Film
Andrey Zvyagintsev is the most internationally-acclaimed Russian filmmaker to emerge during the Putin era, and his expertly directed third feature “Elena” is, albeit oblique, the most vivid evocation I’ve seen of Moscow’s contemporary society.As with the 48-year-old director’s previous movies, “Elena” — which is currently at Film...
Sony Pictures is hoping that the screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, who created trenchant zeitgeisty drama out of Facebook’s foundation in “The Social Network,” will do the same for Apple in the studio’s upcoming biopic “Steve Jobs.”Variety reported yesterday that Sorkin had been hired to adapt Walter Isaacson’s Jobs biography, which has sold 2....
The Cannes Film Festival begins today, and if you’re going to make it to as many screenings as possible, you’re going to have to be on time. You’re going to need a watch, a watch fancy enough to fit in with the chic habitués of the South of France. Well, the watchmakers have answered the call. This year, the world’s best-known film...
Until now we assumed Michel Gondry researched his films by constructing elaborate pillow forts and sampling exotic varieties of sour candies. Whimsically titled though it may be, his Cannes entry “The We and the I” — a city-bus-set coming-of-age story in miniature — feels gritty, close to the ground … and, to bandy about a fully-loaded...
Of course, Terrence Malick's films eschew labels, but if you are the dreary sort who insists on affixing names to them, then this should satisfy your need to assign some futile semblance of order to the ineffable.
The tragic love affair of Lord John Douglas-Scott-Montagu of Beaulieu and his beloved mistress Eleanor Velasco Thornton is likely to be the “Downton Abbey”-ish drama that will propel the Rolls-Royce movie “Silver Ghost.” Variety reported yesterday that Martin Scorsese will co-produce the movie with the 88-year-old Lord Richard...
It's been nearly two years since Paul Reubens let it slip that he and Judd Apatow were combining childish-man forces to bring Pee-wee Herman back to the big screen. This weekend, Reubens finally offered a very slight update.
According to the British trade paper Screen International, simmering feminist resentment about the absence of women directors represented in the main competition section at Cannes this year exploded over the weekend into a full-scale dispute over whether the festival is sexist.With the event scheduled to start Wednesday, the César-...
Chilean director Cristián Jiménez’s “Bonsái” is the essence of cosmopolitan provincialism — a superbly grounded, programmatically small, meta-literary tragicomedy of student-boho life.The movie, which opens May 11 at the IFC Center (and in Los Angeles on June 15) is adapted from Alejandro Zambra’s 2006 novella (or prose poem)....
Road movies are back in transit. Walter Salles’s adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” which is playing in the Competition section at Cannes, was picked up for US distribution this week, says the Hollywood Reporter. And two new entries in the subgenre have been announced. Since one of them is French and stars Catherine Deneuve as a...
