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Cannes 2024 Review: THE OTHER WAY AROUND, Breakup Comedy Is Repetitive On Purpose
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Itsaso Arana and Vito Sanz star in Jonás Trueba's Spanish language breakup comedy. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Atlas Review: Artificial Intelligence, Indeed
by admin|1 year ago|Slant Magazine
Atlas seems like a story that should have been experienced with a gamepad in hand. The post <em>Atlas</em> Review: Artificial Intelligence, Indeed appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Cannes 2024: Grand Tour, Motel Destino, Beating Hearts
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
Most simply described, Miguel Gomes's "Grand Tour" tells the story of Edward (Gonçalo Waddington), a British official in Myanmar, who in January 1918 goes on the run from his fiancée, Molly (Crista Alfaiate). The journey takes him to Singapore, Bangkok, Saigon,...
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Life, the Videogame: Run Lola Run
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
The success of "Pulp Fiction" inspired a flood of films and a fair number of TV shows; I recently wrote about one of them for this site, 1999's "Go." But one of the many things that's fascinating about the "Pulp Fiction" derivatives...
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L’amour Ouf (Beating Hearts) | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
Thief of Hearts: Lellouche’s Sprawling Romance Has Arrhythmia A common occurrence for actors moonlighting as directors is not knowing how to hone a focus, crafting a narrative around the performers, often to the detriment of the film itself. Such is...
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Cannes Review: Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance is an Overstimulating, Impressive Thrill
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
Coralie Fargeat made a splash with her debut Revenge. But she was only standing in a puddle, endearing niche corners of the global cinephile community to her cinematic bloodlust for sexually violent men and gore-horror filmmaking. With her second, The...
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I Will Be Happy if I Can Say I’ve Done My Best: Eye Surgeon Dr. Ming Wang on Sight
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
“Sight” tells the extraordinary story of Dr. Ming Wang, from the oppressions of China’s decade-long Cultural Revolution to his move to America (where he earned an MD from Harvard and a Ph.D from MIT). It them moves to his pioneering work...
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Cannes 2024 Diary 2: International Genre Picks
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
Beyond the competition, there are dozens of other films to be captivated by here at Cannes, many solidly fitting under the “genre” umbrella. For decades, these films have never received the respect of auteur-driven institutions like Cannes. But given the...
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“Films Can’t Fix Lives”: Arnaud Desplechin on Filmlovers!, The Fabelmans, and Jean-Luc Godard
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
When it was announced Arnaud Desplechin’s next feature Spectateurs! (titled the less-appealing Filmlovers! in English) would be a) a docu-fiction hybrid; b) about cinema and, in particular moviegoing; c) a continuation of the Paul Dedalus saga that’s starred Mathieu Amalric...
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Cannes Review: Universal Language is a Beguiling, Surrealist Ode to Persian Cinema
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
In Universal Language, a man makes a journey to his childhood home and meets the family now living there––these are at least the broad strokes. The director is Matthew Rankin, a Canadian filmmaker whose work usually requires less-basic terms. In...
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