Cannes 2013. Passing Shots: Satyajit Ray, Joel & Ethan Coen, Alex van Warmerdam
Adam CookSatyajit Ray’s pure cinema, the Coen Bros. half-hearted Llewyn Davis, and van Warmerdam’s oddball Borgman.
Satyajit Ray’s pure cinema, the Coen Bros. half-hearted Llewyn Davis, and van Warmerdam’s oddball Borgman.
Decisively on the “fun” side of To’s films, a wild blending of thriller, comedy, burlesque and fantasy starring Andy Lau and Sammy Cheng.
Short takes on two major titles in Competitions, an Indian genre film in Directors’ Fortnight, and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s return to cinema.
The chauffeur-passenger story of the poor and the rich is given an extra dimension this debut: the border between Shenzen and Hong Kong.
Jia layers fiction, documentation, cultural history & cinema history into a fluid and elegant series of four geography-spanning moral tales.
Alain Guiraudie’s Stranger by the Lake creates a compelling drama through an ingenious use of space and growing tension.
A self described homage to King Hu and Chang Cheh reveals itself to be strongly rooted in the consistency and strength of Jia’s film world.
As the 2013 Cannes Film Festival gets underway: a poster round-up of the films in competition.
The first of a series of “dialogue” dispatches from Cannes between Adam Cook & Daniel Kasman.
More announcements from Cannes, Cronenberg is casting, an Images Festival report, the films of Marcel Hanoun & more.
The lineups for the edgier sections of the Cannes Film Festival have been announced.
The 66th Cannes Film Festival has announced the lineup for the Official Competition.