Final grades were officially tallied up after the repeat screenings on Sunday, and while the 1-2-3-4 positions haven’t changed, Todd Haynes’ Carol further cemented it’s status as the best from the 2015 In Comp class with a final 3.9 grade.
We’d like to once again thank our group of sixteen: Nicholas Bell, Blake Williams and Yama Rahimi from Ioncinema.com were joined by Christophe Beney, Dave Calhoun, Per Juul Carlsen, Paola Casella, Mike D’Angelo, Jean-Philippe Guerand, Carlos F. Heredero, Aaron Hillis, Fabien Lemercier, Marc-André Lussier, Liu Min, Isabelle Regnier and Cédric Succivalli. We already look forward to next year with Haneke, Pedro, Dolan and the Dardennes in the mix. Click on the grid below for a larger version.
We’d like to once again thank our group of sixteen: Nicholas Bell, Blake Williams and Yama Rahimi from Ioncinema.com were joined by Christophe Beney, Dave Calhoun, Per Juul Carlsen, Paola Casella, Mike D’Angelo, Jean-Philippe Guerand, Carlos F. Heredero, Aaron Hillis, Fabien Lemercier, Marc-André Lussier, Liu Min, Isabelle Regnier and Cédric Succivalli. We already look forward to next year with Haneke, Pedro, Dolan and the Dardennes in the mix. Click on the grid below for a larger version.
- 5/26/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Jeez. Time sure does fly by. It’s hard to fathom that we’re now in year number four with our world film critic on the La Croisette gallop poll, which we conveniently refer to simply as: our Cannes Critics’ Panel. I’m proud to say that a good dozen of us have remained a tight bunch. Back in 2011, our critics decided to “vote for Pedro” and La piel que habito over Von Trier, Kaurismäki, Dardennes and Palme d’Or winner Terrence Malick. In 2012, Haneke’s golden Amour won by a nose over 2nd place vote getter Holy Motors while last year’s Blue is the Warmest Color (aka La Vie d’Adèle – Chapitres 1 et 2) was the unanimous pick (and tallied the highest score ever) not only by the Spielberg jury, but our own collective. How will the stars align for the eighteen Palme hopefuls? Where will our set of...
- 5/14/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
For a third consecutive year, we bring back our twice daily, five-star system, critical snapshot of the Main Competition selected films (16 films in all) as rated by our group of 16 film critics. Joining Ioncinema.com’s Nicholas Bell, Blake Williams and I, we once again find Christophe Beney, David Calhoun, Per Juul Carlsen, Mike D’Angelo, Carlos F. Heredero, Eric Kohn, Fabien Lemercier, Guy Lodge, Lin Min, Isabelle Regnier and Cedric Succivalli. Added to the group, we’d like to welcome Aaron Hillis and Neil Young to the ’13 edition of esteemed critics.
Technically not the first title out of the gate (as Amat Escalante’s Heli received an early preview the night before) this morning’s first 8:30a.m screening belonged to a contempo “Belle de Jour” with director-screenwriter Francois Ozon’s Young & Beautiful (Jeune & Jolie) which stars the exceptionally beautiful Marine Vacth in the role of a seventeen...
Technically not the first title out of the gate (as Amat Escalante’s Heli received an early preview the night before) this morning’s first 8:30a.m screening belonged to a contempo “Belle de Jour” with director-screenwriter Francois Ozon’s Young & Beautiful (Jeune & Jolie) which stars the exceptionally beautiful Marine Vacth in the role of a seventeen...
- 5/16/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
And the tradition continues here on Ioncinema.com. Our twice daily critical snapshot of the Main Competition selected films (22 films in all, plus the closing film) as rated by 16 film critics is in its sophomore year. Other than switching a four to five star grading system, not much has changed. Over the course of the next twelve days, our critics will supply star ratings (which will fill out the grid-like format below) and will then be converted into one final grade. It acts as a barometer or a snapshot of what the film critics like best in real time.
Last year’s top vote getter was a film that didn’t collect any awards in Cannes. Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In was the consensus favorite beating out the likes of Melancholia, Le Havre, The Kid With a Bike, Drive and Palme d’Or winner, The Tree of Life.
Last year’s top vote getter was a film that didn’t collect any awards in Cannes. Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In was the consensus favorite beating out the likes of Melancholia, Le Havre, The Kid With a Bike, Drive and Palme d’Or winner, The Tree of Life.
- 5/16/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
With 14 of 16 members in our 2011 Critics' Panel voting, we naturally had to come to a gridlock. We have a two way tie with four votes apiece for The Tree of Life and Le Havre winning the Palme D'Or and in second place we have Pedro with three votes apiece for The Skin I Live In. We have one vote for The Artist, one for The Kid With a Bike and one person voted for Drive -- which must have crazy Vegas odds. I asked our 2011 panel to submit their winner predictions for the top three prizes and if they wanted to add anything further then we'd mention them as well. We'll have this on a grid shortly, but here is how we voted. Christophe Beney Palme d'Or: The Kid with the Bike Grand Prix: This Must Be the Place Jury Prize: The Tree Of Life David Calhoun Palme d'Or: Le...
- 5/22/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
2011 will be a banner year for us in terms of Cannes coverage, as two regular voices on the site have joined me in reporting on the festival and on the large number of films that the Croisette has to offer. Along with this comprehensive coverage we have the pleasure of hosting what we already anticipate will become an annual tradition on the site: a twice daily critical snapshot of the Main Competition selected films and their bid at claiming the grand-daddy prize of them all, the Palme d'Or. From as far north as Denmark, as far east as Hong Kong, and as far south as Brazil, we present our 2011 Cannes Critics' Panel comprised of film critics from around the world with the unique purpose of taking the temperature of the 20 films in the Main Competition -- this includes both the out of comp opening and closing night films. During the next twelve days,...
- 5/11/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
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