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Joan Lindsay’s 1967 novel Picnic at Hanging Rock has already been adapted into a highly-acclaimed film by Peter Weir (available in an excellent Criterion edition) and even a 2016 theatre version, but it gets the Prestige...

Jennifer Fox (Laura Dern) speaks in voiceover in a half-dazed, half-searching tone, as if slowly bringing herself out of a dream. “The story you are about to see is true … as far as I know.”...

Here is Chaz Ebert’s sixth video dispatch from the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, accompanied by a transcript of the video… The sun has set in the south france, on the port of Cannes and on the...

Here is Chaz Ebert’s fifth video dispatch from the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, accompanied by a transcript of the video… This year the red carpet was taken over by not just photographers and movie moguls, but...

Hirokazu Kore-eda won the Palme d’Or at the 71st Cannes Film Festival for “Shoplifters,” which observes the dynamics of a peculiar Japanese family, while Spike Lee won the second-place Grand Jury Prize for “BlacKkKlansman,” the dramatized...

Cannes likes to keep things challenging until the end, so it was almost inevitable that the last competition title would be Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “The Wild Pear Tree”—at around 190 minutes, a relative breeze after Ceylan’s...

There comes a point at the Cannes Film Festival each year, like the first sign of spring or the last day of summer, when you sense that change is in the air—that the festival is truly...

Two weeks at the 71st Annual Cannes Film Festival have been leading up to just one celebrated event—the awarding of the Palme des Whiskers, coveted award for the festival’s Best Feline Performance. An elegant jury has...

Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed,” in which Ethan Hawke brilliantly plays an alcoholic Protestant minister undergoing a profound spiritual and psychological crisis, is a stunning, enrapturing film, a crowning work by one of the American cinema’s most...

The morning dawned in Cannes with cloudy skies over the port, and an early chill in the air that could promise more rain in this mostly sunless week at the film festival. It was a fitting...