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Daily | Cannes 2013 | Guillaume Canet’s BLOOD TIES

May 20, 2013
Blood Ties

“Endeavors to evoke the great character-driven movies of the 1970s, but never quite lives up to its epic scope.”

Daily | Cannes 2013 | James Toback’s SEDUCED AND ABANDONED

May 19, 2013
Seduced and Abandoned

Toback and Alec Baldwin talk art and money with the likes of Scorsese, Bertolucci, and Polanski. Updated through 5/20.

Daily | Cannes 2013 | Alex van Warmerdam’s BORGMAN

May 19, 2013
Borgman

“Caustic, surreal, creepy, and blackly funny.” Updated through 5/20.

Daily | Cannes 2013 | Rebecca Zlotowski’s GRAND CENTRAL

May 19, 2013
Grand Central

As if Dardennes were asked “to make a cinematic cocktail using equal parts of ‘Summer With Monica’ and ‘Silkwood.’”

Daily | Alexey Balabanov, 1959 – 2013

May 19, 2013 | One Comment
Alexey Balabanov

The “first post-Soviet Russian director to gain international prominence” was 54. Updated through 5/20.

Daily | Cannes 2013 | Joel and Ethan Coen’s INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS

May 18, 2013
Inside Llewyn Davis

“The Coens have again taken a real time and place and freely made it their own.” Updated through 5/20.

Daily | Cannes 2013 | THE DANCE OF REALITY and JODOROWSKY’S DUNE

May 18, 2013
The Dance of Reality

Alejandro Jodorowsky’s first feature in 23 years is “an unexpectedly touching and personal work.” Updated through 5/19.

Daily | Cannes 2013 | Hirokazu Kore-eda’s LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON

May 18, 2013
Like Father, Like Son

For some, it “has the overall depth and tenor of a Lifetime movie.” Others are moved to tears. Updated through 5/19.

Daily | Cannes 2013 | Arnaud Desplechin’s JIMMY P.

May 18, 2013
Jimmy P.

The trades love it. Everyone else (so far), not so much. Updated through 5/19.

Daily | Cannes 2013 | Katell Quillévéré’s SUZANNE

May 18, 2013
Suzanne

“Almost feels like an extended trailer for an entire season of a French working-class daytime drama.”

Daily | Cannes 2013 | Alain Guiraudie’s STRANGER BY THE LAKE

May 18, 2013
Stranger by the Lake

A “mesmerizingly odd mix of queer-culture ethnography and Hitchcockian thriller.” Updated through 5/19.

Daily | Cannes 2013 | Clio Barnard’s THE SELFISH GIANT

May 17, 2013
The Selfish Giant

“Where ‘The Arbor’ retained a certain televisual quality to its construction, ‘The Selfish Giant’ is boldly, broodingly cinematic.” Updated through 5/18.