FESTIVALS: CANNES
above: Mystic River
I. FUGUE STATES
BY AMY TAUBIN
Films covered: The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo), Les Coôtelettes(Bernard Blier), Strayed (André Téchiné), The Time of the Wolf (Michael Haneke), At Five O'Clock in the Afternoon (Samira Makhmalbaf), A Thousand Months (Faouzi Bensaïdi ), The Mother (Roger Michell), Young Adam (David MacKenzie), Dogville (Lars von Trier), Elephant (Gus van Sant), Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan), The Fog of War (Errol Morris), The Best of Our Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana), Playing "In the Company of Men" (Arnaud Desplechin), Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi) & No Rest for the Brave (Alain Guiraudie)
II. THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT BY KENT JONES
Films covered: Dogville (Lars von Trier), Mystic River (Clint Eastwood), The Fog of War (Errol Morris), At Five O'Clock in the Afternoon (Samira Makhmalbaf), The Time of the Wolf (Michael Haneke), Purple Butterfly (Lou Ye), The Barbarian Invasions (Denys Arcand), Bright Leaves (Ross McElwee) - READ THE ARTICLE HERE.
III. YEAR OF THE RABBIT BY MARY CORLISS
Films covered: The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo), Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (Richard Schickel), Claude Sutet, or :Invisible Magic (N.T. Binh), The Last Customer (Nanni Moretti), The Fog of War (Errol Morris), S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (Rithy Panh), Osama (Sedigh Barmak), At Five O'Clock in the Afternoon (Samira Makhmalbaf), Les Triplettes de Belleville (Sylvain Chomet)
IV. DOING TIME
BY RICHARD PEÑA
Films covered: Carandiru (Hector Babenco), The Southern Cross (Pablo Reyero) & Hurricane (Enrique Colina)
V. POWER PLAYS BY GAVIN SMITH
Films covered: For She's a Jolly Good Fellow (Siegrid Alnoy), Strayed (André Téchiné), That Day (Raoul Ruiz), & The Tulse Luper Suitcases (The Moab Story) (Peter Greenaway)
You can read the complete version of these articles in the July/August 2003 print edition of Film Comment.
© 2003 Film Society of Lincoln Center