Cannes

Drag Movie Rises Out of the Pits

This Week's Voice: Mickey Rourke and The Wrestler, Solange Knowles, ATP, TV on the Radio, Jonathan Ames, the New York Film Festival, and More

Andre Techine's The Witnesses: Just Plain Good With People

Spring Film Preview: Harmony Korine's Odd Squad

On Returning with Mister Lonely

The Cannes Film Festival Thus Far

Reflecting its moment, Cannes 2008 takes a decidedly serious tone

Directors' Fortnight: An Alt-Cannes

Rivette's Céline and Julie Go Boating opens a tribute to that other French festival

The Film Festival: A Theater Festival Explores the Celluloid Boundary

Stage and screen wrestle it out at the Brick's new fest

Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival

Stage and screen wrestle it out at the Brick's new fest

Steven Soderbergh's Che

Two Guevara movies in one four-hour sitting

Z at Film Forum

Two Guevara movies in one four-hour sitting

Fest Explores Romanian Roots

Film Society series looks into the New Wave's link to an earlier generation

The Art of War

Dusted-off WWII drama nails the period details

He Got Name

Actor Peter Mullan's New Direction

Screen Test

World’s Hardest Movie Quiz 2000

Market Forces

World’s Hardest Movie Quiz 2000

For Your Ice Only

Inuit Director Wins Camera d'Or

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Inuit Director Wins Camera d'Or

Industry Standard

Inuit Director Wins Camera d'Or

All This Useful Beauty

Cannes's Director's Fortnight: 'Absolutely Normal Films'

Luminous Motion

Cannes's Director's Fortnight: 'Absolutely Normal Films'

The Uncertainty Principle

Cannes's secondary programs offer a few small surprises

The Romanian Patient

Cannes's secondary programs offer a few small surprises

My Blue Heaven

A double bill of erotic Mexican neo-surrealism at Cannes

'The Judgment'

A double bill of erotic Mexican neo-surrealism at Cannes

Rack Focus

A double bill of erotic Mexican neo-surrealism at Cannes

Six Feet Under

Western tale of reburial knee deep in grimy detail, marred by Jones's simplistic persona

15 French Premieres in "Rendez-Vous" Fest

From the old guard to the young gun, a welcome cinematic winterlude

The Bothersome Man

From the old guard to the young gun, a welcome cinematic winterlude

Double Vision

The same-but-different philosophies of Richard Linklater's Cannes twofer

Week in Review: We Got Arrested at Your Benefit Show

In the short week that we outsourced absolutely nothing to India (not even the phoner we didn't do with the guy who plays trumpet for Cake), we got even less cosmopolitan and global when Cannes correspondent J. Hoberman came back and showed up at the office like the rest of us. Except, unlike him, w ... More >>

Cannes Day Zero: J. Hoberman, Live from France

Our longtime film critic J. Hoberman will be filing regular dispatches from this year's Cannes Film Festival. Day zero: Hoberman plans his schedule, looks for strawberries, equates Quentin Tarantino's proudly misspelled Inglourious Basterds to a bad T-shirt. Inglourious Basterds a/k/a I'M WITH STO ... More >>

This Week in Voice Blogs

At Sound of the City, our film critic J. Hoberman reports from the Cannes premiere of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: "A sort of World War II spaghetti western, even more drenched in film references than blood." Also: Behind the scenes as Method Man and Redman snub The Roots! At La Daily ... More >>

Dardenne Brothers at Lincoln Center

Screening the hard-bitten work from before they were the toast of Cannes

Dirty Martini Comes Clean!

​One of the zingiest presences on the scene, Dirty Martini--aka "the chairman of the broad"--is a Rubensian beauty who knows how to shake it up (literally) while stirring an audience so fervently they're afraid to get up because the seat is wet. I gave the good-time gal a call (and no, it was ... More >>

Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds Makes Holocaust Revisionism Fun

​One of the zingiest presences on the scene, Dirty Martini--aka "the chairman of the broad"--is a Rubensian beauty who knows how to shake it up (literally) while stirring an audience so fervently they're afraid to get up because the seat is wet. I gave the good-time gal a call (and no, it was ... More >>

Whisky

​One of the zingiest presences on the scene, Dirty Martini--aka "the chairman of the broad"--is a Rubensian beauty who knows how to shake it up (literally) while stirring an audience so fervently they're afraid to get up because the seat is wet. I gave the good-time gal a call (and no, it was ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Summer Guide!

​In this week's Village Voice, we present our annual summer guide, featuring all sorts of seasonal picks for music, film, art, dance, theater, food, etc., not to mention Mikael Wood on the club-pop reboot of Kelis, Ben Davis on Lightning Bolt's Brian Chippendale, Jed Lipinski on Pulitzer winne ... More >>

David Perez Is Currently Doing Anything You Tweet

David Perez, Now on Demand​David Perez, who we told you about last week, wanted to go to the Advertising Festival in Cannes, and his employer, ad firm Leo Burnett, agreed to send him under one condition: He must do whatever people on Twitter tell him to do for a five days.

Dreaming of a World in Which 'Pussy' Means 'Big Light' in Dogtooth

David Perez, Now on Demand​David Perez, who we told you about last week, wanted to go to the Advertising Festival in Cannes, and his employer, ad firm Leo Burnett, agreed to send him under one condition: He must do whatever people on Twitter tell him to do for a five days.

The Housemaid

David Perez, Now on Demand​David Perez, who we told you about last week, wanted to go to the Advertising Festival in Cannes, and his employer, ad firm Leo Burnett, agreed to send him under one condition: He must do whatever people on Twitter tell him to do for a five days.

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David Perez, Now on Demand​David Perez, who we told you about last week, wanted to go to the Advertising Festival in Cannes, and his employer, ad firm Leo Burnett, agreed to send him under one condition: He must do whatever people on Twitter tell him to do for a five days.

Long Does Not Equal Epic in Algerian War Drama Outside the Law

David Perez, Now on Demand​David Perez, who we told you about last week, wanted to go to the Advertising Festival in Cannes, and his employer, ad firm Leo Burnett, agreed to send him under one condition: He must do whatever people on Twitter tell him to do for a five days.

Between Two Worlds Wanders a Haunted Sri Lanka Unresolved

David Perez, Now on Demand​David Perez, who we told you about last week, wanted to go to the Advertising Festival in Cannes, and his employer, ad firm Leo Burnett, agreed to send him under one condition: He must do whatever people on Twitter tell him to do for a five days.

ROARING BACK

Visconti’s masterpiece gets a digital restoration

Talking Tire Trouble With Rubber Director Quentin Dupieux

Visconti’s masterpiece gets a digital restoration

This Week in the Voice: The Obie Awards 2011

​This week in the Voice, Michael Feingold muses on the current state of theater, cost-cutting and all. "The arts can find ways out of their straitened financial situation," he says, going on to talk about the folks in New York theater who help, and have helped, give it meaning. Related: Eric G ... More >>

The Aftershocks of a School Shooting in Beautiful Boy

​This week in the Voice, Michael Feingold muses on the current state of theater, cost-cutting and all. "The arts can find ways out of their straitened financial situation," he says, going on to talk about the folks in New York theater who help, and have helped, give it meaning. Related: Eric G ... More >>

Leap Year a Brutal Study in Being Alone

​This week in the Voice, Michael Feingold muses on the current state of theater, cost-cutting and all. "The arts can find ways out of their straitened financial situation," he says, going on to talk about the folks in New York theater who help, and have helped, give it meaning. Related: Eric G ... More >>

New York City Restaurant Week Begins. (Or Did it Just Never End?)

nycgo.comChoose wisely.​ Oh, New York City Restaurant Week. Save for a few decent deals, you sucker people into paying for crappier food than what you normally serve. Vegetable soups and green salads are the primary appetizers. Chicken-breast entrées abound like toplessness at Cannes ... More >>

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

nycgo.comChoose wisely.​ Oh, New York City Restaurant Week. Save for a few decent deals, you sucker people into paying for crappier food than what you normally serve. Vegetable soups and green salads are the primary appetizers. Chicken-breast entrées abound like toplessness at Cannes ... More >>