Admitting that I don't know much about the work of the still-living Japanese director Masahiro Shinoda leads me to make a larger admission to myself, which is that I don't…
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The writer/director and now only-sometime actor Woody Allen brought his new film, You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, to Cannes last week. I'm not there, so I didn't see…
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With a lot of pictures that have storied and complicated production backstories, you can see it on the screen (and that's the only time it ought to matter, I suppose).…
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Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me, which apparently proved the consensus-building screwball comedy hit of the last Sundance Film Festival, screens as part of the Tribeca…
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This morning indieWIRE posted a report on the official announcements, thus far, concerning the Cannes FIlm Festival lineup this year. Some observations from where I sit:* At the moment, despite…
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Jeepers creepers. My consideration of the in-progress Film Comments Selects series, featuring Phillipe Grandrieux's Un Lac (that's its costar Alexei Solonchev in the still above), among a good many other…
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