Jason Korsner – Page 40 – What's Worth Seeing…

Terry Gilliam denies destroying Portuguese convent while filming Don Quixote

6th June 201720th April 2018Jason Korsner

The director Terry Gilliam has rejected claims that his production team destroyed the 12th Century Convento de Cristo in Tomar in central Portugal, [click for more...]

Wonder Woman – Review

1st June 201716th April 2023Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: Patty Jenkins – FEATURING: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen, Danny Huston, David Thewlis, Elena Anaya, Emily Carey, Eugene Brave Rock, Ewen Bremner, Lilly Aspell, Lucy Davis, Robin Wright, Saïd Taghmaoui [click for more...]

Art Satire The Square is Surprise Palme d’Or Winner

28th May 201718th May 2018Jason Korsner

Palme d’Or winner The Square satirises the art world The Cannes jury, led by the Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar, has handed the prestigious [click for more...]

Cannes 2017 – The Second Saturday

27th May 201711th November 2017Jason Korsner

For the last time this Cannes, I was up early to get to the 8.30am screening. This was Roman Polanski’s late addition to the festival, out of competition, Based on a True Story – which was based on a novel, which wasn’t itself a true story. [click for more...]

Cannes 2017 – The Second Friday

26th May 201728th August 2017Jason Korsner

After another late night, I’d decided to give myself another late morning, but after someone drew my attention to an early screening of Patti Cakes, a Sundance success that was playing in the Directors’ Fortnight strand, I decided to give it a go. [click for more...]

Cannes 2017 – The Second Thursday

25th May 201721st November 2017Jason Korsner

With every film in the two official strands at Cannes being a world premiere, rarely has much been written about the selected films [click for more...]

Cannes 2017 – The Second Wednesday

24th May 201716th July 2017Jason Korsner

It was another early start for one of the most hotly anticipated competition titles of the year; Sofia Coppola’s remake – or re-imagining – of Clint Eastwood’s 1971 US civil war era drama, The Beguiled. I was particular keen to see it in the light of some early suggestions that the film was so poor, people were laughing at it. [click for more...]

Cannes 2017 – The Only Tuesday

23rd May 201726th May 2018Jason Korsner

This morning, I granted myself a well-earned lie in, eschewing the Japanese Palme d’Or competition entry screening at 8.30am and instead, ensuring that I made it to the Palais in time to see Jeune Femme, a low budget drama from first time French director Léonor Serraille, screening as part of the Un Certain Regard strand. [click for more...]

Cannes 2017 – The Only Monday

22nd May 201710th November 2017Jason Korsner

The older you get, the harder it becomes. One of the many slogans appearing on badges being handed out with festival accreditation this [click for more...]

Cannes 2017 – The First Sunday

21st May 20178th April 2021Jason Korsner

Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler play half brothers in the Netflix competition entry The Meyerowitz Stories. Sunday might be a day off for [click for more...]

Cannes 2017 – The First Saturday

20th May 20174th August 2022Jason Korsner

Some years ago, a former editor of mine on another website, John Park, described me as “a man about town … on a [click for more...]

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword – Review

19th May 201726th April 2023Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: Guy Ritchie – FEATURING: Charlie Hunnam, Jude Law, Aidan Gillen, Annabelle Wallis, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Bleu Landau, Craig McGinlay, David Beckham, Djimon Hounsou, Eric Bana, Freddie Fox, Geoff Bell, Jacqui Ainsley, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Michael Hadley, Neil Maskell, Nicola Wren, Poppy Delevingne, Rob Knighton, Tom Wu [click for more...]

Whisky Galore! – Review

19th May 201726th April 2023Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: Gillies MacKinnon – FEATURING: Eddie Izzard, Ellie Kendrick, Gregor Fisher, Kevin Guthrie, Naomi Battrick, Sean Biggerstaff, Annie Louise Ross, Ciaron Kelly, Fenella Woolgar, Iain Robertson, James Cosmo, John Sessions, Ken Drury, Kevin Mains, Michael Nardone, Sean Scanlon, Tim Pigott-Smith [click for more...]

It’s a happy night for Happy Valley at the BAFTAs

14th May 201715th May 2017Jason Korsner

Sarah Lancashire (second from right) with the Happy Valley team. Photo: © BAFTA In the first year that BAFTA allowed nominations from streaming [click for more...]

Alien: Covenant – Review

12th May 201726th April 2023Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: Ridley Scott – FEATURING: Katherine Waterston, Michael Fassbender, Alexander England, Amy Seimetz, Benjamin Rigby, Billy Crudup, Callie Hernandez, Carmen Ejogo, Danny McBride, Demián Bichir, Guy Pearce, Jussie Smollett, Lorelei King, Nathaniel Dean, Tess Haubrich, Uli Latukefu [click for more...]

Miss Sloane – Review

12th May 201724th April 2023Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: John Madden – FEATURING: Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong, Michael Stuhlbarg, Alison Pill, David Wilson Barnes, Douglas Smith, Dylan Baker, Ennis Esmer, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jake Lacy, John Lithgow, Kyle Mac, Meghann Fahy, Sam Waterston [click for more...]

Mindhorn – Review

5th May 201726th April 2023Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: Sean Foley – FEATURING: Julian Barratt, Simon Farnaby, Andrea Riseborough, David Schofield, Essie Davis, Harriet Walter, Jessica Barden, Kenneth Branagh, Nicholas Farrell, Richard McCabe, Robin Morrissey, Russell Tovey, Simon Callow, Steve Coogan [click for more...]

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