You adjust the bowtie on your tuxedo. I’m at Cannes, a fucking dream come true.
Bright Wall/Dark Room spoke with James Bird about families – real, fictional, natural and otherwise.
On a particularly frustrating day in my life, I applied to a workshop for young film critics in Ghent, Belgium. I hadn’t been to Belgium. I wasn’t even sure if I qualified as a “young film critic.” But I wasn’t doing anything and I wasn’t going anywhere, so I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.
Charles Bramesco attends TIFF.
On watching Richard Linklater's Everybody Wants Some!!
An interview with Alissa Wilkinson
An interview with Matt Zoller Seitz
It seems weird to have to defend laughing, but that’s where we’re at.
After a long and stressful weekend, I went to go see Hell Or High Water by myself, and it absolutely gutted me.
"It’s basically a coming of age story, but it appeals to me enormously because Kenny manages to both embrace the wonderfulness and beauty of adolescence and the shaping of an adult—how glorious it is, and what a great triumph it is for all of us that anybody survives their childhood or their adolescence."
"I think it’s a movie to really be proud of, no matter how difficult it was to make. I’m glad that Kenny survived it, really, and that everyone will gradually come to watch Margaret eventually. I think it’s something that will last."