Festivals & Awards
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.
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.”
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.
Everything’s Coming up “Rose”
Jerry Lewis returns to Cannes in a starring role in Daniel Noah’s “Max Rose,” which proves once again — as “The King of Comedy” did — that Lewis can deliver a nuanced serious performance.
Globe Trotting: Cannes Report, May 23
Alexander Payne’s “Nebraska” brings black and white, to the competition, while “Omar” delivers moral shades of gray to the Palestinian/Israeli conflict and “Michael Koolhaas” looks good in the long shots, but needs more emotional subtlety.
Cannes: Roger Ebert honored with American Pavilion panel and “500 thumbs up” on the beach
Today the American Pavilion remembered Roger Ebert with a panel and beachfront thumbs-up salute.
Cannes review: Robert Redford fights the elements in “All Is Lost”
Robert Redford braves the high seas alone in the shipwreck drama “All Is Lost.”
Am I Blue?: Cannes Report, May 22
“Only God Forgives” commits the unforgivable sin of being boring, “Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight” is about old white men arguing about race, and “Blue is the Warmest Color” takes its time to follow the transition from uncertain teenager to knowing adult.
Cannes: Yacht parties, Faulkner, and cannibal families
If you go to a yacht party, don’t expect to be living out your own version of “The Talented Mr. Ripley.”
Postcards from Chaz to Roger
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. These are the postcards she sends to him this year.
Love & Money with James Toback
James Toback discusses his new documentary, “Seduced and Abandoned,” which traces the life of a failed movie project. He also discusses the ultimate fate of humanity. Seriously.
