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Tsui Hark on Finding Peace in a World of Chaos
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
One of the key figures in Hong Kong cinema, Tsui Hark is a writer, actor, producer, and groundbreaking director. Born in Vietnam, he attended college in the US before working in Hong Kong television. Hark directed his first features in...
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Cannes Review: Enzo is a Queer Coming-of-Age Tale Conveyed with Delicacy
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
The queer coming-of-age experience is one of great vulnerability: a young person must grapple with the realization they’re becoming different from both past selves and those around them. Robin Campillo’s Enzo, which opened the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar at Cannes, understands...
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Restored and Rediscovered Festival Spotlights Organizations at the Forefront of Film Restoration
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
A look at the restoration-centered film festival, playing this week at the Jacob Burns Film Center.
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Love Review: A Truthful, Soothing Nordic Take on Romance
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Filmfest Hamburg coverage. Love opens in theaters on May 16. It takes confidence to name your film––simply and so very unspecifically––Love. Michael Haneke could get away with it for...
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Cannes 2025: Two Prosecutors, Adam’s Sake, Promised Sky
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
Three films tackle deliberately paced tales of people struggling against governmental and bureaucratic systems.
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FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES Review: Death Is Back, And This Time He Wants Your Whole Damn Family
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Resurrecting a franchise after an extended slumber is always a risky move, even more so with a series as beloved by horror fans as Final Destination. It’s been fourteen years since the last installment, and in the intervening years cult...
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L’Engloutie (The Girl in the Snow) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
Snow Way: Hémon Delivers Unwanted Help in the High Alps A young, idealistic school teacher almost literally chooses her hill to die on in Louise Hémon’s feature debut L’Engloutie (The Girl in the Snow), a slow-burning battle of wills between...
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Two Prosecutors | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
Ordeal by Innocence: Loznitsa Mines the Terrors of Naïveté A good man is hard to find, and if one were to be found, he’s likely wet behind the ears. So begins a retrospective parable in Two Prosecutors, the first narrative...
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2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Sergei Loznitsa’s ‘Two Prosecutors’
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
The Belarusian born, Ukraine filmmaker has loaded up the Cannes Film Festival with what feels like an easy dozen offerings in both the docu and fiction form and spreading over into the Competition, Un Certain Regard and Special Screenings sections....
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Cannes 2025: Sound of Falling, Reedland
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
On two of Cannes first full day's challenging dramas.
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