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Harlan Jacobson and guest contributors provide film reviews, festival and film industry coverage, along with interviews and which can regularly be heard on WBGO.org.

CANNES OVERVIEW 2025

Cannes edition #78 is a whole nuther kettle of soupe de poisson / fish soup from last year. it’s as if Thierry Fremaux, the delegue general, director of programming, compiled a list of films from Totalitarian Hell—all different angles on what happens when the bad...
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Film Critic Harlan Jacobson shines like the movies at the 78th Cannes Film Festival

Cannes edition #78 is a whole nuther kettle of soupe de poisson / fish soup from last year. it’s as if Thierry Fremaux, the delegue general, director of programming, compiled...
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CANNES #78: DAY 1

With everything that is French about the Cannes film festival, the location, the films, the celebration of France itself, the 78th Cannes film festival notably made room on opening night,...
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Film Critic Harlan Jacobson Takes a Pre-Peek at the 78th Int’l Festival du Film

The 78th Cannes Film Festival opens next Tuesday night, the 13th, through Saturday the 24th and the awarding of the Palmes D’Or. Our film critic Harlan Jacobson will be reporting...
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The uncertainty of the future home of the Sundance Film Festival

James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown traces the arrival from the Minnesota Range of 20 year-old Bob Dylan in Morris Plains, NJ to sing “Song to Woody” at Woody Guthrie’s hospital...
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The Nominations, The Showgirl, and The Substance

James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown traces the arrival from the Minnesota Range of 20 year-old Bob Dylan in Morris Plains, NJ to sing “Song to Woody” at Woody Guthrie’s hospital...
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And Just Like That… 2024 Goes Straight to Hellions

James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown traces the arrival from the Minnesota Range of 20 year-old Bob Dylan in Morris Plains, NJ to sing “Song to Woody” at Woody Guthrie’s hospital...
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WICKED: For Colored Girls…When the Rainbow Is Enuf

Wicked, the Universal Studios film of the monster Broadway musical hit, has come roaring down the pike bigger than a Kansas twister and is finding all those Wicked fans who’ve been waiting...
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Our Town

When Our Town opened on Broadway in February 1938, playwright Thornton Wilder had written it 20 years after WWI had ended, nine years into the Great Depression and in a...
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62nd New York Film Festival Coverage

The 62nd New York Film Festival is held at the Film at Lincoln Center (FLC) is a nonprofit organization that celebrates cinema as an essential art form and fosters a...
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Toronto Int’l Film Festival Coverage

The 49th Toronto Film Festival from has been productive and well executed, as the media, the business people and the very enthusiastic public – some might say they never met a...
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Harlan Jacobson Reports From SXSW 2024: Civil War

In ALEX GARLAND’S new film, CIVIL WAR, we are dropped not exactly into the middle of a new American civil war, more like the end game of one that the film...
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