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Thanks for Coming (Merci d'tre Venu)
22+ hour, 19+ min ago (603+ words) DMovies Thanks for Coming (Merci d'tre Venu) QUICKN DIRTY: LIVE FROM CANNES This 82-minute documentary is almost entirely filmed by Cavalier himself. He takes the elephant-in-the-room approach, energetically interacting with the various film subjects. They include a locksmith, a grocer…...
Species (Sanguine)
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (845+ words) DMovies QUICK'N DIRTY: LIVE FROM CANNES The setting is a stylised, slick clinical interiors where a viral outbreak infecting the 1825 demographic, causing victims to sweat blood and develop lesions across their bodies. Ultimately, this gruesome process reveals itself to be…...
Words of Love (Quelques Mots d'Amour)
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (180+ words) QUICK'N DIRTY: LIVE FROM CANNES The jokes are extremely witty, even some of the gallows humour. The sound design is also commendable: Yoni's rock'n roll intoxicates Erika's apartment with guitar reverb, from floor to ceiling " much to her mother's frustration....
A Life, A Manifesto (Une Vie Manifeste)
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (444+ words) DMovies A Life, A Manifesto (Une Vie Manifeste) QUICK'N DIRTY: LIVE FROM CANNES This is a movie about Mich'le Firk, a deeply intelligent and forthright woman ahead of the curve. Writing scathing film essays, our protagonist latched onto the socialist…...
The Floor Remembers
1+ week, 15+ hour ago (398+ words) DMovies Small corners of culture that are dying out have become a staple of the documentaries, often using them as a metaphor of a much wider decline. The Floor Remembers takes a different approach, not only highlighting the story of…...
Tropical Fractals (Fractais Tropicais)
1+ week, 1+ day ago (256+ words) QUICK'N DIRTY: LIVE FROM INDIELISBOA The small group of scientists is devoted to capturing and storing images of life on earth. Multiple cameras snap a frog, a bird, and so on. Their objective is to set up the Digital Museum…...
Our dirty questions to Jayme Kaye Gershen
1+ week, 3+ day ago (244+ words) Her third movie The Floor Remembers, a short film about a Florida skating track resisting modernisation, premiered at the Miami Film Festival. This interviewer described it as "a quiet song of defiance and celebration of good ol" Americana. Stay tuned…...
Our dirty questions to Benjamin Nicolas
2+ week, 2+ day ago (313+ words) Eoghan Lyng " This is your sixth short film. Could you please tell us more about your preference, or the advantages of the medium? EL " Why do you think Krump appeals to Japanese teenagers? Is it perhaps related to the physical…...
Our dirty questions to Alice Winocour
3+ week, 3+ day ago (963+ words) Set during Paris Fashion Week, Winocour's latest feature Couture revolves around three women. At the centre of this trio is 46-year-old American horror filmmaker Maxine Walker, played by Angelina Jolie, in Paris to shoot the fashion show for the first…...
Father Mother Sister Brother
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (516+ words) DMovies Father Mother Sister Brother Family has the ability to repeat the same mistakes over and over again, generation after generation, anywhere on this planet. Jim Jarmusch's anthology film features three stories, three estranged relationships, in the different parts of…...