Cannes Review: Fallen Leaves is a Charming, Bittersweet Romance From Aki Kaurismäki
In 2006, Aki Kaurismäki was asked what he felt young filmmakers lacked. His response was almost Cartesian: “Humility," the director suggest...
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Cannes Review: Marco Bellocchio’s Kidnapped Inertly Examines the Catholic Church’s Antisemitism
For his last trick, at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, Italian maestro Marco Bellocchio turned the 1978 Red Brigade kidnapping and assassina...
Cannes Review: Nanni Moretti’s A Brighter Tomorrow is Soaked in Self-Righteous Nostalgia
Remember Titane? The day after Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or, a couple of summers ago in Cannes, Nanni Moretti took to Instagram and shared ...
Kandahar Review: Gerard Butler Leads a Political Thriller That Plays Both Sides
With this past January’s Plane and now Kandahar, B-movie mainstay Gerard Butler has officially entered his Sad Dad era, a key scene in this...
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Nicole Holofcener on Fighting for Small Character Moments and the Useless Aspects of Film School
There’s a comfort witnessing characters in a Nicole Holofcener film discuss banal, everyday topics—ones largely absent in cinema. In her latest, You Hurt My Fe...
MUBI Unveils June 2023 Lineup
MUBI has announced its lineup of streaming offerings for next month, including the exclusive streaming premiere of Albert Serra's extraordinary Pacifiction, a ...
Cannes Review: Michel Gondry’s The Book of Solutions Digs into the Magic and Hardships of the Filmmaking Process
When the film you’ve always wanted to make gets shut down by unconvinced producers, you have two choices: you still try to make it, or you make it. This is the...
Cannes Review: Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall is a Black Comic Legal Procedural
The ensuing days after a romantic breakup, even if it isn’t a cataclysmic one, are an uncanny time. Perhaps once the spell of verbal conflict and sparring's ce...
Cannes Review: How to Have Sex Examines the Ambiguities of Girlhood
Touching down in Heraklion, on the Greek island of Crete, marks the beginning of summer holidays for Tara (Mia McKenna-Bruce), Skye (Lara Peake), and Em (Enva ...
Sofia Coppola Will Release Her First Book This Fall Alongside Her New Film Priscilla
While there has not been a shortage of books about Sofia Coppola, the filmmaker has now completed her first book. A career-spanning summation, Sofia Coppola Ar...
The Criterion Channel Announce June Lineup: Method Acting, Marilyn Monroe, Louis Garrel & More
Just in time for Succession's end, let's look at method acting. The Criterion Channel are highlighting the controversial practice in a 27-film series centered ...
Cannes Review: With May December, Todd Haynes Finds a Mercurial, Humorous Perspective on a Scandal
It would be one thing for someone to have their life portrayed onscreen by an A-list actor, and another to invite that actor into their home for accuracy, to m...
Cannes Review: Joanna Arnow’s The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed Marks a Singular Debut
In The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, Ann, a lugubrious New Yorker, sleepwalks through her daily life––colorless job, perennially disapp...
Watch: Martin Scorsese & Cast Discuss Crafting Killers of the Flower Moon, Taking Risks, and Collaborating with the Osage Nation
Martin Scorsese's highly-anticipated Killers of the Flower Moon has finally entered the world, and the wait was worth it. While there most certainly will be a ...