Film Festivals

‘Dheepan’ The Jury of the 68th Cannes Film Festival, presided over by Joel and Ethan Coen and including Rossy de Palma, Guillermo Del Toro, Xavier …

‘Rams’ This year’s Un Certain Regard jury, presided over by Isabella Rossellini (other members: Haifaa al-Mansour, Nadine Labaki, Panos H. Koutras and Tahar Rahim) have …

‘Beyond My Grandfather Allende’ Marcia Tambutti Allende’s Beyond My Grandfather Allende has won “Cannes’ first L’Oeil d’Or, awarded to its best documentary,” reports Variety‘s John …

‘Macbeth’ “As the shortest, sharpest and most stormily violent of William Shakespeare’s tragedies, Macbeth may be the most readily cinematic,” begins Guy Lodge in Variety. …

‘Chronic’ “Mexican provocateur Michel Franco is a filmmaker of cool-blooded precision and intelligence,” begins Guy Lodge, writing for Time Out. “Yet filmgoers outside festivals largely …

‘The Treasure’ Corneliu Porumbiou’s The Treasure is “one of the festival’s best and a real pleasure in these last dwindling days,” announces Notebook editor Daniel …

‘Embrace of the Serpent’ The Directors’ Fortnight doesn’t present awards itself, but some of its sponsors do. This year, the Art Cinema Award, presented by …

‘Yakuza Apocalypse’ “Takashi Miike’s 257,962nd feature film (this year) received a Special Screening in the Directors’ Fortnight, which basically means that they couldn’t quite justify …

‘Valley of Love’ “Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert, those enduring monuments of French cinema, last shared the screen in Maurice Pialat’s 1980 Loulou as a …

‘By Sidney Lumet’ First up, David Rooney in the Hollywood Reporter: “How fitting that By Sidney Lumet, documentary maker Nancy Buirski’s engrossing career chronicle of …