Irma Vep Episode 2 Recap & Ending Explained: Irma Vep is piling up one production blunder after another, but episode 2, in a slight way also digs into an industry’s obsession with…
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Irma Vep Episode 1 Recap & Ending Explained: Irma Vep, the HBO miniseries directed by French director Oliver Assays; based on his own 1996 film by the same name, just aired its…
The 50 Best Films Of 2017 These are those 50 Films of 2017 that in some way have seeped into my life as the ones I would like to keep in my…
French film-maker Oliver Assayas has made divisive range of films in his three-plus decades film-making career. From the ‘Day for Night’ type charming, unpredictable drama (Irma Vep) to the controversial techno-thriller (Demonlover)…
It’s that time of year when all of World Cinema’s elite is preparing to gather on the French Riviera once again in order to stage the world’s most prestigious film festival, Cannes. On the morning of April 14, this year’s hotly anticipated lineup announcement finally arrived and with it the promise of a slew of new films directed by some of the most renowned and respected filmmakers in all of the world. Like countless other devout film enthusiasts, I found myself dumbfounded at the sheer glutteny of talent assembled for the purposes of screening their film at this year’s festival which is scheduled to run from May 11 to May 22.