didn't much care for Silent Light, either - felt a bit precious, a bit 'forced', a bit straining for effect, and i'm generally a fan of the slow cinema aesthetic.
in spite of containing some stunning images i agree with this. i was ready to love it, i just didn't.
― jed_, Monday, 30 April 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know much about that Reygadas film, but if it is half as good as Silent Light, then...that. I'm always hoping Leos Carax will have a resurgence one day, though
― Memorial Highway (admrl), Thursday, 19 April 2012 18:00 (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i feel like everything i've heard about the new reygadas makes it sound like what you want from him; that it's diaristic and loose and impressionistic. there was a write up in iirc cinemascope talking about a recent short he made for an anthology film, it said it was the best thing he'd done.
this line up looks great, anyway. no hou or wkw were bigger disappointments than inevitable-malick-postponement.
― blossom smulch (schlump), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 10:03 (eleven years ago) link
this thread semi-inspired me to look up previous palme winners - biggest wtf was the mission getting it in 1986
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 13:29 (eleven years ago) link
The Mission soundtrack/score is amazing. That's the only reason/justification I can think of for that.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 13:32 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 10 May 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
Koehler handicaps
http://www.filmlinc.com/blog/entry/handicapping-the-palme-dor
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 May 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
holy motors getting raves
trailer - http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/mediaPlayer/12214.html
press kit - http://www.festival-cannes.fr/assets/Image/Direct/045904.pdf
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
Not following reviews too closely this time around, but does it seem most of them are getting tepid reax?
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
seems that way so far
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
No boos as far as i've heard
― Number None, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
ppl seem mad for Haneke, and jeez, JEFF WELLS liked the Kiarostami.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
That's bad news.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
Holy Motors is the only one I've read so far to get pretty much unanimous raves.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
five-star review of the haneke here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/may/20/amour-haneke-film-review
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
any reviews of the carax?
this thread semi-inspired me to look up previous palme winners - biggest wtf was the mission getting it in 1986― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, May 9, 2012 8:29 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, May 9, 2012 8:29 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
fahrenheit 911 iirc
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
Both were incredibly bad choices, but at least F911 made sense in the moment.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
although i really don't like michael moore's film, i remember being impressed by tarantino's explanation for why they (he was head of the jury that year) chose it.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
really psyched for it and i pretty much loved Pola X.
― jed_, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
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, 24 May 2012 10:32 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Simon H., Thursday, 24 May 2012 11:32 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 24 May 2012 14:12 (eleven years ago) link
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
― 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.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 24 May 2012 14:14 (eleven years ago) link
apparently the carax features a vintage sparks deep track
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 24 May 2012 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
if you bleeve CRITICS that is
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 May 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
I believe crix more than the selection committee.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
critical unanimity is a big alarm bell for me often as not.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 May 2012 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
True, buzz around The Artist started at Cannes last year iirc.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
is there anything you guys ever consider a GOOD sign
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Thursday, 24 May 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
If you or Armond White hate it is usually a good start.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
sheesh
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 24 May 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 24 May 2012 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
So, Cosmopolis also gets middling marks (from those I follow anyway).
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Friday, 25 May 2012 13:26 (eleven years ago) link
it's a book Michael Mann would have been perfect for (although it's maybe plot-wise already too close to collateral).
― jed_, Friday, 25 May 2012 13:31 (eleven years ago) link
cosmopolis sounds like a stinker.
todd mccarthy's review: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/cosmopolis-review-robert-pattinson-cannes-329230
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 25 May 2012 13:42 (eleven years ago) link
the loznitsa sounds good.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 25 May 2012 13:45 (eleven years ago) link
Really, The Paperboy is the only thing to emerge from this mess I want to see.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Friday, 25 May 2012 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
+ Carax
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Friday, 25 May 2012 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
is it really any more of a mess than many other years?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 25 May 2012 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
I dunno. When was the last really great year at Cannes supposedly?
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Friday, 25 May 2012 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Friday, 25 May 2012 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
most won't get here, period, except maybe at our festival.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 25 May 2012 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
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
― me so fat (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 25 May 2012 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
unfortunately this approach has, in past years, led me to watch lats von trier and bruno dumont movies
― me so fat (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 25 May 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
I've seen two Haneke films (Caché and White Ribbon) and I didn't like either. I don't think I'll even bother with his new one.
There’s almost an “aww” factor to Georges’ attentiveness following Anne’s first stroke, which ill-prepares you for the truly grueling compendium of slow deterioration to come. By the time she’s reduced to an immobile husk capable only of slurring the word “hurts” over and over again,
yeah, i don't think so
― the acquisition and practice of music is unfavourable to the health of (abanana), Monday, 28 May 2012 02:05 (eleven years ago) link
biopics probably have the worst shit-to-shinola ratio of any film genre ever.
next to horror obv
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 May 2012 03:00 (eleven years ago) link
and "rides"
ie fuck somebody or two itt
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 May 2012 03:01 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/may/29/venice-film-festival-slims-down-sober
The new director of the Venice film festival has promised a "more sober, less glitzy" event for the 69th edition later this year.
Artistic director Alberto Barbera, who was appointed in December, has revealed plans to cut the number of films showing on the Lido. There will be fewer than 50 films in total at this year's festival, with only 18 showing in competition, he told Italian reporters.
― jed_, Thursday, 31 May 2012 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
The Death of Cinema pt. 94
― Björk lied (Eric H.), Thursday, 31 May 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
rlly looking fwd to Reygadas after all those pans
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 31 May 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
word
― blossom smulch (schlump), Thursday, 31 May 2012 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQJrVEgOPRk
― Hungry4Ass, Friday, 1 June 2012 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
Two interesting tidbits:
Carax said about the leading role which had been written specifically for Lavant: "If Denis had said no, I would have offered the part to Lon Chaney or to Chaplin. Or to Peter Lorre or Michel Simon."
The soundtrack includes Minogue performing the original song "Who Were We?" written by Carax and Neil Hannon, as well as previously existing music by Dmitri Shostakovich, Sparks, Manset, R. L. Burnside, and the track "Sinking of Bingou-Maru" from Godzilla.
― poxen, Saturday, 2 June 2012 03:22 (eleven years ago) link