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Simon of the Mountain | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
The Face of An(other): Luis Complicates Identity Politics Although it’s playing quite purposefully with various ambiguities and motifs, Federico Luis’ directorial debut Simon de la montaña (Simon of the Mountain) is most successful at obscuring the usual cliches of identity...
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IF
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
If you're lucky enough to attend an early screening of John Krasinski's new film, "IF," you may be greeted with a short introduction by the writer/director, asserting that the film is expressly for all the "girl dads" out there. Having...
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Cannes Review: Ghost Trail is an Engrossing Surveillance Thriller Haunted by the Syrian War 
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
The wars in Gaza and Ukraine have dominated headlines for the past several years, yet receiving relatively little coverage today is the Syrian civil war, sparked in the wake of 2011’s Arab Spring. It is yet ongoing and stands now...
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Cannes Review: Quentin Dupieux Brings Gallows Humor to Filmmaking Satire The Second Act
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Quentin Dupieux returns with The Second Act, a playfully dour satire on the film industry that sees the French absurdist delve further into the apocalyptic mood and gallows humor of his recent Yannick. The Cannes opener stars some of the...
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Cannes 2024: The Second Act; Abel Gance’s Napoleon
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
The first two screenings of the 77th Cannes Film Festival were of a silent classic so gargantuan that the festival screened only the first half, which itself ran longer than last year's "Killers of the Flower Moon," and of a...
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Le Deuxième Acte (The Second Act) | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
The Art of Saying Nothing: Dupieux Deconstructs Cinema Had Luis Bunuel approached conveying the reality of cinema produced by artificial intelligence, there may have been some similarities with what Quentin Dupieux is doing in his latest feature, Le Deuxième Acte...
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Meanwhile in France…Cannes to Be Specific
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Back on April 11th, when Cannes Film Festival artistic director Thierry Fremaux and Festival president Iris Knobloch announced most of the films in the Official Selection of the 77th Festival, then a little over a month away (May 14 -...
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Arnaud Desplechin and Mathieu Amalric Salute Cinema In First Trailer for Cannes Debut Filmlovers!
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
I’m possibly embargoed from speaking too much about Arnaud Desplechin’s Spectateurs! / Filmlovers!, which debuts at the Cannes Film Festival on May 22, but suffice it to say those who’ve loved the previous entries in his Paul Dedalus saga (1996’s...
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NATIONAL ANTHEM Trailer: Charlie Plummer Discovers Love and Self in Queer Cowboy Drama
by admin|2 years ago|Hammer to Nail
Charlie Plummer finds love and discovers his own version of the American dream in National Anthem. Photographer Luke Gilford directs in his feature-length debut from a script he penned alongside Kevin Best and David Largman Murray. Premiering at last year’s...
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June on the Criterion Channel Includes Paul Schrader, Jean Grémillon, Synth Soundtracks & More
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Oh, Canada debuting this week on the Croisette is high time to see lesser-seen Schrader on the Criterion Channel, who’ll debut an 11-title series including the likes of Touch, The Canyons, and Patty Hearst, while Old Boyfriends (written with his...
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