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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Notebook Reviews: John Hyams' "Dragon Eyes"
Ignatiy VishnevetskyCurrently playing on VOD, a new film from the director of the underrated Universal Solder: Regeneration.
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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. 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. Abbas Kiarostami's "Like Someone in Love"
Daniel KasmanAbbas Kiarostami shoots a movie in Japan and the result is the strangest, most mysterious film playing in Cannes.
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Notebook Reviews: Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom"
Ignatiy VishnevetskyAnderson’s deftly orchestrated but deliberately uncomplicated new movie.
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Cannes 2012. Apichatpong Weerasethakul's "Mekong Hotel"
Daniel KasmanA small feature film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul imaginatively uses minor means to unite strands of documentary and fiction.
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Cannes 2012. Yousry Nasrallah's "After the Battle"
Daniel KasmanEgyptian director Yousry Nasrallah ambitiously engages with the complexity of stories and storytelling surrounding the Egyptian revolution.
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Notebook Reviews: Mia Hansen-Løve’s "Goodbye First Love"
Ben SachsOn the philosophy of Mia Hansen-Løve and the her 2011 feature.
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Notebook Reviews: Ann Hui's "A Simple Life"
Ann Hui’s moving melodrama is about an aging maid in Hong Kong being looked after by her employer’s son (Andy Lau). Out now in the US.
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Notebook Reviews: Drew Goddard's "The Cabin in the Woods"
Adam CookThe Cabin in the Woods is a thorough deconstruction of the horror genre that aims to push it forward
