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Cannes Market Watch: The Most Fun You Can Have Dying

By Robert Koehler
May 27, 2012
The lighter side of cancer, in a comedic drama about a college student's festive last days

Cannes Market Watch: Stoichkov

By Robert Koehler
May 27, 2012
The richly engaging Bulgarian soccer superstar gets a worthy and loving docu-portrait

Cannes Market Watch: El Puesto

By Robert Koehler
May 25, 2012
The little-noticed ACID section yields a mesmerizingly beautiful nonfiction film about an Argentine jack-of-all-trades

Cannes Roundtable II: On Carax, Resnais, Kiarostami, Lee Daniels, and more

By Film Comment
May 25, 2012
An expanded panel picks their favorites—and the surprises of the festival

Intervention: Werner Herzog at the Whitney

By Violet Lucca
May 24, 2012
The man who sparred with Kinski takes on another juggernaut: the white elephant art world

Cannes Market Watch: Life Just Is

By Robert Koehler
May 24, 2012
Alex Barrett’s charming debut, a cliché-busting ensemble piece about twentysomething travails

Cannes 2012 Diary: Invasion of the Body

By Scott Foundas
May 23, 2012
The defining motif to the first half of this year’s festival has been that of the human body in extremis.

Interview: Joachim Trier, director of Oslo, August 31st

By Sophie Blum
May 23, 2012
Back to society with a lonely addict, in the new film from the director of Reprise

Cannes Roundtable: Amy Taubin, Gavin Smith, Todd McCarthy, Scott Foundas

By Film Comment
May 23, 2012
A no-holds-barred discussion of the films so far

Review: Polisse

By Sophie Blum
May 21, 2012
The young and the restless in Maïwenn's ensemble special-victims-unit cop drama