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Cannes Film Festival Cannes 2012, Day Nine: The director of Precious drops another prestige stinkbomb and an unfilmable novel gets filmed

John Waters meets Stanley Kramer in the festival's first unmitigated disaster.

May 25, 2012 | 10:41am -
Cannes Film Festival Cannes 2012, Day Eight: The director of Silent Light drops a bold curiosity and Bernardo Bertolucci makes his first movie in nearly a decade.

Our critic's most anticipated movie disappoints with flair and Bernardo Bertolucci returns to the fold.

May 24, 2012 | 12:42pm -
Cannes Film Festival Cannes 2012, Day Seven: Leos Carax's bugfuck masterpiece strikes Cannes like a lightning bolt

Brad Pitt re-teams with his Jesse James director and Takashi Miike makes another musical, but the mad visions of Leos Carax rule the day (and the festival so far).

May 23, 2012 | 9:55am -
Cannes Film Festival Cannes 2012, Day Six: Alain Resnais does his Prairie Home Companion, and amateur sleuths comb obsessively through The Shining.

At the festival's midway point, French New Wave stalwart Alain Resnais reflects on his craft and conspiracy theorists reflect on Stanley Kubrick's craft.

May 22, 2012 | 9:40am -
Cannes Film Festival Cannes '12, Day Five: Get out your Haneke-chiefs, we have a Palme D'Or favorite

Day Five brings a clear Palme D'Or frontrunner and an intriguing WTF from Abbas Kiarostami.

May 21, 2012 | 11:04am -
Cannes Film Festival Cannes '12, Day Four: Bootleggers, transsexuals and falsely accused pedophiles, oh my!

New films from John (The Proposition) Hillcoat, Thomas (The Celebration) Vinterberg, and Xavier (Heartbeats) Dolan on Day 4 at Cannes.

May 20, 2012 | 1:05pm -
Cannes Film Festival Cannes '12, Day Three: Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone tackles reality TV and past Palme d'Or winner Cristian Mungiu gets cloistered

Three recent Cannes heavy-hitters step back into the box: Matteo (Gomorrah) Garrone, Cristian (4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days) Mungiu, and Apichatpong (Uncle Boonmee) Weerasethakul.

May 19, 2012 | 12:30pm -
Cannes Film Festival Cannes '12, Day Two: The latest from the director of A Prophet, plus Michel Gondry gets on the bus

A day that begins with Marion Cotillard loses her legs to an orca and ends with Michel Gondry on a schoolbus ride is a very strange day indeed.

May 18, 2012 | 11:29am -
Cannes Film Festival Cannes '12, Day One: Wes Anderson kicks off the festival in enchanting form

Wes Anderson's story of first love graces the festival with deadpan laughs and bracing melancholy.

May 17, 2012 | 9:04am -
Scenic Routes David Lynch shows how audio can be creepier than any image in Eraserhead

In David Lynch's hands, film isn't only a visual medium.

May 14, 2012 | 1:00pm -
Scenic Routes Vincent Gallo’s Buffalo ’66 takes a break for a lyrical tap-dance routine

Bowling and tap dance.

April 30, 2012 | 12:00pm -
Scenic Routes The French Connection

There’s no faking the danger in this famous chase scene.

April 16, 2012 | 12:00pm -
Scenic Routes Humpday

Capturing the details of a dare, without a script.

April 2, 2012 | 12:00pm -
Scenic Routes Touch Of Evil

What makes the famous opening of an Orson Welles film work?

March 19, 2012 | 12:00pm -
Down Is Up The Game

David Fincher’s conspiracy movie The Game isn’t merely an underrated thriller, it’s a platform for brilliant, sneaky messages.

March 13, 2012 | 12:00am -
Scenic Routes Pi

In a subway station late at night, a suffering protagonist plays tricks with his brain—or is it with someone else’s?

March 5, 2012 | 12:00am -
Scenic Routes Belle De Jour

Luis Buñuel explores the mysteries of desire—and the contents of a buzzing box—in an unsettling, erotic scene.

February 20, 2012 | 12:00pm -
Scenic Routes Rounders

Movie Poker, real poker, and a scene that brings the two together.

February 6, 2012 | 12:01pm -
Scenic Routes Reservoir Dogs

It’s the scene that sparked a thousand discussions about gratuitous violence. But have you ever looked at it closely?

January 23, 2012 | 12:01pm -
Scenic Routes The Arbor

An ingenious documentary, if that’s the right word, reveals the elusiveness of truth, on camera and off.

January 9, 2012 | 12:00pm -
Scenic Routes It’s A Wonderful Life

The uplift of Frank Capra’s Christmas classic means first going to some dark places.

December 23, 2011 | 12:01pm -
Scenic Routes Seven

How to shoot a chase scene that feels chaotic (no matter how much planning goes into it).

December 12, 2011 | 12:00am -
Scenic Routes The White Gorilla

This 1945 “adventure” doesn’t even live up to Ed Wood’s standards.

November 28, 2011 | 12:00pm -
Scenic Routes In The Mood For Love

How Wong Kar-wai expresses the slow magic in a trip for take-out noodles.

November 14, 2011 | 12:00am -
Scenic Routes Planes, Trains & Automobiles

John Candy and Steve Martin provide a disarming moment of pathos in this John Hughes comedy.

October 31, 2011 | 12:00am -
Scenic Routes Forbidden Games

Children and death make an unnerving combination in this René Clément classic.

October 17, 2011 | 12:01pm -
Scenic Routes Modern Romance

Albert Brooks and Bob Einstein engage in the passive-aggressive dance of salesman vs. customer.

October 3, 2011 | 12:00pm -
Scenic Routes For A Few Dollars More

To be a worthy hero, a protagonist needs a worthy rival.

September 19, 2011 | 12:00am -
Scenic Routes The Underneath

Sometimes it only takes one great scene to make a lasting impression. And sometimes that’s the only great scene in an actor’s career.

August 22, 2011 | 12:00am -
Inventory A love once new has now grown old: 24 memorable cinematic time transitions

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August 1, 2011 | 12:00am -

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