Takashi Miike is at Cannes for the premiere of his (100th!) new film Blade of the Immortal, a jidaigeki (period drama) action film based on the manga series...
Asghar Farhadi's been spending some time on a (still-untitled) Spanish-language debut that'll feature Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem -- so much so that, wh...
The juxtaposition of supernatural thriller tropes and urgent socio-political issues in Kornél Mundruczó’s latest movie -- an original take on the superhero orig...
A shot late in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless encapsulates both the film’s overarching message and its author’s bludgeoning directorial approach. One of the prot...
Alfred Hitchcock might have been stating the obvious when he said, "If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfect ide...
This weekend will bring the debut screenings of our most-anticipated film of Cannes, Michael Haneke’s Happy End. Starring Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trint...
A rare film that we didn't even know was going to exist at the start of the year, Claire Denis is back with a new drama starring Juliette Binoche, Gérard De...
It may not win the Palme d'Or if the jury president has his way, but that doesn't lessen our anticipation for Bong Joon-hoo's Snowpiercer follow-up Okja. St...
Cannes Film Festival has now kicked off (our review of the opening night film) and there's still a wealth of highly-anticipated films left to premiere, thre...
Pasolini included an “essential bibliography” in the opening credits of Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, proffering five philosophical titles by the likes of Rol...
