Cannes 2012: Michael Haneke's 'Love' Sweeps Audience Away
The film -- as the title suggests -- is a testimony to love. It is one of my favorite films at the festival -- and clearly a great hit with the public.
The film -- as the title suggests -- is a testimony to love. It is one of my favorite films at the festival -- and clearly a great hit with the public.
John Lopez | Posted 05.17.2012
Behold: the cerulean sparkle of the Cote d'Azur, the endless waft of chain-smoked Gitanes over the Croisette, the private yachts. Cannes. And its megaton line-up has arched the eyebrow of even the most indifferent cineastes this year.
Marshall Fine | Posted 08.15.2011
There's dramatic movie violence -- and then there's sadistic, nihilistic movie violence. If you've got a taste for the latter, Kidnapped should be right up your alley.
Michael Giltz | Posted 07.15.2011
Okay, one more day until Malick's The Tree Of Life. Should this really be seen as the only hope for the fest? I've already seen several movies that we...
Chris Kompanek | Posted 05.25.2011
Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage is the kind of piece that's ripe for a cult following, so it'd be great to see it land a residency somewhere in the city.
Sam Wasson | Posted 05.25.2011
In trying to appeal to the young, the producers of the 82nd Academy Awards turned what could have been a meaningful evening into a bloodless night of dinner theater.
Erica Abeel | Posted 05.25.2011
Perhaps the Academy's thinking is, why give its imprimatur to important works of artistry that detract from stories for 14 year-olds with game-changing effects?
Sam Wasson | Posted 05.25.2011
Shutter Island pushes our conception of Scorsese to the brink. It tests him, proving that he has what it takes to navigate through the film's several time frames and planes of consciousness.
Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011
Unless you're a dog undergoing house-breaking, you don't need to have your nose rubbed in s**t to be reminded that it exists. But that seems to be Michael Haneke's raison d'etre.
Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011
#4: Pay attention to Freud. Austrian Christoph Waltz, the oxymoronic charming Nazi of Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, insists he is not German. There is a huge cultural difference, he assured me.
Erica Abeel | Posted 05.25.2011
Haneke's masterful drama unfolds in a rural German town on the eve of World War I, in an attempt to unearth the origins of Nazism.
Sam Wasson | Posted 05.25.2011
Roman Polanski is arguably the world's greatest living filmmaker. Who else, since Hitchcock, has managed to mine terror from the most seemingly innocuous sources?
Erica Abeel | Posted 05.25.2011
The past day's crop of films has ranged from moderately interesting to guilty pleasure.
Erica Abeel | Posted 05.25.2011
Many of the biggest films coming to the Toronto Film Festival this year have inspired the motto from Telluride: "bleak is the new black."
Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011
Los Bastardos is a spare and brutal survey of the suburban wasteland.
Karin Badt | Posted 05.25.2011
The intent of the movie is to show how the imminent war -- or any imminent war -- results from the sickness of a culture as well as from inherent human malice.
Karin Badt | Posted 05.25.2011
Fish Tank tells the story of an alienated adolescent girl fighting her way to have an identity with a mother who hates her and a peer group which shuns her.
AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 05.25.2011
CANNES, France — Austrian director Michael Haneke's somber drama "The White Ribbon" claimed the top prize Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival, wh...
Karin Badt | Posted 05.25.2011
All charismatic, powerful men ruthlessly destroy other people's lives as they cheer on "Vincere!"
Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011
Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a revenge fantasy where a band of Jews head into occupied France and kick some ass in the most violent, frightening way possible.
Karin Badt | Posted 05.22.2012