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Cannes 2012: 5 Biggest Movie Deals (So Far)
9 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Sony Pictures Classics presciently picked up North American rights to Michael Haneke’s Amour, winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, back in April. And IFC Films and Sundance Selects took Walter Salles’ On the Road the week before its Cannes debut. With a number of other high-profile films arriving with distribution in place -- , including John Hillcoat’s Lawless and Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly, both to be released by the Weinstein Co. -- that didn’t leave a lot of available titles for U.S. distributors to haggle over. Photos: Cannes 2012 Competition Lineup Even so, by the fest’s end, two
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- Gregg Kilday
Reactions & Winners As Cannes Closes
14 hours ago | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
The Cannes Film Festival is over for another year with the announcement of Michael Haneke’s well-received "Amour" taking home the fest's top honor - the Palme d’Or.
More controversial were some of the other supporting choices such as Matteo Garrone's "Reality" winning the Grand Prix (essentially the runner-up) while Carlos Reygadas scoring Best Director for "Post Tenebras Lux". Both films were not well received by critics at the fest, 'Reality' in particular drawing some outright jeers.
Also winning were Cristina Flutur and Cosmina Stratan who shared the Best Actress for their work in "Beyond The Hills" which also took Best Screenplay for Cristian Mungiu. Mads Mikkelsen won Best Actor for "The Hunt", Sundance winner "Beasts of the Southern Wild" won Caméra d’Or (Best First Film), while Ken Loach's "The Angels Share" took a Jury Prize.
The biggest surprise was the lack of recognition »
- Garth Franklin
Cannes 2012: Michael Haneke wins second Palme d'Or for Amour
28 May 2012 1:19 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Austrian director wins Cannes top prize for second time in three years for tender portrait of ailing elderly couple
Michael Haneke's latest movie, Amour, won the Austrian director his second top prize from Cannes in three years, following his triumph in 2009 with The White Ribbon. The film is the tenderest in a career defined by unflinching brutality, as well as arguably the least cinematic: a two-hander set in a Paris flat. Haneke joined just five others to have won the Palme d'Or twice, including Francis Ford Coppola and Emir Kusturica.
Amour, which stars Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva as an elderly couple struggling to cope after one of them suffers a series of strokes, won universal praise on its premiere at the 65th annual festival last week, and its win was widely thought to be something of a certainty. But elsewhere there were shocks galore from Nanni Moretti's jury, »
- Catherine Shoard
Mads Mikkelsen, Carlos Reygadas: Cannes Winners
27 May 2012 3:24 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Carlos Reygadas‘ Post Tenebras Lux Cannes 2012 Winners Pt.1: Michael Haneke’s Amour, Matteo Garrone’s Reality, Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond The Hills The Best Actor was Mads Mikkelsen, who late last year received the European Film Award for European Achievement in World Cinema. (Among Mikkelsen’s future World Cinema "achievements" may be one of the villainous roles in Thor 2.) Mikkelsen’s Cannes victory was for his performance as a man (falsely) accused of sexually molesting a child — and the inevitable hysteria that ensues — in Thomas Vinterberg’s Danish psychological drama The Hunt. Carlos Reygadas cosmically surrealist family drama, Post Tenebras Lux ("Light After Darkness") earned the Mexican filmmaker the Best Director Award. In 2007, Reygadas’ Silent Night tied with Persepolis for the Jury Prize. And just a few days ago, Post Tenebras Lux was greeted by loud boos. And finally, the socially conscious British filmmaker Ken Loach won the »
- Andre Soares
Film News: Michael Haneke’s ‘Amour’ Wins Top Prize at Cannes Festival
27 May 2012 2:37 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – After receiving eight previous prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, German filmmaker Michael Haneke became the first person in history to win the Palme d’Or twice within a mere three-year period. Haneke snagged the top prize at Cannes for “Amour,” a widely praised drama about an elderly couple whose love is challenged by the physical frailties of age.
At the May 27th award ceremony for the 65th annual Cannes Film Festival, Haneke was joined onstage by his film’s two stars, the legendary French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant (whose performance in “Amour” marks his first onscreen appearance in nine years) and Emmanuelle Riva (of “Hiroshima Mon Amour” fame). In his acceptance speech, the director credited his two actors for being “the essence” of his film, while noting that “Amour” was “in part an illustration of the promise” that he and his wife made to one another. Haneke won the »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Sundance Selects Acquires Rights To Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone In Love
27 May 2012 2:19 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Photo by Gareth Cattermole . © 2012 Getty Images.
Sundance Selects announced today from the 2012 Cannes Film Festival that the company is acquiring all Us rights to Like Someone In Love directed and written by former Palme d’Or winner Abbas Kiarostami (Certified Copy, The Taste Of Cherry). The film is an MK2 and Eurospace Production. It stars Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno and Ryo Kase. It was produced by Marin Karmitz (MK2) and Kenzo Horikoshi (Eurospace), and associate produced by Nathanael Karmitz and Charles Gillibert. Like Someone In Love made its world premiere in competition earlier in the week at the Cannes Film Festival.
In his follow-up to the stateside hit Certified Copy (which starred Juliette Binoche), Abbas Kiarostami’s returns with yet another dazzling cinematic puzzle. An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him. He thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home. »
- Michelle McCue
Cannes: Walter Salles Talks The Long Journey To Make 'On The Road'
27 May 2012 10:17 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Given that the source material was once described by Truman Capote with the immortal epithet "That's not writing, that's typing," and has generally been considered as "unfilmable," it's not surprising that it's taken the best part of half-a-century to make a film of Jack Kerouac's beat classic "On the Road." Plans were in the works as early as the publication date in 1957 (Kerouac wanted to co-star in the film with Marlon Brando), and documentarian D.A. Pennebaker came close, but it's Francis Ford Coppola who's been the driving force, developing the project since the release of "Apocalypse Now" in 1979.
And finally, the film has been finished, premiering at the Cannes Film Festival last week, thanks to Coppola, who ended up producing the film, and Walter Salles, the director of "The Motorcycle Diaries." The helmer has assembled an impressive cast, including Sam Riley as Sal Paradise, Garret Hedlund as Dean Moriarty, »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Carax, Cronenberg, Reygadas: Cannes Winners – Predictions
27 May 2012 1:02 AM, PDT | 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
Cannes 2012 Review: On The Road Hits the Right Beats
26 May 2012 9:53 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
The idea of adapting a novel as precious to the American psyche as On The Road would be terribly ambitious, even without the narrative complications of Jack Kerouac's famously stream of consciousness storytelling style. Ask Francis Ford Coppola. He has been working to get the project made for some thirty-plus years. Well the film is finally done, and the good news is, it's remarkably decent. When the bottle finished spinning, the job of adapting the book fell to director Walter Salles and screenwriter Jose Rivera. Best known for their young Che Guevara road tripper The Motorcycle Diaries, Salles and Rivera proved a great choice to adapt such a revered book. Their approach allows the source material to do the heavy lifting, not spending too »
Marion Cotillard: Cannes Best Actress Predictions
26 May 2012 8:26 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schonhaerts, Rust & Bone Marion Cotillard is the odds-on Best Actress favorite at the Cannes Film Festival 2012 for her performance as an invalid in Jacques Audiard’s De rouille et d’os / Rust & Bone. Cotillard has already won a Best Actress Academy Award, a British Academy Award, and two Césars, but she has never won a Cannes Award in the Official Competition. Barring an upset, this will be her year. [See also Cannes Best Actor Prediction.] Now, who could be the "upsets"? Well, there are a number of possibilities (and of course, ties aren’t infrequent at Cannes). Veterans Isabelle Huppert and Emmanuelle Riva, the two female stars in Michael Haneke’s acclaimed Amour / Love, could share the Best Actress Award — as was the case with the nearly all-female Volver cast in 2006. Or perhaps Huppert and Riva might share a "Best Ensemble" Award with fellow Amour player Jean-Louis Trintignant. That has (sort of) happened »
- Andre Soares
Cannes 2012 roundup: Michael Haneke's Amour conquers all
26 May 2012 4:12 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
From the bonkers Holy Motors to the disappointing On the Road, Cannes offered plenty of breadth, but only Michael Haneke's exquisite tale of an elderly man caring for his frail wife in their Paris apartment ticked all the boxes
Michael Haneke is too good. Whenever the Austrian director shows one of his films in Cannes, I always come out thinking the others might as well just pack up and go home because they'll never reach his awesome heights of control and precision. It's like the days when Beethoven was around and everyone else gave up composing. Haneke's Amour, about an elderly man looking after his frail wife (Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva, both utterly captivating) when a stroke confines her to their Paris apartment, was by some stretch the finest film at Cannes. It was the only piece to be exquisitely acted, composed, paced and pitched, as well as »
- Jason Solomons
Cannes 2012. Days 8-9, Essential Reads
26 May 2012 10:57 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Holy Motors, Léos Carax's first feature since 1999's largely misunderstood Pola X, has inspired the most entertaining critic responses at this year's festival. Mike D'Angelo labels it a "bugfuck masterpiece," and Michal Oleszczyk enthusiastically proclaims it to be "a mind-blowing absurdist vaudeville, an acting tour de force, a Franju-by-way-of-Feuillade cine-homage, a howl, a hoot, and a treat." The film could be a Palme d'Or contender, and, moreover, word is that the brilliant Denis Lavant could be rewarded with a Best Actor Award. Eugene Hernandez celebrates Carax's return and covers the film's press conference over at Cannes Daily. If you missed the astonishing trailer for Holy Motors, take a look.
Other Take: Demetrios Matheou (Sight & Sound)
Walter Salles' On the Road has mostly been greeted with negative attention or faint praise. Manohla Dargis writes on the film for The New York Times.
The Paperboy, Lee Daniels' follow-up to Precious »
Walter Salles Working On Two New Screenplays, 'Terra' With Gael García Bernal & One With His 'Central Station' Star
26 May 2012 10:31 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Brazilian director Walter Salles' path to adapting Jack Kerouac's "On The Road" has been a long and winding one that's taken about seven years to come to fruition. And while reviews out of Cannes about his new picture starring Garett Hedlund, Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart and more have been decidely mixed (read our review here), the film will finally arrive on U.S. shores in the late fall.
But while "On the Road" was a prolonged pregnancy, the filmmaker, perhaps best known for "The Motorcycle Diaries," has kept fairly busy with other plans. After 2005's "Dark Water" came the little-seen Brazilian favela-slums-set "Linha de Passe" that never found U.S. distribution and all the while, Salles had been slowly chipping away on a documentary about "On the Road," which he has described as his own personal research towards making the film.
And there's more on the horizon. Playlist »
- The Playlist
Cannes Podcast: Pete Hammond On ‘Lawless’, ‘Rust And Bone’ And More
25 May 2012 8:57 PM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Deadline’s Pete Hammond talks about hot festival movies such as (clockwise from top left) the superb Prohibition-era shoot-’em-up Lawless with Tom Hardy and Shia LeBeouf; Rust And Bone, with an awards-worthy star turn by Marion Cotillard, shown with Matthias Schoenaerts; Brad Pitt, pictured with Richard Jenkins, in the Mitchum-esque noir thriller Killing Them Softly; the crowd-pleasing Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted; and Jack Kerouac’s On The Road, brought to the screen by Walter Salles with a star-making turn from Garrett Hedlund, shown with Kristen Stewart and Sam Riley in the back seat. Other hot movies include a pair of Nicole Kidman triumphs — (below from left) Lee Daniels’ over-the-top The Paperboy and Philip Kaufman’s HBO epic Hemingway And Gellhorn plus Michael Haneke’s brilliant but challenging Amour. You can listen to Pete’s podcast from Cannes here. »
- THE DEADLINE TEAM
Stewart, Riley and Hedlund go On The Road
25 May 2012 2:23 PM, PDT | Cineplex | See recent Cineplex news »
Kristen Stewart understands the lure of the open road. So do her On The Road co-stars, Garrett Hedlund and Sam Riley.
The three young actors play the central love triangle in Walter Salles' adaptation of Jack Kerouac's Beat Generation novel, an experience that has helped them appreciate why the book is considered a classic.
The tale of wannabe writer (and Kerouac surrogate) Sal Paradise and his friend Dean Moriarty crisscrossing the United States in search of freedom and the elusive "it" was published in 1957. But Stewart said the way it captures the heady feeling of young adulthood is timeless. »
- Cineplex.com and contributors
Cannes Review: David Cronenberg’s ‘Cosmopolis’ Is An Impenetrable Fog of Poetic Nonsense
25 May 2012 12:30 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Though it is faintly vulgar to talk of any actors in terms of only one project, who would have thought a couple of years ago that the two lead actors from Twilight would both feature In Competition at Cannes, starring in brave and bold adaptations of two iconic, but problematic American novels? Two days after Kristen Stewart‘s next release – Walter Salles‘ On The Road – screened in the Theatre Lumiere, the same screen played host to the Robert Pattinson-starring adaptation of Don DeLillo‘s Cosmopolis. The film follows Eric Packer (Pattinson), a young billionaire asset manager on a journey across a thronging New York City in his limousine, flanked by his head of security Torval (Kevin Durand) in order to get a hair cut. Along the way he encounters colleagues (Jay Baruchel, Samantha Morton, and Philip Nozuko), protesters (Mathieu Amalric), his wife (Sarah Gadon) and lovers (Juliette Binoche and Patricia McKenzie), all of whom contribute to »
- Simon Gallagher
Cannes 2012: Jeff Nichols On 'Mud': "It moves unlike anything else I've made."
25 May 2012 11:46 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
At 33, "Mud" writer/director Jeff Nichols is the youngest filmmaker in competition for the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival. The Little Rock native slayed festivalgoers with his critically acclaimed 2007 domestic drama "Shotgun Stories" and reteamed with that film's star, Michael Shannon, to deliver "Take Shelter," an apocalyptic thriller that premiered at Sundance 2011, landed a home at Sony Pictures Classics and won both the Critics' Week Grand Prize and the Fipresci award at last year's Cannes. With his latest film "Mud," a western coming-of-age tale starring Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon, Nichols skipped past Cannes' Un Certain Regard sidebar to land a coveted spot in the Competition, alongside such revered auteurs as Michael Haneke, David Cronenberg, Walter Salles and Abbas Kiarostami. Indiewire caught up with Nichols prior to Cannes ("Mud" premieres on Saturday) »
- Nigel M Smith
On the Road | Review - Cannes 2012
25 May 2012 10:00 AM, PDT | SmellsLikeScreenSpirit | See recent SmellsLikeScreenSpirit news »
Director: Walter Salles Writers: Jose Rivera (screenplay), Jack Kerouac (book) Starring: Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Tom Sturridge, Elisabeth Moss, Viggo Mortensen, Kristen Stewart, Amy Adams, Kirsten Dunst Sal Paradise (Sam Riley) and Dean Moriarty (Garrett Hedlund) -- protagonists of Jack Kerouac’s acclaimed novel -- hit the road. They travel across America from the east to west coast, back and forth. They live now and here, protest against the system, kindle their emotions and indulge in a hypnotic, sensual and narcotic journey. Before my first trip to Paris, everyone told me over and over again that I would be disappointed; that the city has nothing in common with the portraits by the painters from Montparnasse, nor is it as poetic as in the bizarre novels written by Henry Miller. Maybe it was true; however, my vision of Paris was so enormously strong that when I eventually got there, I saw »
- Anna Bielak
‘On the Road’ Trailer & Clips: A Star-Studded Search for ‘It’
24 May 2012 3:46 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Despite boasting an all-star cast that includes Viggo Mortensen, Amy Adams, (Blonde) Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley (13), Kirsten Dunst, Alice Braga (Predators), Garrett Hedlund (Tron Legacy), Steve Buscemi, Terrence Howard and Mad Men‘s Elisabeth Moss, we actually haven’t covered much of Walter Salles’ (The Motorcycle Diaries) adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, which is being produced by Francis Ford Coppola.
Personally, I’ve been a longtime detractor of Kerouac’s seminal novel about the rise of the Beat Generation – I’m “Camp Thompson” (as in Hunter S.) when it comes to narcotics-fueled excursions that serve as ruminations on American life and society. Still, On the Road is a film worth noting as it has recently premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, so today we have the latest clips and a previously-released trailer for the film to share.
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- Kofi Outlaw
Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 8: Walter Salles’ On the Road
24 May 2012 1:10 PM, PDT | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
It took three decades to bring the seminal book to the big screen, and finally, the road trip tome from Jack Kerouac received a mid fest showing. His fifth trip on the Croisette, (two shorts in omnibuses) with The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) and Linha de Passe (2007), I think you can make an argument that Walter Salles was the man for the job. An ensemble that included Garrett Hedlund (as Dean Moriarty), Sam Riley (Sal Paradise), Kristen Stewart (Marylou), Amy Adams (Jane Lee), Tom Sturridge (Carlo Marx), Elisabeth Moss (Galatea Dunkel), Kirsten Dunst (Camille) and Viggo Mortensen in a brilliant raspy voice set Old Bull Lee aka William S. Burroughs. It’s almost a shame that our critics think that On the Road is of a middle of the road quality. Click the image to enlarge!
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- Eric Lavallee
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