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Daily | Cannes 2013 | Johnnie To’s BLIND DETECTIVE

May 21, 2013
Blind Detective

A “deranged and delirious smorgasbord of a movie.”

Daily | Cannes 2013 | Valeria Bruni Tedeschi’s A CASTLE IN ITALY

May 21, 2013
A Castle in Italy

“It’s hard to imagine many audiences warming to these bourgeois folks.”

Daily | Cannes 2013 | Paolo Sorrentino’s THE GREAT BEAUTY

May 21, 2013
The Great Beauty

A “gentle and sentimental mirror image of ‘La Dolce Vita’ for the present age.”

Daily | Cannes 2013 | Steven Soderbergh’s BEHIND THE CANDELABRA

May 21, 2013
Behind the Candelabra

“The most bigscreen-worthy film that Soderbergh has made since ‘Che’” will, of course, debut on HBO.

Daily | Cannes 2013 | James Franco’s AS I LAY DYING

May 20, 2013
As I Lay Dying

It’s “the best of the eight features the mind-bogglingly prolific actor-director-writer had made and is, as such, a big surprise.” Updated through 5/21.

Daily | Cannes 2013 | Claude Lanzmann’s THE LAST OF THE UNJUST

May 20, 2013 | One Comment
The Last of the Unjust

Benjamin Murmelstein “may be Lanzmann’s most garrulous, morally complicated subject to date.” Updated through 5/21.

Daily | Cannes 2013 | Jeremy Saulnier’s BLUE RUIN

May 20, 2013
Blue Ruin

This “deft, thrilling genre film” is also a crowd-funding success story. Updated through 5/21.

Daily | In the Works | Davies, Kusturica, Russell

May 20, 2013

Also: Vinterberg, Dominik, Cantet, and Spike Lee.

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 5/21.

Daily | Cannes 2013 | Alex van Warmerdam’s BORGMAN

May 19, 2013
Borgman

“Caustic, surreal, creepy, and blackly funny.” Updated through 5/21.

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.’” Updated through 5/20.