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Cannes 2022: An Annotated Table of Contents
An annotated table of contents featuring our complete coverage from the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
An annotated table of contents featuring our complete coverage from the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
The eighth and final video dispatch from the 2022 Cannes Film Festival features Justin Chang's reviews of Elvis, Godland and Tori and Lokita, as well as a conversation with filmmaker Pamela Guest, who started SAG-AFTRA's Sexual Harassment Prevention Committee.
Ruben Östlund's "Triangle of Sadness" won the Palme d'Or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival.
Park Chan-wook makes a "Vertigo" riff with "Decision to Leave." With "Tori and Lokita," the Dardenne brothers revisit some old interests.
Chaz Ebert's fifth video dispatch from Cannes 2019, featuring her interactions with Werner Herzog, Quentin Tarantino and more.
An updating table of contents for our videos and thumbnails covering the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.
On five films that premiered at Cannes and made their way to this year's TIFF, including the latest from the Dardennes, Park Chan-wook, Andrea Arnold, and more.
Lists from our critics and contributors on the best of 2014.
The ten best films of 2014, as chosen by the film critics of RogerEbert.com.
The 2014 Cannes Film Festival continues with reports on the Dardennes' "Two Days, One Night" and Zhang Yimou's "Coming Home."
Haifaa Al-Mansour, Keith Stanfield, Matt Zoller Seitz and more discuss "Film & Cultural Politics" at Ebertfest.
It's another cool and overcast day in Cannes, but one that promises to be dominated by pirates and outlaws in the morning, and kids in the afternoon. The out-of-competition premiere European screening of "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" was scheduled for the Grand Theatre Lumiere at 8:30 am. This meant that European critics would flock, but Americans like me were freed up to roam elsewhere for our viewing. For my first film I opted to walk down the Croisette to see a pirate of a very different kind in "Porfirio," a Colombian film by Alejandro Landes, in the Quinzaine (Directors Fortnight) section of the festival.
"Porfirio" is a scripted and lightly fictionalized account of the life of a man the Latin American press had dubbed "the air pirate." Actual events reenacted in the film by non-professional actors, including the original central figure in the story, Porfirio Ramirez Aldana. Porfirio made headlines in 2005 for hijacking a plane to Bogota.
What attracted Landes to the case after reading a sensationalized newspaper account was the fact that the hijacker is paralyzed from the waist down, confined to a wheelchair, and was wearing diapers at the time. The director spent five years working with his subject and his family to develop their trust, and only revealed to the man a few days before shooting began that he would play himself.
