Daily Briefing. Summertime! "Avengers," "Prometheus," Etc.
David HudsonA solid round of first reviews for Avengers and a lengthy new trailer for Prometheus.
A solid round of first reviews for Avengers and a lengthy new trailer for Prometheus.
Once you’re past the usual suspects, “the full list is wonderfully unpredictable and packed with oddball leftfield choices.”
Also: Nuri Bilge Ceylan will receive this year’s Carrosse d’Or at the 44th Directors’ Fortnight.
Not everyone’s convinced that this’ll be “the cinematic event of the year.”
Also: David Phelps’s Secret History of America. Remembering Warhol. A pirate’s justification. And more.
Also: Michael Atkinson on Adam Curtis, Sukhdev Sandhu on Geoff Dyer’s Zona and more.
In the news: Ridley Scott, Cristian Mungiu, Denis Villeneuve, Richard Ayoade, Laurent Cantet and more.
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"It is 33 years since a fledgling filmmaker named Ridley Scott went to the Cannes Film Festival and took away the prize for the best first film with The Duellists," writes John Hiscock in his profile