Cannes 2018 – The First Saturday
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
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Cannes 2018 – The First Friday
Today’s early film was from the Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski, whose previous film Ida won the Oscar for the Best Foreign Language film.
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Cannes 2018 – The First Thursday
I’d forgotten how tough Cannes is, being out late, staying up even later to file contemporaneous articles and then waking up early enough
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Cannes 2018 – The First Wednesday
Every festival delegate was given a post-card to remind them not to commit the grotesque sin of taking selfies on the red carpet
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The Gifted have a Good Time in Dunkirk, not Hampstead: What’s Worth Seeing from 2017 and what isn’t.
2017 has been a tumultuous year for the film industry, courtesy of the man once branded “God” by Meryl Streep – the formerly
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What’s Worth Seeing from the 2017 London Film Festival
It’s been another busy twelve days for Maria Duarte, sifting through the best that the London Film Festival has to offer, with at
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BFI’s Clare Stewart tells us What’s Worth Seeing at the London Film Festival
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.
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Opening FrightFest with Cult of Chucky is Child’s Play
As another summer draws to a close, horror fans are flocking to the cinema to be scared out of their wits for a
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Cannes 2017 – The Second Saturday
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.
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Cannes 2017 – The Second Friday
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.
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Cannes 2017 – The Second Thursday
With every film in the two official strands at Cannes being a world premiere, rarely has much been written about the selected films
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Cannes 2017 – The Second Wednesday
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.
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Cannes 2017 – The Only Tuesday
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.
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Cannes 2017 – The Only Monday
The older you get, the harder it becomes. One of the many slogans appearing on badges being handed out with festival accreditation this
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Cannes 2017 – The First Sunday
Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler play half brothers in the Netflix competition entry The Meyerowitz Stories. Sunday might be a day off for
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Cannes 2017 – The First Saturday
Some years ago, a former editor of mine on another website, John Park, described me as “a man about town … on a
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Daniel Blake? Why Him when you’ve got Captain Fantastic? What was – and was not – Worth Seeing in 2016
Here we go again – another year has come and gone – with hundreds of new films having graced our cinema screens. Some
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What’s Worth Seeing from the 2016 London Film Festival
With nearly 250 feature films to choose from over twelve days at the London Film Festival, poor old Maria Duarte has really run
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What’s Worth Seeing at the London Film Festival 2016
The London Film Festival Director Clare Stewart tells us What’s Worth Seeing at LFF 2016
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Return to Raindance: why film-makers keep coming back
Film festivals often have a family feel, with the same directors returning again and again. Ken Loach, Joel Coen and Mike Leigh are among many Cannes regulars and Britain’s biggest independent film festival, Raindance, is no different. What’s Worth Seeing meets three directors who’ve returned to Raindance.
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