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Daily Buzz: Like Flies to “Miele”
Miele director Valeria Golino talks Miele with Film Society's Eugene Hernandez. Listen now: Julie Taymor, Sean Penn and Barry Levinson. American filmmakers who influenced Valeria Golino, a woman known...
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Latinbeat Goes Mad for Matías
Matías Piñeiro at a Q&A for Viola during this year's New Directors/New Films film festival. Photo: Samantha Thomas The Film Society of Lincoln Center will showcase the work of Argentinian...
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Cannes: Soderbergh Softens Retirement Talk at “Candelabra” Premiere
Matt Damon, Steven Soderbergh, Michael Douglas and Jerry Weintraub in Cannes Tuesday morning. Photo by Brian Brooks Today in Cannes, Steven Soderbergh appeared to soften his much ballyhooed...
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Cannes: The Festival at the Midpoint
Joel and Ethan Coen's Inside Llewelyn Davis Every year at the fest's midpoint, insiders and critics debate whether the current Cannes Film Festival is a disappointment or marks the start of an...
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Cannes Daily Buzz: Hot Topics Roundtable #1
Listen now: Film Society's Daily Buzz sat down with Michael Philips of the Chicago Tribune, Logan Hill of the New York Times, and Adam Cook of Mubi for our first Hot Topics roundtable from the 66th...
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Trailers: Plimpton, Assange, and the Last of Lancaster
Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself (Now Playing!) Writer/Director: Tom Bean and Luke Poling Cast: George Plimpton, Ken Burns, James Lipton After four years of research, conducting...
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Cannes: New Refn Dishes Violence and a Foul-Mouthed Kristin Scott Thomas
Kristin Scott Thomas, director Nicolas Winding Refn and Cannes head Thierry Fremaux. Photo by Brian Brooks "Get ready for a lot of violence," one attendee who received early word about Nicolas Winding...
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Cannes Daily Buzz: Erotic Romp Meets Existential Thriller in Guiraudie’s “Lake”
Stranger by the Lake director Alain Guiraudie Listen now: A light-hearted story of gay cruising that morphs into a much darker tale is a surprise hit in Cannes this week. Alain Guiraudie's Stranger by...
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Interview: Luke Poling and Tom Bean, “Plimpton!”
Hugh Hefner with directors Luke Poling and Tom Bean. “I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.” —George Plimpton “George’s life story became his greatest story.”...
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Cannes Daily Buzz: Meet Oscar Isaac
Inside Llewelyn Davis star Oscar Isaac Listen now: Remember the name Oscar Isaac. In a few months you'll be hearing a lot about him. Isaac, star of Ethan Coen and Joel Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis, was...
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Discover: Jeremy Saulnier Hits the Target with “Blue Ruin”
Blue Ruin director Jeremy Saulnier in Cannes. Photo by Irene Cho Listen now: Laughter isn't the first thing one expects from a story built on vengeance and murder, but writer-director Jeremy...
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Cannes Daily Buzz: Hot Topics Roundtable #2
Listen now: Critics Kenny Turan of the Los Angeles Times, Kyle Buchanan of Vulture, Jonathan Marlow of Fandor, and Stephanie Zacharek of Village Voice sat down with Film Society's Daily Buzz to...
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Alexander Payne Goes Post-Bling with Cannes Entry “Nebraska”
Nebraska director Alexander Payne with stars Bruce Dern and June Squibb in Cannes Thursday. Photo by Brian Brooks Alexander Payne hits the road once again with his latest film, Nebraska. Nearly a...
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Cannes Daily Buzz: Money & Movies Mix at World’s Biggest Market for Film
Alec Baldwin, James Toback and Thierry Frémaux in Seduced and Abandoned Alec Baldwin and James Toback talk Seduced and Abandoned: Tom Bernard of Sony Pictures Classics on the Cannes marketplace: Art...
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Cannes Daily Buzz: Hot Topics Roundtable #3
Listen now: In our third Hot Topics roundtable from the 66th Cannes Film Festival, Brian Brooks (Deadline/FilmLinc Daily), Eric Kohn (Indiewire), Jada Yuan (New York Magazine), and Nigel Smith...
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NYAFF Announces Closing Night and First Batch of Films
Herman Yau's Ip Man: The Final Fight Film Society and Subway Cinema have announced the first batch of films that will screen in this year's New York Asian Film Festival, which takes place June 28 -...
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Cannes Daily Buzz: Jia Zhang-ke Takes on Violence in “A Touch of Sin”
Filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke. Photo: Irene Cho Listen now: Several stories make up A Touch of Sin, the latest film from Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke. With Sin, one of the more acclaimed films of this...
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Abdellatif Kechiche Wins Palme d’Or in Cannes
Abdellatif Kechiche (center) with Léa Seydoux and Adéle Exarchopoulos at the Cannes Film Festival tonight. Abdellatif Kechiche won the top prize, the Palme d'Or, for Blue Is The Warmest Color (La Vie...
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Cannes Daily Buzz: Hot Topics Roundtable #4
Listen now: Towards the end of this year's Cannes Film Festival, Film Society's Daily Buzz talked to Guy Lodge of HITFIX, Aaron Hillis of Video Free Brooklyn, Annette Insdorf of The Huffington Post,...
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Cannes: Family, Violence, and Queer Stories Among Cannes Best
The best movies from this year's Cannes Film Festival are marked by indelible images. Individual scenes of explicit violence and torture are shocking in Amat Excalante's Heli, Jia Jhang-ke's A Touch...
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