and huh for some reason i thought skolimowski had passed, cool
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 18:58 (two years ago) link
Only just now realized that's a different new Denis. Slow down there, Hamaguchi!
― Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Thursday, 21 April 2022 14:33 (one year ago) link
I just read that these three were added at the last moment?LE OTTO MONTAGNE (Felix Van Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeersch, Belgium)UN PETIT FRERE (Léonor Seraille, France)TOURMENT SUR LES ILES (Albert Serra, Spain)
― StanM, Friday, 22 April 2022 05:05 (one year ago) link
yeah, sorry - redo the poll maybe?https://festival-cannes.com/en/infos-communiques/communique/articles/the-75th-festival-de-cannes-official-selection-additions-to-the-selection
― StanM, Friday, 22 April 2022 05:09 (one year ago) link
It's time...
http://cannes-ratings.herokuapp.com/Cannes2022
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 13:30 (one year ago) link
Guess Top Gun should've been presented in competition.
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Thursday, 19 May 2022 11:03 (one year ago) link
oh those japesters
― what doesn't kill me makes me Hongroe (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 19 May 2022 11:22 (one year ago) link
wait is that just an aggregate of people's Letterboxd blurbs?
― what doesn't kill me makes me Hongroe (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 19 May 2022 11:25 (one year ago) link
I think there’s a line entry for the Letterboxd average in there
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Thursday, 19 May 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
And we're off! The #Cannes2022 ICS Critics & Industry panel is officially underway. Bookmark this page, because it will be updated as often as possible #Cannes #FestivaldeCannes2022 https://t.co/CLWG48cPNz pic.twitter.com/MNeI4K5msU— IntlCinephileSociety (@ICSfilm) May 19, 2022
Well, Armageddon Time is simultaneously a) the most raved-about title and b) already canceled?
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Thursday, 19 May 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
Brody raves: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/armageddon-time-reviewed-a-new-york-childhood-in-the-crucible-of-american-history
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Thursday, 19 May 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
EO [Skolimowski] Vibes-forward AU HASARD BALTHAZAR remake traverses all Polish society: EDM, soccer ultras, the legacy of the Holocaust, Isabelle Huppert, a circus performer named “Cubeman.” To all of this I can only say, “Sure. Yes. Absolutely.” A lock for the Palme d’onkey.— Super Black Market Asch (@MarkAschParody) May 19, 2022
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Thursday, 19 May 2022 22:30 (one year ago) link
read the Indiewire review and Armageddon Time sounds really good
― Dan S, Friday, 20 May 2022 00:00 (one year ago) link
the films I'm most looking forward to, knowing that these Cannes competition film yearnings often don't pan out, are Lukas Dhont's Close and Kelly Reichardt's Showing Up
― Dan S, Friday, 20 May 2022 00:03 (one year ago) link
voted for Kleber Mendonça Filho's Bacurau in the 2019 Cannes poll and it was pretty good, but in retrospect I thought Aquarius (2016) and especially his first film Neighboring Sounds (2012) were better.
It tied for the Jury Prize with Ladj Ly's Les Misérables, which I recently watched and also liked
― Dan S, Friday, 20 May 2022 00:26 (one year ago) link
Close and Showing Up are being shown at the very end of the competition screenings. I remember reading that the films presented in the middle of the festival are most likely to win the prizes
― Dan S, Friday, 20 May 2022 01:08 (one year ago) link
Bacurau really has to be seen in a cinema full of Brazilian expats shouting "Lula livre!" imo.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 20 May 2022 10:01 (one year ago) link
https://deadline.com/2022/05/cannes-tiktok-jury-rithy-panh-resigns-competition-1235028792/?fbclid=IwAR1Bjgoe97nPQ-he-FVbVsJw6GC4if7ZSBlw6iEvr6rV0hCq2Fzw8DR3fbc
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Friday, 20 May 2022 15:24 (one year ago) link
Who woulda thunk that there would’ve been concessions to commerce in the TikTok Palme race?
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Friday, 20 May 2022 15:25 (one year ago) link
Bacurau really has to be seen in a cinema full of Brazilian expats shouting "Lula livre!" imo.― Daniel_Rf, Friday, May 20, 2022 6:01 AM (five hours ago)
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, May 20, 2022 6:01 AM (five hours ago)
lol that was def the case when the crew came to present the movie at Lincoln Center for NYFF just before covid, banners and all in the audience. there was a q&a after, and someone asked why the American villains were so clichéd – he answered 'Well I love the 1st Die Hard, but the villain was called HANS GRUBER, so here's your answer' ahahaha
― fpsa, Friday, 20 May 2022 15:53 (one year ago) link
Neighboring Sounds was filmed in my neighborhood - literally some 5 blocks away from where I lived most of my life. It's funny to watch such a specific slice of Brazilian life being portrayed. My favorite of his movies
― fpsa, Friday, 20 May 2022 15:55 (one year ago) link
Enys Men sounds right up my street.
― Alba, Friday, 20 May 2022 17:07 (one year ago) link
xp I wasn't expecting much from Neighboring Sounds but the sound design was incredible, and the combination of clashes between different socioeconomic groups with different aspirations was fascinating
― Dan S, Saturday, 21 May 2022 01:20 (one year ago) link
some of the films that have shown up so far sound interesting - The Eight Mountains, EO, Triangle of Sadness, RMN
― Dan S, Saturday, 21 May 2022 23:21 (one year ago) link
RMN is apparently an abbreviation for magnetic resonance imaging but I have to believe is also a reference to Romania
― Dan S, Saturday, 21 May 2022 23:22 (one year ago) link
I enjoyed reading the different takes on Triangle of Sadness (the space between the eyes and above the bridge of the nose)
David Ehrlich (who didn’t like it in the end):
“It starts, as all movies should, in the world of high-end male modeling. A muted and dangerously almost-smart Derek Zoolander type who Harris Dickinson plays to perfection, the 25-year-old Carl is reaching the geriatric stage of his career, and the anxiety over his economic future is starting to make his eight-pack look two abs short.”
erickohn@erickohn
TRIANGLE OF SADNESS splits the difference between Karl Marx and the Marx brothers for a zany romp that starts off by whispering “class satire” then screams it. I had a blast… will be even more fun to argue about than THE SQUARE!
Cédric Succivalli@OnTheLido
I am sorry but TRIANGLE OF SADNESS didn't do it at for me. I liked its cynicism to start with but then Östlund was really trying too hard and the third part on the island was a disaster, no pun intended.
Marc v.d. Klashorst@MarcVDKlashorst
TRIANGLE OF SADNESS is a wonderfully cynical remake of Lost. It moved me to tears. Of laughter, but still: tears.
Richard Lawson@rilaws
Harris Dickinson is beautiful in TRIANGLE OF SADNESS, a movie about Harris Dickinson being beautiful and, uh, I dunno, class struggle or something.
douglas greenwood@douglasgrnwd
Ruben Östlund voodoo dolls the SHIT out of the super wealthy and the instafamous for 2.5 hours in TRIANGLE OF SADNESS and I had a really fucking great time!! Raucous and repulsive, very much his usual territory, but my god he knows it well
― Dan S, Sunday, 22 May 2022 00:00 (one year ago) link
We've reached the halfway mark of #Cannes2022 alive and well (sort of), and notice a film about a donkey leading the pack in our grid. Who would have thought? https://t.co/CLWG48cPNz pic.twitter.com/1E1y53QLCE— IntlCinephileSociety (@ICSfilm) May 23, 2022
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Monday, 23 May 2022 14:32 (one year ago) link
Bummer on the Desplechin, but he seems to have been on a decline for quite some time now.
I have been debating whether to watch Esther Kahn, which I believe you and Morbs disagreed on, before it leaves MUBI USA, or Deception, which just arrived there.
― Apollo and the Aqueducts (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 May 2022 15:14 (one year ago) link
Also, missed this year's Queer Palme nominees:
The Blue Caftan (Le Bleu du caftan) — Maryam TouzaniBurning Days (Kurak Günler) — Emin AlperClose — Lukas DhontContinental Drift (South) (La Dérive des continents (au sud)) — Lionel BaierDiary of a Fleeting Affair (Chronique d'une liaison passagère) — Emmanuel MouretDodo — Panos H. KoutrasThe Five Devils (Les Cinq Diables) — Léa MysiusForever Young (Les Amandiers) — Valeria Bruni TedeschiIrma Vep — Olivier AssayasJoyland — Saim SadiqA Male (Un Varón) — Fabián HernándezMoonage Daydream — Brett MorgenPacifiction (Tourment sur les îles) — Albert SerraRiposte féministe — Marie Perennès, Simon DepardonRodéo — Lola QuivoronTchaikovsky's Wife — Kirill SerebrennikovWill-o'-the-Wisp (Fogo-Fatuo) — João Pedro Rodrigues
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Monday, 23 May 2022 15:28 (one year ago) link
Did you use the code tags for that list?
― Apollo and the Aqueducts (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 May 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
Yeah
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Monday, 23 May 2022 16:13 (one year ago) link
I think it's very rude of them not to include the movie with Harris Dickenson on this list of nominees.
Welp, there's my new #1 right there:
A true #Cannes film : DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA, a grotesque and beautiful tapestry of medical procedures that transforms the viscera into pure poetry. THE ACT OF SEEING WITH ONE’S OWN EYES meets LEVIATHAN. Harvard Sensory Ethnographic Lab FTW! pic.twitter.com/nc5G74SQPq— erickohn (@erickohn) May 23, 2022
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Monday, 23 May 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
The most shocking thing about CRIMES OF THE FUTURE is Kristen Stewart’s newfound willingness to do an Outlandish Voice— Kyle Buchanan (@kylebuchanan) May 23, 2022
― Dan S, Monday, 23 May 2022 22:46 (one year ago) link
This year is just top to bottom ... shrug emoji.
https://d1nslcd7m2225b.cloudfront.net/Pictures/780xany/8/0/1/1371801_onlinejurygridday10_456189_crop.jpg
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 13:18 (one year ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 26 May 2022 00:01 (one year ago) link
Seems like it’s Decision’s to lose
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Thursday, 26 May 2022 13:30 (one year ago) link
Close has gotten initial reviews that are all over the place (like many of the films this year), but it sounds like something I will like, so I voted for it
― Dan S, Thursday, 26 May 2022 23:57 (one year ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 27 May 2022 00:01 (one year ago) link
Robbie Collin@robbiereviews
Well – I loved everything about Lukas Dhont’s miraculous Close, which I think might well win the Palme d’Or. Tried to explain the premise to someone earlier and couldn’t even get through that without sobbing. It’s an extremely special film.
Jordan Ruimy@mrRuimy
The first 40 or so minutes of Lukas Dhont’s CLOSE are beautifully understated and then a plot twist completely destroys the movie. This is such an emotionally manipulative film, and the violin-tinged score only makes it worse
Tim Grierson@TimGrierson
CLOSE: Because boys aren’t taught how to talk about their feelings, they’re ill-equipped to grapple with their pain or those close to them. Lukas Dhont’s unconventional coming-of-age drama is about emotional development more than anything else. Reserved but affecting.
david ehrlich@davidehrlich
CLOSE: deeply mixed on Lukas Dhont’s latest coming-of-age drama, which renders its young leads with great sensitivity only to come down on them with all the care of a sledgehammer.
Donald Clarke@DonaldClarke63
There has been gossip all week at #Cannes2022 about the quality of Lukas Dhont’s CLOSE. Deserved. Study of adolescent trauma leaves every other competition film (in an indifferent year, mind) in the dust. Extraordinarily moving.
― Dan S, Friday, 27 May 2022 00:18 (one year ago) link
Serra's Pacifiction seems like it might be really good too
― Dan S, Friday, 27 May 2022 00:27 (one year ago) link
Happy to have a truly polarizing movie finally
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Friday, 27 May 2022 01:07 (one year ago) link
Good set of predictions based on what I’ve read (no doubt they’ll be totally wrong)
My Cannes predictions…Palme: CLOSEGrand Prize: DECISION TO LEAVEDirector: David Cronenberg (CRIMES OF THE FUTURE)Actor: Mehdi Bajestani (HOLY SPIDER)Actress: Judith State (R.M.N.)Screenplay: TRIANGLE OF SADNESSJury Prize: TORI AND LOKITA pic.twitter.com/vGdRl2WwaW— Scott Feinberg (@ScottFeinberg) May 27, 2022
― Alba, Friday, 27 May 2022 06:57 (one year ago) link
Queer Palme went to Joyland, directed by Saim Sadiq, apparently the first Pakistani feature film shown at Cannes
― Dan S, Friday, 27 May 2022 22:34 (one year ago) link
Un Certain Regard awards:
Prix Un Certain Regard: The Worst Ones (Les Pires) - Lise Akoka, Romane GueretJury Prize: Joyland - Saim SadiqBest Director: Metronom - Alexandru Belc Best Performance: Vicky Krieps, Corsage and Adam Bessa, HarkaBest Screenplay: Mediterranean Fever - Maha HajCoup de Coeur Award: Rodeo - Lola Quivoron
― Dan S, Friday, 27 May 2022 23:27 (one year ago) link
xp that's cool
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Friday, 27 May 2022 23:40 (one year ago) link
Hlynur Palmason’s Godland, in Un Certain Regard, also got good reviews and the images I've seen from it look intriguing
― Dan S, Saturday, 28 May 2022 00:08 (one year ago) link
from the reviews I've read of Kelly Reichardt's Showing Up I think I will really like it
― Dan S, Saturday, 28 May 2022 00:30 (one year ago) link
after many rejugglings these are the Neil Young’s Film Lounge final Palme D’Or and Acting-Prize odds:
https://www.jigsawlounge.co.uk/film/reviews/cannes2022/
not sure where they come up with this. this website gave Titane only 22-1 odds last year in the end, although its top prediction, A Hero, won Grand Prix
― Dan S, Saturday, 28 May 2022 01:44 (one year ago) link
Live stream of closing ceremony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9IAvOqaDCg
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Saturday, 28 May 2022 17:19 (one year ago) link
The Award for Best Actress goes to Zar AMIR EBRAHIMI in HOLY SPIDER (LES NUITS DE MASHHAD) by Ali ABBASI#Cannes2022 #Palmares #Awards #HOLYSPIDER - Prix d’interprétation féminine pour Zar AMIR EBRAHIMI dans HOLY SPIDER réalisé par Ali ABBASI#Cannes2022 #Palmares #Awards pic.twitter.com/rD82TZMDNF— Festival de Cannes (@Festival_Cannes) May 28, 2022
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Saturday, 28 May 2022 18:57 (one year ago) link
livestream of ceremony here:
https://www.facebook.com/brutamerica
― Dan S, Saturday, 28 May 2022 19:03 (one year ago) link
Screenplay: Boy From Heaven, Tarik Saleh (not a popular choice among my twitter follows)
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Saturday, 28 May 2022 19:08 (one year ago) link
On the flip, this seems very much popular...
Best Actor: Song Kang-ho, BROKER
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Saturday, 28 May 2022 19:10 (one year ago) link
"I would like to thank my donkeys, all six of them."
The Cannes jury prize (3rd place) is a tie between EO and THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS. pic.twitter.com/DWuG93kFxV— Kyle Buchanan (@kylebuchanan) May 28, 2022
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Saturday, 28 May 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link
I thought for a moment that Jerzy Skolimowski had forgotten the name of one of his donkeys but it was just a pregnant pause. Good speech.
― Alba, Saturday, 28 May 2022 19:19 (one year ago) link
So the jury prize covers eight donkeys in total?
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Saturday, 28 May 2022 19:22 (one year ago) link
On the flip, this seems very much popular...Best Actor: Song Kang-ho, BROKER
I missed big chunks of the competition program but I predict prizes for Close, Decision to Leave and an acting prize for Mother and Son. Probably something undeserved for the utterly dismal Broker. Wildcard prediction: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi for a direction or screenplay.— Wendy Ide (@wendyide) May 28, 2022
Song Kang-Ho is a great actor but I don't think he's all that in BROKER! Oh well!— Caspar Salmon (@CasparSalmon) May 28, 2022
― Alba, Saturday, 28 May 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link
So, ties in both jury and grand prix?! Dang, guess this wasn't a lean year after all.
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Saturday, 28 May 2022 19:35 (one year ago) link
Everybody gets a prize!
― Alba, Saturday, 28 May 2022 19:37 (one year ago) link
I just can't get excited for a Östlund double-dip.
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Saturday, 28 May 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
agree
― Dan S, Saturday, 28 May 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
Awful film. Awful.— David Jenkins (@daveyjenkins) May 28, 2022
― Alba, Saturday, 28 May 2022 19:47 (one year ago) link
ugh— Elena Lazic (@elazic) May 28, 2022
― Alba, Saturday, 28 May 2022 19:48 (one year ago) link
If I was on the Cannes jury, I would’ve lobbied to give the awards to good movies, but maybe that’s why I’m not!— Charles Bramesco (@intothecrevasse) May 28, 2022
― Alba, Saturday, 28 May 2022 19:49 (one year ago) link
No one wins the prestigious ILX poll.
― Alba, Saturday, 28 May 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
I mean, a three-way and four-way tie in the ILX poll came pretty spiritually close to being correct.
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Saturday, 28 May 2022 20:13 (one year ago) link
I liked that in his post-Cannes press conference Lukas Dhont talked about being a mama’s boy and about wanting to make a film about mothers and sons
― Dan S, Saturday, 28 May 2022 22:29 (one year ago) link
Fucks sake I nearly posted "anybody but Ostlund" this afternoon. The Banky of world cinema
― what doesn't kill me makes me Hongroe (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 May 2022 22:44 (one year ago) link
xp also his awards speech where he talked about how our collective prevailing images of men are all about violence, and that he wanted to make a movie about the opposite, to express that empathy, openness and fragility can also be powerful
― Dan S, Saturday, 28 May 2022 23:01 (one year ago) link
And then RO immediately afterward cajoled the crowd into another primal scream.
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Saturday, 28 May 2022 23:43 (one year ago) link
exactly
― Dan S, Saturday, 28 May 2022 23:47 (one year ago) link
I guess Östlund is good at coming up with memorable scenes. In The Square it was the outrageous, threatening, performance-art dinner scene (which is still imbedded in my mind)
I haven't seen this film, but from what I've read there is also a scene in this film that everyone who's seen it is talking about
― Dan S, Sunday, 29 May 2022 00:25 (one year ago) link
still it is not my kind of film
― Dan S, Sunday, 29 May 2022 00:32 (one year ago) link
I just want to watch it to see Harris Dickinson with his shirt off
― Dan S, Sunday, 29 May 2022 00:34 (one year ago) link
the films I'm most looking forward to from this festival are Close, Showing Up, Pacifiction, RMN, Decision To Leave, and Tori and Lokita
― Dan S, Sunday, 29 May 2022 01:30 (one year ago) link
Holy Spider also sounds interesting, and has the best title of all
― Dan S, Sunday, 29 May 2022 01:51 (one year ago) link
listened to Nicholas Rapold's recent Cannes podcast with Manohla Dargis. She spoke about Broker, Leila's Brothers, Mother and Son, and being able to anticipate every scene in Triangle of Sadness (and hating it)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-126-cannes-12-with-manohla-dargis-broker-hollywood/id1512801510?i=1000564859783
also his podcast with Justin Chang about Showing Up, Tori and Lokita, Close, and George Miller
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-125-cannes-11-with-justin-chang-showing-up-tori/id1512801510?i=1000564480040
― Dan S, Thursday, 2 June 2022 03:50 (one year ago) link
I love Nicolas Rapold, he seems sexy to me in a nerdy way
I liked the talk about how it's a tedious job acknowledging the glamour of Cannes and its nostalgia, the ridiculousness of Tom Cruise's fighter jets, Baz Luhrmann, beautiful women on the red carpet, etc, but also how Cannes needs to cultivate that stuff as part of its mystique
Rapold has spoken to multiple critics about EO, but Dargis mentioned the barbarism toward animals, and they discussed the idea that the visual craziness of the film maybe represented the donkey's perspective
In regards to EO she talked about how we are really far removed from the natural world now to our inevitable peril and doom, and how that was the reason it was the defining film of the festival for her
― Dan S, Thursday, 2 June 2022 04:53 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I really like Rapold too. His podcast (along with Film Comment's) was once again my daily companion through the festival.
― Alba, Thursday, 2 June 2022 08:01 (one year ago) link
Wellllll....
‘Triangle of Sadness’ Director Ruben Östlund to Preside Over Cannes Jury https://t.co/ke9QcJi9av— Variety (@Variety) February 28, 2023
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 14:22 (one year ago) link
thoughts and prayers
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 14:54 (one year ago) link
It's time again: https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=113740
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Thursday, 13 April 2023 14:49 (one year ago) link