Who will win the Palme at Cannes? [2012 edition]

anyway any reviews of holly motors? i hope for the best, but fear the worst.

again, here's peter bradshaw on the Carax:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/may/23/holy-motors-review?newsfeed=true

really psyched for it and i pretty much loved Pola X.

Haneke pic was very well received. Supposedly an uncharacteristically humane film for him. Looks like that and the Carax are front-runners at this point.

i sorta tell myself that everyone at festivals is just psyched for the masterpieces so zones out whenever something meanders or doesn't go all out. i can handle a minor kiarostami, which is what it sounds like the kiarostami was, or a weird elliptical reygadas, which is what it sounds like post tenebrax lux is.

Meanwhile the Lee Daniels sounds like a fucking hoot:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/cannes-film-festival/9287238/Cannes-2012-The-Paperboy-review.html

wow the carax sounds fucking balls to the wall nuts. not that i expected much less but...

you know there's a miniseries-length version of pola x, called pierre ou les extremites, that aired on european TV and is supposedly (per jean-michel frodon and others) really great? but i have _never_ been able to find even a shit-quality copy.

i sorta tell myself that everyone at festivals is just psyched for the masterpieces so zones out whenever something meanders or doesn't go all out. i can handle a minor kiarostami, which is what it sounds like the kiarostami was, or a weird elliptical reygadas, which is what it sounds like post tenebrax lux is.

― blossom smulch (schlump), Thursday, May 24, 2012 5:32 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think it's just in the nature of cannes festival and its role in film culture that people generally like to award big, thematically ambitious films. though frankly there are plenty of exceptions: rosetta and pulp fiction, for example.

apparently the carax features a vintage sparks deep track

http://enchantedmitten.blogspot.com/2012/05/from-cannes-interim-crix-poll-results.html

Looks like there's very little going on of interest this year. Average, zzzzzzzz.

if you bleeve CRITICS that is

I believe crix more than the selection committee.

critical unanimity is a big alarm bell for me often as not.

True, buzz around The Artist started at Cannes last year iirc.

is there anything you guys ever consider a GOOD sign

If you or Armond White hate it is usually a good start.

sheesh

that carax film will never come to theaters here. i'll probably have to see it in chicago or wait for DVD.

frankly, still waiting for "deep blue sea" to come here and i don't think it's gonna happen.

that's what happens when the "art cinema" reduces its "art" programming to a single screen.

So, Cosmopolis also gets middling marks (from those I follow anyway).

it's a book Michael Mann would have been perfect for (although it's maybe plot-wise already too close to collateral).

cosmopolis sounds like a stinker.

todd mccarthy's review: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/cosmopolis-review-robert-pattinson-cannes-329230

the loznitsa sounds good.

Really, The Paperboy is the only thing to emerge from this mess I want to see.

+ Carax

is it really any more of a mess than many other years?

I dunno. When was the last really great year at Cannes supposedly?

I also admit I find it pretty hard to get very excited about any of these movies knowing many won't even get here for another year maybe.

most won't get here, period, except maybe at our festival.

i always want to see the ones that get the most violent negative reactions

like that shakey-cam snuff film about corrupt cops (or whatever) that ebert was apoplectic about a couple years ago

unfortunately this approach has, in past years, led me to watch lats von trier and bruno dumont movies

Counterpoint on the Cronenberg:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/cannes-review-david-cronenbergs-cosmopolis-robert-pattinson-don-delillo-paul-giamatti-samantha-morton-juliette-binoche-20120525

'course I'm hoping extra hard that'll be good since I'm seeing it Monday morning.

http://www.vulture.com/2012/05/kanye-west-cruel-summer-cannes-2012.html

As I exited the arena to an outdoor party with Champagne and sushi that then led to an after-party in a crazy French nightclub where Cudi, Big Sean, and Pusha T performed, I unexpectedly found myself standing next to Jay-Z. What was his review? "Amazing!" Had he ever seen a movie like this before? "Have you?" he asked me back, and laughed and laughed while rubbing my back. (My review of that: amazing!) Had Kanye talked to him about this? "Yeah, about the idea, but to see it come to fruition is great, because the execution of idea is everything." So what did he think the film meant? He got deep: "It's about the things that separate us — race and class in society and things like that. But the only thing that really binds us is true love." He continued to rub my back. I got nervous. I tried to ask another question. "No, no, hold onto that," said Jay-Z. "That's what I'm going to leave you on." He laughed some more and walked away, and as he did, I think I finally got what he meant about true love.

aren't everyone in love with the new vinterberg?

Cosmopolis the book was kinda dull/inert, IIRC, so a film adaptation is already a tall order. Agreed that Cronenberg is maybe not the best dude for it.

"Cosmopolis the book was kinda dull/inert, IIRC, so a film adaptation is already a tall order"

on the contrary. a dull book usually equals great adaptation (Hitchcock for example).
while a masterpiece is usually better left out of the screen.

(Campion's Poertrait Of a Lady, for example)

re: Vinterberg - I've read some middling takes and at least one F.

did anyone but me see his last one, Submarino?

anyway, as usual - the interesting movies are on the Certain Regard.
Haneke and Co. are predictable at this point.we need fresh blood.

re: Un Certain Regard, I've seen the Dolan (it's out already in QC). Some good stuff, but an hour (!) too long.

hadnt heard a peep abt this thing or just overlooked it, robert duvall & lars ulrich in bit roles, cowritten by jerry stahl, walter murch editor, phil kaufman directs, will be on hbo 5/28

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/hemingway-gellhorn-tv-review-hbo-cannes-329332

yeah heres the trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bzD-of6zYs

clive owen going 'you inspire the hell outta me' and zestily biting a celery stick... i just dunno man. i hope its good

god i wish they'd stop making biopics

this is like a heroin addict politely asking middle eastern farmers to stop growing poppies tho

I generally don't read reviews til after I've seen something. I go by general reputation and the absence of Peter Travers in the ad quotes.

dam that trailer looks v suspect

seems really weird to me that this thing is also happening i guess unrelatedly

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cannes-2012-anthony-hopkins-andy-garcia-anthony-hemingway-fuentes-324704

Andy Garcia’s passion project

biopics probably have the worst shit-to-shinola ratio of any film genre ever.

In fact, as an uninhibited teenager who takes up with Garrett Hedlund's Neal Cassady stand-in, both [Kristen Stewart] and Hedlund go nude in their very first scenes in On the Road, and Stewart later takes part in a ménage à trois, initiates road head, and jerks off both Hedlund and Sam Riley while all three are naked in a moving car. She's so horny and curious that when another couple excuses themselves to have sex, a nosy Stewart follows them into the doorway and asks, "Can I watch you guys screw?"

...

Her On the Road co-star Hedlund is a case in point: Neutered of his natural charisma in all-ages blockbusters like Tron Legacy, Hedlund finally gets to make a strong impression here, wielding that window-shaking deep voice like a sensual weapon and inviting men and women alike to ogle him and eventually join him in bed. (There is even a scene where a sweaty Hedlund athletically power-fucks Steve Buscemi, which is not something anyone expected to see today, and yet it occurred!)

http://i.imgur.com/lwr6f.gif