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  25 May 13

  Cannes 2013. Running the Gauntlet: An Interview with Takashi Miike

  Adam Cook

  Miike has crafted a pitch-perfect thriller that never slows down, right up until its climactic finish.

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  24 May 13

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

  Daniel Kasman

  Claire Denis’ first digital film is a cryptically elliptical, profoundly somber melodrama of exploitation, loneliness, anger and family.

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  24 May 13

  Cannes 2013. Dialogues: James Gray's "The Immigrant"

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  Adam Cook & Daniel Kasman discuss James Gray’s The Immigrant, a departure in many ways for one of America’s great contemporary filmmakers.

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  24 May 13

  Cannes 2013. The Past, Present Tense: Claude Lanzmann's "The Last of the Unjust"

  Daniel Kasman

  From footage of the first interview originally shot for but unused in Shoah, Lanzmann fashions a new film set at once in 1975 & 2012.

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  23 May 13

  Cannes 2013. Hollow Cinema: Nicolas Winding Refn's "Only God Forgives"

  Adam Cook

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

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  23 May 13

  Cannes 2013. "Did you eat my daughter?": Jim Mickle's "We Are What We Are"

  Marie-Pierre Duhamel

  The American remake of the Mexican horror film (programmed in Quinzaine in 2010) unfolds a complex meditation upon family and foundation.

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  23 May 13

  Cannes 2013. Dialogues: Steven Soderbergh's "Behind the Candelabra"

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  Adam Cook & Daniel Kasman discuss Steven Soderbergh’s “last” film, another work of alternately digital and classical pleasures.

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  23 May 13

  Cannes 2013. Borderland Comedy: Serge Bozon's "Tip Top"

  Daniel Kasman

  Serge Bozon’s follow-up to La France six years later is a modestly scaled what’s-it, a deadpan burlesque pseudo-detective film.

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  22 May 13

  Cannes 2013. A Pinoy Ballad: Anthony Chen's "Ilo Ilo"

  Marie-Pierre Duhamel

  Anthony Chen’s first feature is a heartfelt, lived-through vision of the 1997 Asian crisis in Singapore.

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  22 May 13

  Cannes 2013. Dialogues: Johnnie To's "Blind Detective"

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  Adam Cook & Daniel Kasman discuss Johnnie To’s madcap new film, a crime-comedy-romance that (joyously) doesn’t know when to quit.

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  22 May 13

  Cannes 2013. Fragile History: Rithy Panh's "The Missing Picture"

  Daniel Kasman

  Rithy Panh’s autobiographical/historical recount stages memories and history under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia with clay figurines.

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  21 May 13

  Cannes 2013. Gods and Men: A Conversation with Alain Guiraudie

  David Jenkins

  The filmmaker talks about one of the highlights of the Festival de Cannes, Stranger by the Lake in Un Certain Regard.

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