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The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2019 Day 6

A sailor’s life: Dennis Lim and Jonathan Romney join to discuss premieres from Robert Eggers, Corneliu Porumboiu, and Albert Serra
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News to Me: Akerman, Carax, and the Cannes Can-Can

Setting sail: Céline Sciamma, Mati Diop, and mirrors in the movies
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Feeling Seen: Avengeance

Hello darkness: a conversation about Avengers: Endgame, genre, and the homogenization of the multiplex
Read Nick Pinkerton and C. Spencer Yeh’s conversation

Film of the Week: Bacurau

It takes a village: though ungainly and sometimes ugly, there‘s a lot to admire in Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles‘s Cannes entry
Read Jonathan Romney’s review

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News to Me: Akerman, Carax, and the Cannes Can-Can

By Film Comment
Setting sail: Céline Sciamma, Mati Diop, and mirrors in the movies

Present Tense

Present Tense: Almost Like Falling in Love

By Sheila O'Malley
Love is a battlefield: Aliens’ Hicks and Ripley are an unlikely pair, but “unlikely pairs” are the bread and butter of romance, Hollywood-style

Cannes

Cannes Dispatch: And Then We Danced

By Eugene Hernandez
Old country waltz: Levan Akin’s And Then We Danced is a quietly revolutionary movie set in the former Soviet republic of Georgia

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Group therapy: the director of Charlie Says, in theaters now, delves into the manipulative world of Manson from the perspective of his female followers

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The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2019 Day 6

By Nicolas Rapold
A sailor’s life: Dennis Lim and Jonathan Romney join to discuss premieres from Robert Eggers, Corneliu Porumboiu, and Albert Serra

Feeling Seen

Feeling Seen: Avengeance

By Nick Pinkerton and C. Spencer Yeh
Hello darkness: a conversation about Avengers: Endgame, genre, and the homogenization of the multiplex

Film of the Week

Film of the Week: Bacurau

By Jonathan Romney
It takes a village: though ungainly and sometimes ugly, there‘s a lot to admire in Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles‘s Cannes entry

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Deep Focus: John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum

By Michael Sragow
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