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Post Sarkozy Cannes 1
MOONRISE KINGDOM (Wes Anderson) By Robert Koehler “Why,” asked a skeptical-sounding Chinese TV journalist with an assertive microphone of those exiting the Wednesday afternoon press screening of Wes...
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Post Sarkozy Cannes 2
AFTER THE BATTLE (Yousry Nasrallah) By Robert Koehler It didn’t take long to find the first work in the competition that doesn’t belong there. Nasrallah is a veteran Egyptian director who makes...
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Post Sarkozy Cannes 3
RUST & BONE (Jacques Audiard) By Robert Koehler A straight, flat and blunt object, Jacques Audiard’s new movie sits there, like a dumb thing. It is literally what it is, and no more; that is,...
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Post Sarkozy Cannes 4
MEKONG HOTEL (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) By Robert Koehler A sketch for the larger “Mekong Project,” which will include at least one other film, Apichatpong’s work dances between time zones, physical...
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Post Sarkozy Cannes 5
PARADISE: LOVE (Ulrich Seidl) By Robert Koehler As the first part of a trilogy with the umbrella title of Paradise about three middle-aged sisters on some kind of vacation, Paradise: Love is Ulrich...
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Post Sarkozy Cannes 6
THE HUNT (Thomas Vinterberg) By Robert Koehler The strange case of Thomas Vinterberg is a model of a director not to follow, lest you fall into the chasm known as Submarino (2010). The case, though,...
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Post Sarkozy Cannes 7
AMOUR (Michael Haneke) By Robert Koehler Having just turned 70, Michael Haneke appears to be turning a new leaf in his abrasive view of humanity as being, for all its attempts at civilization, barely...
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Post Sarkozy Cannes 8
By Robert Koehler THE NOT-SO-SWEATY PALMES Palme d’Or: Amour (Michael Haneke) Grand Prize: Reality (Matteo Garrone) Best Director: Carlos Reygadas for Post Tenebras Lux Jury Prize: The Angels’ Share...
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TCM Classic Film Festival
Try and Get Me (The Sound of Fury) (1951) It has been about a year since Film Journey has been updated, but I’ve been hard at work publishing a variety of print pieces, particularly for the LA Weekly....
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Looking Forward to Cannes
Only God Forgives Heading to Cannes tomorrow, and here’s the list of films I’m looking forward to: Heli (Escalante) Comp Jimmy P (Desplechin) Comp Grisgris (Haroun) Comp A Touch of Sin (Jia) Comp Like...
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Chinese Cinema at Cannes
By Patrick Z. McGavin As the world’s most important festival, Cannes is composed in many parts and layers. Yet one inescapable aspect, seemingly more acute with each year, is how much of the...
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Cannes Awards
Blue is the Warmest Color By Patrick Z. McGavin Cannes is as much of an endurance test as a film festival. The organizers have their own peculiar way of how to slot the 20 competition titles. After a...
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Cannes Rankings
Only Lovers Left Alive By Patrick Z. McGavin My Cannes started this year with the cooly suggestive image of a beautiful young woman under surveillance, as captured in the viewfinder of a pair of...
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Highlights from Toronto
By Patrick Z. McGavin With some 278 features shown at this year’s edition, Toronto is not just a film festival; it’s a virtual orgy of cinema. No matter how hard one tries, the festival proves...
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South by Southwest 1
By Robert Koehler Marty Jackitansky, a rather foul human being whom you can’t take your eyes off of in writer-director Joel Potrykus’ Buzzard—by many millions of miles the best movie yet screened at...
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Jonathan Glazer: Finding the Form ‘Under the Skin’
By Patrick Z. McGavin Under the Skin is the third narrative feature by the London-born Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast, Birth). This new work is a radical reworking of the 2001 novel by the Dutch-born...
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Standout Melodramas at IFFLA
One of the great things about living in Los Angeles is the many smaller festivals throughout the year that focus on regional cinema, giving us a broader sense of the movies being made in any given...
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Vidor and Ulmer at TCM Fest
Photographer: Mark Hill The TCM Classic Film Festival wrapped Sunday, and as always, it was a whirlwind of celebrity appearances, new prints, flocks of out-of-town tourists, and general TCM geekdom....
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A Chat with the Academy’s Bernardo Rondeau
Despite its reputation as home for the entertainment industry, Los Angeles has a thriving alt/repertory film scene, one of the realities I hoped to reflect when I started this blog eleven years ago....
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South By Southwest 2
Costa de Morte By Robert Koehler Last month, I served as a member of the jury for the international competition at FICUNAM (Festival Internacional de Cine de Universidad Nacional Autonomia Mexico),...
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