While I had a good time watching the Oscars at a local viewing party, the good company did not distract me from the telecast’s shortcomings, which were plenty and obvious. (a) First and foremost: the absence of a host. While I did not miss Whoopie or Ellen, I did miss the occasionally sharp humor, which…
* Letter of FIPRESCI to the Festival (Thierry Fremaux, Christine Aimé) * Press release of the French Union of Film Critics and the Club Média Ciné March 28, 2018 Dear Thierry Fremaux, Dear Christine Aimé, From the media we learnt about a change of the press schedule at the forthcoming Cannes Film Festival. As the…
Documentaries from the Arab world can often be intensely personal, with filmmakers using their own lives, experiences and surroundings as a first – and often tentative – step towards a whole world of stories they might ultimately want to tackle. This can be tedious, to be sure, since not every life is fit for public…
While truly great filmmakers have often been able to tell a story without us noticing the narrative devices they so cleverly employ, the same cannot be said for many of today's independent films, since – more often than not – they get rid of that pesky storytelling element altogether. Why bother with a plot, for…