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May 18, 2018 — Improvising to Jim Jarmusch’s film in real time, Neil Young created a rich parallel environment that sounds like a force of nature.
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May 18, 2018 — The young Chinese director transports critics to a state of “melancholic bliss.”
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May 17, 2018 — High praise for the Korean director’s first film in eight years.
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May 16, 2018 — Workers and management face off in a French factory, and the reviews are so-so.
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May 12, 2018 — The five-part essay film is “infused in equal measures by despair and aspiration.”
May 9, 2018 — In this followup to Embrace of the Serpent, a mob story is interwoven with Wayúu Native American rituals.
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May 9, 2018 — Cannes’s Opening Night film is met with a first round of lukewarm reviews.
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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...
May 8, 2018 — Horror movies are often understood as products of the imagination, but in the case of Caroline Monnet and Daniel Watchorn’s work, the conventions of the genre are grounded in stories of real-life injustice. Set in a Canadian residential school for...
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May 7, 2018 — And it’s May ’68 all over again in New York, D.C., and London. Plus Bergman in L.A., Tarkovsky in San Sebastián, and more.