[caption id="attachment_25027" align="aligncenter" width="624"] Common and John Legend perform Oscar winning song "Glory"[/caption] Last night should have felt terrible, at least for me. I saw the filmmakers behind two of my favorite nominees, Boyhood and…
‘The Square is the most divisive film of the year!’ There: I’ve provided a nice blurb for anyone who wants it about Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or-winning film. But the blurb may not mean exactly what…
Andrey Zvyagintsev convinced me that his new movie, Loveless, was great pretty early in the first reel. We’ve seen a married couple, Boris and Zhenya, fighting in their apartment, and it’s clear they despise each…
Original Record Date: June 18, 2017 For this episode, Justin and G Clark review Scarecrow, the 1973 Palme d’Or co-winner starring Al Pacino and Gene Hackman. Following that, speaking of Palme d’Ors, is a recap…
Original Record Date: May 21, 2017 For this episode, Justin and G Clark review the John Cassavetes classic A Woman Under the Influence, which happens to be a blind spot for Justin! Before diving into…
این چیزی است که مانند چیزهای دیگر نه You know what I love about Asghar Farhadi films? They’re all awake. So many films just seem content with presenting identikit characters sleepwalking through worn, familiar plots. …
A rock flies through the window of a well-furnished middle class apartment. Looking in bewilderment at the occurrence is Romeo Aldea, a doctor in a small Romanian city. Who would do such a thing? There…
It may sound silly for how nonexistent our chances of going are, but we're always excited when the Cannes Film Festival lineup is announced. For many of us that means waiting long and hard for…
This year's Cannes Film Festival seems to be materializing a lot quicker than usual. In past years it's often taken until March to decide on an opening night film, which this year felt like a…
Predicting the winners at Cannes is often a folly, but ever so often the expected winner actually wins. Consider this one of those instances, as the coveted Palme d'Or has gone to Abdellatif Kechiche's Blue…
I'm not quite as savvy with director Jim Jarmusch's work as I'd like to be, having only really seen Down by Law, but been kind of mesmerized by his work from a distance. Heading into…
James Gray sounds like a director we should be more familiar with, but he just hasn't made enough films that make a lasting impression. Not to say prior Cannes debuts like We Own the Night…
Day 9 closed at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, and whilst things are certainly settling down, we've still got a handful of exciting titles still to witness. Roman Polanski's Venus in Fur, James Gray's The…
What other way does a filmmaker like Alexander Payne get into Cannes than by going black & white? This isn't so much about quality, since we know from experience even terrible films land at Cannes,…
Before you call me out on it, I'm not doing a review round-up for Steven Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra. Not because it's not a legit film entry of the festival, which it is, but because…
Two years back, Nicolas Winding Refn really smacked it down hard at Cannes with Drive. That astonishment having fermented over time, Only God Forgives ended up smacking down, too, but apparently on its face. @DavidPoland:…
We're hurtling forward towards the end of Cannes now, which makes the subject of review round-ups all the more stressful. Do we really want to see an end in sight for this amazing festival of…
Things move fast at Cannes, and that allows a lot of films to slip through the cracks. Yes, much of the focus is on the films in competition, but the sidebars are often just as…
[caption id="attachment_19607" align="aligncenter" width="540"] Oscar's got a cat! Can Oscar get an Oscar?[/caption] Wind the clocks back to the 61st episode of the Film Misery podcast, you'll hear Alex profess that Inside Llewyn Davis is…