Halfway through the year, and we have had some really good films, many bad films, too many sequels and superhero films, few “WTF is happening” films, and a few exceptionally brilliant indie…
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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)…
Another year, another Cannes, with the top gong going towards I, Daniel Blake, making English film-maker Ken Loach the eighth director who has ever won the Palme d’Or twice (lucky he didn’t go into retirement after all). The film received mostly positive reviews, as did most of the other award-winning films like The Salesman, American Honey, and Ma’ Rosa, but there was the usual booing, jeering, yelling, and perhaps even throwing of rotten tomatoes at the screenings of a number of films, which resulted in a number of varied responses from the filmmakers.
