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Sound And Vision: James Foley
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at several music videos directed by James Foley. James Foley passed away a few weeks ago, which made me...
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2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Laxe, Mendonça Filho, Panahi & Trier Reign Supreme
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
The final grades trickled in and finally, our top three has slightly changed. Instead of a firm trio, we now have a foursome as the Norwegian film added itself to the mix. All four films are Neon releases in North...
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‘Tornado’ Review: John Maclean’s Sophomore Feature Is an Overly Mannered Period Parable
by admin|1 year ago|Slant Magazine
Like Slow West before it, the film is a stripped-down genre exercise, for better and worse. The post ‘Tornado’ Review: John Maclean’s Sophomore Feature Is an Overly Mannered Period Parable appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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The Best Films of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival has now concluded, with Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident taking home the Palme d’Or (see all jury winners here). While our coverage will continue with a few more reviews this...
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Cannes Review: The Chronology of Water is Kristen Stewart’s Elemental Calling Card for Directorial Greatness
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
Book adaptations yield two kinds of films: those that transliterate and those that translate. While the former insist on keeping the source material’s spirit at the cost of a rendition so faithful it comes to stage things rigidly, like a...
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Cannes 2025: Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, Militantropos, Imago
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
Films highlighting the turmoil in Gaza, Ukraine, and Georgia in today's Cannes dispatch.
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The Mastermind | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
Thieves Like Us: Reichardt Wanders with an Inscrutable Slacker Abstract paintings are not the only undefined objects in The Mastermind, the latest from Kelly Reichardt, who has become a master herself at creating quiet, emotionally resonant characterizations of lonely, isolated...
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Cannes 2025 Review: NO ONE WILL KNOW Contemplates Just How Far People May Go to Make a Killing
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Vincent Maël Cardona's gripping thriller is much more than a genre exercise. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Cannes Review: Koji Fukada’s Love on Trial Gracefully Unpacks Idol and Agency
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
What is love? For some, it is mutuality––a chemistry, care, and concern that blossoms into an equally supportive relationship. For others, it is devotion––a one-sided, obsessional affection that the lover finds selfless. Japanese idol group Happy Fanfare sing about love,...
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Cannes Review: In Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, Crime is a Losing Game
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
For the second time in three years, Cannes’ competition ends with a film in which Josh O’Connor plays a scruffy, late-20th-century man with some knack for pinching masterpieces. Following (spiritually or otherwise) Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera is Kelly Reichardt’s The...
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