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Post-Cannes: Two Critics Look Back Over This Year’s Festival
Now that the Cannes Film Festival is over, critics Ben Kenigsberg and Michał Oleszczyk take a look back over the festival.
Chinese Realities: A New Exhibit at MoMA
Kevin B. Lee reports on the film series at MoMA that he co-curated.
They had faces then: Mike Leigh’s “Life is Sweet”
With its partly improvised dialogue and eruptions of argument, Mike Leigh’s “Life is Sweet,” now on Criterion DVD, gave viewers was insight into where the director had been, artistically. It also hinted at where he was going: into territory with far more visual and verbal polish.
Before Midnight Interviews
Katherine Tulich talks to Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater about returning once again to the characters from “Before Sunrise” and “Before Sunset” for the new film “Before Midnight.”
Cannes awards: The jury and winners respond to the awards, then party
Ben Kenigsberg recaps Cannes’s post-awards press conferences and closing-night party.
Awards Show Wrap-up: Cannes Report, May 26
Barbara Scharres reports on the winners at the Cannes Film Festival.
Coming to America: A Conversation with James Gray
Michał Oleszczyk talks with director James Gray about “The Immigrant.”
Cannes: Palme predictions
Ben Kenigsberg makes his predictions for Sunday night’s Cannes awards.
Fur Ever Polanski
Roman Polanski’s “Venus in Furs” served as a perfect closing movie of this year’s Main Competition at Cannes.
Palme de Whiskers: Cannes Report, May 25
It’s time once again fro Barbara Scharres’ annual award for Best Feline Performance of the Cannes Film Festival.
Cannes’ Piano Man
Will Michael Douglas take home a Best Actor prize from Cannes for his turn as Liberace in “Behind the Candelabra”?
Two Kinds of Drama: Cannes Report, May 24
James Gray’s “The Immigrant” maintains a tight focus on the Ellis Island experience, and Mohammad Rasoulof’s “Manuscripts Don’t Burn” dramatizes the inside of the cruel Iranian secret service.
Cannes: Bruce Dern and Will Forte visit “Nebraska”
Bruce Dern and Will Forte reminisce about their father-son road trip in Alexander Payne’s “Nebraska.”
Kinyarwanda
Far Flung Correspondent Seongyong Cho discusses “Kinyarwanda,” a powerful look at the genocide in Rwanda.
Book Excerpt: Guillermo Del Toro talks about the Best FIlm You’ve Never Seen
Robert K. Elder made a splash a few years ago with his book “The Film That Changed My Life,” a collection of interviews with directors about a single film that influenced their career. Now he’s back with “The Best Film You’ve Never Seen,” (published by the Independent Publishers Group) in which directors advocate for under-appreciated and critically maligned movies. Roger said of the book, “How necessary this book is! And how well judged and written! Some of the best films ever made, as Robert K. Elder proves, are lamentably all but unknown.” Here’s Elder’s interview with Guillermo Del Toro, who sings the praises of “Arcane Sorceror,” which Edgar Wright memorably described as “the ‘Barry Lyndon’ of horror films.”
Postcards from Chaz to Roger 2
When Chaz has gone to Cannes without Roger in the past, she has written
about the festival in the form of letters and postcards to Roger. This is her second post of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
