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.
Festivals & Awards
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.
Glamour Boys: Cannes Report, May 21, 2013
Steven Soderbergh’s “Behind the Candelabra” disappoints, Claire Denis’s “Bastards” baffles, and Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s “Grisgris” is a mixed bag. So it goes sometimes at Cannes.
Cannes’ Sha Na Na at Woodstock Moment: A Castle in Italy
The competition film “A Castle in Italy,” a lightweight comedy, seems strangely out of place.
Action, Laughs, Beauty: Cannes Report, May 20
Boos for Takashi Miike’s “Shield of Straw,” a muddled “Blind Detective” from Johnnie To and Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Great Beauty” lives up to its name.
Cannes: The Coen brothers
At Cannes, the Coen brothers discuss their inspirations for “Inside Llewyn Davis.”
Cannes Classics: Tip of “Fedora” to You
Billy Wilder’s under-appreciated 1978 “Fedora” returns to Cannes to remind us that some things, like the fear of aging among celebrities, never change.
Cannes reviews: Politics and troubled family lives in “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints,” “Blue Ruin,” and “Tip Top”
While Cannes’s red-carpet crowd toasts the Coen brothers’ tuneful “Inside Llewyn Davis,” the parallel programs have also turned a spotlight on America.
Violence, War, Death: Cannes Report, May 19
A day of grim films in which “Borgman” attempts Haneke-like surreal grimness and falls short, “The Missing Picture” and “Death March” turn artifice to their advantage to explore the horrors of war and loss, and Claude Lanzmann returns with a film about controversial figure Benjamin Murmelstein, the last president of the Jewish Council of Elders in the Theresienstadt ghetto.
Cannes reviews: Alejandro Jodorowsky returns with “The Dance of Reality” and “Jodorowsky’s Dune”
At Directors’ Fortnight, Alejandro Jodorowsky has one new feature and appears as the subject of another.
Rainy Day Blues: Cannes Report: May 18, 2013
After duds “Jimmy P.” and “Grand Central,” the Coen brothers’ “Inside Llewyn Davis” saves the day for Barbara Scharres.
Only Connect: Cannes Report, May 17
Asghar Farhadi (“A Separation”) returns with another look at unsolvable dilemmas, an erotic thriller goes all the way, and Hirokazu Kore-eda (“Nobody Knows”) tells another gentle tale of family life.
Cruisin’ Together: Cannes Day Three
Michał Oleszczyk falls for offbeat gay thriller “Stranger by the Lake” and gloriously eccentric essay-film “A Story of Children and Film.”
Cannes review: Marcel Ophüls puts his memoirs on film in “Ain’t Misbehavin (Un Voyageur)”
Two very different documentarians, Marcel Ophüls and Clio Barnard, premiere new work at Directors’ Fortnight.
Artifice and Real Life: Cannes Report, May 16, 2013
Barbara Scharres has a few choice words for François Ozon’s “Young & Beautiful” and Sofia Coppola’s “The Bling Ring,” but finds a gem in Ryan Coogler’s “Fruitvale Station.”
