Cannes Encore
For two weeks each May, a quaint town on the French Riviera becomes a Hollywood fantasy in the flesh. Throughout the 2008 Cannes...
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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.
Leonard Cohen wore earplugs to a Dylan show?
Read Brian D. Johnson’s extended backstage interview with Leonard Cohen in 2008
Film Reviews: ’Kung Fu Panda’, ’Mongol’
The weekend’s big movie for fully grown children is You Don’t Mess With the Zohan , the new Judd Apatow-branded comedy starring...
He’s no Angelina
Which of these social-justice films will catch fire? A) 4 1/2 subtitled hours on Che Guevara or B) a Jolie melodrama.
And now, the final credits. . .
So in the end, how was Cannes? As I’m writing this, at 36,000 ft. somewhere above Greenland, I realize I’ll need a response...
La fin du monde
It’s 2 am, and too late to be typing. It was a full evening, beginning with the awards and ending with a windblown party at the...
Atom Egoyan "overwhelmed"
Skipped a French movie to see Atom Egoyan accept the Ecumenical Jury Prize. Looks like my earlier announcement of it broke an...
Being Charlie Kaufman
At the press conference after the Cannes premiere of Synecdoche , New York , Charlie Kaufman’s feature directing debut, the...
Egoyan’s ’Adoration’ wins a prize
This just in. Atom Egoyan has won the Ecumenical jury’s prize in Cannes for Adoration . It’s awarded by a different jury than the...
Can you pronounce ’Synecdoche’?
Just got back from a late dinner with a gang of journalists at La Pizza, which has always been Roger Ebert’s favorite restaurant...