Tag: cannes
Friday One Sheet: MAGELLAN
The majestic ode to the age of exploration and sail show in today's key art belies the revisionist historical film from slow cinema maestro Lav Diaz. With its hazy sunrise and high grain, and jaunty tilt (note the waterline, and...
MY SUNSHINE Interview: Director Hiroshi Okuyama Talks Isolated Protagonists, Sensitive Gazes, Difficulty in Shooting an Ice Rink
The filmmaker behind a sensitive and special drama explains the considerations he made to achieve those qualities.
KOKUHO Interview: Lee Sang-il and Satoko Okudera Discuss Japan's #2 Highest-Grossing Live-Action Film of All Time
Our exclusive interview with the minds behind Japan's box office smash-hit
Friday One Sheet: MY SUNSHINE
I am feeling whimsical in the back half of summer, and this simple design for Hiroshi Okuyama's nostalgic love story, My Sunshine, is doing the trick. Normally the Koreans excel at this kind of design, where there is little fuss...
Cannes 2025 Review: NOUVELLE VAGUE Knows It Shouldn't Exist
Richard Linklater and co. go walking, talking, and exploring with the Cahiers crew.
SUNSET BOULEVARD in 4K to Screen At Cannes, Disc Coming
Sunset Boulevard (1950) by Billy Wilder is, I daresay, one of the greatest films of all time. It showcases what Hollywood can do to people in one of the most exciting crossroads of fame, the industry, and noir. There's lots...
BRAND NEW LANDSCAPE Exclusive: Poster for Japanese Directors' Fortnight Premiere
Exclusive poster debut for one of Directors' Fortnight 2025's most intriguing offerings.
HONEY, DON'T! Trailer: A Coen Brother's Noir-Comedy
The Coen Brothers working separately have not exactly set the box office on fire, even if the films (The Tragedy of Macbeth, Drive Away Dolls) are well enough regarded. This may be about to change from Ethan Coen's Cannes bowing, star...
Friday One Sheet: EDDINGTON
Disturbing imagery is carrying much of the load for Ari Aster's latest film, a neo-western called Eddington. This grey-ish design from LA outfit, grandson, is a festival teaser poster for its upcoming Cannes bow. The black buffalo charging off a cliff (the odd...
Toronto 2024 Review: ANORA, This Palme D'Or Winner Is a Banger
The experience of watching Anora is akin to a spontaneous and unexpected invite to a epic house-wrecking party. It starts off with surprise and wonder, plunges into drunken euphoria, loses all your friends, projectile vomits on you in a car ride around...
Cannes 2024 Review: THE SUBSTANCE, One of the Year's Best Genre Movies
Without much expectation – because Revenge, director Coralie Fargeat's debut film, wasn’t as thrilling to me as to most genre cinema specialists – I went to a night screening of The Substance at the Cannes International Film Festival. The decision...
Cannes 2024 Review: UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE, A Triumph for Canadian Cinema
Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin directs and stars in his new Winnipeg-set, Farsi-language comedy feature.
Cannes 2024 Review: SANTOSH, Damning Portrait of Indian Police Brutality
Shahana Goswami and Sunita Rajwar star in Sandhya Suri's Hindi-language, British-Indian film about female cops.
Friday One Sheet: THE SUBSTANCE
This buzzy body horror picture out of Cannes, is the sophomore feature from Coralie Fargeat, whose blood-splattered Revenge was a hit on the festival circuit in 2017. The Substance had a much more disturbing and visceral bit of key art, one that seems to...
Cannes 2024 Review: THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE, A Potent Period Drama
One of the first nominees for the Palme d’or that was presented this year at the Cannes International Film Festival was The Girl with the Needle (Pigen med nålen), a great Danish drama, shot in black and white, set at...
Cannes 2024 Review: In THE SECOND ACT, Quentin Dupieux Continues to Amuse
Quentin Dupieux’s new film The Second Act (Le deuxième acte) opened the 77th edition of the Cannes International Film Festival. It’s noteworthy that it’s a Netflix co-production and, although this could mean that Dupieux eventually reaches many more people, there’s...
Cannes 2024 Review: MOST PEOPLE DIE ON SUNDAYS, Affecting Funeral Drama Marred By Slow Pace
Personal, vaguely auto-fictional stories are de rigueur for first-time filmmakers, especially actors turning directors.Iair Said, seen in last year’s The Delinquents, makes an undistinguished debut after trying his hand at a couple of shorts. Increasingly, subjects of coming-of-age tales...
Cannes 2024 Review: HOLY COW, French Cheese-Making Dramedy Is a Finely Crafted Debut Feature
Louise Courvoisier directed. A brash young man is humbled by provincial life.
Cannes 2024 Review: IT DOESN'T MATTER, A Black Man Comes of Age in Modern America
Jay Will and Christopher Abbott star as best friends in Josh Mond's second feature film after his 2015 debut, 'James White.'
Friday One Sheet: CREATURA
The 'polaroid' style one-sheet is a particular favourite of mine. As you can see below for Elena Martín's Cannes fêted Creatura, it allows room for pull quotes at the top, a well-kerned title below the image, and an ample credit block that...
