Shia LaBeouf and Crimes Against Humanity in Slauson Rec
Actor Shia LaBeouf re-examines the question of whether it’s better to be feared or loved in new documentary out of…
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How Sirât’s Writing Feels Like Torture Porn
Amidst the mayhem of queuing for a gala premiere at Cannes, I decided to take a break to catch a…
Exit 8 v.s. the Plight of Low Fertility Rate in Japan
From long takes to POV shots, Kawamura pulls enough tricks out of his hat so that the film would only…
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Oh, Canada Cinematographer Andrew Wonder on His Journey Towards Shooting the “First Sensitive Paul Schrader Film”
It is always a treat to watch a new film from writer-director Paul Schrader, one of America’s foundational thinkers of film form and…
Baseball and America in Eephus
“What always draws me to a film idea is location, mood, and light,” says Carson Lund. In his directorial debut Eephus it’s a…
“…And What’s on the Other Side”: Life, Death and Muppets in Jim Henson Idea Man
In the manner of so many of our most influential creatives and thinkers, the person of Jim Henson—creator of the Muppets, voice of…
Animating Tragedy in Michel Hazanavicius’ The Most Precious of Cargoes
When it comes to subject matters like the Holocaust, one can hardly afford to be diplomatic.
All Style, No “Substance:” Coralie Fargeat’s Cannes critics’ hit is riotous fool’s gold
When Carolie Fargeat’s The Substance premiered at this year’s Festival de Cannes, the response was electric. It seemed immediately that the festival had…
Mutant Women and Noir Dreams: A Cinematic Exploration of Gilda and The Shrouds
Gilda and The Shrouds perform similar dances that flit between paranoid jealousy and nihilistic dissociation.
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In Our Day: The Cinematic Spaces of Men, Women, the Camera… and the Rifts in Between.
Men, women, and a camera. You might even add a cat in there just to make it a little fun.
2023 USC Cannes Classic Jury Award Winners
It may be tempting to denounce film festivals such as Cannes as displays of self-aggrandizement for the ultra-wealthy. Yet, standing in a packed…
Kubi: Kitano Chops Heads with Glee
Before he died, Akira Kurosawa predicted Takeshi Kitano’s long-gestating project Kubi, when made, can be a masterpiece on par with his own epic…
The Sweet East: Eccentricism, Exploitation, & Energy Like No Other
Talia Ryder being a girlboss for 104 straight minutes.
Last Summer: the Idyllic Pleasures of an Unimaginable Evil
Queen provocateur Catherine Breillat returns to narrative filmmaking and Cannes Competition after a decade-long absence with Last Summer. 75 and hemiplegic, Breillat is…
Only the River Flows: a Picture-Perfect Chinese Counterfeit Designer Crime Thriller
I hate the saying “style over substance” because it implies a dichotomy between those two things, when style itself can be substance. But…
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Review: Thamp
G. Aravindan brings the circus to Cannes with his spellbinding 1978 classic.
Review: Holy Spider
Meaningful debate arrives too late to make up for icky flashes of violence and flavorless proceedings.
Review: Brother and Sister
An irrational siblings relationship in Arnaud Desplechin’s new film.
Review: Hunt
Lee Jung-jae’s directorial debut doesn’t know what it’s hunting for.
Review: Les Amandiers
Charisma cannot make up for the lack of self-interrogation in this arts school hangout movie.
Review: Enys Men
We regrettably side with the inevitable viewers who will find this psychological horror more empty than enigmatic.
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Shia LaBeouf and Crimes Against Humanity in Slauson Rec
Actor Shia LaBeouf re-examines the question of whether it’s better to be feared or loved in new documentary out of Cannes Classics.
How Sirât’s Writing Feels Like Torture Porn
Amidst the mayhem of queuing for a gala premiere at Cannes, I decided to take a break to catch a screening of Oliver…
Exit 8 v.s. the Plight of Low Fertility Rate in Japan
From long takes to POV shots, Kawamura pulls enough tricks out of his hat so that the film would only teeter on crumbling…
All the right ingredients, but Neeraj Ghaywan’s Homebound is sincerely undercooked.
A film premiering in the Un Certain Regard Section at one of the biggest film festivals in the world, Cannes, co-produced by Dharma,…
If We Were the Jury…
The Cannes Film Festival has come to a close, and with its conclusion came the handing out of this year’s awards. The jury’s…
Saying Less with More: Diminishing Returns in The History of Sound
The History of Sound follows the life of Lionel (Paul Mescal), a Kentucky-native in pre-WWI America studying vocal performance at a conservatory. When…
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