A look back at the best posters for the films of the great Japanese director Kaneto Shindo, who died this week at the age of 100.

Post-Cannes thoughts on Wes Anderson, Rufus Norris’ opening night film for Critics’ Week, and Matteo Garrone’s prize-winner, Reality.

Mermaid movies!

An essay by Nicole Brenez from a new anthology on maverick filmmaker-critic Jean Epstein, the subject of a New York retrospective.

The second of an aborted Festival de Cannes project of handing out sheets of paper to attendees and asking for immediate reactions to films.

The first of an aborted Festival de Cannes project of handing out sheets of paper to attendees and asking for immediate reactions to films.

A rough ordering of my most (and least) favorite films in Cannes 2012.

Kôji Wakamatsu continues his look at Japanese history with a micro-biopic on the passion of Yukio Mishima.

In adapting Don DeLillo’s novel, Cronenberg continues A Dangerous Method’s talky abstraction, here seeing the end of the world as theory.