Cannes, on festival weekends, is wild: Every night is busy on the Croisette, the long boulevard that winds along the shore and past the Palais des Festivals, the large complex where most of the festival action — including screenings, premieres, and red-carpet walking — take place. But the crowds swell…
If all of Cannes isn’t it love with Channing Tatum right now, it should be. During the photo-call for Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher on Monday afternoon Tatum — relaxed, affable, light on his feet despite being seriously built — turned toward the press and took a few photographs of the corps…
Ever wonder where in Miami they still show films on 35mm in an age where digital projection runs rampant? Where one can take pleasure in the welcoming sound of a projector and warm look of celluloid? One man is trying his damnedest to preserve the spirit of watching something on…
Cannes, on festival weekends, is wild: Every night is busy on the Croisette, the long boulevard that winds along the shore and past the Palais des Festivals, the large complex where most of the festival action — including screenings, premieres, and red-carpet walking — take place. But the crowds swell…
Greetings from Cannes! It’s an unwritten rule – maybe it should even be a written one – that no one who is lucky enough to come to Cannes for the film festival, now in its 67th year, should, in any way, shape, or form, complain about being here. But may…
Who says vintage sci-fi movies and dated educational media material on 16mm film don’t matter in 21st century science? With an ongoing series of screenings featuring vintage 20th century educational science and sci-fi film, the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science has educated museum-goers while keeping them entertained. Informed…
When he moved to Miami from Austin in May last year, Josh Frank wanted to simply re-create the Blue Starlite, the urban drive-in theater he launched in Texas. Four months later, the Blue Starlite Mini Urban Drive-In first opened its gate in a small Wynwood lot next to O Cinema…
Every so often, Cultist brings you the story of a local filmmaker setting off to a big film festival, showing off their work for the world to see. Rarely, though, is that work of art set to premiere at a festival as prestigious as the Cannes Film Festival, which entered…
The phrase “Italian film” might sound all snooty and cultured. But for those looking for a little more thrill and a lot less class, Italian sleaze always works. The likes of greats like Dario Argento and Mario Bava paved the way for many a filmmaker, but don’t forget Demons, made…
The lights were dim. Gray-haired musicians in linen guayaberas filled the small stage, and the hips of every man and woman, young and old, moved to the rhythm. It was an exhilarating moment in one of Miami’s most seasoned hangouts, Little Havana’s Hoy Como Ayer. And there, right in the…
Looking for a chance to shout, “Only in America!”? Only in America — or an American movie — could the story of the first two Indian players to be signed to a Major League Baseball team get spun as an L.A. sports agent’s journey toward realizing the importance of family…
Chef, the back-to-his-roots indie flick from Jon Favreau (Iron Man), is to modern foodie culture as his own Swingers is to ’90s swing revival. Favreau plays Carl Casper, a culinary bad boy, barreling egotist, and divorced father with a chef’s knife tattoo stretching down his right forearm and “El Jefe”…
Godzilla is the movie monster with the mostest. King Kong may be just one gorilla-chest-hair behind, but not even the greatest of apes can quite match the half-dragon, half-dinosaur who first stomped and chomped his way through Tokyo in Ishiro Honda’s 1954 Toho Co. Ltd. extravaganza Godzilla. In that picture…
At first, before the murders, the story might sound like some nihilistic last-century tropical sitcom, what Sherwood Schwartz would have come up with if he’d been into Nietzsche. In 1929, German physician Friedrich Ritter, brain aflame with the promise of the superman, convinced his lover, Dore Strauch, to abandon Berlin…
How much can you take away and still have a movie? Steven Knight’s Locke is an experiment in reducing contemporary scree storytelling to its irreducible essentials, which isn’t quite the same thing as being an “experimental” film, despite the ravishing early reviews from England. It shows us just one actor,…
Although it’s based on the true story of the illegitimate daughter of a Royal Navy captain and an enslaved African woman, Amma Asante’s Belle’s richest inspiration comes from a painting. A 1779 double portrait hanging at Scone Palace in Scotland, it shows a pretty blonde teenager decked out in typical…
“This is the first generation that is expected to live shorter lives than their parents,” says Katie Couric, the narrator of Fed Up. It’s an infuriating statement given both the preventability of that outcome and the institutional opposition to the solutions, the primary conflict that drives the film. For the…
Greetings from Cannes! It’s an unwritten rule – maybe it should even be a written one – that no one who is lucky enough to come to Cannes for the film festival, now in its 67th year, should, in any way, shape, or form, complain about being here. But may…
If you’ve ever loved a terrible person, Mike Leigh’s quietly sensational Cannes competition entry Mr. Turner — a biopic, of sorts, covering the last 25 years of the life of the great 19th century British painter J.M.W. Turner – is the movie for you. In his seascapes and landscapes, Turner…
My favorite instance of Kevin Spacey’s bad-assery comes not from any of his acerbic, acidic movie characters, but from his lesser-known career in live theater. Lesser-known, that is, until he started to break the fourth wall in a 2011 production of Richard III, courtesy his own London theater company, The…
The lights were dim. Gray-haired musicians in linen guayaberas filled the small stage, and the hips of every man and woman, young and old, moved to the rhythm. It was an exhilarating moment in one of Miami’s most seasoned hangouts, Little Havana’s Hoy Como Ayer. And there, right in the…
The 2014 Miami Jewish Film Festival took place months ago, but festival director Igor Shteyrenberg isn’t content to feature Jewish cinema just two weeks out of the year; he’s wants to keep it booming 24-7. The best way to do this, of course, is offer those Miami movie lovers a…
