Cannes Journal: ‘Wildlife’
Paul Dano explodes out of the gate with his directorial debut. ‘Wildlife’ immediately establishes him as an independent director to be contended with. Written in collaboration with Zoe Kazan and based on a novel by Ric...
Paul Dano explodes out of the gate with his directorial debut. ‘Wildlife’ immediately establishes him as an independent director to be contended with. Written in collaboration with Zoe Kazan and based on a novel by Ric...
Superficially, ‘Yomeddine’ has the makings of a treacly mess, the kind of forced “feel good” film that uses the backdrop of extreme poverty to tell some life-affirming fable.
You need to know what you’re getting into when you settle down for a film by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. First, you’re in for the long haul – his latest, ‘The Wild Pear Tree’, runs 188 minutes. Second, you’re ...
Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke’s latest movie, ‘Ash Is Purest White’, continues to mine many of the themes that have characterized his films over the last several decades. He once again collaborates with his muse ...
‘Donbass’, the latest from Germany-based Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa, leaves audiences with a lot to process. Told through a series of a dozen or so vignettes, the film takes an excoriating look at events that d...
I’m aware that critics say this about films all the time, but the less you know about ‘Gräns’ (a.k.a. ‘Border’) the better. It’s a quirky, strange, often delightful mix of genres made all the mo...
The term “quixotic” refers to the exceedingly impractical and unrealistic. Some quests speak to notions of romantic, adventurous reaching-to-the-stars simultaneously with a ridiculous, near lunatic denial of the very r...
In 2014, David Robert Mitchell’s slow-build ‘It Follows’ played the Critics’ Week selection at the Cannes Film Festival and took the genre world by storm. There was of course big anticipation for his return...
There are two competing visions of Whitney Elizabeth Houston. The first is the angelic singer, part of a near dynastic family of soul singers who exploded onto the pop charts in the 1980s and set the style for generations of perfo...
It’s perhaps too simplistic to compare Lebanese director Nadine Labaki’s ‘Capernaum’ to last year’s Cannes smash ‘The Florida Project’, but since both films deal with the insidious nature ...
‘Burning’ is a film that gets under your skin, weaving a tale that’s at times chilling, at others a deeply resonant celebration of character and tone.
After causing an international splash with his sublime ‘Gomorrah‘ and the Grand Prix winning ‘Reality’, Italian director Matteo Garrone returned to Cannes in 2015 with the high concept flop ‘Tale of T...