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

closeminded apologists for murderous Brit imperialism?

Submit yr suggestions to the horror movie poll, plz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLtOnDG8ikI&feature=player_embedded

oh no

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3tbi_EjAQk&feature=related

"A young female student named Akiko (Rin Takanashi) works as a prostitute to pay off her univeisty fees. One of her clients is an elderly academic (Tadashi Okuno) who is fond of her. Soon a relationship develops between the two."

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-stunning-first-french-language-trailer-for-jacques-audiards-rust-bone-starring-marion-cotillard-20120411#

looks like melodramatic "arty" kitsch - hope i'm wrong

a good lawyer's wife is one of the great unsung korean films, but I still think it's weird that im sang-soo has becomes a cannes favorite

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

Directors Fortnight includes the final Ruiz film:

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/cannes-2012-directors-fortnight-lineup

i'd be okay with haneke if it was two hours of him slowly torturing himself with occasional fourth-wall breaks to tell us what bourgeoisie scum we are for watching him torture himself

I hate even seeing his name mentioned anywhere because I hurt my eyes rolling them.

I've not seen any Reygadas or Carax but a Cannes-frequenting associate of mine more than loathes both of them (especially Reygadas), so I'm anticipating his reports even more than usual.

Most curious to see Cronenberg, Nichols, Kiarostami, Resnais, Audiard, Garrone, Mungiu, Hillcoat. Not so promising: Daniels and Salles. I'm pretty much completely indifferent to Haneke at this point.

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.

has haneke won before? i always think of him as the guy who gets booed at cannes but that doesnt mean he cant win i guess

big fest for matt mcconaughey

― johnny crunch, Thursday, April 19, 2012 9:13 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark

c'mon man show some respect. its matthew

White Ribbon won.

everyone gets booed at cannes, especially the winners.

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.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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.

this thread semi-inspired me to look up previous palme winners - biggest wtf was the mission getting it in 1986

The Mission soundtrack/score is amazing. That's the only reason/justification I can think of for that.

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

Koehler handicaps

http://www.filmlinc.com/blog/entry/handicapping-the-palme-dor

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

Not following reviews too closely this time around, but does it seem most of them are getting tepid reax?

seems that way so far

No boos as far as i've heard

ppl seem mad for Haneke, and jeez, JEFF WELLS liked the Kiarostami.

That's bad news.

Holy Motors is the only one I've read so far to get pretty much unanimous raves.

five-star review of the haneke here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/may/20/amour-haneke-film-review

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

fahrenheit 911 iirc

Both were incredibly bad choices, but at least F911 made sense in the moment.

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.

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.

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!)

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Palme d’Or:
"Amour"

Grand Prix:
"Reality"

Prix de la Mise en Scene (best director):
Carlos Reygadas, "Post Tenebras Lux"

Prix du Scenario (best screenplay):
"Beyond The Hills"

Camera d’Or (best first feature):
"Beasts of the Southern Wild"

Prix du Jury (jury prize):
"The Angel's Share"

Prix d’interpretation feminine (best actress):
Cosmina Stratan and Christina Flutor, "Beyond The Hills"

Prix d’interpretation masculine (best actor):
Mads Mikkelsen, "The Hunt"

called it tbqfh

stop hoggin them palmes, haneke

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.

Your intense allergy to 'rides' handily explained in one fell swoop.

I generally don't read reviews til after I've seen something.

and with films you don't intend to see...? oh yeah, occupy film threads (TM)

carax can't catch a break poor dood

worst. cannes. ever.

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

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

next to horror obv

and "rides"

ie fuck somebody or two itt

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.

The Death of Cinema pt. 94

rlly looking fwd to Reygadas after all those pans

word

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQJrVEgOPRk

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.