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.
Léos Carax
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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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Daily Briefing. Benoît Jacquot's "Farewell, My Queen" to Open the Berlinale
David HudsonAlso: Even as the 2011 lists keep coming, we’ve begun to look ahead to 2012.
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Daily Briefing. Vintage Stones, Lichtenstein and Slapstick
David HudsonAlso: Gaza filmmakers head to Austin to see a movie in a theater for the first time.
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Yekaterina Golubeva, 1966 - 2011
David HudsonThe actress best known for her work with Leos Carax, Claire Denis and Bruno Dumont was 44.
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Video Sundays: Cinema Lives On (Through Modern Mad Men)
Daniel KasmanBelow: Jean-Louis Barrault in Jean Renoir's Le testament du Docteur Cordelier (1959); cinematography by Georges Leclerc. Below: Denis Lavant in Leos Carax's Merde, part of Tokyo! (2008); cinematography
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Video Sundays
Daniel KasmanEach body is injured, each soul is thirsty, Restless glances, sorrowful hearts, Is this the world or the dominion of senselessness? What is this world, even if I get it? ... Burn it
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What is the 21st Century?: The Modern Director, Pt. 1
Ignatiy VishnevetskyWhat is the 21st Century? is the column where Ignatiy Vishnevetsky tries to find an answer to the titular question. *** Above: Michael Bay on the set of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. "Who is