"The only debut feature presented in competition this year at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival, Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa's My Joy yesterday plunged the press into a totally black world where
"Ken Loach's last minute addition to Cannes competition is a hard-edged thriller — his first, in fact, since Hidden Agenda played competition here in 1990 — covering dirty deeds by contractors in
"One-time enfant terrible Xavier Beauvois has long been a respected presence on the French scene, making his name with dramas such as Don't Forget You're Going To Die (1995) and the police story
"An anniversary present for the new wave — tied to the upcoming 50th-birthday screenings of Breathless — Two in the Wave gives the gift of received wisdom as it recounts the erstwhile friendship
"Quentin Dupieux's Rubber would have made an absolutely stellar twenty minute short," suggests Todd Brown at Twitch. "Yes, this is really a film about an angry psychic tire. And, yes, it is every
"Premiering at the Directors' Fortnight, Shit Year, Cam Archer's second feature (after 2006's mildly experimental gay coming-of-age tale Wild Tigers I Have Known), is more satisfying to say than
"Sassy, slick, slight and speedy, Stephen Frears's Tamara Drewe explores the same territory as Woody Allen's similarly out-of-competition You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger — the heart is capricious
Above: Frammartino's Le quattro volte. Le quattro volte (Michelangelo Frammartino, Italy) There are too many great moments to mention in each section of this four part film set in the Italian countryside—the
"Often called Japan's greatest living filmmaker, Nagisa Oshima, now 78, kept up a furious pace through the first half of his career, cranking out 18 films in 14 years," writes Dennis Lim in the
"The best film so far in this year's Cannes competition, Abbas Kiarostami's first feature made outside Iran is in many ways a departure in terms of style and content, yet at the same time it is
"Beneath all the swift camerawork and rapid editing, Alejandro González Iñárritu remains a sentimentalist," writes Anthony Kaufman at IFC.com. "In his latest, Biutiful, a stylized paean to a devoted
"Like his last film, 2008's 24 City, Jia Zhangke's Un Certain Regard title I Wish I Knew is a documentary/fiction hybrid about modern-day China," begins Matt Noller at the House Next Door. "Where