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Cannes 2018 – The Second Wednesday

16th May 201818th May 2018Jason Korsner

It was my last day in Cannes, so for once, I had to make sure I was up for the 8.30am screening. In Under the Silver Lake, Andrew Garfield stars as a guy who’s just lost his job and is on the verge of losing his LA apartment, when he gets involved with a girl who disappears and then turns up dead, alongside a missing businessman. [click for more...]

Cannes 2018 – The Second Tuesday

15th May 201826th May 2019Jason Korsner

Spike Lee explains why he takes a pop at the US President at the end of his Palme d’Or-nominated film, BlacKkKlansman. Press conferences [click for more...]

Cannes 2018 – The Only Monday

14th May 201824th August 2018Jason Korsner

Today started with more talk of how to improve inclusion in the UK film industry with an all-woman panel discussion at the UK [click for more...]

Cannes 2018 – The Only Sunday

13th May 201813th May 2019Jason Korsner

My day started with a sobering experience; I found out what it was like to be part of a minority in the film [click for more...]

Cannes 2018 – The First Saturday

12th May 201813th May 2018Jason Korsner

As I took my place at this morning’s press conference for Jean-Luc Godard’s Image Book, in the hope that I’d end up with [click for more...]

Cannes 2018 – The First Friday

11th May 20189th May 2019Jason Korsner

Today’s early film was from the Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski, whose previous film Ida won the Oscar for the Best Foreign Language film. [click for more...]

Cannes 2018 – The First Thursday

10th May 201819th May 2018Jason Korsner

I’d forgotten how tough Cannes is, being out late, staying up even later to file contemporaneous articles and then waking up early enough [click for more...]

Cannes 2018 – The First Wednesday

9th May 201810th March 2019Jason Korsner

Every festival delegate was given a post-card to remind them not to commit the grotesque sin of taking selfies on the red carpet [click for more...]

The Gifted have a Good Time in Dunkirk, not Hampstead: What’s Worth Seeing from 2017 and what isn’t.

26th December 201726th December 2017Jason Korsner

2017 has been a tumultuous year for the film industry, courtesy of the man once branded “God” by Meryl Streep – the formerly [click for more...]

What’s Worth Seeing from the 2017 London Film Festival

16th October 201725th February 2018Maria Duarte

It’s been another busy twelve days for Maria Duarte, sifting through the best that the London Film Festival has to offer, with at [click for more...]

BFI’s Clare Stewart tells us What’s Worth Seeing at the London Film Festival

1st October 201723rd November 2017Jason Korsner

The head of the London Film Festival, Clare Stewart, tells us What’s Worth Seeing at this year’s event, picking five films not to be missed. [click for more...]

Opening FrightFest with Cult of Chucky is Child’s Play

24th August 201727th August 2017Jason Korsner

As another summer draws to a close, horror fans are flocking to the cinema to be scared out of their wits for a [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...]

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