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Cannes Review: The Coens Brothers' 'Inside Llewyn Davis' Is A Funny, Melancholy Look At A Wayfaring Stranger

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • May 18, 2013 5:03 PM
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Inside Llewyn Davis, Oscar Isaac
Reviews
Long hours on the road, sleeping on sofas, eating very little, playing shows for little money; it's a wonder why anyone struggles to make it as a musician. But for Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) there really isn't any other option to playing music. "...And what, just exist?" he counters, when his sister suggests he stops couch surfing, borrowing money and barely getting by, and re-enter the Merchant Marine. While Llewyn can't quite put into words the passion that sustains an existence perpetually on the fringes, hustling for the next dollar, it's that weary energy that drives the Coen Brothers' "Inside Llewyn Davis."
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More: Inside Llewyn Davis, Reviews, Review, Cannes Film Festival, Oscar Isaac, Coen Brothers, Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, Adam Driver, John Goodman, Garret Hedlund

Watch: Brick Tamland Wishes You A Happy Easter In New Trailer For 'Anchorman: The Legend Continues'

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • May 18, 2013 1:39 PM
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News
If you went to see "Star Trek Into Darkness" this weekend, you may have glimpsed a nice little surprise; a new teaser trailer for arguably our single most anticipated motion picture of the year. Not "The Wolf Of Wall Street" or "Twelve Years A Slave," or "The Counselor" or even "Inside Llewyn Davis" (which our crack Cannes contingent are lining up for as we speak), but a little film called "Anchorman: The Legend Continues."
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Cannes Review: 'A Touch Of Sin' Sees Jia Zhang-ke Change Things Up, With Peculiar, Bloody Results

  • By Jessica Kiang
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  • May 18, 2013 12:45 PM
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A Touch of Sin, Jia Zhang-ke.
Festivals
Ooh-ed and aah-ed over, but largely in more arcane cinephile circles, Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke (Venice winner “Still Life,” Cannes 2012 doc ”I Wish I Knew,” “The World”) has made a name for himself to date with detailed, glacially paced, social realist films, often in the documentary tradition, set against a backdrop of a modern-day China that we rarely see: the China of disenfranchisement, displacement and social unease which comprises the flip side of the globalisation and economic boom times that make more headlines abroad. It provides fascinating, glimpse-behind-the-curtain subject matter, and Jia is nothing if not authentic, but his measured, long-take style can try the patience to the degree that really, the reason that we had this film as one to watch out for on our Cannes Anticipated list was because we’d heard that for the first time, Jia had incorporated elements of genre into his social critique. And we have always believed that just a spoonful of genre can help the dense social commentary go down.
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More: Cannes Film Festival, Reviews, A Touch of Sin, Zhang Ke Jia, Review

Watch: Trailer For Alejandro Jodorowsky's First Film In 23 Years, 'The Dance Of Reality'

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • May 18, 2013 12:01 PM
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News
For all the Goslings and Grays and Gatsbys on the Croisette, for some, the biggest news at Cannes this year is the return of Alejandro Jodorowsky. The French/Chilean filmmaker, the man behind cult hits "El Topo" and "The Holy Mountain," hasn't made a film for 23 years, since 1990's "The Rainbow Thief," but is all over Cannes; a documentary about his ill-fated attempt to film "Dune" is premiering, and his return to directing with "The Dance Of Reality" just screened this morning.
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Watch: Cast & Crew Talk Superman In New Featurette From 'Man Of Steel'

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • May 18, 2013 11:30 AM
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Man of Steel, Cavill
News
We're now a month away from seeing "Man Of Steel" on screens, and there's still several ways it could go. We could be looking at a "Batman Begins," a film that revives the franchise and goes on to bigger things. We could be seeing a "Superman Returns," one that pretty much stalls the DC hero and leaves it needing another reboot. Or we could be looking at something huge, an "Avengers" style hit. The trailers have been strong, the buzz good and screenings should be underway in a few weeks.
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Cannes Review: The Mind Heals The Soul In Meandering & Unsatisfying 'Jimmy P.'

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • May 18, 2013 10:45 AM
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Reviews
If Freddie Quell came back from World War II as an unhinged animal, Jimmy Picard (Benicio Del Toro) is the polar opposite, an intensely quiet but no less wounded man, who is out of sorts in post-war America. But he is also a Native American, which brings to his life a whole set of experiences (especially at the time) foreign to common understanding, giving his plight an extra layer of complexity. And it's within this milieu that Arnaud Desplechin presents the true story "Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian)," a picture that meanders and focuses far too heavily on its subtitle, rather than on its two lead characters, who are presented with promise, but are ultimately left underdeveloped.
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More: Reviews, Review, Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian), Cannes Film Festival, Benicio Del Toro, Mathieu Amalric

Ridley Scott's Moses Movie 'Exodus' Opens Dec 12th 2014, Fassbender's 'Assassin's Creed' On May 22nd 2015

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • May 18, 2013 9:58 AM
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News
We're closing on the mid-way point to the year, with several of 2013's biggest movies already in theaters, but as fast as films hit theaters, the studios nab future release dates sometimes years away, hoping to stake their claim on key territory. And last night, the release calendar just got three new additions across the next couple of years.
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More: Exodus, Assassin's Creed, Labor Day

Cannes Review: 'Like Father, Like Son' A Tender, Loving Portrait Of Parenthood

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • May 18, 2013 9:12 AM
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Like father, like son, BY HIROKAZU KORE-EDA
Reviews
How is being a parent defined? By your actions, or does the simple virtue of being related by blood automatically give you that title? Those questions and more lie at the core of "Like Father, Like Son," a tender and involving portrait by Kore-Eda Hirokazu that centers on two set of parents -- and one father in particular -- who find the relationships to their sons severely tested, forcing them to reassess everything they thought that new about them and about themselves, as well.
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Cannes 2013: Kristin Scott Thomas Shines In Sizzle Reel Footage From 'Only God Forgives'

  • By Jessica Kiang
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  • May 17, 2013 6:17 PM
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News
Finally from our roundup of tonight’s Weinstein Company 2013 preview reel (you can read about “The Immigrant” here and the rest of the movies teased here), and well, we’ve kind of saved the best for last. Or at least, the best received on the night. Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Only God Forgives” is without a doubt one of the most hotly anticipated movies playing at this Cannes Festival, promising to send a jolt of that amoral, violent, genre cool he does so well surging through a lineup that’s a little heavy on the “serious adult drama” side otherwise.
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More: Kristin Scott Thomas, Only God Forgives, Cannes Film Festival, Reviews, Review

Cannes Review: Death Lingers & Lifts In Thoughtful 'Miele'

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • May 17, 2013 5:39 PM
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Reviews
If Michael Haneke's "Amour" presented death as a sobering inevitability, one that will test the bounds of our ability to love, actress Valeria Golino has a slightly more nuanced perspective in her directorial debut "Miele." While the subject of euthanasia is the entryway into the story, Golino wisely strays from turning her film into an Issues Movie, and instead opts to explore the death both as a vessel for closure, and a window into appreciating the life we have.
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More: Reviews, Review, Cannes Film Festival, Miele, Valeria Golino

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