French proverb: Patience passe science. (There's nothing so shrewd as patience.) Cannes, once again soaked under a deluge of rain...
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Read moreThe Cannes Film Fest has thrust a few Best Actor contenders into the spotlight, and though there are many months...
Read moreYou have to appreciate a film festival that would put a movie as strange as Alex van Warmerdam’s Borgman in...
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Read moreToday while walking through the Palais du Festivals I saw Chaz Ebert. She was walking across the second floor, heading...
Read moreLast year the Weinstein Co. gave Cannes participants a chance to see clips from some films that had never before...
Read moreWilliam Faulkner once wrote, “The past is never dead. It's not even past.” This is the thrust of Asghar Farhadi’s...
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Read moreIn twenty years or so -- after we sift through the rubble of three decades of self-help, the fifteen minutes...
Read moreA young and beautiful woman has untold amounts of power over men and most women don’t realize it until we’re...
Read moreBaz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby is not a great film. It has moments of greatness, flickering beneath the spasms, shrieks...
Read moreWelp, it looks like there will be yet another record-breaking nomination for Ms. Streep as the August: Osage County drops....
Read moreFor anyone who missed hearing the news over a year ago, Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity will open in orbit with an...
Read moreI will be going to Cannes on Monday. I will also be writing for The Wrap. Living in Cinema's Craig...
Read moreThe first trailer gives you two pieces of vital info. 1) it's distributed by The Weinstein Co. which also has...
Read moreThe first review of note for Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring is by Kent Jones for Film Comment, calls it...
Read moreIs there anything worthwhile left to say in movies? More and more it feels like the end of something beloved...
Read moreGrandmaster is a great way to describe this director. Look ma, no guns. Just flying, acrobatic limbs and rain. Lots...
Read moreThe two things that ought to be remembered come Oscar time are probably the standout writing of Jeff Nichols as...
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