Cannes

Since our resident genius Landon Palmer is out on the town this week at South By Southwest, I am foolishly filling in to talk about…

When writing about Dogtooth the question is not, as it is in approaching many film reviews, whether or not some elements of a film work…

Let’s make one thing clear: A Prophet, which earned significant acclaim at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival (where it won the Grand Prix), does not…

Remembering the best of times for Miramax.

In Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, director Lee Daniels pulls off an improbable feat. Within a grim world in which the worst…

Warning: In the interest of discussing the problem of spoilers, this article discusses the act of spoiling in criticism of the film Antichrist, a discussion…

When Lars von Trier co-wrote the Dogme 95 manifesto quite some time ago with fellow European filmmakers, he mandated that, for a film to receive…

From writer-director Cherien Dabis, Amreeka takes on a loaded subject, strips it of its political ramifications and draws out the common humanity underwriting even the…

I thought about creating a title that would evoke a sense of the rising of the dark destroyer of the world coming around the time…