You know what’s really stupid.. that in 5-7 years we’re gonna have to watch some dumbass Oscar nominated movie about a sympathetic border patrol agent that gave a kid a bottle of water once
People think the painful, repressive parts of socialization are remnants of the past and the free, expressive parts are signs of an oncoming future, but neither of those things is true. Life is chaos. Nothing functions like a story.
“A rare kind of filmmaker that is cherished by audiences, but also by filmmakers.” The phenomenal @AlfonsoCuaron discusses #StanleyKubrick’s influence in part two of our @Festival_Cannes interview. Watch it here.
If there's one take that really gets to me, it's the belief that making an R-rated instalment in a typically PG franchise will magically result in a good movie.
Extra gore and cursing isn't a substitute for good writing and direction.
After the eighteen-year-old activist Pat Sylvester had one conversation with Robert F. Kennedy, she came to embody a whole generation of idealistic young Americans for him. Then she vanished. https://t.co/jEnOocHiTT
Also, besides being one of the best filmmakers working today, James Gray is a cineaste raconteur and there’s nobody this side of Scorsese better at talking about film. Highly recommended: https://t.co/VS79UqAE6g
Most of the films I’ve seen so far at #Cannes2019 have been pieces of machinery that worked well but did not leave much space for surprise. Robert Eggers’ creepy, inventive, suspenseful, uproariously funny second (!) feature THE LIGHTHOUSE has beautifully corrected that.