Criticism

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  20 May 13

  Cannes 2013. Passing Shots: Satyajit Ray, Joel & Ethan Coen, Alex van Warmerdam

  Adam Cook

  Satyajit Ray’s pure cinema, the Coen Bros. half-hearted Llewyn Davis, and van Warmerdam’s oddball Borgman.

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  20 May 13

  Cannes 2013. Night Snack: Johnnie To's "Blind Detective"

  Marie-Pierre Duhamel

  Decisively on the “fun” side of To’s films, a wild blending of thriller, comedy, burlesque and fantasy starring Andy Lau and Sammy Cheng.

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  19 May 13

  Cannes 2013. Passing Shots: Farhadi, Kore-Eda, Kashyap, Jodorowsky

  Daniel Kasman

  Short takes on two major titles in Competitions, an Indian genre film in Directors’ Fortnight, and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s return to cinema.

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  18 May 13

  Cannes 2013. Double Bend: Flora Lau's "Bends"

  Marie-Pierre Duhamel

  The chauffeur-passenger story of the poor and the rich is given an extra dimension this debut: the border between Shenzen and Hong Kong.

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  17 May 13

  Cannes 2013. Ambush from Four Directions: Jia Zhangke's "A Touch of Sin"

  Daniel Kasman

  Jia layers fiction, documentation, cultural history & cinema history into a fluid and elegant series of four geography-spanning moral tales.

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  17 May 13

  Cannes 2013. Illusory Isolation: Alain Guiraudie's "Stranger by the Lake"

  Adam Cook

  Alain Guiraudie’s Stranger by the Lake creates a compelling drama through an ingenious use of space and growing tension.

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  17 May 13

  Cannes 2013. Consistency In a Filmmaker's World: Jia Zhangke's "A Touch of Sin"

  Marie-Pierre Duhamel

  A self described homage to King Hu and Chang Cheh reveals itself to be strongly rooted in the consistency and strength of Jia’s film world.

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  16 May 13

  Movie Poster of the Week: The Posters of the 2013 Cannes Competition

  Adrian Curry

  As the 2013 Cannes Film Festival gets underway: a poster round-up of the films in competition.

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  16 May 13

  Cannes 2013. Dialogues: Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring"

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  The first of a series of “dialogue” dispatches from Cannes between Adam Cook & Daniel Kasman.

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  13 May 13

  America: What's Wrong with this Face?

  Daniel Kasman

  Why is Henry Fonda America’s wrong man? Or: Why is America Henry Fonda’s country of residence?

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  11 May 13

  Movie Poster of the Week: Claude Autant-Lara’s “A Pig Across Paris”

  Adrian Curry

  A look at the various international posters for the soon-to-be-revived French Occupation classic.

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  10 May 13

  Echoes #14

  Adam Cook

  A climactic sequence in James Gray’s Little Odessa echoes Christopher Walken’s unforgettable entrance in Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate.

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