I am presently seeing films at the London Film Festival at a greater pace than I can write them up — expect a round-up of curt (by my standards, at least) capsule reviews either later today or tomorrow. Some films, however, demand to be reviewed in pairs, as is the case with Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s latest, […]
LONDON: ‘Micmacs,’ ‘The Time That Remains’
Posted by Guy Lodge · 2:38 pm · October 19th, 2009
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Final Cannes contenders unveiled
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:23 am · May 23rd, 2009
That’s it — all 20 Palme d’Or contenders have now screened for critics, and the final deliberations can begin. Most of the media attention in the past two days has focused on Gaspar Noé’s new film “Enter the Void,” though it hasn’t aroused anything like the firestorm of controversy that his “Irréversible” did in 2002. […]
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Cannes: sizing up the Competition, part two
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:54 am · May 12th, 2009
Continuing yesterday’s survey of the runners and riders in the race for the Palme d’Or… “ANTICHRIST” (Lars Von Trier) The pitch: You’ve seen the trailer. Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe star as bereaved parents who retreat to a remote woodland cottage to nurse their grief, only to be terrorised by unnamed forces of evil. (English […]
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