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Showing posts with label Cannes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cannes. Show all posts
Saturday, October 31, 2020

Failed Oscar Campaigns: "The Front Runner" (2018)

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  As awards seasons pick up, so do the campaigns to make your film have the best chances at the Best Picture race. However, like a drunken s...
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Monday, February 24, 2020

A24 A-to-Z: #77. "Climax" (2019)

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Scene from Climax  (2019) In case you didn't know, A24 is one of the great purveyors of modern cinema. Since 2013, the studio has f...
Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Review: "Parasite" is a Sick and Desperate Masterpiece

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Scene from Parasite (2019) As its title would suggest, Parasite  is a film that has infected the public consciousness for most of 2019....
Wednesday, May 29, 2019

A24 A-to-Z: #66. "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" (2018)

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Scene from How to Talk to Girls at Parties In case you didn't know, A24 is one of the great purveyors of modern cinema. Since 2013,...
Thursday, December 13, 2018

A24 A-to-Z: #57. "The Killing of a Sacred Deer" (2017)

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Scene from The Killing of a Sacred Deer In case you didn't know, A24 is one of the great purveyors of modern cinema. Since 2013, th...
Friday, July 6, 2018

A24 A-to-Z: #41. "American Honey" (2016)

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Scene from American Honey In case you didn't know, A24 is one of the great purveyors of modern cinema. Since 2013, the studio has f...
Tuesday, June 26, 2018

A24 A-to-Z: #40. "The Sea of Trees" (2016)

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Scene from The Sea of Trees In case you didn't know, A24 is one of the great purveyors of modern cinema. Since 2013, the studio has...
Tuesday, May 15, 2018

The First "BlacKkKlansman" Trailer Shows Spike Lee at His Most Urgent

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Scene from BlacKkKlansman There's a lot that's currently going on over at the Cannes Film Festival. Among the most noteworthy i...
Thursday, May 10, 2018

Theory Thursday: "Wild At Heart" is Overrated

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Laura Dern Welcome to a weekly column called Theory Thursdays, which will be released every Thursday and discuss my "controversial...
Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Palme d'Or Winner "The Square" is High on Concept in First Trailer

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Scene from The Square If you want one big difference between world cinema and the more distilled American brand, one need not look furt...
Saturday, September 17, 2016

Failed Oscar Campaigns: "Carol" (2015)

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Scene from Carol As awards seasons pick up, so do the campaigns to make your film have the best chances at the Best Picture race. Howev...
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Monday, June 27, 2016

Review: "The Neon Demon" Confrims Refn's Transition From Vulgar Auteur Into An Endurance Test

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Scene from The Neon Demon In 2011, director Nicolas Winding Refn saw himself in a lawsuit over his film Drive . It was claimed that it ...
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

A Look at Woody Allen and Separating the Art and the Artist

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Woody Allen While my main goal on this blog is to not get too political, it's hard sometimes to avoid discussing certain things. If...
Thursday, May 5, 2016

Theory Thursday: "Dancer in the Dark" is the Best (Non-American) Palme d'Or Winner

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Scene from Dancer in the Dark Welcome to a weekly column called Theory Thursdays, which will be released every Thursday and discuss my ...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

The First Trailer for Cannes Favorite "The Lobster" is Strangely Funny

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Continuing the release of trailers for movies that played at Cannes is the latest from director Giorgos Lanthimos called The Lobster . Th...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

The First Trailer for "Youth" Explores the Speculative Beauty of Life

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Scene from Youth In 2013, director Paolo Sorrentino won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film with The Great Beauty . It was a film that swe...
Monday, August 10, 2015

The First "Louder Than Bombs" Footage Promises Intense Drama

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Scene from Louder than Bombs A little while ago, I mentioned quite a few films that premiered at Cannes that I was going to keep an eye...
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Thursday, July 30, 2015

Lesbian Drama "Carol" Receives New Release Date

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Cate Blanchett If you're already marking up your calendar for Oscars season, there's plenty of chance that director Todd Haynes...
Monday, June 29, 2015

The First Trailer for "Love" is Explicit and Explicitly Noe in Every Way

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If you read my post about films to check out from Cannes , there's a chance that you are at least vaguely familiar with director Gasp...
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Films to Watch Out For From This Year's Cannes Festival

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As the case with every year, the Cannes Film Festival remains the peak of international cinema. More than Sundance or Toronto Internation...