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Interview: Nick Robinson, Moises Arias, Gabriel Basso of The Kings of Summer
In Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ The Kings of Summer (which screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival), young guns Nick Robinson, Gabriel Basso, and Moises Arias play teenage boys who break free from their overbearing parents, build a kick-ass house...
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Watch: Two clips from Blue Is The Warmest Color
Hot off the heels of its huge Palme d’Or win at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, two clips from Blue Is The Warmest Color have emerged. This three-hour lesbian romance story is an adaptation of a graphic novel by...
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Winners
Being that Steven Spielberg was the president of the Jury for the 66th Cannes Film Festival everyone who I talked to seemed to think that the Palme d’Or would be given to an American film, with Inside Llewyn Davis...
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Cannes 2013 Top 10 Films
Here is a quick numbers breakdown of my 2013 Cannes Film Festival coverage. I spent about 8 full days (I had two half days that I am counting as one) watching a total of 17 films (not counting the...
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Cannes Day #9: Nothing Bad Can Happen
Cannes rules to live by or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Cannes Film Festival Learn to live and thrive on coffee; but ask for it American style unless you take actually handle the strong bitterness...
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Before Midnight
In Richard Linklater’s Before Sunset (1995), twentysomethings Jesse (Ethan Hawke), a gruffly charming American, and Celine (Julie Delpy), a French beauty with a wily intellect, meet on a train headed to Vienna. They talk…talk…talk the night away, fall in...
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Cannes Day #8: Nebraska & Only Lovers Left Alive
Nebraska There is not a whole lot that goes on in Nebraska, similar to the small towns that are featured in it, but this is a road trip/family bonding film that is extremely entertaining. Nebraska is not perfect, but...
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Nebraska (Cannes Review)
Alexander Payne’s Nebraska is a light and warmhearted film about a son who wants to bond with his father, no matter how obtuse his thoughts are or off-putting his attitude is. Being both determined and naive is a dangerous...
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Cannes Day #7: Only God Forgives & Magic Magic
Time behaves very strangely here in Cannes. Days feel like they are short changed the 24 hours that they are supposed to contain. Thus, there does not seem to be enough hours in the day to do everything that...
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Only God Forgives (Cannes Review)
Only God Forgives is another highly-stylized film from director Nicholas Winding Refn that stars Ryan Gosling as the lead. Gosling’s character pretty much picks up where he left off in Drive, playing an emotionless badass with few words, trading...
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Interview: Richard Linklater & Julie Delpy of Before Midnight – Part 2
In part 2 of our extended, in-depth interview with director Richard Linklater and star Julie Delpy talk about the third film in their Before romance saga, Before Midnight. We discuss the stresses of pulling off Before Midnight’s extra-long-takes, the...
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Cannes Day #6: All Is Lost & The Great Beauty
This morning’s press screening of J.C. Chandor’s All Is Lost marks my second and final screening in the famous Grand Théâtre Lumière. The theater features one of the world’s best projection screens and produces without a doubt the best...
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Cannes Day #5: Sarah Prefers To Run, The Bastards, We Are What We Are
Making difficult decisions simply goes hand-in-hand with film festivals, and Cannes is certainly no exception. Deciding upon which film to see when inevitably two play at the same time is just the start. Because there are approximately 4,500 press...
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Interview: Richard Linklater & Julie Delpy of Before Midnight – Part 1
In 1995’s, we met Jesse and Celine (Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, respectively) on a train in Vienna and watched them fall in love as they explored the city in Before Sunrise. Nine years later (in real-world time and...
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