The Great Beauty: Sorrentino’s La Dolce Vita 2.0
This fresco of Rome’s high and low society is the year’s grandest, most exhilarating foreign film
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Postcards from Venice, Previews of Toronto
James Franco, Nicolas Cage and Matt Damon headline some of this year’s intriguing festival films
Palme d’Or Winner: Cannes Has the Hots for Adèle
The volcanic lesbian drama wowed the Jury headed by Steven Spielberg, which gave the Coen Brothers’ ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ second prize
Our Personal Palme d’Or Prizes
As another festival on the Croisette winds down, Richard and Mary Corliss pick their favorite movies, directors, and stars of Cannes 2013
The Home Stretch: What You Missed at Cannes
From China, Iran, Japan and the U.S., a sampling of the 66th annual festival’s cinematic cuisine
Seduced and Abandoned: The Dirty, Funny Business of Movies
Alec Baldwin and James Toback’s search for film financing at Cannes makes for a mammothly entertaining documentary
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 Reluctant Fundamentalist: How a Nice Islamic Guy Got Mixed Up in Terrorism
In Mira Nair’s thoughtful melodrama, an immigrant to the U.S. feels the lure of jihadism
Holy Motors: Leos Carax Flirts with a Cinematic Masterpiece
This vaudeville of film history is the year’s moviest movie
Postcards from the Festivals: Seven Films at Toronto and Venice
What did you miss by skipping the September fests? This batch of movies, some worth catching
Viva Venezia! Returning to the Venice Film Festival, the World’s Most Simpatico Cinematic Celebration
In its 69th session, Venice presents new films by Terrence Malick, Spike Lee and Paul Thomas Anderson. Read all about them right here over the next week.
A Golden Palm for The Tree of Life
The shy guy was a no-show again, and this time as the guest of honor. The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick’s grand view of the universe as reflected in one suburban Texas family in the 1950s, won the Palme d’Or, the top prize of the …