Cannes Originals Archive for May, 2014
Cannes: The Daily Buzz – The Festival Runners Roundtable
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Read the full article »Cannes 67 Wrap-Up
Cannes 67 – c’est fini.
After dozens of screenings, predictions, and an endless series of queue debates, we have a Palme d’Or.
On Jean-Luc Godard / ADIEU AU LANGAGE / GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE 3D
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Read the full article »Cannes Review: Clouds of Sils Maria
I kinda love Clouds of Sils Maria. At its best, it is a female version of My Dinner With Andre. At its weakest, it is still interesting. The premise is pretty basic.
Read the full article » 4 Comments »Cannes Competition Review: Leviathan
There’s never a scene where Kolya doesn’t have a myriad of issues weighing on his mind, and these are visible in Serebryakov’s pained, tired facial expressions and believable portrayal of alcoholism (to be sure, Leviathan is boozier than two or three Hong Sang-soo films combined).
Read the full article » 1 Comment »Cannes: The Daily Buzz – Hot Topics
Hot Topics Roundtable at Cannes Film Festival with Eric Kohn, Anne Thompson, Marian Masone, Alison Willmore, and Jordan Hoffman.
Read the full article »Cannes Topper Gilles Jacob On His Slow Fade
Cannes Topper Gilles Jacob On His Slow Fade
Read the full article »Cannes Un Certain Regard Review: Lost River
If Lost River is the film Ryan Gosling wanted to debut as his first film—and you only get one first film—then I’ll be the first to admit that I had him pegged (as an artist, anyway) as someone entirely different.
Read the full article »Cannes Review: The Salvation
Yeah, this film rocks.
Read the full article »Cannes Competition Review: Maps To The Stars
Because Bruce Wagner’s script calls for actors to do and say depraved things with a straight face, the film couldn’t have been made—in this current form, anyway—without Cronenberg’s history of directing violence and dissecting the psycho-bizarre.
Read the full article »Cannes Competition Review: Wild Tales
Argentine Szifrón, known for his career in comedy television, aims high with his biggest budget to date: Wild Tales intertwines six separate narratives, and the film is primarily successful in finding humor in its theme of ordinary people pushed to their limit.
Read the full article »Cannes Competition Review: The Captive
The blurring of truth and fiction is a fairly standard theme throughout the director’s filmography, and much of Egoyan’s career is recalled in The Captive.
Read the full article »Cannes Review: Mr. Turner
Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner is a movie about an artist who is past his moment of greatest glory. A biopic only in that it rests on a historic figure in art, this is not a film about Turner’s inspiration or his method or his history. It is about the other side of the mountain, the apex of which Turner reached before the first shot of this film.
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Though much of the film is immaculate, the sum total lacks an emotional weight to lift the biography off the canvas.
Read the full article » 1 Comment »Cannes 2014: Grace of Monaco
Olivier Dahan is inarguably a genius. He is also, perhaps less clearly, a madman. I was expecting to offer a quick reaction to Grace of Monaco, but the film defied my urge to a quick, clean reaction. It is glorious, magical, inspired… and missing… something. But I have a powerful urge to revisit it to try to get a better handle on it.
Read the full article » 4 Comments »Cannes 2014: Opening Day
I have long been of the opinion that Cannes is an indulgence to US press. Starting my third year covering the festival, I have to say, nothing’s changed that opinion. But like Telluride, it’s a lovely indulgence. It’s the most civil film festival of the biggies. The schedule is loaded, but manageable. The town is…
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The last in a series of snapshots outlining the nineteen directors in the 67th Palme d’Or Competition.
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