The idea seems simple enough—animate that which you cannot film. And indeed, since a film made after the fact—the fact of Waltz with Bashir being the 1982 war between Israel and Lebanon, and a massacre
Above: Denis Levant is "Merde" in Leos Carax's segment of the city omnibus film, Tokyo. Tucked in the middle of the surprisingly inspired omnibus Tokyo! is the first masterpiece of Cannes, Leos Carax
Above: Anamaria Marinca (left) and Dragos Bucur (right) play a married couple in Boogie. I certainly haven't seen enough recent Romanian films to pass judgment or even commentary on the so-called New
With 4 Nights with Anna the first question that comes to mind is: "Jerzy Skolimowski's first movie in almost twenty years is this?" But that question is immediately followed by the more pertinent follow
Above: Charles Berling (far left) and Juliet Binoche (center) are siblings in Olivier Assayas' Summer Hours. Far be it from me to call this coverage of the Cannes Film Festival. I saw Olivier Assayas
So much discourse sees Jean-Luc Godard's Week End (1967) as the end of something the director started eight years earlier with Breathless, and the film's final title "End of Film/End of Cinema" probably
Above: Georgina Genes as Candida in Paz Encinca's Hamaca paraguaya. While gore-fests may get the most attention in the realm of horror films, perhaps not enough is given to that darkness of art-house
From Black Test Car (1962); directed by Masumura Yasuzo; cinematography by Nakagawa Yoshihisa:
What will you do now that you've given it a name, you and your truth?" Text: Experiment Perilous (Tourneur, USA, 1944), script by Warren Duff, from a novel by Margaret Carpenter. Image: Curse of the
From Black Test Car (1962); directed by Masumura Yasuzo; cinematography by Nakagawa Yoshihisa:
Undoubtedly the best fictional film to play at the Tribeca Film Festival is Luc Moullet's fantastic, weird little short, The Milky Way, where-in the strangeness of the world blossoms in cinema's simplicity