Below you will find our favorite films of the Festival de Cannes, as well as an index of our coverage, with more entries, including interviews, to come. We also have an index of the festival's awards.
DANIEL KASMAN
TOP PICKS
I. Cemetery of Splendour, The Assassin
II. Visit or Memoirs and Confessions, In the Shadow of Women, The Exquisite Corpus, The Lobster, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Treasure
III. Arabian Nights, Journey to the Shore, Mountains May Depart
***
COVERAGE
Day 0: Introduction
Day 1: Our Little Sister (Hirokazu Kore-eda), Tale of Tales (Matteo Garrone)
Day 2: In the Shadow of Women (Philippe Garrel), One Floor Below (Radu Muntean), Son of Saul (Lazlo Nemes)
Day 3: The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos), My Golden Days (Arnaud Desplechin)
Day 4: Arabian Nights Volume 1: The Restless One, Carol (Todd Haynes)
Day 5: Journey to the Shore (Kiyoshi Kurosawa), Louder Than Bombs (Joachim Trier)
Day 6: Arabian Nights Volume 2: The Desolate One (Miguel Gomes), Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethekul)
Day 7: Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke)
Day 8: Arabian Nights Volume 3: The Enchanted One (Miguel Gomes), The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Day 9: The Treasure (Corneliu Porumboiu), Visit or Memoirs and Confessions (Manoel de Oliveira)
Day 10: Love (Gaspar Noé), The Exquisite Corpus (Peter Tscherkassky)
INTERVIEWS
A Shared Memory: Talking to Apichatpong Weerasethakul about Cemetery of Splendour
Something Remains: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Discusses Journey to the Shore
Representation of Self: Discussing Louder Than Bombs with Joachim Trier
Mutations: A Video Conversation with Miguel Gomes about Arabian Nights
A Historical Background: An Interview with Corneliu Porumboiu
ADAM COOK & DANIEL KASMAN
A Love Story Without Love: Hou Hsiao-hsien Discusses The Assassin
MARIE-PIERRE DUHAMEL
Of Men and Bad Faith: Philippe Garrel's In the Shadow of Women
Slow Burn: Arab & Tarzan Nasser's Dégradé
Back to the Future (or: The Mother Tongue): Jia Zhangke's Mountains May Depart
BORIS NELEPO
Manoel de Oliveira's Visit, or Memories and Confessions: Magnolia Blooms Twice
AMIR GANJAVIE
The Status of Love in the Age of Consumerism: An Interview with Jia Zhangke
The Reality of Death: An Interview with László Nemes about Son of Saul