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Films of the Week: Cannes Week 2 – Russian Stories

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
Read Jonathan Romney's article

Cannes Report #5: Ozon, Iñarritu Goes VR, and Ranking Cannes

Up close and personal: L’Amant double, Carne y Arena (Virtually Present, Physically Available), and restorations of cinematic classics weren’t afraid to bare it all
Read Eugene Hernandez's article

Cannes Interview: Laurent Cantet

Creative writing: the director of the Palme d’Or winner The Class discusses the casting and genesis of his latest, The Workshop
Read Nicolas Rapold's interview

Cannes Dispatch: Hip to Be Square

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
Read Nicolas Rapold’s article

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Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2017 Roundtable #1

By Film Comment
Live from the Croisette: on the new films from Denis, Östlund, Varda, Lanthimos, Haneke, and more

Farran Smith Nehme

Tonka of the Gallows

By Farran Smith Nehme
Heart of gold: a not-quite silent Czech film explores the fall (and fall) of a country girl gone bad

Cinema ’67 Revisited

Cinema ’67 Revisited: The Honey Pot

By Mark Harris
Too much but never enough: Joseph Mankiewicz's final film shot for madcap misunderstandings, but ended up drearily droll

Features

Sternberg in Full: Anatahan

By Scott Eyman
Island exile: where does Josef von Sternberg’s oft-overlooked 1953 outlier fit into the maestro's oeuvre?

Film of the Week

Films of the Week: Cannes Week 2 – Russian Stories

By Jonathan Romney
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

Deep Focus

Deep Focus: Wakefield and Hounds of Love

By Michael Sragow
Air-conditioned nightmares: two very different films that touch upon the terror of suburbia

Reviews

Review: Beatriz at Dinner

By Violet Lucca
(Miguel Arteta, USA, 
Roadside Attractions, Opens June 9)

TCM Diary

TCM Diary: Jo Van Fleet

By Dan Callahan
Change of life: an appreciation of the actress whose unique talents helped define East of Eden and Wild River

Interviews

Cannes Interview: Laurent Cantet

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