Receiving the Best Actress award at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival for her role in Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy, Juliette Binoche held up a sign bearing the name of Kiarostami’s frequent ...

Thoughtful, original film criticism delivered straight to your inbox each week. Enter your email address below to subscribe.

Your voice on the phone is much younger than it is in the movie. Actually it's different from any of your movie voices. It depends on what character I'm being this week, but it's usually just the same ...

While Shohei Imamura may not be a forgotten figure in the history of Japanese cinema, his docudrama A Man Vanishes (67) only received its U.S. theatrical release last November, while his other ...

Cannes has traditionally opened with various eminences publicly hymning the glories of cinema, occasionally sounding a note of social responsibility—but without distressing the gowns-and-glamour ...

Thoughtful, original film criticism delivered straight to your inbox each week. Enter your email address below to subscribe.

Quintessential fairbanks swashbuckling abounds in this Raoul Walsh–directed adaptation of the Arabian Nights stories, in which Fairbanks’s crafty but charismatic (and remarkably agile) thief ...

Early on a frigid Valentine’s morning in some desolate village within the Ontario hinterland, talk radio DJ Grant Mazzy (Stephen McHattie) is assailed by an unidentified woman while driving to work.

A 1953 Technicolor remake of the 1942 Son of Fury, Delmer Daves’ one and only swashbuckler is notable for its storybook charm and visual fluidity, not exactly hallmarks of the genre.The director makes ...

What are we talking about when we talk about Cannes? While the same question applies to other major festivals, it takes on a particular meaning and intensity with this annual event: none of the others ...