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May 27, 2023 · Times film critic Justin Chang saw all 21 films in competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Here's his ranking, from worst to best. ... Justin Chang was a film critic for the Los Angeles ...
Nov 5, 2022 · The Los Angeles International Film Festival returns in 2023 and it will be a hotspot for showcasing innovative cinema and new trends in indie filmmaking.This year’s LAIFF looks forward to screening a broad range of genres by international directors, and bringing the best of fresh filmmaking to film-loving LA audiences.
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Mar 7, 2024 · March 7, 2024 12:00 pm. 'I Saw the TV Glow'. A24. The LA film festival scene just got a bit brighter. The Los Angeles Festival of Movies (LAFM), co-presented by MUBI and Mezzanine, announced the ...
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Apr 4, 2024 · April 4, 2024 2:00 pm. 'I Saw the TV Glow'. A24. For once, the global film festival circuit is in perilous waters while Los Angeles — the city that Hollywood built, but can’t seem to retain a ...
- Ritesh Mehta
- 25 'Blow-Up'
- 24 'The White Ribbon'
- 23 'Titane'
- 22 'The Wages of Fear'
- 21 'The Pianist'
- 20 'Fahrenheit 9/11'
- 19 'Sex, Lies, and Videotape'
- 18 'Dancer in The Dark'
- 17 'Brief Encounter'
- 16 '4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days'
Michelangelo Antonioni was an acclaimed Italian filmmaker whose best-known films came out during the 1960s and 1970s. Of those, Blow-Upis arguably his most beloved and famous, being an unusual mystery/thriller film about a photographer who realizes he may have accidentally captured evidence on film of a murder taking place. RELATED: The Highest-Rat...
The White Ribbon is the kind of bleak and emotionally devastating film you'd expect from a director like Michael Haneke. Cynicism aside, it's worth mentioning that this could well be the greatest film of his career, successfully immersing viewers in a desolate story set in a desolate world, following inevitably doomed characters throughout. It take...
The best word to describe Titane would be "uncompromising." It is a wild thriller/horror film on the surface, but morphs into something else entirely at a point, and continues to take unpredictable turn after unpredictable turn all the way until it concludes, leaving viewers perhaps shaken and disturbed, but also quite likely in awe. There are nume...
One of the earliest winners of the top prize at Cannes also happens to be one of the best. That film is 1953's The Wages of Fear, which follows a group of men who are struggling to get by, and so agree to undertake a well-paid but very dangerous job that requires them to transport a large quantity of highly explosive materials by truck through part...
The Pianist was one of the most acclaimed films of the early 2000s, telling a moving story set during the Nazi occupation of Poland during World War Two. It follows a Polish pianist of Jewish descent named Władysław Szpilman, adapting his real-life experiences of fighting to survive during the war by avoiding being sent to a concentration camp. It ...
Michael Moore is no stranger to making compelling documentaries, and even if Fahrenheit 9/11might not be his best, it's perhaps his most hard-hitting. It looks at what action the U.S. government took following the 2001 September 11 attacks, critiquing then-President George W. Bush while also condemning the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the early media ...
Sex, Lies, and Videotape is a significant movie for a couple of key reasons. One is that it helped kick off the career of Steven Soderbergh, who was just 26 when this film won the Palme d'Or, making him its youngest winner. The other is that it helped popularize independent filmmaking in the U.S., and without it, there might not have been as much o...
Out of all the movies Lars von Trier has directed, it's fair to call Dancer in the Darkhis best. Even those who don't agree with such a sentiment might well agree that it's perhaps his saddest and most traumatic, and given sadness and trauma is this Danish filmmaker's bread and butter, that has to count for something. The film stars singer-songwrit...
As mentioned earlier, the early years of the Cannes Film Festival were run a little unusually. 1946 was the very first year the festival was held, and saw a total of 11 films win the Grand Prix. Most were 1945 and 1946 releases, with one 1944 release and one 1943 release also being among the winners. Of those winners, one was 1945's Brief Encounter...
A bleak drama set in Romania during the late 1980s, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is one of the most grueling and intense films to win the Palme d'Or. The story follows two college-age women who try to arrange for one to have an abortion at a time when such a procedure was illegal in Romania due to Communist rule (between 1967 and 1989). RELATED: 'H...
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LA’s home for independent filmmakers. LA Film Festivals is a creative hub for Los Angeles’s top independent film festivals. We proudly host the LA Comedy Film Festival, LA Indie Film Festival, LA Queer Film Festival, LA Women in Film Festival, LA Black Film Festival, LA Asian Film Festival, LA Latinx Film Festival, LA Sci-Fi Film Festival, LA Action Film Festival, LA Horror Film Festival ...
As of October 2018, the LA Film Festival has been discontinued and Film Independent is no longer soliciting or accepting Festival submissions, or taking part in a traditional programming process. However, a number of Festival elements and programs have been restructured into standalone events taking place throughout the calendar year, including ...
