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Cannes 2021: Bergman Island, Drive My Car, The Innocents
Ben Kenigsberg reviews two films about the creative process, Mia Hansen-Løve's Bergman Island and Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Drive My Car, from Cannes.
Ben Kenigsberg reviews two films about the creative process, Mia Hansen-Løve's Bergman Island and Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Drive My Car, from Cannes.
A video interview with co-writer/director Joachim Trier about his icy sci-fi parable, "Thelma."
Eskil Vogt's "Blind"; Reflections on "Ex Machina"; Evangelicals open door to debate on gay rights; How "Jaws" misrepresented the great white; Cara Seymour interviews Mary Harron.
A preview of the Chicago Critics Film Festival, featuring "The End of the Tour," "Me & Earl & the Dying Girl," "The Overnight," "Digging For Fire," "Results," and much more!
Sometimes movies provide the moments I empathize with even though I am completely different from their characters. I remember how I sympathetically reacted to one particular scene around the end of "The Hurt Locker" (2008) because I would also be at a loss in its hero's circumstance unless my family or others accompanied me. Several months after watching that movie, I thought about that scene after wandering alone around the aisles of a big supermarket in the suburban area of Des Plaines, Illinois for at least more than 20 minutes until I settled on a loaf of white bread and a bottle of marmalade after lots and lots of hesitation.
