Super Cannes: Broken Reality of the Moonrise Kingdom
Celluloid Liberation FrontPost-Cannes thoughts on Wes Anderson, Rufus Norris’ opening night film for Critics’ Week, and Matteo Garrone’s prize-winner, Reality.
Festivals
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Notebook Cannes Notebook #2
NotebookThe second of an aborted Festival de Cannes project of handing out sheets of paper to attendees and asking for immediate reactions to films.
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Notebook Cannes Notebook #1
NotebookThe first of an aborted Festival de Cannes project of handing out sheets of paper to attendees and asking for immediate reactions to films.
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Cannes 2012. Top Picks
Daniel KasmanA rough ordering of my most (and least) favorite films in Cannes 2012.
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Cannes 2012. Awards
Adam CookThe Palme d’Or goes to Michael Haneke’s Amour. Also, a comprehensive list of all the award winners.
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Cannes 2012. Kôji Wakamatsu's "11/25 The Day Mishima Chose His Fate"
Daniel KasmanKôji Wakamatsu continues his look at Japanese history with a micro-biopic on the passion of Yukio Mishima.
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Cannes 2012. David Cronenberg's "Cosmopolis"
Daniel KasmanIn adapting Don DeLillo’s novel, Cronenberg continues A Dangerous Method’s talky abstraction, here seeing the end of the world as theory.
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Cannes 2012. Days 10-11, Essential Reads
Adam CookThe festival arrives at a close, with films in competition from David Cronenberg, Sergei Loznitsa, Im Sang-soo, and Jeff Nichols.
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Cannes 2012. Films by Takashi Miike, Leos Carax, Jaime Rosales
Daniel KasmanThree standous: a school musical brawl film by Miike, an episodic, shapeshifting nightcrawl by Carax, and fragments of grief from Rosales.
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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.
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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. Michael Haneke's "Amour"
Boris NelepoMichael Haneke’s intimate drama of domestic death.