The Auteurs' Cannes Round-Up
NotebookThough 2009 may go down as an unusually average Cannes Film Festival, its size and prestige guaranteed a wealth of films and big name filmmakers that we were all very excited to see. Below you’ll find
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The Mythopoesis of Autobiography: Philippe Garrel's "Emergency Kisses" and "I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar"
Dave McDougall"I had a lover,I don't think I'll risk anotherThese days, these days.And if I seem to be afraidTo live the life that I have made in songIt's just that I've been losingso long." - Nico, "These Days
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "La Gueule Ouverte" (Pialat, 1974) and nine other Pialat shorts
Glenn KennyThe only genuine reaction this image of a crucifix gracefully laid on a bed can elicit—at least at the point it arrives in Maurice Pialat's plain-as-day death story—may be a choke of strangled, appalled
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What is the 21st Century?: Post-Post
Ignatiy VishnevetskyWhat is the 21st Century? is the weekly column where Ignatiy Vishnevetsky tries to find an answer to the titular question. *** Above: Paris By Night (1959) by Asger Jorn; Miami Vice (2006), directed
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Cannes 2009: Awards
Daniel KasmanPalm d’Or The White Ribbon (Haneke) Grand Prix A Prophet (Audiard) Best Director Brillante Mendoza for Kinatay Best Screenplay Feng Mei for Spring Fever Best Actress Charlotte Gainsbourg in
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Cannes 2009: Through the Looking Glass (“Visage,” Tsai)
David PhelpsTsai Ming-liang’s movies, critics noted more and more in his last few films, are founded from parallel universes, banal reality and another universe that opens up inside it. The other universe can
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Cannes 2009: Playtime ("Father of My Children," Hansen- Løve)
David PhelpsAll is Forgiven is the name of Mia Hansen-Løve’s first film, Doris Day’s "Que Sera Sera" ends her second as cars enter and exit Paris, and the presumption that affairs move on and whatever will be
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Cannes 2009: Favorite Moments, Days 6 & 7
Daniel KasmanIn Dogtooth: the two girls dancing. What is it about dancing in cinema? I think it operates under the same principle as showing people hanging out at cafes or getting drunk, there’s just something
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Cannes 2009: Day 8
fabrizio maltesePhoto by Fabrizio Maltese/EF Press/fabriziomaltese.com.
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Cannes 2009: So far, away (details, handheld, <i>Antichrist</i>, and meeting Resnais)
David PhelpsAbove: Mia Hansen-Løve, director of The Father of My Children. Photo by Fabrizio Maltese/EF Press/fabriziomaltese.com. 24 hours after A Brighter Summer Day (wishful titling for a film in which light
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Cannes 2009: A Time and Space Odyssey ("Enter the Void," Noé)
Daniel KasmanThe only avant-garde film in Cannes’ Competition is Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void, which picks up the gauntlet thrown down by the Wachowskis’ Speed Racer of an endlessly malleable cinema of acid-trip colors
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Movie Poster of the Week: "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three"
Adrian CurryBefore Tony Scott sullies the memory of Joseph Sargent's 1974 Gotham crime classic The Taking of Pelham One Two Three with his Denzel-Travolta remake, let us celebrate the original with this knockout