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A Preview of the 2022 Rendez-Vous with French Cinema
The Rendez-Vous with French Cinema runs from March 3-13 at New York's Walter Reade theater.
The Rendez-Vous with French Cinema runs from March 3-13 at New York's Walter Reade theater.
Ben Kenigsberg looks at four new films at Cannes, including Todd Haynes's Velvet Underground documentary and an austere biopic of a Japanese soldier who refused to acknowledge WWII's end.
A preview of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, which starts next week.
A tribute to the late director and cinema historian, Bertrand Tavernier.
In memory of a supreme troublemaker of world cinema, the late Andrzej Żuławski.
CANNES, France -- The survivors of the 52nd Cannes Film Festival met at the Nice airport on Monday like applicants for an emergency airlift. The carnage of the awards ceremony was still fresh in our minds. A jury led by the Canadian director David Cronenberg had produced a list of awards so peculiar that it is safe to say no one understood it except Cronenberg -- and perhaps some, but not all, of his jury members. "Perverse," Variety called the verdict.
CANNES, France -- By the time I walked into my hotel after the Cannes Film Festival award ceremony Sunday night, the verdict was already in. Scandale! cried the desk clerks in unison, summarizing the television coverage. Cannes was reeling after a list of winners so unexpected and generally unpopular that the TV commentators were rolling their eyes. The instant verdict was that jury president David Cronenberg, the unorthodox Canadian director, had led his jury into the hinterlands of cinema and camped there.
Outside the Paramount hotel suite in Chicago last weekend, there was a big poster of Mel Gibson starring in "Braveheart." Someone had added a mustache and goatee to Gibson's face, and drawn an arrow going through his head.
