2019 Oscars: A Look at Asian Films in This Year’s Foreign Language Oscar Race
Our weekly Foreign Language Oscar race analysis pieces continue this week with a special look at the Asian films in this year’s race. Asian films... Read More
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2018 Cannes: ‘Border,’ ‘Girl,’ win top Un Certain Regard awards
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] The Un Certain Regard section of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival has given the troll romance film Border (Gräns) its top... Read More
Cannes Review: Alice Rohrwacher’s ‘Lazzaro Felice’ is one of the fest’s best
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] The first hour of Alice Rohrwacher’s third feature Lazzaro Felice (Happy as Lazzaro) are as languidly paced as a film could be.... Read More
Cannes Interview: Wanuri Kahiu on her film Rafiki and the future of African cinema
[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
Cannes Review: Kirill Serebrennikov’s arthouse crowdpleaser ‘Leto’
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: Wanuri Kahiu’s touching if familiar lesbian romance ‘Rafiki’
[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
2018 Cannes: Enfant terrible Lars von Trier returns; Terry Gilliam’s ‘Don Quixote’ to Close Fest
Seven years after being banned from the festival and ‘persona non grata,’ Danish director Lars von Trier will return to the Croisette this year with... Read More
Cannes Classics to celebrate the 50th anniversary of 2001: A Space Odyssey
Cannes Classics to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey in Cannes, with world premiere of a 70mm print of the director’s 1968... Read More
Cannes 2018: What We Could See, What We Want to See on the Croisette
We’re just over three weeks from the announcement of the official lineup of the 71st Cannes Film Festival (April 12) but I’ve been mulling over... Read More
2018 Cannes: ‘Nocturama’ director Bertrand Bonello to chair the Cinéfondation and short films jury
French filmmaker Bertrand Bonello (Tiresia, L’Apollonide, Saint Laurent) will succeed Christian Mungiu to chair the Cinéfondation and short films Jury of the 71st edition of... Read More
Philadelphia Film Critics Circle (PFCC) Winners: ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Sinners’ Fight It Out 
Boston Online Film Critics Association (BOFCA) Winners: ‘One Battle After Another,’ Wagner Moura, Rose Byrne and More 
Georgia Film Critics Association (GAFCA) Nominations: ‘One Battle After Another’ Leads with 12 
Delroy Lindo, Michelle Satter, Sony Pictures Among African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) Honorees