Wednesday, May 30 2012

Cannes 2012: Day 11 & 12 - ‘Mud’ + ‘Beyond the Hills’ + The Best of the Fest

By Jordan Cronk

Cannes finishes with up-and-comer Jeff Nichols' Mud and Romanian Cristian Mungiu's Beyond the Hills and we rank the best of Cannes 2012.

Tuesday, May 29 2012

Cannes 2012: Day 10 - ‘Cosmopolis’ + ‘11.25’ +‘The Taste of Money’

By Jordan Cronk

David Cronenberg directs and writes this adaptation of Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis, Koji Wakamatsu's take on Yukio Mishima in 11.25, and the really weak The Taste of Money from Korea's Im Sang-soo.

Friday, May 25 2012

Cannes 2012: Day 8 - ‘On the Road’ + ‘Post Tenebras Lux’

By Jordan Cronk

Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas' Post Tenebras Lux is the most visionary film of this year's Cannes festival. Meanwhile Walter Salles takes on Jack Kerouac’s cult coming-of-age novel, On the Road.

Wednesday, May 23 2012

Cannes 2012: Day 6 - ‘You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet’ + ‘Barbara’

By Jordan Cronk

Day six brings perhaps the final film from French legend Alain Resnais, whose You Ain’t See Nothin’ Yet has a shot at the big prize. Meanwhile New German Cinema movement director Christian Petzold returns with Barbara.

Tuesday, May 22 2012

Cannes 2012: Day 5 - ‘Amour’ + ‘In Another Country’ + ‘Like Someone in Love’

By Jordan Cronk

Day five witnesses a trio of films from some of the artform's leading lights: Michael Haneke returns with Amour, Hong Sang-soo competes with In Another Country, and the incomparable Abbas Kiarostami produces a new masterwork.

Monday, May 21 2012

Cannes 2012: Day 3 - ‘Tabu’ + ‘No’

By Jordan Cronk

Cannes offers up Pablo Larrain’s No, the rising Chilean director’s latest and most direct indictment of the Augusto Pinochet reign yet and Miguel Gomes’ Tabu, which is something of a new cinematic landmark.

Thursday, May 17 2012

Cannes 2012: Day 1 - Wes Anderson’s ‘Moonrise Kingdom’

By Jordan Cronk

Opening the festival with Moonrise Kingdom, beloved indie icon Wes Anderson’s first live action film in five years, only buoyed the camaraderie felt by Cannes attendees.

Wednesday, September 21 2011

Transformer, Singular: ‘Drive’ Sings the Body Electric

By Lee Dallas

Va-va-va-vroooom: Cannes Best Director winner Nicolas Winding Refn talks Drive with PopMatters.

Thursday, May 19 2011

Lars von Trier says he doesn’t deserve a Palme d’Or

By Steven Zeitchik

Wednesday, May 18 2011

Cannes 2011: The 6 Films You’ll Soon Be Hearing About

By Steven Zeitchik - Los Angeles Times (MCT)

Here are six movies you didn't know before that you're almost certainly to know about after the festival shuts its doors.