Just listened to a little of the Film Comment podcast on Day 1 and sounds like Amy Taubin's a pretty big fan of the Jarmusch.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link
interesting what she said about it’s bleakness throwing cold water over the rest of the festival, also her comments about how beautiful it is on a big screen, that it looks radioactive
― Dan S, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
its
― Dan S, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
Yeah, seems kind of an early call on what the rest of the festival will bring, but maybe she's seen the rest of the slate.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 21:06 (four years ago) link
So the Malick he claims is a self-conscious return to working with a tighter script? I kind of find it hard to believe he ever worked with a tight script. I guess he just means less improvised?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
I don’t know about “tight” (would argue his 70s pics qualify as that), but yeah, he’s apparently using an actual script again which was more/less absent from the last three.
― circa1916, Thursday, 16 May 2019 00:58 (four years ago) link
it's easy to forget how relatively straightforward The Tree of Life is
― flappy bird, Thursday, 16 May 2019 01:47 (four years ago) link
I want it to be The New World 2!
― abcfsk, Thursday, 16 May 2019 07:21 (four years ago) link
the Filho is apparently quite batty.
https://www.avclub.com/john-carpenter-looms-over-a-day-of-madness-and-violence-1834808856
― Simon H., Thursday, 16 May 2019 13:09 (four years ago) link
His dedication to finding new ways of depicting arguments about real estate is kinda admirable.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 16 May 2019 13:43 (four years ago) link
Bacurau sounds like something I’d really like. Not sure what to make of Les Misérables, I’m skeptical about the concept of a traditional-but-updated Street Crime Unit Paris police drama, but I suppose it could be great. One of the most interesting-sounding films to me so far in the festival is Beanpole by Kantemir Balagov in UCR
can't wait to hear what The Lighthouse is like
― Dan S, Thursday, 16 May 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
Atlantics also sounds really good from early takes
― Dan S, Thursday, 16 May 2019 21:36 (four years ago) link
wasn't expecting Atlantics (Atlantique) to be a ghost story
― Dan S, Thursday, 16 May 2019 21:43 (four years ago) link
Peter Bradshaw thinks Sorry We Missed You is better than I, Daniel Blake, but says “and here is where my qualm arises. Many people will see this film as a portrayal of real issues facing people – not silly old Brexit, which only worries people in the London bubble. Does the director himself feel like this? I don’t know. But I can only say that the European Union is the modern-day nursery of employment rights, and outside it is where working people will find more cynicism, more cruelty, more exploitation, more economic isolation and more poverty.”
― Dan S, Thursday, 16 May 2019 22:22 (four years ago) link
the #FBPEU is strong with this one
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 16 May 2019 22:28 (four years ago) link
Also really curious about what Port Authority will be like
― Dan S, Thursday, 16 May 2019 22:49 (four years ago) link
Disappointed by Jessica Hausner’s Science-Gone-Too-Far plant-anxiety drama LITTLE JOE - visually blooming but dramatically a wilting marigold. #Cannes2019— Jonathan Romney (@JonathanRomney) May 17, 2019
:-(
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 17 May 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link
seems like an unusual number of genre- and genre-leaning films in competition this year
― Simon H., Friday, 17 May 2019 17:47 (four years ago) link
http://i64.tinypic.com/2i0rjq0.png
― Dan S, Saturday, 18 May 2019 02:28 (four years ago) link
Ramin Setoodeh's picture of Julianne Moore and Richard Madden watching Mariah Carey perform at Cannes
― Dan S, Saturday, 18 May 2019 02:30 (four years ago) link
reading the reviews I don't think I care about what the critics say about Little Joe
― Dan S, Saturday, 18 May 2019 03:09 (four years ago) link
the Almodovar sounds promising.
― Simon H., Saturday, 18 May 2019 03:12 (four years ago) link
I haven't loved his films since Volver, but this one does seem like it could be pretty great
― Dan S, Saturday, 18 May 2019 03:19 (four years ago) link
I really want to see the Dan Krauss/PaulHaggis documentary “5B” in special screenings at Cannes about the AIDS ward at SFGH in the early 80s
― Dan S, Saturday, 18 May 2019 03:51 (four years ago) link
Review made to infuriate our Dane:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/may/16/sorry-we-missed-you-review-ken-loach
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 18 May 2019 11:47 (four years ago) link
Broken Embraces is secretly one of the very best Almodovar, and he works very well in melancholy mode, so I'm intrigued.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 18 May 2019 13:36 (four years ago) link
the early reviews of The Lighthouse are very positive:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/may/19/the-lighthouse-review-robert-pattinson-shines-in-sublime-maritime-nightmare
https://theplaylist.net/lighthouse-cannes-review-20190519/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
― Dan S, Sunday, 19 May 2019 16:49 (four years ago) link
also
https://www.indiewire.com/2019/05/the-lighthouse-review-robert-pattinson-cannes-2019-1202142861/
― Dan S, Sunday, 19 May 2019 16:54 (four years ago) link
the Malick and Sciamma films are looking promising as well
― Dan S, Sunday, 19 May 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
reading all of the ecstatic reviews for The Lighthouse makes me wonder how the Cannes organizers make their selections, and why something like this would be left out of the competition
― Dan S, Sunday, 19 May 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
Wow, super excited to see that.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 19 May 2019 22:12 (four years ago) link
the filming location is apparently not Maine but Cape Forchu, an island off of Yarmouth Nova Scotia
― Dan S, Sunday, 19 May 2019 22:51 (four years ago) link
I like late Malick a lot but the reception to this one has been lukewarm. Pleased the Sciamma has gone down well.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 20 May 2019 09:14 (four years ago) link
Another out of competition film that seems to have been v.popular is And Then We Danced.
― Alba, Monday, 20 May 2019 13:42 (four years ago) link
https://d1nslcd7m2225b.cloudfront.net/Pictures/780xany/0/8/0/1303080_jurygridday6ppp_279596.jpg
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Monday, 20 May 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
was really interested to read that the score for Atlantique was composed by Fatima al Qadiri! also the "music direction" in Port Authority was by Matthew Herbert.
from everything I've read about Portrait of a Lady on Fire it sounds fantastic
― Dan S, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 00:32 (four years ago) link
going to wait til the end, but right now I think I'm going to vote for that in this poll
― Dan S, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 00:45 (four years ago) link
One thing I noticed following it all on podcasts and Twitter (my Cannes list is here in case you want it) is that it hasn't reflected the critics' scoreboard where Pain and Glory is way out in front. That's got more of a 7/10 kind of thumbs up and it's Bacurau and Portrait of a Lady on Fire that have really got people going. Maybe a younger generation.
― Alba, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 06:40 (four years ago) link
Or maybe it's just the UK bias of my Twitter list and podcast listening.
― Alba, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 06:51 (four years ago) link
Great...
I think the Palme dog race is over. #cannes2019— erickohn (@erickohn) May 21, 2019
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
(Hint: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood just let out in the last year or so.)
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 17:57 (four years ago) link
it just *seemed* like a year amirite
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link
https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/portrait-lady-fire-celine-sciamma-adele-haenel-period-romance-female-liberated-portrait
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
xp well I'll be, a true legit Freudian slip
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 20:15 (four years ago) link
https://cdn1.thr.com/sites/default/files/2019/05/the_lighthouse_still_1.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 20:17 (four years ago) link
the word seems to be very good for bong's parasite
― devvvine, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
that image has got to be one of the best movie stills in recent memory
was disappointed by Snowpiercer (and didn't see Okja) but Parasite sounds like something I will like
― Dan S, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 00:27 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 23 May 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
https://d1nslcd7m2225b.cloudfront.net/Pictures/780xany/4/7/9/1303479_jurygridcopy_53988.jpg
― Alba, Thursday, 23 May 2019 12:19 (four years ago) link