Holy Motors

The Cinema Scope Top Ten of 2012

1. Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel) 2. Tabu (Miguel Gomes)   3. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)   4. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)   5. Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)   6. Viola (Matías Piñeiro)   7. The Last Time I Saw Macao (João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata)   8. autrement,…
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CS52 Editor’s Note

As far as I’ve been able to tell—from having had the misfortune to watch some or all of close to a thousand films so far this year—the quality of product available to festivals in 2012 is inferior to 2011. But that doesn’t excuse some of the stinkers that are making their way over to North…
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Holy Motors (Leos Carax, France)

By Dennis Lim The media gauntlet is so much a part of the Cannes infrastructure that Leos Carax’s decision to withdraw from it was both bold and telling. Despite having one of the most talked-about films at this year’s festival with Holy Motors, Carax granted no interviews, and his public pronouncements were confined to a…
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