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 Tales’. The dark, gritty crime ...
Spike Lee has made a career demonstrating a fearlessness in talking truth to power. While his recent narrative films have been a mixed bag (while simultaneously his non-fiction work has been deeply underappreciated), this latest p...
Lars von Trier has been banned from Cannes since 2011 when he joked about his own fascist tendencies. Invited back (but not in competition), the Danish master of the melancholic returns with a dark descent into damnation.
When Disney bought the ‘Star Wars’ franchise and promised many new post-Lucas projects, it was obvious that a couple things would take place. First, there would be a closing trilogy to settle the Skywalker saga, and then a series ...
From the shock of ‘Irreversible’ to the fever dream of ‘Enter the Void’ or the sordid 3D infantilism of ‘Love’, Gaspar Noë’s provocative works shock and bemuse with equal measure, his adolescent insouciance undercut by often subli...
What can be said about one of the most wondrous films ever made? How about that one hated it the first time he saw it? Screened on VHS on a 20″ Trinitron, the only thing I knew about ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ was that the people beh...
There’s only so much you can do about a survival story in the snow. How many times can bad things happen and still be interesting and believable? What sets ‘Arctic’ apart is its good use of physical space, some assured direction, ...
With its stark black-and-white photography, impeccably composed and framed in Academy Ratio, the art house aesthetic of Pawel Pawlikowski’s ‘Cold War’ comes fully on display in the first moments of the work. Yet this tangled tale ...
Asghar Farhadi, the celebrated director behind award-winning films like ‘A Separation’ and ‘The Salesman’, has been a fixture on the festival circuit, for some the pinnacle of contemporary Iranian cinema. For this reason alone, ma...
Last year, the Cannes Film Festival jury handed over the prestigious Palme d’Or to the nearly 3.5-hour Turkish character study ‘Winter Sleep’. That seemed like the ultimate evidence of art film cultural snobbism at the fancypants ...
I wish I had a bigger house, or more wall space. I just don’t have enough room to hang all the posters that I really love. Check out this week’s new posters for theatrical releases, and also a few special event posters that I woul...
To casual moviegoers, film festivals may not even come as a second thought. For film enthusiasts, however, festivals are the place to be if you want to see some interesting movies that may not be widely released for months, if eve...
