Cannes Film Festival 2012

How to Network at Cannes: 5 Musts for Aspiring Filmmakers

Dan Mecca | Posted 07.24.2012
Dan Mecca

As someone who's been there before and learned a whole lot from the experience, I decided to put together some simple tips for networking at the world's premiere film festival.

No: Cannes 2012 Review

Raffi Asdourian | Posted 07.23.2012
Raffi Asdourian

Pablo LarraĆ­n has achieved something spectacularly unique with No, his beta-max rendition of the 1988 referendum vote in Chile concerning dictator Augusto Pinochet.

On the Road Wanders Aimlessly

Dan Mecca | Posted 07.23.2012
Dan Mecca

Unfortunately, a film without a narrative purpose feels like a shallow act, and soon enough watching purposeless characters continue down that road over and over becomes tiresome.

Killing Them Softly: Cannes 2012 Review

Dan Mecca | Posted 07.22.2012
Dan Mecca

In point of fact, Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly is about the state of America and the economy that keeps its motor running. But who's paying for that motor and where are we getting it from?

Amour: Cannes 2012 Review

Raffi Asdourian | Posted 07.22.2012
Raffi Asdourian

Georges and Anne are a loving couple in their eighties, played with delicate humanity by Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva. One morning while preparing breakfast, Anne suffers a stroke, paralyzingly the right side of her body. Thus begins the ultimate test of the couple's love for one another,

Too Much I, Not Enough We in The We and the I

Dan Mecca | Posted 07.22.2012
Dan Mecca

Here in Cannes with his new chamber movie of sorts, The We and the I, Michael Gondry continues a creative decline that appears to have no bottom.

Moonrise Kingdom Is Par for the Course

Raffi Asdourian | Posted 07.22.2012
Raffi Asdourian

Unlike his last live-action and somewhat somber film The Darjeeling Limited, this is a return to the youthful vigor and real emotion on display in Wes Anderson's earlier work.

Cannes Film Festival Debuts Marilyn Monroe Poster

Posted 02.28.2012

Keeping in line with their affinity for beautiful blondes of yore, Cannes has released its poster for its 2012 festival featuring the most beautiful b...