Most Americans are likely unaware of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s film work, and even fewer dare even attempt to pronounce the contemporary Thai filmmaker’s given name. But for those entrenched in the world of art-house cinema, the past winner of the prestigious Palme d’Or prize at Cannes Film Festival is a genuine superstar. Weerasethakul, often […]
Cannes Film Festival
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OKCMOA celebrates the Coen Brothers’ film noir legacy
The museum screens Blood Simple., The Big Lebowski and Fargo.
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Oklahoma City Museum of Art expands French Film Week into a monthlong event
OKCMOA’s French Film Month screenings are an ideal complement to the Matisse in His Time exhibition.
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Director Paolo Sorrentino’s reflective Youth shows off influences
Fan reactions might be mixed, but fondness for Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth increases with each viewing.
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Film review: Borgman
Some of the best films use ambiguity to their advantage, leaving an open-endedness that lingers upon their conclusion. Borgman certainly meets this criteria.
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Drive
From the pink, cursive typeface and pulsing, instrumental music of the opening credits, audience members will feel as if something is out of place, as if the movie is just a bit “off.” That’s because director Nicolas Winding Refn (“Bronson”) has immersed this tale in the style of Michael Mann’s “Thief,” rather than today’s “Transporter” […]
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The Tree of Life
The latest work from notoriously deliberative writer/director Terrence Malick (“The New World”) is, by turns, ambitious and audacious, bold and bewildering. Not many pictures are so adventurous, pretentious and/or flatout ballsy — take your pick — as to interrupt its principal story to reveal the origin of the cosmos, but “Tree” does just that. It […]
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Of Gods and Men
While not a documentary, “Of Gods and Men” focuses on a group that is nonetheless real: French monks. Either way, you can’t get further from “Fast Five” this weekend. Hope you like subtitles. Opening Friday exclusively at AMC Quail Springs Mall 24, 2501 W Memorial, the Cannes Film Festival winner from writer/director Xavier Beauvois […]