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Diverse festival notables from Hannah Ha Ha to The Blue Caftan join a spattering of specialty horror titles led by Consecration, and the U.S. theatrical debut of Gaspar Noé’s controversial ...

With one of his most acclaimed films, Climax, getting a U.S. release this year (and now on Amazon Prime) as well as a brand-new medium-length work, Lux Æterna, premiering at Cannes, Gaspar Noé is ...

Famed film critic Roger Ebert once called Climax and Into the Void writer-director Gaspar Noe’s Irreversible “a movie so violent and cruel that most people will find it unwatchable.” That’s a fair ...

THE MOST obvious human reaction to "Irreversible," Gaspar Noe's bluntly rapacious film, is to turn away in horror and run. An automatic humanity medal to anyone and everyone who does. But for those ...

Aki Kaurismaki’s deadpan meditation on human hope and misfortune “The Man Without a Past” (Finland) takes home the top honors in indieWIRE’s second-annual foreign-language film survey. In a year ...