CANNES 2025 AWARDS — FULL LIST
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CANNES 2025 AWARDS — FULL LIST
French Cinema
CANNES PICKS 2025 — NOUVELLE VAGUE
CANNES PICKS 2025 — NOUVELLE VAGUE
I MARRIED A WITCH — SHOCKTOBER!
Black and White, Capsules Blog, Classic Cinema, Criterion Channel, Criterion Collection, Cult Film, FIVE STARS, French Cinema, Screwball Comedy, Women's Cinema
Welcome! Groupthink doesn't live here, critical thought does. This ad-free website is dedicated to Agnès Varda and to Luis Buñuel.…
EYES WITHOUT A FACE — SHOCKTOBER!
BDSM, Black and White, Capsules Blog, Classic Cinema, Criterion Channel, Criterion Collection, FIVE STARS, French Cinema, Gothic, Horror, SHOCKTOBER!, Social Satire, Transgressive Cinema, Women's Cinema
“Eyes Without A Face” is a rare horror film that allows the audience’s imagination to run wild, while also giving…
IN PRAISE OF LOVE — CANNES 2001
Art Film, Avant-Garde, Cannes Film Festival, Capsules Blog, Corporate Corruption, Cult Film, Experimental, FIVE STARS, French Cinema, French New Wave, Hollywood, Independent Cinema, Transgressive Cinema, War, Women's Cinema
Welcome! Groupthink doesn’t live here, critical thought does. This ad-free website is dedicated to Agnès Varda and to Luis Buñuel.…
THE TROUT
Welcome! Groupthink doesn't live here, critical thought does. This ad-free website is dedicated to Agnès Varda and to Luis Buñuel.…
EMILIA PEREZ — CANNES 2024
EMILIA PEREZ — CANNES 2024. Cole Smithey.
ANATOMY OF A FALL — CANNES 2023
Cannes Film Festival, Capsules Blog, Courtroom Drama, FIVE STARS, French Cinema, Women Filmmakers, Women's Cinema
Welcome! Groupthink doesn't live here, critical thought does. This ad-free website is dedicated to Agnès Varda and to Luis Buñuel.…
FORBIDDEN GAMES — SHOCKTOBER!
Black and White, Capsules Blog, Classic Cinema, Criterion Collection, FIVE STARS, French Cinema, Horror, Literary Adaptation, SHOCKTOBER!, Social Realism, Social Satire, War, War Fantasy
Rene Clement’s 1952 adaptation of Francois Boyer’s 1944 novel is an exquisitely pragmatic film about the corruptive effect of war…
LA CEREMONIE — SHOCKTOBER!
Capsules Blog, Cult Film, FIVE STARS, French Cinema, LGBTQ, Political Satire, SHOCKTOBER!, Social Satire, Suspense, Transgressive Cinema, Video Essay, Women's Cinema
Chabrol’s dream-team cast comes together in a once-in-a-lifetime event. I could wax poetic about Jean-Pierre Cassel, who delivers such a…
THE TENANT — SHOCKTOBER!
Capsules Blog, Classic Cinema, Cult Film, FIVE STARS, French Cinema, Horror, LGBTQ, Polish Cinema, Psychological Thriller, SHOCKTOBER!, Social Satire, Transgressive Cinema
Roman Polanski’s intense psychological thriller stars the director himself as Trelkovsky, a troubled file clerk who takes over the former…
REPULSION — SHOCKTOBER!
BDSM, Black and White, Capsules Blog, Classic Cinema, FIVE STARS, French Cinema, Psychological Thriller, sex, SHOCKTOBER!, Transgressive Cinema, Women's Cinema
Canny camera work further reveals the warped psychological state of our troubled anti-heroine. A quicksilver study in a descent into insanity,…
MR. KLEIN — THE CRITERION COLLECTION
Capsules Blog, Classic Cinema, Criterion Collection, FIVE STARS, French Cinema, True Crime, Video Essay, War
Joseph Losey’s historically accurate “Mr. Klein” (1975) predicts our modern day tech dystopia of surveillance capitalism that has ruptured every…
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE — THE CRITERION COLLECTION
Capsules Blog, Criterion Collection, French Cinema, LGBTQ, TWO STARS, Women Filmmakers, Women's Cinema
Céline Sciamma’s lesbian romantic fantasy almost works on its own terms, but falters during crucial elements. Cole Smithey.
THE TRUTH
Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, and Ethan Hawke; those three names should insure a marginal level of quality. Cole Smithey.
FRANCE — CANNES 2021
French auteur Brunot Dumont runs out of steam in sending up media manipulation of human misery (vis a vis war)…
TITANE — CANNES 2021
Cannes Film Festival, Capsules Blog, FIVE STARS, French Cinema, Lesbian Cinema, LGBTQ, Women Filmmakers, Women's Cinema
Julia Ducournau is the new Cronenberg. All-you-can-eat erotic social satire body horror. Yum. Cole Smithey. Genius.
CANNES 2021: THE COMPLETE AWARDS
Articles Blog, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Cinema, Culture, Current Affairs, Directors, Documentary, Drama, Editorial, Film, Film Festivals, Filmmaking, Finnish Cinema, French Cinema, Media, News, Politics, Satire, Turkish Cinema, Women Filmmakers
Palme d’Or: “Titane” Grand Prix TIE: Asghar Farhadi, “A Hero” AND Juho Kuosmanen’s “Compartment No. 6” Best Director Leos Carax, “Annette”…
CANNES PREMIERES 2021: MOTHERING SUNDAY —Eva Husson
Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Cinema, Culture, Current Affairs, Directors, Film, Film Blog, Film Festivals, Filmmakers, Filmmaking, French Cinema, Women Filmmakers
A maid living in post-World War I England secretly plans to meet with the man she loves before he leaves…
CANNES PREMIERES 2021: DECEPTION –Arnaud Desplechin
Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Cinema, Culture, Current Affairs, Film, Film Blog, Film Festivals, Filmmakers, Filmmaking, French Cinema
Love can strike anywhere, anytime. In a container in a northern port of France. At a supermarket cash register. Behind…
COLE SMITHEY’S CLASSIC CINEMA
