The Criterion Collection
May 19, 2018 — The full list of awards and a look back at what many consider to be the strongest edition in years.
The Daily
May 16, 2018 — Critical reception is subdued compared to the raves for Happy Hour (2015).
The Daily
May 16, 2018 — Joachim Trier’s jury goes for a satire about a Portuguese soccer star.
May 14, 2018 — In the singular world of Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki, auteurist homage and social consciousness are joined by some of the most lovingly filmed dogs in contemporary cinema.
The Daily
May 14, 2018 — Few critics come to the defense of this story of an all-female Kurdish combat unit.
May 13, 2018 — It was decades ago, during one of the bitterest Montreal winters of his youth, that the acclaimed author and essayist Adam Gopnik had one of the experiences that made him a cinephile for life. The movie theater right down the street from...
The Daily
May 9, 2018 — The first film from Kenya in Cannes’s Official Selection has already been banned at home.
Production Notes
May 9, 2018 — 1. Born Arutin Sayadyan, eighteenth-century Armenian poet Sayat-Nova—whose pen name means “King of Songs”—served as the initial inspiration for The Color of Pomegranates. Sayat-Nova was an ashugh, a troubadour whose verses were set to music that he played on a...
Essays
May 8, 2018 — In his uncharacteristic final masterpiece, the great Hollywood melodramatist Frank Borzage approaches the shadowy violence of film noir with his unique brand of romanticism.