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Chaz Ebert and Esteemed Panelists Discuss Purpose-Driven Filmmaking at Cannes Film Festival
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
On Monday, May 20th at 2:00PM CEST Chaz Ebert will be moderating a panel at Roger Ebert Conference Center in the American Pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival. Entitled "Purpose-Driven Filmmaking: Empathy and the Movies," panelists will discuss the trend...
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Cannes 2024 Review: THE SURFER Rides the Wave of Nicolas Cage Gonzo Midnight Flicks
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
The actor-producer undergoes another full meltdown in captivating Australia-set curio. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Emilia Perez | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
Risky Business: Audiard Surprises with Vibrant Genre Musical Although it’s assembled from unlikely, even questionable sources, Jacques Audiard’s latest feature, Emilia Pérez, a genre and gender blending Mexico City set musical, is surprisingly skilled. Though destined for naysayers who will...
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Caught by the Tides | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
The Tide is High: Zhangke Splices Thwarted Romance Across Changing Times Filmmaker Jia Zhangke presents something of an experimental anomaly with his latest feature, Caught by the Tides (Feng Liu Yi Dai), spanning two decades of shifting cultural climates and...
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Cannes Review: Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness is an Anthology Film of Dark if Slight Delights
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
This one is for the true Lanthimites, the Dogtooth sisters, the biscuit women, The Killing of a Sacred Deer heads, a film to which the callbacks are so abundant that one can’t help but wonder what the connection is for...
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Cannes Review: Carson Lund’s Eephus is the Definitive Baseball Hangout Movie 
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
If the perfect sports movie illuminates the fundamentals that make one fall in love with the game, there may be no better movie about baseball than Carson Lund’s Eephus. Structured solely around a single round of America’s national pastime, Lund’s...
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Cannes 2024: Emilia Pérez, Three Kilometers to the End of the World, Caught by the Tides
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
If someone told you that Cannes was showing an original musical about a ruthless cartel kingpin who wants to transition and secretly hires a top-flight lawyer to set the logistics in motion, which director would you guess was at the...
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Jia Zhangke’s Caught By the Tides – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
Both a Venice and Cannes Film Festival veteran, Jia Zhangke is coming to Cannes packing not one but two projects – one being a bit of acting part in Black Dog, and of course, we’re more interested in the competition...
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Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
Writer of the 1976 Palme d’Or winner Taxi Driver, and having been in comp with Mishima (1985) and Patty Hearst (1988), this is Paul Schrader’s long-awaited return with might be the final film of his career in Oh, Canada. This...
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Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
A film that went into production as they were still doing post-production on Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness becomes Yorgos Lanthimos‘ third trip to the Cannes competition after presenting The Lobster in 2015 and then The Killing of a Sacred...
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