RogerEbert.com publisher Chaz Ebert’s fourth video dispatch from the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, directed and edited by Scott Dummler of Mint Media Works, features the second part of her chat with Canadian critic Jason Gorber about this year’s selections. This section of their conversation covers Kogonada’s “After Yang,” Joachim Trier’s “The Worst Person in the World,”…
What a strange, beguiling, confounding film “Pig” is. From start to finish, it never moves as you might expect it to. I watched it with a friend who checked out halfway through because it wasn’t the movie she was hoping it would be—basically “John Wick,” but with a pig, wherein a long-haired forest hermit named Rob…
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Rick Rubin is a master at getting an artist to actively deconstruct their work. Tom Petty used his expertise for his landmark, stripped-down album Wildflowers; Andrew Dice Clay created his best work (The Day the Laughter Died) when Rubin placed the raunchy comedian in a sparsely attended NY comedy club, filled with non-fans and let Clay fight…
Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch,” a pastiche centered on the France-based magazine supplement of a Kansas daily newspaper, has finally landed in Cannes’ driveway more than a year after it was scheduled for delivery. (It’s the only film from last year’s official selection that waited for the next edition.) The good news is that it’s one…
Patrick Sumner (Jack O'Connell) is a disgraced ex-army doctor. Henry Drax (Colin Farrell) is a master harpoonist. The two disparate men, guided by opposing moral compasses, unmoored by uncontrollable vices, are thrown together on a whaling ship bound for the bottom of the ocean. Set in 1859 (eight years after the publication of Moby Dick),…
