In some ways, this is the easiest type of review to write. Cow is an empty attempt to engender emotional response to some farm animals. It employs nauseating camera work and repetitive,
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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As the film industry logs on to the first virtual edition of the Marché du Film at the Cannes Film Festival, filmmakers are in an unprecedented situation. For the four teams of
Keep ReadingForman vs. Forman (Czech Republic/France, 78 min.) Dir Helena Třeštíková and Jakub Hejna Oscar winning director Miloš Forman helped shape cinema for decades. From his internationally celebrated Czech output through Oscar winning
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