Every Cannes Film Festival needs a film like “De Gaulle: Résistance,” a proudly French and massively scaled production with the energy of a vintage Hollywood blockbuster. Indeed, Antonin Baudry’s old-fashioned epic flaunts all these big-screen qualities in delicious excess, dispensing a traditionally entertaining biopic on France’s eponymous Great Man and his consequential years in the […]
Every Cannes Film Festival needs a film like “De Gaulle: Résistance,” a proudly French and massively scaled production with the energy of a vintage Hollywood blockbuster. Indeed, Antonin Baudry’s old-fashioned epic flaunts all these big-screen qualities in delicious excess, dispensing a traditionally entertaining biopic on France’s eponymous Great Man and his consequential years in the […]
Though he’s a prolific screenwriter with a number of popular arthouse titles to his name (“After the Wedding,” “In a Better World,” “The Promised Land”), the directorial efforts of one Anders Thomas Jensen (including “Riders of Justice” and “Men and Chicken”) are rarer birds in all senses of the term — usually fusing antic comedy […]
Though he’s a prolific screenwriter with a number of popular arthouse titles to his name (“After the Wedding,” “In a Better World,” “The Promised Land”), the directorial efforts of one Anders Thomas Jensen (including “Riders of Justice” and “Men and Chicken”) are rarer birds in all senses of the term — usually fusing antic comedy […]
Nothing says “I love you” like a bullet to the heart in Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s La Bola Negra (The Black Ball), an unashamedly romantic decades-spanning drama that emerged in the last days of a very austere Cannes Film Festival as a possible dark horse Palme d’Or winner. It’s long even by Cannes standards, […]
Nothing says “I love you” like a bullet to the heart in Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s La Bola Negra (The Black Ball), an unashamedly romantic decades-spanning drama that emerged in the last days of a very austere Cannes Film Festival as a possible dark horse Palme d’Or winner. It’s long even by Cannes standards, […]
The British obsession with the weather goes from an easily mocked national quirk to a world-beating point of pride in “Pressure,” a handsome, efficient WWII drama that doesn’t go quite so far as to say a weatherman won the war, but wouldn’t mind one bit if that’s what you came away believing. The “weatherman,” in […]
The British obsession with the weather goes from an easily mocked national quirk to a world-beating point of pride in “Pressure,” a handsome, efficient WWII drama that doesn’t go quite so far as to say a weatherman won the war, but wouldn’t mind one bit if that’s what you came away believing. The “weatherman,” in […]
Pedro Almodóvar has never shied away from making movies close to himself and the act of making movies themselves. With his latest, Bitter Christmas, he creates the parallel stories of a successful writer-director who is experiencing creative block, and a group of people 22 years earlier who may or not figure into his latest screenplay. […]
Pedro Almodóvar has never shied away from making movies close to himself and the act of making movies themselves. With his latest, Bitter Christmas, he creates the parallel stories of a successful writer-director who is experiencing creative block, and a group of people 22 years earlier who may or not figure into his latest screenplay. […]
In Memoriam, which just had its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival this week, has a very funny premise. An egotistical, rather neurotic actor finds out he is dying and has only one goal left in life: to make sure he is included on the Oscars’ “In Memoriam” reel. Considering the pain that reel creates […]
In Memoriam, which just had its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival this week, has a very funny premise. An egotistical, rather neurotic actor finds out he is dying and has only one goal left in life: to make sure he is included on the Oscars’ “In Memoriam” reel. Considering the pain that reel creates […]
“First reactions” on social media are usually laudatory and vague, and those around Steven Spielberg’s upcoming Disclosure Day are no less so. But the specifics they do offer are intriguing and somewhat atypical, given that those posting call the film “funny,” the director’s “weirdest” and call out its “X-Files-meets-The Bible script.” Scroll down for a […]
“First reactions” on social media are usually laudatory and vague, and those around Steven Spielberg’s upcoming Disclosure Day are no less so. But the specifics they do offer are intriguing and somewhat atypical, given that those posting call the film “funny,” the director’s “weirdest” and call out its “X-Files-meets-The Bible script.” Scroll down for a […]
The public consultation period was set to wrap up next week, but Ottawa is now extending the deadline for comments to July 22 and won't table legislation until the fall.
The public consultation period was set to wrap up next week, but Ottawa is now extending the deadline for comments to July 22 and won't table legislation until the fall.
Reality TV does not have an enviable track record of transferring small-screen success to the big screen. In 2003 the American Idol extension From Justin to Kelly, pairing the first Idol finalists Justin Guarini and Kelly Clarkson in a romantic teen comedy, is considered one of the worst films ever made. Survivor, The Amazing Race, […]
Reality TV does not have an enviable track record of transferring small-screen success to the big screen. In 2003 the American Idol extension From Justin to Kelly, pairing the first Idol finalists Justin Guarini and Kelly Clarkson in a romantic teen comedy, is considered one of the worst films ever made. Survivor, The Amazing Race, […]
About halfway into “Forever Your Maternal Animal,” a striking confession appears almost out of nowhere. The two main characters in the film, sisters in their early twenties, are sitting in a mall restaurant when the younger one says she has sex with the spirits who visit her room at night. She’s so detailed in her […]
About halfway into “Forever Your Maternal Animal,” a striking confession appears almost out of nowhere. The two main characters in the film, sisters in their early twenties, are sitting in a mall restaurant when the younger one says she has sex with the spirits who visit her room at night. She’s so detailed in her […]
The 2026 Cannes Film Festival is underway with French filmmaker Pierre Salvadori’s The Electric Kiss serving as the opening-night pic. Among the headline filmmakers debuting new works on the Croisette this year are previous Palme d’Or winners Cristian Mungiu and Hirokazu Kore-eda, two-time Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi and American indie veteran Ira Sachs. The […]
The 2026 Cannes Film Festival is underway with French filmmaker Pierre Salvadori’s The Electric Kiss serving as the opening-night pic. Among the headline filmmakers debuting new works on the Croisette this year are previous Palme d’Or winners Cristian Mungiu and Hirokazu Kore-eda, two-time Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi and American indie veteran Ira Sachs. The […]
How far would you go for a woman who claims with a straight face to be “endeavoring to bring about a change in consciousness through our art?” Not that far, probably: Confronted with that statement, most people would likely make a polite excuse and back away slowly. But most people are not actors, or even […]
How far would you go for a woman who claims with a straight face to be “endeavoring to bring about a change in consciousness through our art?” Not that far, probably: Confronted with that statement, most people would likely make a polite excuse and back away slowly. But most people are not actors, or even […]
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