AwardsWatch

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

Cannes Review: Wanuri Kahiu’s touching if familiar lesbian romance ‘Rafiki’

Erik Anderson May 9, 2018

[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Kena, short for Makena (played by Samantha Mugatsia) lives in the Slopes district of Nairobi, Kenya with her at-home mom and... Read More

Cannes Review: Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego’s immersive and unforgettable ‘Birds of Passage’

Mina Takla May 9, 2018

In his follow-up to the Oscar-nominated EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT, Colombian director Ciro Guerra teams up with director Cristina Gallego to deliver a remarkable feature about... Read More

Cannes Review: Asghar Farhadi’s ‘Everybody Knows’ is too safe and too slow to engage

Erik Anderson May 8, 2018

[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Everybody Knows opens in an aging bell and clock tower of a quiet Spanish town. There are names of teenage paramours... Read More

2018 Cannes at a Glance

Erik Anderson May 7, 2018

The 2018 Cannes Film Festival is this week and this page will be your updated Cannes at a Glance featuring links to reviews from myself... Read More

Cannes Podcast #1: Festival preview with guest Aaron Locke

Erik Anderson May 4, 2018

In this very first AwardsWatch Cannes Podcast, I am joined by Aaron Locke, who will be attending the festival for the first time. This will... Read More

Out Web Fest 2018: May 18-20 featuring Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds doc ‘Believer’

Erik Anderson May 4, 2018

Out Web Fest is the world’s only digital festival dedicated to celebrating web series, short films and music videos by and for the global queer... Read More