Cannes 2012. Days 8-9, Essential Reads
Adam CookLéos Carax’s long-awaited return to Cannes is a loud one, and Carlos Reygadas’ Post Tenabras Lux sounds like a divisive highlight.
Alain Resnais
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Cannes 2012. Alain Resnais' "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet"
Daniel KasmanAlain Resnais returns to the play between theater, cinema and life in his new film.
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Cannes 2012. Days 6-7, Essential Reads
Adam CookKiarostami, Hong Sang-soo, Resnais: some of the biggest names of the festival unveil their latest works
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Movie Poster of the Week: The Posters of the 2012 Cannes Competition
Adrian CurryOn the opening day of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival: a poster round-up of the films in competition.
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Manifestations
Daniel KasmanA report from the retrospective on the Oberhausen Manifesto’s 50th anniversary, at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.
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Movie Poster of the Week: “Le passe-muraille” a.k.a. "Mr. Peek-a-Boo"
Adrian CurryA stunning poster for a forgotten film sends us down various rabbit-holes of trivia leading to some of the biggest names in cinema.
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Daily Briefing. Cinema Scope 49
David HudsonFeaturing an interview with Ai Weiwei and more. Also: The Gold Rush and Last Year at Marienbad in New York.
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Gilbert Adair, 1944 - 2011
David HudsonThe renowned critic, novelist and screenwriter worked with Ruiz and Bertolucci.
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Daily Briefing. "Commodified Cinema"
David HudsonAlso: Lubitsch, Hitchcock, Lumet, Wes Anderson and James Bridges on DVD.
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On Robert Bresson's 110th, Cahiers in English #8
David HudsonAnother generous post from Letters to Jane gives us Godard and Delahaye’s lengthy interview with Bresson.
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"Last Year at Marienbad" @ 50
David Hudson"So much critical ink has been shed over Last Year at Marienbad that one might wonder if the flood of commentary, once receded, would take the film along with it," writes Mark Polizzotti in an essay
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Movie Posters of the Week: The Films of Alain Resnais
Adrian CurryA year or so ago, while writing about the brilliant poster for Alain Resnais’s most recent film, Wild Grass, I was a little disparaging of other recent Resnais posters with their wacky ensemble montages