[The Daily] “Someone I Actually Like”

On November 4, almost a month to the day after Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey reported for the New York Times on the accusations of sexual harassment and abuse leveled against Harvey Weinstein, Mark Harris tweeted: “Thing I've been hearing a lot . . .

Read More

Related Posts:

• Seventy Years of Cannes: The Tin Drum in 1979 For my top-prize pick from the 1970s, I’ve chosen a film that enjoyed great commercial success while also stirring up international controversy. Though it was one of the highest-grossing German films of the decade, Volker Sc… Read More
• Matías Piñeiro’s Closet Picks <span . . . Read More … Read More
• [The Daily] Cannes 2017: Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled “Sofia Coppola delivers a very enjoyable southern melodrama, the tale of a handsome, badly wounded Union soldier in enemy terrain during the American civil war who throws himself on the mercy of a ladies’ seminary—of all the… Read More
• [The Daily] Cannes 2017: Bruno Dumont’s Jeanette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc “Love them or hate them, the films of Bruno Dumont never cease to confound,” begins Jordan Mintzer in the Hollywood Reporter. “For a long time the 59-year-old auteur was known for his uncompromising—and uncompromisingly blea… Read More
• [The Daily] Cannes 2017: Abbas Kiarostami’s 24 Frames “Cinema lost one of its pre-eminent pioneers when Abbas Kiarostami died on July 4, 2016,” writes Giovanni Marchini Camia at the Film Stage, where he notes that 24 Frames “was as good as finished” at the time of his passing. … Read More