Welcome to the first installment of Critical Consensus, a biweekly feature in which two critics from Indiewire’s Criticwire network discuss new releases with Indiewire’s chief film critic, Eric Kohn.
Read More »Cinemad has released the U.S. trailer for Santa Cruz filmmaker Cam Archer's sophomore feature "Shit Year," and it's a sight to behold. The film features Ellen Barkin as Colleen West, a Hollywood actress whose retirement leaves her flustered and in the arms of Luke Grimes, a young actor she falls for...
Read More »The 2011 Cannes Film Festival kicked off a little over a month ago, and its reputation for being a particularly sales-heavy edition of the fest continued today with Cinema Guild's acquisition of Grand Prix co-winner "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia". Of the 20 films that screened in official competiti...
Read More »Lars von Trier has released a response to a letter the Iranian Deputy Culture Minister for Cinematic Affairs Javad Shamaqdari released to Persian media outlets Monday that criticized the Cannes Film Festival's decision to declare the director "persona non grata", after his controversial press confer...
Read More »Last year at the Cannes Film Festival, attendees gossiped that the following year would potentially be "a banner year" with a host of big name directors slated to complete their projects in time for the 2011 festival. That was indeed the case. People were already talking about Terrance Malick's "The...
Read More »Cannes Film Festival artistic director Thierry Frémaux is a busy guy. One minute he's greeting celebrities on the red carpet; the next he's introducing a first-time filmmaker in the Un Certain Regard sidebar. However, since taking over the position from current festival president Gilles Jacob in 199...
Read More »Moments after handing out the Palme d'Or to "The Tree of Life," the main competition jury for the Cannes Film Festival was issued into the nearby press conference area to explain themselves. The nine-person team was a mixture of actors, filmmakers and writers. Headed by Robert De Niro as its preside...
Read More »Lynne Ramsay's Cannes entry "We Need To Talk About Kevin" has been acquired by Oscilloscope Laboratories. The Tilda Swinton-starring adaptation of Lionel Shriver's award winning novel will be released in time for 2011 Oscar consideration.
Read More »The 2011 Cannes Film Festival has offerined a cinephile's dream of a program, with the likes of Pedro Almodovar, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Bruno Dumont, Terrence Malick, Lynne Ramsay, Paolo Sorrentino, Lars Von Trier and Gus Van Sant all screening their latest work. To make things easy ...
Read More »As the 2011 Cannes Film Festival comes to a close, indieWIRE's poll of 19 critics and bloggers has made clear the critics' favorites of this year's festival. Hundreds of grades have been entered, leaving six films in the official competiton with a "B+" level average: Terrence Malick's Palme d'Or win...
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