THE MISSING PICTURE (L’image manquante) (2013) Running time: 92 Minutes Director: Rithy Panh Country: Cambodia Filmmaker Rithy Panh’s brave new film revisits his memories of four years spent under the Khmer Rouge and the destruction of his family and his culture; without a single memento left behind, he creates his “missing images” with narration and […]

THE LAST OF THE UNJUST (Le Dernier des injustes) (2013) 218 Minutes Director: Claude Lanzmann Countries: France/Austria This moral and cinematic tour de force from the creator of SHOAH will cause you to reconsider your understanding of Adolph Eichmann and of Benjamin Murmelstein, the last Jewish elder of Theresienstadt and the film’s central figure.   […]

JEALOUSY (La Jalousie) (2013) 77min Director: Philippe Garrel Country: France An intimate, handcrafted work of poetic autobiographical cinema from French director Philippe Garrel, in which his son Louis and Anna Mouglalis star as actors and lovers trying to reconcile their professional and personal lives.   Share this:

Competition between film festivals is nothing new. Cannes was founded in the late 1930s as the French response to Venice. In recent years, Shanghai has felt the heat from the government-backed Beijing, while both SXSW and Tribeca have sought to position themselves as viable alternatives to Sundance. Rarely, however, have such tensions spiked quite so […]