"Michelangelo Frammartino's Le Quattro Volte [The Four Times] has won the Europa Cinemas Label as Best European Film in Cannes Directors' Fortnight," reports Wendy Mitchell for Screen. "The jury
There are few things more thrilling than finding out that an artist you admire or revere has produced a new work that even surpasses what they have done before, and the reports coming out of Cannes
Apichatpong Weerasethakul has generated the first truly electric buzz to come out of Cannes this year. Twitter began lighting up all but immediately after the first press screening of Uncle Boonmee
"One of the most purely baffling entries in this year's Competition, Daniele Luchetti's would-be melodrama sets up all the ingredients for a rewarding highbrow soap along the lines of his excellent
Above: Léa Tissier in Young Girls in Black. Of Gods and Men (Xavier Beauvois, France) With Beauvois’ inspired, sober film, one of the growers of the festival, reaching its steady hand around the film
Three beautiful things in Abbas Kiarostami’s film, Certified Copy: (1) The performance of Juliette Binoche, who is uninterested in the film’s simple, confused/confusing gimmick of having two strangers
"Danish filmmaker Janus Metz's gripping documentary feature Armadillo, named for a base in Afghanistan where soldiers from Denmark are fighting against the Taliban, already has created controversy
It's "the horror film to end all horror films, during which I experienced a 90-minute anxiety attack," confesses the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw. "British documentary-maker Lucy Walker presented us
"Once again, the Seattle International Film Festival is filling theaters with more films than would be humanly possible to watch in a feeble earthbound lifetime," writes Lindy West, introducing
"Well, we've finally gotten to see the main competiton's sole American entry: un film Hollywood de Doug Liman!" exclaims the Boston Globe's Wesley Morris. "But if we're being honest, Liman isn
"Korean auteur Lee Chang-dong's quietest and most thematically complete film to date, Poetry charts a grandmother's attempt to write a single poem, while she deals with a failing body and mind
"How good is Olivier Assayas's Carlos?" asks Steven Zeitchik in the Los Angeles Times. It's a rhetorical question. "Think of The Bourne Identity with more substance, or Munich with more of a pulse