Ciro Guerra Articles

Stuart Hazeldine's Exam (top); Kaarina Hazard, Heikki Nousiainen in Klaus Härö's Letters to Father Jaakob (bottom) The Santa Barbara International Film Festival came to a close today. Held about in the coastal town 90 miles north of Los Angeles, the festival attracted a number of Hollywood personalities, including honorees Colin Firth and Julianne Moore. The information below about the Santa Barbara festival's award winners is [...]

Philippe Garnier on Cannes 2009, in the LA Weekly: "By this time, news should be out everywhere that Cannes this year was a special vintage. Not only did most of the selected 'usual suspects' outdo themselves in big and unexpected ways — or, like Alain Resnais, find new resources and verve which, frankly, we didn’t know they had in them — but it is also [...]

Manohla Dargis on Gaspar Noé's Enter the Void, in the New York Times: "Although he remains dedicated to shaking up viewer s, to getting under their skins and into their nervous systems, Mr. Noé [above, top photo] has mellowed. Despite its unpromising title, Enter the Void, his entry at this year’s festival, is an exceptional work, though less because of its story, acting or any [...]