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Carax, Cronenberg, Reygadas: Cannes Winners – Predictions
7 hours ago | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Leos Carax‘s Holy Motors Michael Haneke’s Amour / Love is my prediction for the Cannes Film Festival 2012′s Palme d’Or. But there are several other possibilities, which will quite likely receive, if not the Palme d’Or itself, then at least one of the runner-up awards. At Cannes, those include the Grand Prize of the Jury (runner-up), the Jury Prize (third place), Best Director, and Best Screenplay. [See also Cannes 2012: Best Actor Predictions; Cannes 2012: Best Actress Predictions] Here are the ones that come to mind: Leos Carax’s highly unconventional Holy Motors, in which Denis Lavant plays 11 roles while riding around in his limo. Holy Motors was greeted by mixed reviews — but then again, so was nearly every film shown at Cannes this year, and probably every other year. That includes Terrence Malick’s 2011 Palme d’Or winner The Tree of Life. Andrew Dominik’s violent Killing Them Softly, a scathing commentary on American sociopolitical culture set among New Orleans mobsters. »
- Andre Soares
Jean-Louis Trintignant: Cannes Best Actor Prediction
13 hours ago | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Amour / Love (with Emmanuelle Riva) Cannes Film Festival Best Actor contenders are many. On top of the list is veteran Jean-Louis Trintignant in Michael Haneke’s romantic tragedy Amour / Love. Amour is the 81-year-old Trintignant’s first film in nearly a decade; it may also turn out to be his last. That in itself makes Trintignant the sentimental favorite for the Cannes 2012 Best Actor Award. If that weren’t all, both Amour and its cast have earned singularly enthusiastic notices, e.g., "utterly captivating," as per The Guardian‘s Jason Solomons. If Trintignant does take home the Best Actor prize, that’ll mark his second Cannes victory: the first was for his judge in Costa-Gavras’ political drama Z, 43 years ago. Other strong Best Actor possibilities include the following: Robert Pattinson surprised those who believed he actually was a vegetarian vampire who sparkled in the sunlight. As an arrogant »
- Andre Soares
Cannes 2012: Oscilloscope Acquires Matteo Garrone's 'Reality'
16 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired U.S. rights to Matteo Garrone's "Reality," a film in the Cannes main competition about an Italian fishmonger whose life is turned upside-down when he thinks he's going to appear on a reality-television show. In a release announcing the acquisition, Oscilloscope's David Laub called the film "a complex, provocative, and deeply compelling look at our media-obsessed culture, executed by one of the most interesting and talented filmmakers working today. Garrone pays homage to classical filmmakers such as Fellini and Scorsese while crafting a fresh and very relevant contemporary »
- Steve Pond
Cannes 2012: Oscilloscope Takes U.S. Rights to Matteo Garrone's 'Reality'
18 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired U.S. rights to Matteo Garrone’s Reality, a dark comedy about a man who dreams of being a contestant on a reality show. Photos: Cannes Day 10: 'Cosmopolis' Premiere, 'Hemingway & Gellhorn' Photocall The film, Garrone’s follow-up to 2008’s Gomorrah, debuted in the Competition line-up at the Cannes Film Festival. The acquisition is the first major move on the part of Oscilloscope, which was founded by Adam Yauch, since Yauch’s death on May 4. The company is being run by Dan Berger and David Laub, who had taken over more responsibilities earlier in
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- Gregg Kilday
Oscilloscope Takes Cannes' 'Reality'
19 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Oscilloscope has acquired Us rights to Matteo Garrone's "Reality," which screened in competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival. "'Reality' makes the case that society renders everyone impossibly small," Indiewire's Eric Kohn wrote in his recent review. "The first and last shots of Matteo Garrone's drama take place from extreme heights that make their focal point blend with their surroundings. Everything in frame takes on the dimensions of a dollhouse, as if the Italian filmmaker has assumed a godlike awareness. The compositions suggest that people are inherently trapped by their surroundings and never fully capable of realizing it." The deal was negotiated by Dan Berger and David Laub of Oscilloscope with Janine Gold of Fandango Portobello assisted by Garrone’s Us representatives, Bart Walker of Cinetic Media and Jeff Berg of ICM. Full press release below. New York, New York (May 26, 2012)-- »
- Peter Knegt
Cannes: Robert Pattinson plays a lethal finance bad boy in David Cronenberg's 'Cosmopolis.' Plus, a Palme d'Or conspiracy theory
25 May 2012 9:59 AM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
David Cronenberg is often the kind of director who makes art when he thinks he’s going mainstream (A Dangerous Method, The Fly) and winds up with a crock when he thinks he’s making art (the inexplicable 1996 Cannes Special Jury Prize winner Crash). Cosmopolis, which premiered this morning, may star the Most Coveted Sexy Franchise Heartthrob in the Universe, Robert Pattinson, but it is nevertheless in the icy, stultifying tradition of such hermetically sealed Cronenberg duds as M. Butterfly and Videodrome. For most of this one, we’re sealed in a white stretch limousine, the interiors of which Cronenberg shoots from symmetrical low angles, »
- Owen Gleiberman
Cannes: 'The Paperboy,' starring Zac Efron and Nicole Kidman, proves that 'Precious' director Lee Daniels needs some common sense to go with his talent
24 May 2012 11:39 AM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
When you hear about a movie that gets booed at the Cannes Film Festival, you tend to picture a monolithic thumbs-down chorus, like an ancient arena crowd turning on a gladiator. Actually, that’s not how it works. There is almost always at least some polite applause after film festival showings, so the boos, when they do happen, tend to be mixed in with clapping. That’s the sound I heard this morning when the closing credits rolled on Lee Daniels’ The Paperboy. And, in fact, that sound expressed my own feelings exactly. I wanted to do a catcall and »
- Owen Gleiberman
Cannes: 'The Paperboy,' starring Zac Efron and Nicole Kidman, proves that 'Precious' director Lee Daniels needs some common sense to go with his talent
24 May 2012 11:39 AM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
When you hear about a movie that gets booed at the Cannes Film Festival, you tend to picture a monolithic thumbs-down chorus, like an ancient arena crowd turning on a gladiator. Actually, that’s not how it works. There is almost always at least some polite applause after film festival showings, so the boos, when they do happen, tend to be mixed in with clapping. That’s the sound I heard this morning when the closing credits rolled on Lee Daniels’ The Paperboy. And, in fact, that sound expressed my own feelings exactly. I wanted to do a catcall and »
- Owen Gleiberman
Cannes: 'The Paperboy,' starring Zac Efron and Nicole Kidman, proves that 'Precious' director Lee Daniels needs some common sense to go with his talent
24 May 2012 11:39 AM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
When you hear about a movie that gets booed at the Cannes Film Festival, you tend to picture a monolithic thumbs-down chorus, like an ancient arena crowd turning on a gladiator. Actually, that’s not how it works. There is almost always at least some polite applause after film festival showings, so the boos, when they do happen, tend to be mixed in with clapping. That’s the sound I heard this morning when the closing credits rolled on Lee Daniels’ The Paperboy. And, in fact, that sound expressed my own feelings exactly. I wanted to do a catcall and »
- Owen Gleiberman
Cannes 2012. Days 1-3, Essential Reads
23 May 2012 7:05 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
This year at the Notebook, we're not going to be rounding up everything being said about Cannes—an "old" friend is doing a great job of that elsewhere—but we're still following the festival closely, and will be posting updates on some of the pieces we've enjoyed reading.
The 65th Cannes Film Festival kicked off with the latest work in symmetrical, dollhouse-cinema from Wes Anderson—his first to play there. In most corners of cinephilia, the debate over his merits as an auteur persist, but the word on Moonrise Kingdom has thus far been decidedly positive. Robert Koehler, covering Cannes for Film Journey, sees the film as an "ideal opening night vehicle", stating "there’s a kind of absolute auteurism, a hyper-aggressive formalism, an insistence on the camera’s view as a proscenium arch inside of which an entirely theatrical universe is created, alongside a lightness, a preference for melancholy »
Cannes: 'On the Road,' with Garrett Hedlund and Kristen Stewart, is a reverent, if not overly faithful ramble
23 May 2012 9:59 AM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
In On the Road, Walter Salles’ reverent, at times almost painfully faithful adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s birth-of-the-Beat-spirit novel, the characters are always getting high on one thing or another, and I don’t just mean drugs — though they do smoke weed and dissolve Benzedrine into their coffee. They also go to after-hours clubs and listen to twisty ecstatic jazz, their bodies shaking and writhing as the music works its way inside them. They have a lot of sex, too, some of it pretty exposed (hello, Nc-17!): On a car ride to nowhere, Sal (Sam Riley), the Kerouac character, »
- Owen Gleiberman
Cannes: Brad Pitt is menacingly good in the scuzzy, snazzy underworld movie 'Killing Them Softly'
22 May 2012 8:29 AM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
I wasn’t nearly as wild as a lot of critics about The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford — I thought it was too long, too arty and slow, too in love with its moods and images. Yet it was clear that the director, the New Zealand-born Australian Andrew Dominik, was very gifted. Whenever Brad Pitt appeared as Jesse James, the screen vibrated with menace, even though Pitt seemed to be doing almost nothing. As good as he had been before (in, say, Fight Club), I thought that the Jesse James performance was the place where Pitt »
- Owen Gleiberman
Cannes: Horror stalks the Croisette in 'Dario Argento's Dracula' and an amazing documentary about 'The Shining'
21 May 2012 11:49 AM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
At a film festival dominated by subtitled deep-think, you sometimes need a break. You need a meal, or a drink, or a nap. Or, just maybe, you need a movie like Dario Argento’s Dracula. I’ve never been the biggest fan of this schlock-operatic Italian splatter maven, but after such fevered orgies of gore as Suspiria and Unsane, the thought of him going back to the source — going back to Dracula — sounded appealing. Dracula turns out to be ripely entertaining in a kitschy-sincere old-fashioned way. (The kitsch is in how sincere it is.) It’s true, to a far greater degree than I expected, »
- Owen Gleiberman
Cannes 2012: former mafia killer is a hit
21 May 2012 4:14 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Aniello Arena is attracting best actor buzz for his role in Reality, but would be unable to claim the prize as he is in prison
Aniello Arena has been touted as the next De Niro and tipped for the best actor prize at this year's Cannes film festival. But if he does win the award, he will be unable to claim his prize in person as he is a former mafia hitman serving a life sentence for his role in a triple homicide, it was revealed on Sunday.
Arena was cast by Matteo Garrone, the director of comedy Reality after delivering strong performances with his prison theatre company and was allowed out to the film's set on day release.
Described by Garrone as a "great actor" blessed with the onscreen charisma of Robert De Niro, Arena was part of a five-man mafia hit squad in 1991 who shot dead three members »
- Tom Kington
Cannes: Can 'Amour' really be a Michael Haneke film? It's a tenderly devastating portrait of old age
20 May 2012 9:29 AM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
The Austrian director Michael Haneke is known for his creepouts (Caché), freakouts (Funny Games), and for the general air of dislocating disturbance that he imparts to almost everything his camera peers at. Amour (Love), his brilliant and haunting new movie, which premiered at Cannes this morning, has a moment early on that is very Haneke-ian. Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva), an old French couple in their still-vital early 80s, are seated at their cozily cramped little breakfast table, talking about this and that, and just as Georges is about to crack open his soft-boiled egg, he looks over at his wife, »
- Owen Gleiberman
Cannes rolls out the carpet for a bumper 65th year
19 May 2012 4:12 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
A vintage Cannes offers a whale of a drama, a Chinese mystery, and a dainty slice of dysfunctional family life from Wes Anderson. Meanwhile, Woody Allen and Roman Polanski have some explaining to do
Like the Godfather of film festivals that it is, Cannes keeps its friends close and its enemies closer. Over the 65th edition's early days, Cannes clawed back any deserters or doubters with a storming selection, confirming it as the best showcase for challenging cinema from around the world.
Andrea Arnold, the British director whose career Cannes nurtured by promoting her films Red Road and Fish Tank, showed her version of Wuthering Heights at Venice last year. Cannes immediately installed her as a member of this year's jury.
Regulars such as Woody Allen and Roman Polanski, neither of whom have a film showing here, have instead been rewarded with warmly respectful documentaries, made and populated by high-profile friends and fans. »
- Jason Solomons
Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4: Matteo Garrone’s Reality
19 May 2012 10:00 AM, PDT | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
Imagine the headlines if this year’s Best Actor prize goes to Aniello Arena. The male lead in Matteo Garrone’s sixth feature fiction film has been serving a prison term for the past two decades and wasn’t allowed to be on the Croisette to celebrate the film’s international premiere. Garrone who had previously been flying under the radar but had some acclaim with 2002′s The Embalmer and 2004′s First Love, really broke out with Gomorrah winning the Grand Prix for the film in Cannes back in 08′. Starring a huge ensemble, our critics responded well to Reality, a film that is being described as a Fellini-esque comedy. Click to enlarge!
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- Eric Lavallee
Cannes: 'Beyond the Hills' wants to be the art-house 'Exorcist.' Plus, Tom Hardy in 'Lawless'
19 May 2012 9:39 AM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
At Cannes, the fabled Palme d’Or isn’t like any other Best Picture award. Unlike, say, the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, or even the Oscar, it is conferred with a reverence that says: This film is a work of art — and the person who made it has been ushered into the pantheon. He (or she) is now one of the initiated, recognized in the shimmering galaxy of the international film world to be a major artist, a saint of the cinema, a wearer of the supreme auteur merit badge. There have been 65 Palme d’Or winners (the award »
- Owen Gleiberman
Day four - as it happened
19 May 2012 8:49 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
All the news, reviews, comment and buzz from the Croisette on day four of the Cannes film festival
10.41am: Bonjour and welcome to day four of the Cannes 2012 liveblog. It's a little different today, and by different I mean worse. Rather than Andrew Pulver in London with his snazzy, highly-informed, all-singing all-dancing liveblog, you'll have me, sat on a shelf in the press room at the Palais, with intermittent updates, no embedded pictures or tweets and a whole heap of typos. Sorry about that.
10.44am: A little scene setting. Twenty meters away, the photographers are baying for Tom Hardy, Shia Labeouf, Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska and Gary Oldman to give em a smile. I can see this because it's being streamed into the press room on a big screen, which I can half see if I peer over the huge tangerine vase in my line of vision (the press room's »
- Catherine Shoard, Henry Barnes
Cannes Review: Brandon Does David Proud, 'Antiviral' A Classic Cronenberg Freak Fest
19 May 2012 8:49 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
There is no doubt that no matter what Brandon Cronenberg decided to make as his first movie, the shadow of his father would loom large. So whether it just runs in the family, or if it was a calculated decision to do something audiences would expect from the Cronenberg mantle, full credit to Brandon for taking body horror to the next level with "Antiviral." While hardly perfect, it delivers the freak fest that fans of David have been missing for the past few years while establishing Brandon as a filmmaker with a bright future.
A constantly glowering, long haired Caleb Landry Jones leads the picture as Syd March, an employee of the Lucas Clinic who trade in a rather bizarre business. In the world of the film, celebrity obsession has jumped a few levels, and Lucas allows clients to inject themselves with the same virus or illness their favorite stars catch. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
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