TIFF 2012. Wavelengths (P)review: Part Two – The Features
Michael SicinskiAn evaluation of the feature films programmed in TIFF’s Wavelengths section.
An evaluation of the feature films programmed in TIFF’s Wavelengths section.
The third entry of our two-critic TIFF correspondence highlights films by Reygadas, Assayas, Bertolucci and Baumbach.
The Palme d’Or goes to Michael Haneke’s Amour. Also, a comprehensive list of all the award winners.
Léos Carax’s long-awaited return to Cannes is a loud one, and Carlos Reygadas’ Post Tenabras Lux sounds like a divisive highlight.
On the opening day of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival: a poster round-up of the films in competition.
Also: A new trailer for Soderbergh’s Magic Mike.
Also: Universal @ 100. James Toback’s “totally unusual, inventive” movie and more.
This weekend, which is to say, all day Saturday and all day Sunday, MUBI presents the free online premiere of Revolución, an anthology of ten short films commemorating the 100th anniversary
Nice barks pass for bites. Revanche tops a small strand of recent movie maybe best comparable to a series of bricks: a brick wall. The style develops out of Fassbinder, maybe, Warhol, or Dreyer’s Gertrud
Silent Light is Carlos Reygadas' third and most overtly accomplished film; I also find it his least convincing. A healthy degree of skepticism is automatically called for whenever words like "elegiac