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Oscar-winner Yu speaks on inspiring action with her Participant Media documentary on the global water crisis, LAST CALL AT THE OASIS.
Movies are an ideal medium for conjuring spirits, summoning monsters, and imposing hellish torments. The first in a series of genre primers looks at more than a hundred years of haunting. By Dennis Harvey
Before Hollywood called, before he ever boarded a boat to cross the Atlantic, the legendary Ernst Lubitsch contributed to the making of more than 70 films in his homeland.
With a catalogue of visually stunning nonfiction features on sobering realities, Michael Glawogger speaks as an artist, not a moralizer. Festival
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DAILY | Cannes 2012 | Yousry Nasrallah’s AFTER THE BATTLE
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Some find "intelligent, agile and unafraid engagement" in this Egyptian entry, while others argue the film shouldn't even be in Competition. More from Cannes: Reviews of Laurent Bouzereau's ROMAN POLANSKI: A FILM MEMOIR and Wes Anderson's MOONRISE KINGDOM and trailers and clips for more Cannes contenders: Michel Gondry's THE WE AND THE I, Michael Haneke's AMOUR, Alain Resnais's YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET! and Ben Wheatley's SIGHTSEERS. Also: News on upcoming films by Alain Resnais, John Woo, Bertrand Bonello, Terrence Malick and more, Andrei Zvyagintsev's ELENA and remembering Carlos Fuentes. Full list of Daily reports here.
DAILY | Cannes 2012 | Laurent Bouzereau’s ROMAN POLANSKI: A FILM MEMOIR
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Reviewers are finding Polanski to be "charismatic, forthcoming and surprisingly sympathetic"; his interviewer, though? Not so much.DAILY | Cannes 2012 | Wes Anderson’s MOONRISE KINGDOM
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The 65th Cannes Film Festival opens today with Wes Anderson's MOONRISE KINGDOM, a tale of young love featuring two unknowns and a supporting cast of indie all-stars: Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Frances McDormand, Ed Norton. We're tracking early reviews.DAILY | Cannes 2012 | Trailer for Michel Gondry’s THE WE AND THE I
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The film opens the Directors' Fortnight on Thursday.
Exiled from China in the wake of last week's premiere of WHEN NIGHT FALLS, Ying Liang has built a resume of brave challenges to the system. A video essay takes a close look at the best of those, THE OTHER HALF. By Kevin B. Lee
Film history, class consciousness merge in the brilliantly no-nonsense filmmaking of Christian Petzold. By Kevin B. Lee
In an era when government-run assassination programs are transformed into the sentimental teenage fantasies of THE HUNGER GAMES, the power and purity of Peter Watkins' dissident 1971 doc-style fiction, PUNISHMENT PARK, rises above it all. By David Ehrenstein
Happy 95th, Maya Deren. Scholar Livia Bloom offers thoughts on Deren's legacy and MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON.