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Eugene Hernandez

Telluride 2019 Dispatch: Waves and The Assistant

By Eugene Hernandez
September 6, 2019
Brand-new films from two young directors, Kitty Green (The Assistant) and Trey Edward Shults (Waves), were among the highlights of this year's edition of the Colorado festival

Cannes Dispatch: Gaspar Noé

By Eugene Hernandez
May 24, 2019
Flashing lights: the director on his latest mind-expanding project Lux Aeterna, which debuted at Cannes this week

Cannes Dispatch: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

By Eugene Hernandez
May 22, 2019
Eternal return: the director and stars of the Cannes sensation share some thoughts on what some have dubbed “Tarantino’s Roma”

Cannes Dispatch: And Then We Danced

By Eugene Hernandez
May 20, 2019
Old country waltz: Levan Akin’s And Then We Danced is a quietly revolutionary movie set in the former Soviet republic of Georgia

Cannes Dispatch: Agnès‘s Shadow

By Eugene Hernandez
May 15, 2019
Woman of the year: Agnès Varda looms large over the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival

Festivals: Telluride 2018

By Eugene Hernandez
September 11, 2018
Loves of the Luddyites: Buster Keaton, Robert Redford, and Richard Nixon were among those on screen at the annual Colorado event

Cannes Report #4: Spike Lee on BlacKkKlansman

By Eugene Hernandez
May 15, 2018
Not so long ago or far away: the Do the Right Thing director returns to Cannes after a 27-year absence with a powerful new film

Cannes Report #3: Women in Film, Now and Then

By Eugene Hernandez
May 15, 2018
Women to the front: on the high-profile red carpet protest and a new documentary honoring Alice Guy-Blaché

Cannes Report #2: Ryan Coogler at Cannes

By Eugene Hernandez
May 11, 2018
No wrong answers: the Black Panther director talks about his cinematic influences

Cannes Report #1: Change Is in the Air

By Eugene Hernandez
May 9, 2018
Not just a man’s world: the festival’s organizers and participants reflect on the history of the medium, and attempt to correct (some) imbalances

Telluride 2017 Journal

By Eugene Hernandez
September 13, 2017
True stories: even the best fiction offerings at the mountain-adjacent festival were based in reality

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

By Eugene Hernandez
May 26, 2017
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

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)

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 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 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

Telluride 2016 Journal

By Eugene Hernandez
September 13, 2016
Between you and me: on the deeply personal connections explored on and off screen at this year's mountain festival

Cannes Dispatch #5: Awards, Howards End, and The Cinema Travelers

By Eugene Hernandez
May 23, 2016
On the hotly contested awards and two crowd-pleasers screening in the Classics section

Cannes Dispatch #4: Risk & It’s Only The End of the World

By Eugene Hernandez
May 19, 2016
In jeopardy: on Laura Poitras's latest polemic and Xavier Dolan's claustrophobic adaptation of It’s Only the End of the World

Cannes Dispatch #3: Julieta and Aquarius

By Eugene Hernandez
May 17, 2016
Revolutionary stories: on Pedro Almodóvar’s Alice Munro adaptation, Kleber Mendonça Filho's latest, and a red carpet protest