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Post Sarkozy Cannes 6
THE HUNT (Thomas Vinterberg) By Robert Koehler The strange case of Thomas Vinterberg is a model of a director not to follow, lest you fall into the chasm known as Submarino (2010). The case, though,...
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Post Sarkozy Cannes 7
AMOUR (Michael Haneke) By Robert Koehler Having just turned 70, Michael Haneke appears to be turning a new leaf in his abrasive view of humanity as being, for all its attempts at civilization, barely...
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Cannes Awards
Blue is the Warmest Color By Patrick Z. McGavin Cannes is as much of an endurance test as a film festival. The organizers have their own peculiar way of how to slot the 20 competition titles. After a...
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Highlights from Toronto
By Patrick Z. McGavin With some 278 features shown at this year’s edition, Toronto is not just a film festival; it’s a virtual orgy of cinema. No matter how hard one tries, the festival proves...
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South by Southwest 1
By Robert Koehler Marty Jackitansky, a rather foul human being whom you can’t take your eyes off of in writer-director Joel Potrykus’ Buzzard—by many millions of miles the best movie yet screened at...
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Standout Melodramas at IFFLA
One of the great things about living in Los Angeles is the many smaller festivals throughout the year that focus on regional cinema, giving us a broader sense of the movies being made in any given...
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Vidor and Ulmer at TCM Fest
Photographer: Mark Hill The TCM Classic Film Festival wrapped Sunday, and as always, it was a whirlwind of celebrity appearances, new prints, flocks of out-of-town tourists, and general TCM geekdom....
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Cannes Dispatch #1
By Patrick McGavin The 67th edition of this year’s film festival is roughly one-third over, and the early signs are pretty ecstatic. The competition has been tightly slotted, with just 18 features,...
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Ceylan’s Winter Sleep
By Patrick Z. McGavin The festival is over, and the best films from Cannes embody what truly matters: the ability to move backward and forward, projecting a sense of the moment, live bulletins of a...
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Stephanie Spray’s and Pacho Velez’ Ride to Nirvana
By Robert Koehler Possibly more than the previous feature and short work produced by Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab, which includes the groundbreaking Sweetgrass and Leviathan, Manakamana...
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