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Cannes 2021

Cow Is Udderly Terrible

by Jason Gorber
July 27, 2021April 6, 2022
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Cow is an empty attempt to engender an emotional response to some farm animals via nauseating camera work and repetitive, banal shots of bovines.

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Cannes 2021- Bigger Than Us, clumsy as it is, will inspire young activists

by Jason Gorber
July 27, 2021July 28, 2021
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As part of the 2021 festival, Cannes dedicated a sidebar to “Cinema for the climate.” This group of mostly non-fiction films tackled various storylines that somehow relate to environmental causes. This, combined

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Cannes 2021: Todd Haynes’ Velvet Underground Is a Definitive Portrait

by Jason Gorber
July 25, 2021October 16, 2021
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Haynes’ film is quite simply one of the best of the breed. This is easily a definitive portrait of the band that feels like the Velvets’ last testament.

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Cannes 2021: ‘Val’ Is One of the Best Biographical Docs in Recent Memory

by Jason Gorber
July 22, 2021July 26, 2021
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He emerged on the scene with implausibly good looks, the stuff of matinee idol dreams. He studied in one of the most prestigious acting schools in New York, did plenty of theatre,

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A Night of Knowing Nothing Wins L’Œil d’Or at Cannes

by Pat Mullen
July 17, 2021September 5, 2021
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Payal Kapadia's A Night of Knowing Nothing wins the L’Œil d’Or, Cannes' prize for documentary cinema, with her experimental debut feature. Sergei Loznitsa nets a special mention.

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Babi Yar. Context Review: Sergei Loznitsa’s Deeply Moving Witness to Dark Days

by Jason Gorber
July 14, 2021
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In September 1941, on the banks of the Babi Yar ravine, some 34,000 Jewish men, women, and children were rounded up, shot, and buried in the loose sand. It was the beginning

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JFK Revisited Review: Oliver Stone Goes Conspiracy Quack

by Jason Gorber
July 14, 2021
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In high school in the late 1980s, we had a visiting “JFK scholar.” (By day, he was a janitor at another local school.) He would come to give evening presentations about the

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Cannes 2021: A Front Row Seat with Mark Cousins’ The Story of Film

by Jason Gorber
July 6, 2021August 25, 2021
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For over a decade, Mark Cousins has provided some of the most ambitious filmmaking regarding the art of cinema itself. His epic The Story of Film: An Odyssey was structured as a

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