New works by Jaco Van Dormael, Takashi Miike, Jeremy Saulnier and Sarunas Bartas, as well as recent Sundance entries “Dope” and “Songs My Brothers Taught Me,” are among the films set to screen in the 47th annual Directors’ Fortnight program at the Cannes Film Fest.
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Oscar: It Happened One Night (1934)
December 19, 2014 by
A sleeper, It Happened One Night swept the most important Oscars, including Best Picture, and made Frank Capra the most significant Hollywood director of the Depression era.
Pink Flamingos: John Waters Cult Midnight Movie, Starring Divine
June 13, 2014 by
Waters exploded into the cultural scene in 1972 with “Pink Flamingos,” his third feature, a darkly comic, unwholesome parade depicting murder, bestiality, rape, dismemberment, coprophagia, and other dizzying sexual perversions.
Waters, John: Midnight Cult Figure
September 3, 2013 by
John Waters became a cult figure in the early 1970s, when he began making films of “dubious taste,” or to use his own words, “exploitation films for the art-house.” The greatest contribution of Waters to American cinema, and to popular culture in general, is his deconstruction of the concept of taste. My book In the […]
Bunraku (2010): Guy Moshe’s Revenge Movie (Midnight Madness, TFF)
August 17, 2010 by
August 17, 2010 – A superhero, a samurai, gun runners, vampire hunters and hosers stalk the night during the Toronto International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness program, programmed by Colin Geddes.
