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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 20175th August 2017Jason 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...]

Daniel Blake? Why Him when you’ve got Captain Fantastic? What was – and was not – Worth Seeing in 2016

30th December 20169th January 2017Jason Korsner

Here we go again – another year has come and gone – with hundreds of new films having graced our cinema screens. Some [click for more...]

What’s Worth Seeing from the 2016 London Film Festival

17th October 201612th February 2017Maria Duarte

With nearly 250 feature films to choose from over twelve days at the London Film Festival, poor old Maria Duarte has really run [click for more...]

What’s Worth Seeing at the London Film Festival 2016

5th October 201628th September 2018Jason Korsner

The London Film Festival Director Clare Stewart tells us What’s Worth Seeing at LFF 2016 [click for more...]

Return to Raindance: why film-makers keep coming back

26th September 20161st October 2016Jason Korsner

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. [click for more...]