Who will win the Palme at Cannes? [2014 edition]

Go you crazy cute mop-topped little kid genius you.

(re: Godard, of course)

This is Ceylan's to lose. After having seen loads of Cannes13 stuff these last few years, I'm kinda looking more forward to hearing about Un Certain Regard.

UN CERTAIN REGARD
"Amour fou" (Jessica Hausner)
"Bird People" (Pascale Ferran)
"The Blue Room" (Mathieu Amalric)
"Charlie’s Country" (Rolf de Heer)
"Dohee-ya" (July Jung)
"Eleanor Rigby" (Ned Benson)
"Fantasia" (Wang Chao)
"Harcheck mi headro" (Keren Yedaya)
"Hermosa juventud" (Jaime Rosales)
"Incompresa" (Asia Argento)
"Jauja" (Lisandro Alonso)
"Lost River" (Ryan Gosling)
"Party Girl" (Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis)
"Run" (Philippe Lacote)
"The Salt of the Earth" (Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado)
"Snow in Paradise" (Andrew Hulme)
"Titli" (Kanu Behl)
"Tourist" (Ruben Ostlund)
"Xenia" (Panos Koutras)

This is Ceylan's to lose.

Runtime: 196 min

Wow, three Canadians. (Kinda expect all three of them to be bad, tbh.)

x-post: Excactly.

Looking forward to the new Östlund as well, his Play is a gem!

I see the terrible four-hour Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby is now the still-gonna-be-terrible two-hour Eleanor Rigby.

Leigh, Loach, Dardenne, Cronenberg and Godard AGAIN?

Zzz...

Uncertain regard seems more interesting (and not for the first time)

Because Jane Campion is the head of Jury i'd say Naomi or Alice will win.

I bet Xavier still has a shot on that logic.

Godard hasn't been there since 2001. Dardenne deserves to be there. Leigh, Loach and Cronenberg are also making me very tired. When was the last time they made something worthwhile?

How is Kawase or Rohrwacher? What should be seen by them? I saw Tom at the Farm yesterday, really not that good. Don't get his hype.

"Godard hasn't been there since 2001"

and for good reasons

Dardenne deserves to be there.

I need Cannes to give me new betes noir plz.

I'd probably rather watch 10 Loach movies in a row than see another Dardennes joint.

at least Almodovar didn't make a new film..

At least Jane Campion didn't make a new film.

Hey, I love late Godard! Saw 3x3D last sunday, and his segment was really fun! Unfortunately, the rest was kinda bullshit.

I'd kinda hafta read up on the individual movies to make an educated guess. I now only have time to read heavily on films after I've seen them.

Mommy? Boy that'll run forever in the gay ghettos. (Also, I'm fucking sick of having to see a filmmaker has a new one when his LAST one hasn't opened in the enlightened USA.)

At least Jane Campion didn't make a new film.

booooo

Looking forward to Carrell:

http://cdn.mos.totalfilm.com/images/s/steve-carell-is-unrecognisable-in-first-image-from-foxcatcher-143170-a-1377071676-470-75.jpg

If Chris Evans makes good on his threat to follow Gosling into directing, they can be in Un Shirtless Regard.

Good that a Leigh period piece is closer to Topsy-Turvy than Vera Drake.

I would not have guessed that one of these is a remake of a Fred Zinnemann film.

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-cannes-2014-lineup

http://www.screendaily.com/news/cannes-adds-six-to-official-selection/5071149.article

Looking forward to the Godard, Assayas, Dardennes and Celan (tho' he will have to go some way to top Once Upon A Time...). Enjoyed Loach and Leigh's previous movies. Hated Cronenberg's previous two movies, and agree he hasn't made a really satisfying movie since... Existenz?

Cosmopolis was the first one I've liked in about a decade.

last two have been splendid

Has anyone seen any Sissako? His Bamako sounds pretty interesting.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Oddsmakers say Ceylan:

http://www.paddypower.com/bet/novelty-betting/hollywood/cannes-film-festival
http://www.jigsawlounge.co.uk/film/reviews/cannes2014bet/

Indiewire plays devils advocate on behalf of The Wonders:

http://www.indiewire.com/article/countdown-to-cannes-is-alice-rohrwachers-the-wonders-is-already-a-frontrunner-for-the-palme-dor

re: the latter, HitFlix is skeptical:

http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/cannes-check-2014-alice-rohrwachers-the-wonders

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Well, let's hope we're right.

Almost as many votes as there will be fest jurors.

preview roundup

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-previewing-cannes-2014

Mr. Turner sounds incredible

BFI on "Mr Turner", which I eagerly anticipate watching : http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/comment/festivals/cannes-2014-savouring-mr-turner

so it probably won't be Winter Sleep after all

Reviews for Egoyan's are way worse tho.

Are the reviews for Winter Sleep really more mixed than could have been expected with a 196 min Turkish talk-drama?

lol

I've got a good feeling about Leviathan.

I'd like a Russian winner, but I didn't really like The Return. Also, sea-monsters is the weirdest trend in world cinema 2014...

Pretty comprehensive chart of int'l critics' ratings:

http://www.todaslascriticas.com.ar/cannes

Jauja is absolutely slaying in this year's "shoulda been in the competition" derby.

I'd be more intrigued if I hadn't disliked Liverpool so strongly.

Jauja is filmed in Copenhagen, and includes legendary actress Ghita Nørby. Which means that an Alonso-film might actually get released here!

Also, Winter Sleep still the one with the highest score (except for Adieu au Langauge, lol). Keeping my fingers crossed.

I don't trust those Foxcatcher reviews further than I can close the tab on them.

The Search is on it's way to beat Grace of Monaco! And Adieu au Language now has a score of 9.5. Excited!

why u ppl innarested in a fest none of us are at?

these are all filed under Things We Will See Later

i'm surprised an avid cinemagoer such as yrself doc m isn't fatally aware that things are better experienced at a distance

For someone in Denmark, whether or not I'll get to see it depends quite a lot on how well it plays in Cannes.

Probably. Jumpcut spent a recent volume focusing on it, and on Spielberg's Lincoln. Was really interesting, but boy, did they get it wrong. Don't think they get American history any more wrong than Wes Anderson does European ditto, though ;)

yeah, i'll give him a pass. the assholes who were editing cahiers du cinema post-68, not so much.

the cahiers article on young mr lincoln is a deliberate mishmash of American history, a kind of fantasia of American history.

like that spaghetti western where Garfield gets killed in Dallas after quoting Robert Kennedy?

the cahiers article on young mr lincoln is a deliberate mishmash of American history, a kind of fantasia of American history.

― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, May 21, 2014 4:42 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha! unfortunately, it's dead serious.

morbs, i dunno that one (unless you're kidding), but spaghetti westerns are great for LOL versions of American history. Django is one of the more bizarre.

being both exceedingly pedantic and totally wrong like that cahiers article is a special kind of awful.

I was not kidding

http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/The_Price_of_Power_Review

lol

Craig Keller from MoC wrote:
ADIEU AU LANGAGE by Godard. Now is not the time for hyperbole. It is simply a landmark in the history of cinema, on the order of Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon or, for that matter, Breathless. A complete and total reinvention of form and what cinema even is.

but did he like it?

so tired of Godard.

haha, he's only been around the scene for 55 years.

(i happen to think he's made some of his best movies recently)

I've tried 2-3 films of most his different period and never found a single film of his to be enjoyable, I didn't bother with Film Socialisme but this one new I might try. There is something about him that rubs me the wrong way. Yet, I love Maker and Resnais.

And his ridiculous letter and this kind of thing that exemplify what I dislike about him, although it's an even a worse look on the festival itself.

The Immigrant still hasn't come out yet here...

Also, I heard pretty mixed echoes from Kawase, which bums me, as she is easily one of my favorite directors.

I've tried 2-3 films of most his different period and never found a single film of his to be enjoyable, I didn't bother with Film Socialisme but this one new I might try. There is something about him that rubs me the wrong way. Yet, I love Maker and Resnais.

― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, May 21, 2014 10:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha we probably shouldn't meet in person.

It looks like one of the worst years of the competition.

Every new Godard triggers wild, undoubtedly unreliable hosannas at Cannes. This one appears to be no different.

But wasn't the raves for Film Socialisme sorta evened out by some very negative pans? That's sorta what I don't see this time, and that's what intrigues me. Because this looked divise before the festival, to say the least.

There's just really no trusting reviews of Godard, period.

There's just really no trusting reviews of Godard, period.

There's just really no trusting reviews of Godard, period.

He is not a 'consensus' artist and hasn't been since maaaaybe '70-72 at the latest. I find what I've seen from circa '77-95ish (w/ some exceptions) to be pretty arid. Better since late '90s.

Mommy is gathering major buzz.

And that to, pisses me off. The notion of auteurs made sense from 1959 until recently, it was the necessary step for critics to assess cinema as a serious artform, but nowadays it just seems that it's bunch of old white dudes making the same naturalistic movies about unfortunate people, and no, making your film in 1:1 won't make it more special. La Vie d'Adèle (which I'll say is a very good film) was basically the last of this kind I wanted to see. Heck, at least Godard, which I dislike for other reasons, is trying to do something new. I miss the 2008/2009 edition or maybe the summer just started and all I want to see is comedies.

lengthy roundtable discussion

http://www.filmcomment.com/entry/cannes-2014-homesman-mr-turner-foxcatcher-maps-to-the-stars-saint-laurent

it's weird that some folks (including todd mccarthy, who should know better) are all "oh godard, so tired of that old man, he's always doing the same thing" when from nearly all accounts "adieu au langage" is mind-bendingly weird.

i do tend to think that his films pose challenges to the usual saw-it-two-hours-ago-now-writing-700-word-review routine. in some ways twitter is almost a better medium for the time being.

wesley morris on godard/dolan (i've really enjoyed reading his cannes reports this year):

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/cannes-diary-day-8-jean-luc-godard/

so the Palme is in the bag for Leviathan, allegedly

i liked his Elena more than most Palme winners I've seen

Disappointed Carell didn't win it but oh well.

Jury Prize for both Dolan and Godard, haha.

Winter Sleep wins the Palme d'Or.

Good job, poll voters.

The rest of the choices getting votes managed one award between them. But yeah for Nuri. Now there's hope of it getting Danish distribution.

Xavier Dolan refused the Queer Palm for Laurence Anyways, a year ago, saying (i'm translating) that such a prize is disgusting, contributes to the fragmentation of the world and that its ostracizing.

I understand Mommy is pretty disgusting.

Everything I've heard about it from people I actually know and trust makes it sound like a howler.

Glenn Kenny wrote that Dolan puts the "terrible" into "enfant terrible." WTF at the praise...

It's really awful. Possibly his worst yet.

I don't know who Xavier Dolan is but I saw Mommy for some reason. Let's just say I'm never going to see one of his film's again... lol.

I thought it was gonna be like a hardcore art movie, I don't know why, but it's really broad and stupid... And not in a sick Road House kind of way. I wanted to walk out really bad... I knew that would be the case like 5 minutes in when it became clear that it was just gonna be the same scene repeated for 2 hours and 30 minutes. But I'm such a tightwad that I'll never walk out on any movie. Anyway this Stinker gets two thumb's down.

as Kenny points out, Dolasn def has the 'chops' to make high-paying Hollywood crap. And his next movie stars Susan Sarandon.

I actually thought a bunch of times during it that Dolan & Damien Chazelle should just make X-Men movies. I'm sure they think they're too good for it, but I've got news for them... they're not!!! Also I thought of the film I Am Sam which this has about as much integrity as

Actually Dolan has directed a couple of fine female performances, the leads in Laurence Anyways and I Killed My Mother (same actress as Mommy; still his best film too).

(Anne Dorval even does her best with this crap)

Yeah the lead lady in Mommy was really good. Maybe I lied about never seeing one of his movies again... maybe one day I'll check out the transgendered one starring the leather fannypack guy from A Summer Tale

I looooove him, but the performance was wobbly.

I actually liked about half of Laurence Anyways.