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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

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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 a list of films from Totalitarian Hell—all different angles on what happens when the bad...
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January 2, 2016

Harlan Jacobson Reports on 2016 Cannes Film Festival for WBGO-FM

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January 2, 2016

Harlan Jacobson Reports from Toronto Int’l Film Fest for WBGO-FM

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May 18, 2015

Harlan Jacobson Reports from The Croisette #2

A quick note from the far turn as of Monday May 18, 2015 Best films by far have been: Son of Saul, a Hungarian film that practically places the camera...
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May 1, 2015

French film ‘Dheepan’ takes top prize at Cannes

CANNES – The French threw the world a film party and then ate the cherry on top of the dessert. Dheepan – about a Tamil Tiger who quits the Sri Lankan...
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May 1, 2015

Cannes

The big question gets answered—sort of. How did Mad Max: Fury Road, the 4th installment in Australian director George Miller’s saga –which began in the 1980s with Mel Gibson–of life in...
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