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Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 9:30PM Round 1 if you missed it
The stars came out for the Opening Ceremony, Opening Film (Coupez! - read Elisa's review) and an Out of Competition Top Gun Maverick premiere.
Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 4:30PM 
We'll do this in quartet rounds, to bring you beauty on the regular, and so as not to overwhelm ourselves.
Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 11:13AM Elisa Giudici reporting again from Cannes!
Cannes is back again trying to rewrite its new normal. After the skipped 2020 edition and the anomalous summery one in 2021, the 75th Cannes Film Festival is has kicked off with the Croisette in full blossom. Masks are almost gone in theatres (even if before every movie a recorded voice “strongly suggests” to wear one), Marché du film (the huge Film Market's event in Cannes) has ended a period of crisis and low presence. COVID-19 changed the French festival and some changes are here to stay...
Cannes, Final Cut, Michel Hazanavicius, Romain Duris, film festivals Thursday, May 12, 2022 at 12:30AM The next episode of our series, 'Hit Me With Your Best Shot,' arrives Thursday night. Since the Cannes Film Festival is around the corner, it's focused on Wong Kar Wai's Happy Together, which screened at the Croisette 25 years ago. You still have time to participate! Here's Cláudio's entry.
In film criticism, few expressions vex me more than the old "style over substance" adage. To presuppose the audiovisual stylings of any picture should be subordinate to its text, thus taking for granted that true depth exists only in narrative rather than form, is a fundamental misunderstanding of cinema as an art. Such matters come to mind because the works of Wong Kar Wai represent one of the best counterpoints to these erroneous wisdoms. The director's style is indissociable from whatever meaning, narrative, or emotion the viewer can take from his films. That is especially true of Happy Together, one of his masterpieces and one of my all-time favorite pictures…
Sunday, May 8, 2022 at 9:20AM by Mark Brinkerhoff
NEON, the enfant terrible of indie film distributors (Parasite, Titane, The Worst Person in the World, etc.), has released a full trailer for the new David Cronenberg film, Crimes of the Future, so you know what that means! Let’s roll…
