Kouros Alaghband is a California-based filmmaker whose short film WIGLUM (15 ‘) is being screened at this year’s Cannes Festival as part of the Short Film Corner showcase. WIGLUM, a surreal parable on our jaded vision of what life may be told from the point of view an office worker on a coffee binge. Film was lensed by cinematographer Alex Vendler (THE WOMAN) and stars the actor Barry del Sherman (THERE WILL

Apichatpong Weerasethakul made a huge comeback to Cannes today with two screenings of his new film CEMETERY OF SPLENDOR, a new feature-length drama about soldiers suffering from mysterious sickness that makes them sleep. The soldiers get transferred to a temporary clinic in a former school. Housewife and nurse's volunteer Jenjira (played by Jenjira Widner) is gradually pulled into the strange mystery

Set during the Sikh separatist movement of the eighties CHAUTHI [...]

Director Yorgos Lanthimos's fourth feature-film, and second one at the Cannes Festival, can be divided into two parts: the first, good one, and the second half, which takes place in a woodsy area. There are trees, lots of them, and people living in them who attempt to alternatively break away from, and comply with, some complicated social constructs governing celibacy and marriage. How does THE LOBSTER succeed? Let me count the ways.

Sentaro (Nagase Matasoshi) runs a small bakery that serves dorayakis, Japanese pastries filled with sweet red bean paste called “an”. When an old lady, Tokue (Kiki Kirin), offers to help in the kitchen he reluctantly accepts. But Tokue proves to be quite skilled at making “an." Thanks to a recipe she's taken half a century to perfect, the dorayaki counter takes off. But not everything is coming up roses. Tokue's past slowly comes into view, an old affliction that will have a serious impact on their newfound success.

DAY 1 got off to a strong start with two films that are hopefully a harbinger of things to come in this 68th edition of the Cannes Festival. I just finished watching the Matteo Garrone THE TELLER OF TALES, which was screened before the press at 7pm. I will talk about that film in a later post. French filmmaker Emmanuelle Bercot's LA TETE HAUTE is an uncensored and deftly-lensed look at youth in perdition. Her portrait of Malony

In a recent interview that she gave to French magazine [...]