Month: December 2019

Coup d’envoi de la Quinzaine des réalisateurs avec le nouveau film de Claire Denis, “Un beau soleil intérieur”, porté par Juliette Binoche. Rencontre avec l’équipe du film très chaleureusement accueillie hier soir. Après la Sélection officielle mercredi soir, c’était au tour hier soir des Sélections parallèles de dévoiler leur film d’ouverture. La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs […]

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Is there anyone who had more life-changing 2019 than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Bronx native who spent her year as the youngest freshman in Congress introducing landmark environmental legislation, applying press-ons in her Amtrak seat, tweeting in between viral C-SPAN hearing appearances, and stumping for Bernie Sanders? AOC has been in office less than 365 days, […]

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I’ve held this opinion for several years, not exactly sure what to do with it, but in his Uncut Gems performance, Adam Sandler’s sensual, kvetching charisma is undeniable. The time has finally come for me to speak my truth: Adam Sandler is so hot. In the Safdie brothers’ highly anticipated film, Sandler stars as Howard […]

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Adulthood, once squarely a social right of passage facilitated by friends, family, sewing circles, and high-school home-ec classes, increasingly seems like a luxury. “Adulting,” the term often used by millennials to refer to activities like doing laundry, cooking, and filing taxes, is something you do, not something you are, because you can’t take it for […]

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