Power-mad leaders, guilty murderers, and others are constantly looking over their shoulders in this week’s festival of free Criterion films on Hulu, titled Paranoia! And it’s an international human condition, as demonstrated by these titles . . .
[The Daily] Cannes 2017: Valeska Grisebach’s Western “Custody of a white horse is one of several bones of contention between Bulgarian locals and visiting German laborers in Valeska Grisebach’s Western, a dispute that takes on the most classic symbolic dimension of the traditi…Read More
[The Daily] Cannes 2017: Tony Zierra’s Filmworker “The film industry is full of unassuming figures quietly holding everything together without ever demanding a share of the limelight,” begins Gwilym Mumford in the Guardian. Filmworker, a “tender documentary” premiering in t…Read More
[The Daily] Cannes 2017: Ruben Östlund’s The Square “If he hadn’t already laid claim to the title of king of the cringe-inducing confrontation and nabob of the nervous laugh with the withering Force Majeure, Ruben Östlund truly anoints himself with The Square, an excoriating …Read More
[The Daily] Cannes 2017: Robin Campillo’s BPM (Beats Per Minute) “Robin Campillo’s 120 Battements Par Minute [BPM (Beats Per Minute)] is a passionately acted ensemble movie about ACT UP in France in the late 80s, the confrontational direct-action movement which demanded immediate, large-s…Read More
[The Daily] Cannes 2017: Mathieu Amalric’s Barbara “To fans of the mononymous Barbara—the delicate-voiced, emotionally acute French chanteuse adored by everyone from Jacques Brel to François Mitterand—Mathieu Amalric’s mega-meta, dreamily blurred biopic-within-a-film may see…Read More
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