Glourious basterds and martyred monks
Terrorism, and more terrorism, dominated the Cannes festival
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Brian D. Johnson
Brian D. Johnson writes about film and the arts for Maclean’s. He’s also a filmmaker, and director of the annual Toronto Film Critics Association Awards Gala.
Crazy Cannes
Brian D. Johnson on the stars, the hits, the tricksters and the strange bedfellows
Shooting Jagger
Drugs, music and nostalgia—watch Mick live at the Cannes premiere of ’Stones in Exile’
Iraq politics, Asian poetics, and sex with a talking catfish
As Valerie Plame Wilson, a secret agent with twins, Naomi Watts plays the all-American spy mom
Bestsellers
Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles (week of May 17th, 2010)
When the Stones were truly stoned
Jagger on the 8-year-old drug smuggler with the band: "It didn’t do him any harm!"
Flying yogis and flying millions
Acolyte David Lynch isn’t happy with this exposé of Transcendental Meditation
Waiting for Mick
The Cannes crush for Stones in Exile
Godard makes his absence visible
The riddling oracle of the French New Wave is still messing with our heads
Do we really own the Arctic?
Why we can’t protect our far North