Cannes 2013. Hollow Cinema: Nicolas Winding Refn's "Only God Forgives"
Adam CookNicolas Winding Refn’s highly anticipated follow-up to Drive is a work of tritely over-thought stylization.
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Cannes 2013. "Did you eat my daughter?": Jim Mickle's "We Are What We Are"
Marie-Pierre DuhamelThe American remake of the Mexican horror film (programmed in Quinzaine in 2010) unfolds a complex meditation upon family and foundation.
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Cannes 2013. Dialogues: Steven Soderbergh's "Behind the Candelabra"
NotebookAdam Cook & Daniel Kasman discuss Steven Soderbergh’s “last” film, another work of alternately digital and classical pleasures.
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Image of the day. JLG Shooting 3D
NotebookJean-Luc Godard filming his next feature, Adieu au langage.
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Cannes 2013. Borderland Comedy: Serge Bozon's "Tip Top"
Daniel KasmanSerge Bozon’s follow-up to La France six years later is a modestly scaled what’s-it, a deadpan burlesque pseudo-detective film.
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The Noteworthy: R.I.P. Alexey Balabanov (1959-2013), Miyazaki's "The Wind is Rising", Hoberman on Jacobs
NotebookAlexey Balabanov passes, details on Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film, Spielberg and Scorsese discuss “the lightness of touch”, and more…
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Cannes 2013. A Pinoy Ballad: Anthony Chen's "Ilo Ilo"
Marie-Pierre DuhamelAnthony Chen’s first feature is a heartfelt, lived-through vision of the 1997 Asian crisis in Singapore.
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Cannes 2013. Dialogues: Johnnie To's "Blind Detective"
NotebookAdam Cook & Daniel Kasman discuss Johnnie To’s madcap new film, a crime-comedy-romance that (joyously) doesn’t know when to quit.
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Cannes 2013. Fragile History: Rithy Panh's "The Missing Picture"
Daniel KasmanRithy Panh’s autobiographical/historical recount stages memories and history under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia with clay figurines.
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Cannes 2013. Gods and Men: A Conversation with Alain Guiraudie
David JenkinsThe filmmaker talks about one of the highlights of the Festival de Cannes, Stranger by the Lake in Un Certain Regard.
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Cannes 2013. Passing Shots: Satyajit Ray, Joel & Ethan Coen, Alex van Warmerdam
Adam CookSatyajit Ray’s pure cinema, the Coen Bros. half-hearted Llewyn Davis, and van Warmerdam’s oddball Borgman.
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Cannes 2013. Night Snack: Johnnie To's "Blind Detective"
Marie-Pierre DuhamelDecisively on the “fun” side of To’s films, a wild blending of thriller, comedy, burlesque and fantasy starring Andy Lau and Sammy Cheng.