Super Cannes: Broken Reality of the Moonrise Kingdom
Celluloid Liberation FrontPost-Cannes thoughts on Wes Anderson, Rufus Norris’ opening night film for Critics’ Week, and Matteo Garrone’s prize-winner, Reality.
May 2012
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The Forgotten: Piscatorial Extremity
David CairnsMermaid movies!
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Ultra-Modern: Jean Epstein, or Cinema “Serving the Forces of Transgression and Revolt”
NotebookAn essay by Nicole Brenez on maverick filmmaker-critic Jean Epstein.
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Notebook Cannes Notebook #2
NotebookThe second of an aborted Festival de Cannes project of handing out sheets of paper to attendees and asking for immediate reactions to films.
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Notebook Cannes Notebook #1
NotebookThe first of an aborted Festival de Cannes project of handing out sheets of paper to attendees and asking for immediate reactions to films.
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Cannes 2012. Top Picks
Daniel KasmanA rough ordering of my most (and least) favorite films in Cannes 2012.
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Cannes 2012. Awards
NotebookThe Palme d’Or goes to Michael Haneke’s Amour. Also, a comprehensive list of all the award winners.
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Cannes 2012. Kôji Wakamatsu's "11/25 The Day Mishima Chose His Fate"
Daniel KasmanKôji Wakamatsu continues his look at Japanese history with a micro-biopic on the passion of Yukio Mishima.
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Cannes 2012. David Cronenberg's "Cosmopolis"
Daniel KasmanIn adapting Don DeLillo’s novel, Cronenberg continues A Dangerous Method’s talky abstraction, here seeing the end of the world as theory.
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Notebook Reviews: John Hyams' "Dragon Eyes"
Ignatiy VishnevetskyCurrently playing on VOD, a new film from the director of the underrated Universal Solder: Regeneration.
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Cannes 2012. Days 10-11, Essential Reads
Adam CookThe festival arrives at a close, with films in competition from David Cronenberg, Sergei Loznitsa, Im Sang-soo, and Jeff Nichols.
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Cannes 2012. Films by Takashi Miike, Leos Carax, Jaime Rosales
Daniel KasmanThree standous: a school musical brawl film by Miike, an episodic, shapeshifting nightcrawl by Carax, and fragments of grief from Rosales.