AwardsWatch

Cannes Review: Zhao Tao is a Best Actress Contender in ‘Ash is Purest White’ from Jia Zhang-ke

Mina Takla May 13, 2018

One of the most commercial and straightforward films of his career, Jia Zhang-ke’s ASH IS PUREST WHITE is accessible but not superficial, entertaining but never... Read More

Cannes Review: ‘Border,’ Ali Abbasi’s thrilling supernatural gothic romance

Erik Anderson May 12, 2018

[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Ali Abbasi creates the grimmest of faerie tales as two outcasts find love in a hopeless place in this wild, wonderful,... Read More

Cannes Review: Mads Mikkelsen burns up the screen in icy ‘Arctic’

Mina Takla May 12, 2018

Survival films can go either way: they can be engaging viewing experiences that expand their scope beyond their basic premise or can be slogs that... Read More

Cannes Review: Pawel Pawlikowski’s bleak and beautiful ‘Cold War’

Mina Takla May 11, 2018

Pawel Pawlikowski’s COLD WAR is one of those films that you can respect but not outright love. Beautifully made but far more slight and bleaker... Read More

Cannes Interview: Wanuri Kahiu on her film Rafiki and the future of African cinema

Erik Anderson May 11, 2018

[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Rafiki director Wanuri Kahiu comes from a line of strong, forward-thinking women. Her mother, a doctor, was one of the first... Read More

Ryan Coogler Talk Highlights Importance of Visibility and the Business of Filmmaking

Erik Anderson May 11, 2018

[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Ryan Coogler is the king. Of box office, that is. When his adaptation of the Marvel’s Black Panther comic book series... Read More

Annapurna sets Spring 2019 release for LAIKA’s ‘Missing Link’

Erik Anderson May 10, 2018

LAIKA, the animation studio behind the Academy Award® nominated Kubo and the Two Strings, The Boxtrolls, ParaNorman, and Coraline, announces its fifth and most ambitious... Read More

Cannes Review: Paul Dano’s assured directorial debut ‘Wildlife’ starring Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal

Erik Anderson May 10, 2018

[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] The fracturing of an American family in 1960 is at the center of Wildlife (based on the novel by Richard Ford),... Read More

Cannes Review: Kirill Serebrennikov’s arthouse crowdpleaser ‘Leto’

Mina Takla May 10, 2018

Kirill Serebrennikov’s LETO is a tribute to music, dreams of youth and the power – and beauty of ambition. Despite a masterful and at times... Read More

Cannes Review: A.B. Shawky’s gripping and emotional debut ‘Yomeddine’

Mina Takla May 9, 2018

[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Rarely do debut features play in competition at Cannes. In fact, of the debut features that played in the festival’s most... Read More

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