Please help me welcome the new Editor-in-chief for Rogerebert.com, Matt Zoller Seitz. What Roger and I found refreshing about Matt is his ability to spot and encourage talent in other journalists, critics and video essayists. He mentored them with a benevolent style that helped to bring out the best in what they did. Sound like someone we know?
Greetings! My name is Matt Zoller Seitz. I’m the new editor of RogerEbert.com.
Now that the Cannes Film Festival is over, critics Ben Kenigsberg and Michał Oleszczyk take a look back over the festival.
Kevin B. Lee reports on the film series at MoMA that he co-curated.
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.
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.”
Ben Kenigsberg recaps Cannes’s post-awards press conferences and closing-night party.
Barbara Scharres reports on the winners at the Cannes Film Festival.
Michał Oleszczyk talks with director James Gray about “The Immigrant.”
Ben Kenigsberg makes his predictions for Sunday night’s Cannes awards.
Roman Polanski’s “Venus in Furs” served as a perfect closing movie of this year’s Main Competition at Cannes.
It’s time once again fro Barbara Scharres’ annual award for Best Feline Performance of the Cannes Film Festival.
Will Michael Douglas take home a Best Actor prize from Cannes for his turn as Liberace in “Behind the Candelabra”?
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.
Bruce Dern and Will Forte reminisce about their father-son road trip in Alexander Payne’s “Nebraska.”
Far Flung Correspondent Seongyong Cho discusses “Kinyarwanda,” a powerful look at the genocide in Rwanda.
