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
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
― Simon H., Friday, 25 May 2012 15:30 (eleven years ago) link
'course I'm hoping extra hard that'll be good since I'm seeing it Monday morning.
― Simon H., Friday, 25 May 2012 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Hungry4Ass, Friday, 25 May 2012 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
aren't everyone in love with the new vinterberg?
― nostormo, Friday, 25 May 2012 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Friday, 25 May 2012 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
"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.
― nostormo, Friday, 25 May 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
(Campion's Poertrait Of a Lady, for example)
― nostormo, Friday, 25 May 2012 15:38 (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