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What should have won the 2019 Cannes Palme d’Or?
It wasn’t to be the second year a female director won Cannes’s top prize, but our contributors certainly fancied it as much as Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite. Isabel Stevens introduces thoughts from ten of our contributors.
Saturday 25 May 2019 -
Genre and disorder at Cannes 2019: a midway round-up
Halfway through this year’s festival, B-movie upgrades and distillations of societal collapse have run riot, with Mati Diop’s Atlantics and Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire likely candidates for awards, says Nick James.
Monday 20 May 2019 -
Kyo Machiko obituary: the last of Japan’s Golden stars
The modern face of post-war Japanese cinema, renowned as both the samurai’s wife of Rashomon and ghostly seducer of Ugetsu Monogatari, Kyo was one of the most prolific and versatile stars of her generation, writes Alexander Jacoby.
Wednesday 15 May 2019 -
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Should we stay or should we go? Three grounded escapes at Sci-Fi-London 2019
A trio of interior indie sci-fi excursions in this year’s genre showcase spin existential quests from the wreckage of our present-day home, says Anton Bitel.
Tuesday 14 May 2019 -
Doris Day obituary: an actor of graceful gumption
Doris Day’s saccharine cycle of comedies with Rock Hudson belied a versatile performer who had savvy, spunk and sorrow – which made her a mould-breaking Hitchcock heroine, writes Peter Tonguette.
Monday 13 May 2019 -
Nell Shipman: an auteur in the wild
In the frame shots bracketing her 1920 western-with-an-automobile Something New, the silent-film pioneer wrote her own claims to cinematic authorship directly into the movie – decades before men coined the auteur theory, writes Brad Stevens.
Wednesday 1 May 2019 -
John Singleton obituary: the b-boy who made Hollywood
The self-driven Los Angeleno came in like thunder with Boyz N the Hood, a film that put himself, his neighbourhood and the cause of black American directing into the spotlight – and there would be more from him but not enough, remembers Nelson George.
Tuesday 30 April 2019 -
Bibi Andersson obituary: the Ingmar Bergman actor with the smile and steel
One of the first of the handful of women indelibly associated with the Swedish master’s cinema, Andersson was a persistent force for life in films from Smiles of a Summer Night and Wild Strawberries to Persona and beyond, remembers Stig Björkman.
Friday 19 April 2019 -
“Obviously, we live on screens”: how streams and online chat become films
A new mode of movies actively engages with the way we live our lives online through social media and what that means for the stability of our self-identity and our interactions with others, writes Ben Nicholson.
Friday 19 April 2019
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