Alec Baldwin and James Toback’s search for film financing at Cannes makes for a mammothly entertaining documentary
The Coens’ Inside Llewyn Davis: O Brothers, Where Art Thou?
The tale of a truculent folksinger in early-’60s Greenwich Village comes to thrilling life only when it sings
The Past: After the Oscar-Winning A Separation Comes the Divorce
Iranian master Ashgar Farhadi and ‘The Artist’ star Bèrènice Bejo team for a harrowing martial thriller
Brief Panic as Blanks Fired During Cannes TV Show
A live outdoor television broadcast from the Cannes Film Festival was briefly interrupted Friday when what sounded like gunshots sent crew and spectators scurrying for cover.
Lock Up Your Daughters! Part 2: François Ozon’s Young & Beautiful
A schoolgirl becomes a call girl in this evocative drama with a star-making role for Marine Vacth
Lock Up Your Daughters! Part 1: Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring
In her fictionalized account of the teen girls who robbed the homes of Hollywood celebrities, the director offers a portrait of the idle rich without coloring or character
Cannes 2013: 20 Films for Our 40th Festival
Screening on La Croisette this year are new offerings from Joel and Ethan Coen, Sofia Coppola, Jim Jarmusch, and Roman Polanski
The Palme d’Amour: Director Michael Haneke Takes Cannes’ Top Prize—Again
Michael Haneke’s quietly magnificent story of love on the brink of death takes the top prize, while seven American films oozing with star quality get no love at all
Palme d’Or Preview: Handicapping Five Top Contenders at Cannes
On the Festival’s final day, we consider films from the U.S., the U.K., Romania, Denmark and France
Norman Lloyd: Hitchcock’s Saboteur Is a World-Class Raconteur
He worked and played with Orson Welles, Charlie Chaplin, Jean Renoir, Elia Kazan, Bertolt Brecht — and at a vital 97, he gave the best show at Cannes 2012
Pretty Boys Gone Wild, Part 2: Robert Pattinson in Cosmopolis
The Twilight star plays a young billionaire on a crosstown death ride in David Cronenberg’s bland denunciation of wretched excess
Pretty Boys Gone Wild, Part 1: Zac Efron in The Paperboy
The tweens’ dreamboat gets down and dirty in this lurid, racially charged melodrama
Second Annual Edition: If I’d Been Tweeting from Cannes…
…it’d be a miracle, since I have no Twitter account, no smart phone and no desire to instantly embarrass myself in front of my dozens of followers.
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