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.
The festival arrives at a close, with films in competition from David Cronenberg, Sergei Loznitsa, Im Sang-soo, and Jeff Nichols.
Also: Universal @ 100. James Toback’s “totally unusual, inventive” movie and more.
In our annual poll, we pair our favorite new films of 2011 with older films seen in the same year to create fantastic double features.
Most agree that “Nichols is fast becoming one of the deftest storytellers in American independent cinema.”
Brothel films are like submarine movies—the stories, the dramas, even the details always remain the same, held in a airtight container as if observing variations of the same scientific experiment
"Curtis (Michael Shannon), the central figure of Jeff Nichols's powerful, enigmatic drama Take Shelter, is living in the grip of overpowering dread," begins Alison Willmore at IFC.com. "An Ohio man