Museum scrapped its film program for a star-studded partnership aimed at courting showbiz bucks — helmed by the nation's most controversial critic
Utopian ends
A town rallies to help an immigrant in Aki Kaurismaki's latest
CANNES, FRANCE. The 64th Cannes Film Festival provided an exceptionally rich and varied slate and the jury--headed by Robert De Niro--proved both gracious and judicious in dividing their prizes among eight films.
The Artist CANNES, FRANCE -- The fun is winding down and the sad thing is, there could have been even more. Cannes's programmers had carefully contrived a Palme d'Or celebrity death match between two wildly polarizing contenders with Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life in the white trunks an ... More >>
CANNES, FRANCE -- That faint noise wafting in mid-afternoon from across the Atlantic will not be the cacophony of bravos raising the Grand Palais roof in appreciation of the 65th Cannes Film Festival's opening attraction -- rather it will be the sound of the prolonged smooch that the fest's ... More >>
Also, Daytime Drinking, Irene in Time and more
Chinese takeout with father-and-son filmmakers Azazel and Ken Jacobs
Wonderful whores
Ingmar Bergman, 1918–2007; Michelangelo Antonioni, 1912–2007
Also Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox, Tekkonkinkreet
A fan's notes
Darko director’s Cannes premiere is prophetic in all the wrong ways
The Girl Next Door and Nói
From Finland with love
Fassbinder at LACMA
The Oscars give peace a glance
The 55th Cannes film festival
Michael Almereyda’s Great Dane
Some notes on movies and their critics
