
As we make our hesitant return to the routines of fall semester, I often find myself reminiscing on the summer….
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‘Die My Love’: The Domestic Politics of Sex, Gestural Cinema and Rock & Roll, Baby!
CANNES — If you, like me, have a soft spot for “character acting,” John Prine and a general partiality for films that make you itch just looking at them, Lynne Ramsay’s “Die My Love” might just emerge from Cannes as your perfect darling. Granted, in the world I live in, you can get away with anything if you make enough Nick Lowe references. God help the beast in me…
