Cannes Critics’ Week, Part II

Cannes Critics’ Week picks winners; a critic offers notes on her favorites.

By Anna Tatarska

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Richard Linklater: BEFORE MIDNIGHT

By Anna Tatarska
May 24, 2013
BEFORE MIDNIGHT

Linklater’s third in the unplanned series is a charmer; the director offers notes on its making.

Interviews

Lav Diaz: Patiently Seeking Redemption

By Anna Tatarska
May 23, 2013
NORTE, THE END OF HISTORY

The maker of Cannes film NORTE, THE END OF HISTORY, talks about taking time in an all-too-impatient world.

Features

Daily Buzz at Cannes

By Eugene Hernandez
May 23, 2013
JIA ZHANGKE

Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Eugene Hernandez podcasts live Cannes 2013 highlights, including a talk with Jia Zhanke regarding A TOUCH OF SIN.

Features

Siegel, McGehee, Aprile: WHAT MAISIE KNEW

By Ryan Prendiville
May 23, 2013
WHAT MAISIE KNEW

Six-year-old star Onata Aprile joins David Siegel and Scott McGehee in a discussion of moviemaking, relationships and Henry James.

Features

Ying Liang: WHEN NIGHT FALLS

By Aaron Cutler
May 22, 2013
WHEN NIGHT FALLS

The embattled Chinese director talks about maternal perspective, personal trauma and the making of a film that the Chinese government doesn’t want you to see.

Videos

Video: The KUMARE Meditation Session

By Kevin B. Lee
May 21, 2013
KUMARE

On the most beguiling moment in the first Ebertfest to take place without its founder.

Festivals

Cannes Critics’ Week, Part I

By Anna Tatarska
May 19, 2013

On films that refuse to conform and never cease to surprise.

Interviews

Amat Escalante, post-BASTARDOS

By Anna Tatarska
May 16, 2013
Heli

In competition at Cannes with HELI, Escalante speaks on filmmaking style, sex, death, Carlos Reygadas, painting and the image of illegal immigrants in the U.S.

Videos

Video: Four Ways of Looking at Chinese Reality

By Kevin B. Lee
May 16, 2013

China’s historical transformation over the last 25 years unleashed a new kind of reality, and a new kind of filmmaking to go with it.

Features

That’s a Wrap: San Francisco International

By Susan Gerhard
May 15, 2013
THE SEARCH FOR EMAK BAKIA

Critics wrap the festival year with notes on SFIFF 2013 as Cannes sets the agenda for twelve months to come.

Interviews

Contemplating Pen-ek Rataranuang

By Adam Hartzell
May 14, 2013

‘Lonely people tend to like my films a lot. Happy people don’t seem to get my films,’ says the Thai director.

Festivals

Hope for Filmmakers, Industry

By Michael Guillén
May 13, 2013
TED HOPE

On building business and community together. ‘What that means is we move from being a passive consumer culture to an active participatory culture,’ says Ted Hope.