Cannes 2013. Festival Favorites

Adam Cook & Daniel Kasman list their favorite and least favorite films from the 66th Cannes Film Festival.
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Adam Cook:

FAVORITES

01

The Immigrant (James Gray, USA)
Les trois désastres (Jean-Luc Godard, France/Portugal)

02


North, the End of History (Lav Diaz, Philippines)
Shield of Straw (Takashi Miike, Japan)
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie, France)

03

Bastards (Claire Denis, France/Germany)
Blind Detective (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke, China)

04

The Missing Picture (Rithy Panh, Cambodia/France)
The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola, USA)
Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Koreeda, Japan)
Tip Top (Serge Bozon, France)
Grigris (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, France/Chad)

THE REST

You and the Night (Yann Gonzalez, France)
Borgman (Alex van Warmerdam, Netherlands)
Nebraska (Alexander Payne, USA)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
The Past (Asghar Farhadi, France/Italy)
Bends (Flora Lau, Hong Kong/China)
Jimmy P. (Arnaud Desplechin, USA)
Grand Central (Rebecca Zlotowski, France/Austria)
Just in Time (Peter Greenaway, UK/Portugal)
Only Lovers Left Alive
 (Jim Jarmusch, USA)

LEAST FAVORITE
Cinesapiens (Edgar Pêra, Portugal)
Miele (Valeria Golino, Italy/France)
Heli (Amat Escalante, Mexico)
Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn, France/Denmark)

Daniel Kasman:

FAVORITES

01

Les trois désastres (Jean-Luc Godard, France/Portugal)
The Last of the Unjust (Claude Lanzmann, France/Austria)
North, the End of History (Lav Diaz, Philippines)
The Immigrant (James Gray, USA) 

02

Blind Detective (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie, France)
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke, China)
The Missing Picture (Rithy Panh, Cambodia/France)
Bastards (Claire Denis, France/Germany)
La danza de la realidad (Alejandro Jodorowsky, Chile) 

03

Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Koreeda, Japan)
Tip Top (Serge Bozon, France)
Real (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan) 

04

Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, USA)
Ugly (Anurag Kashyap, India)

THE REST

Jimmy P. (Arnaud Desplechin, USA)
Un voyageur (Marcel Ophüls, France)
Nebraska (Alexander Payne, USA)
Just in Time (Peter Greenaway, UK/Portugal)
Shield of Straw (Takashi Miike, Japan)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola, USA)
Cinesapiens (Edgar Pêra, Portugal)
The Past (Asghar Farhadi, France/Italy)
Grand Central (Rebecca Zlotowski, France/Austria)

LEAST FAVORITE 

Grigris (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, France/Chad)
Heli (Amat Escalante, Mexico)
Death March (Adolfo Alix, Jr.)
Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn, France/Denmark)

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