Attending the Cannes Film Festival — like many things right now — is a dissonant experience. In between the buzzy back-to-back screenings, star-studded events, and myriad other shiny distractions this year, there were harrowing news headlines to be read that made all this focus on celebrity feel obscene, knowing a genocide was raging, virtually unobstructed,…

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10.06.2025

Cannes 2025 Review: ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ – Film Daze

Wes Anderson is, quite famously, a details guy. Perfect symmetry, immaculate composition, and absolute devotion to every tiny element of his dollhouse creations — his work (and that of his behind-the-scenes collaborators) is dazzling in its dedication to the little things. The Phoenician Scheme, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, is no outlier in…

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10.06.2025

Cannes 2025 Review: ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ – Film Daze

Akira Kurosawa's High and Low is the kind of film you watch in a state of quasi-paralysis. The 1963 noir is both taut moral thriller and enthralling procedural — a film of relentless jaw-clenching tension and compulsive rhythm that sets the bar for everything it does. In short, it's a masterpiece, and so it was…

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06.07.2025

Let’s Rock: The Dialectic of the Sublime in ‘Twin Peaks’ – Film Daze

Music is a big part of Twin Peaks’ residents’ lives. This is made most evident in 2017’s Twin Peaks: The Return, the third season of the show which picks up where the second season left off in 1991. Nearly every episode of The Return contains a musical number. This isn’t just a needle-drop synced perfectly…

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