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My 5 Favorite Films At Cannes

For all the talk about how this was a mediocre year at the Cannes Film Festival, I think I personally saw a higher ratio of good to garbage than is my festival norm. Maybe I’m being Pollyanna-ish; maybe I just went in with lower expectations. Regardless: though certainly I saw films too mediocre to merit [...]

Cannes Diary: The Spotlight and Its Disappointments

Filmmakers Philippe Garrel and Kelly Reichardt are subjecting their new films to an unusually bright spotlight at Cannes. Can the movies handle it?

Cannes: La Frontière de l’aube

Philippe Garrel unveils his latest, a romance bordering on a horror film about fear of so-called “bourgeois happiness.”