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Cannes 2013. The Gloaming: Claire Denis' "Bastards"

Claire Denis’ first digital film is a cryptically elliptical, profoundly somber melodrama of exploitation, loneliness, anger and family.
Cannes 2013. Dialogues: James Gray's "The Immigrant"

Adam Cook & Daniel Kasman discuss James Gray’s The Immigrant, a departure in many ways for one of America’s great contemporary filmmakers.
Cannes 2013. The Past, Present Tense: Claude Lanzmann's "The Last of the Unjust"

From footage of the first interview originally shot for but unused in Shoah, Lanzmann fashions a new film set at once in 1975 & 2012.
Cannes 2013. Hollow Cinema: Nicolas Winding Refn's "Only God Forgives"

Nicolas Winding Refn’s highly anticipated follow-up to Drive is a work of tritely over-thought stylization.