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Festivals

Films of the Week: Cannes Week 2 – Russian Stories

By Jonathan Romney
May 26, 2017
Little Moscow on the Croisette: Kantemir Balagov’s Closeness, Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Loveless, and Sergei Loznitsa’s A Gentle Creature stood out at the French fest

Cannes Interview: Laurent Cantet

By Nicolas Rapold
May 26, 2017
Creative writing: the director of the Palme d’Or winner The Class discusses the casting and genesis of his latest, The Workshop

Cannes Dispatch: Hip to Be Square

By Nicolas Rapold
May 25, 2017
Portrait of the artist: Ruben Östlund’s The Square and Michel Hazanavicius’s Redoubtable sought to satirize the self-seriousness of the art and film worlds, respectively, with mixed success

Cannes Report #4: Coppola, Kidman, and Women in the Industry

By Eugene Hernandez
May 25, 2017
Glass ceilings and celluloid: the gender gap is as wide as ever on the Croisette (and at other festivals)

Interview: Valeska Grisebach

By Jordan Cronk
May 23, 2017
True Bulgarian West: the director of Western discusses her return to filmmaking after an 11-year absence

Cannes Report #3: Wonderstruck

By Eugene Hernandez
May 23, 2017
Time and space oddity: Todd Haynes discusses his latest, a tale of two outsiders making similar journeys in different eras

Cannes Staycation: The 1987 Edition—Part Two

By Nick Davis
May 22, 2017
From sidebars to the main event: a (Babette's) feast of offerings from the U.K., Palestine, and beyond

Cannes Report #2: Loveless

By Eugene Hernandez
May 22, 2017
From Russia without love: Andrei Zvyagintsev's follow-up to Leviathan is more oblique but even more biting

Cannes Brief: Varda & Denis

By Amy Taubin
May 22, 2017
New films by two of cinema’s greatest weren't in competition but towered over most that have been shown so far

Cannes Report #1: Netflix vs. Cannes & Arnaud Desplechin

By Eugene Hernandez
May 18, 2017
The greatest show on earth: the ongoing format wars and Ismael's Ghosts made headlines during the first day of the fest