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#CannesFilmFestival is where auteurs, stars, and journalists come together in one rosé-drenched, glamorous crush of humanity. In lieu of this year’s canceled fest, watch these award-winning movies à la maison bit.ly/3dFVjWk
Martin Scorsese & Paul Schrader made their careers by diving into the troubled mind of a New York cabbie in 1976’s #TaxiDriver. The harrowing film latches itself onto Travis Bickle’s alienation through urban photography and Bernard Herrmann’s dreamy score bit.ly/3dFVjWk
Steven Soderbergh kicked off his filmography with #SexLiesAndVideotape, an impressively controlled study of behavior, unraveling an extramarital affair through the eyes of a man who records interviews with women about their sexual experiences and fantasies bit.ly/3dFVjWk
1989’s #CinemaParadiso follows the bond between a young Italian boy & a film projectionist in the years after World War II. Drawing its drama from how people connect through movies, the film underlines how particular events and people can inspire an artist bit.ly/3dFVjWk
The Coen brothers have built a filmography of tall tales, shaggy dog stories and character studies, but #BartonFink, their horrifically funny noir about a screenwriter struggling with writer’s block in a decaying hotel might be their strangest work of all bit.ly/3dFVjWk
Tarantino’s sprawling opus hangs out with the goons usually relegated to the dime-store novels the film draws from as pastiche. The delightful rhythms of dialogue & patient storytelling of #PulpFiction find humanity in pop ephemera and ubiquitous violence bit.ly/3dFVjWk
A grim exploration of denial, #LifeIsBeautiful follows a Jewish father attempting to spare his son from the horrors of the Holocaust by pretending the ongoing atrocity is a sort of game bit.ly/3dFVjWk
Roman Polanski tracked the piecemeal injustices inflicted upon Jewish people during the Holocaust with #ThePianist, articulating how individuals were robbed of their property, their community and, eventually, their lives bit.ly/3dFVjWk
Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” galvanized the culture, exposing the media industry for cheerleading the Iraq War and bringing light to the extended atrocities perpetrated by the conflict during George Bush’s first term in office bit.ly/3dFVjWk
#Oldboy, Park Chan-wook’s stylish portrait of unspeakable misery was a smash hit out of the festival and paved the way for South Korean cinema entering the American market bit.ly/3dFVjWk
Cristian Mungiu’s #4Months3Weeks2Days finds its power through authentic details as two college students living in the final years of Communist Romania attempt to obtain a black market abortion bit.ly/3dFVjWk
#UncleBoonmeeWhoCanRecallHisPastLives is Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s surreal and dreamlike film about a man living out his last days while surrounded by the spirits of his past lives, from ghost monkeys to talkative catfish bit.ly/3dFVjWk
Terrence Malick’s #TheTreeOfLife is a transcendent epic that connects a man’s memories of his adolescence in 1950’s Texas with the origins of the known universe and life on Earth. It’s the only movie featuring CGI dinosaurs to win the festival’s top prize bit.ly/3dFVjWk
Hirokazu Kor-eda’s #Shoplifters follows a scrappy found family as they get by nabbing food from grocery stores. It’s an effortless, cozy watch until the reality of the characters’ destitution clicks back into focus and sneak-attacks the viewer’s emotions bit.ly/3dFVjWk
Spike Lee establishes a provocative series of contradictions in #BlackKklansman – prank call comedy and horrific evil, a battle against racism waged from the folds of the police – and leaves the audience to parse it out bit.ly/3dFVjWk
Director Mati Diop’s command is formidable in #Atlantics, as she convincingly synthesizes the material reality of the region’s impoverished population with the supernatural qualities of a teen romance bit.ly/3dFVjWk
Bong Joon ho is at his peak in #Parasite, a Gothic comedy about the impoverished Kims grifting their way into the employment of the rich Parks. The film’s Palme win started an eight-month spree of superlative praise, culminating in a historic #Oscars night bit.ly/3dFVjWk
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