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It’s a funny thing. For 10 days at Cannes, the Croisette hums with stimulating discussion and debate about movies; for the final two, all that chatter dissolves into a single blunt question: “What will win the Palme d’Or?” It’s a little like the Oscars, except without the initial stage of stimulating discussion and debate about […]
Entries from May 2011
CANNES: What will win… and what should
Posted by Guy Lodge · 7:14 pm · May 21st, 2011
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Kaurismäki, Sorrentino among early Cannes winners
Posted by Guy Lodge · 2:59 pm · May 21st, 2011
The Cannes Film Festival closes up shop tomorrow with the announcement of the Competition awards — the final competing film, Radu Mihaileanu’s “The Source,” screened this morning to a tepid reception. Before we get to that, however, a wide array of smaller juries have their own trophies to dish out, and a number of them […]
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No rapture for you
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:46 pm · May 21st, 2011
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Shut up and ‘Drive’
Posted by Guy Lodge · 9:41 am · May 21st, 2011
Those of you who follow me on Twitter already know how I feel about wild-card Palme d’Or contender “Drive,” but I’ll have a review up a little later. For now, though, I can’t resist posting this shot of Ryan Gosling, his awesome royal-blue tux and director Nicolas Winding Refn at last night’s red carpet premiere […]
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SHORT TAKE: “The Skin I Live In” (***)
Posted by Guy Lodge · 8:24 am · May 21st, 2011
Cannes Film Festival Pedro Almodóvar’s new feature opens with a pause: a beautiful young woman holds a tricky yoga position, her already fine-lathed physique vacuumed into a nude body stocking, stretched across a couch like a pale side of meat hung out for curing. So so taut, so fragile, it seems a simple tap on […]
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Inevitable
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:04 pm · May 20th, 2011
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New ‘Green Lantern’ trailer
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:36 pm · May 20th, 2011
Summer movie season is just heating up. We’ve already seen “Thor” delight and annoy with equal measure. “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” stinks up cinemas this weekend. I’m beginning to get nervous about “X-Men: First Class,” right around the corner, but mainly I’m holding out hope for “Green Lantern,” which could go either […]
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Bane
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:40 am · May 20th, 2011
Since a reader already tried to veer off-topic in another thread with this, I might as well get it out of the way. A shot of Tom Hardy as Bane from “The Dark Knight Rises,” revealed through viral marketing that will no doubt be as annoying (if not more so) as it was during the […]
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Tell us what you thought of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:31 am · May 20th, 2011
I’ve already warned you to stay away. Guy spared himself in Cannes. But plenty of you will nevertheless take in “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” (I’m so sick of these gigantic titles) this weekend. So, if you can stomach thinking about it afterward, please come back and let us know what you thought. […]
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OSCAR TALK: Ep. 56 — Special Edition! — Cannes so far, ‘Tree of Life,’ Von Trier, taking the 2011 awards pulse
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:32 am · May 20th, 2011
Welcome to Oscar Talk. In case you’re new to the site and/or the podcast, Oscar Talk is a weekly kudocast, your one-stop awards chat shop between yours truly and Anne Thompson of Thompson on Hollywood. The podcast is weekly, every Friday throughout the season, charting the ups and downs of contenders along the way. Plenty […]
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‘Take Shelter’ takes first award at Cannes
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:40 pm · May 19th, 2011
Nine days in, the Cannes Film Festival is winding down. Many of the US journos are flying home, and with Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Skin I Live In” having premiered this morning — review coming tomorrow — the superstar auteurs have all shown their hand. (That’s not to say Nuri Bilge Ceylan or Paolo Sorrentino can’t […]
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How do you solve a problem like Von Trier?
Posted by Guy Lodge · 3:10 pm · May 19th, 2011
It couldn’t last. As the closing credits began rolling on Wednesday morning’s 8.30am Cannes press screening of “Melancholia,” Lars Von Trier’s elegant rumination on anxiety, the apocalypse and all those other swell things, I was stunned by how civil the atmosphere in the vast Lumiere theater was. Enthusiastic applause greeted the film — more surprisingly, […]
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Greatest. Marriage. Proposal. Ever.
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 2:20 pm · May 19th, 2011
This bit of hopeless romanticism ought to be enough to douse the controversial flames today, if just for a moment:
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Persona non whateva
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:32 am · May 19th, 2011
Guy is on his way to a screening of Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Drive” at Cannes right now, but he will eventually get around to addressing Lars Von Trier’s spanking by the festival, which now considers him persona non grata. In the meantime, however, I’ll align myself with this statement from David Poland’s assessment: Is von […]
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REVIEW: “Melancholia” (***1/2)
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:32 am · May 19th, 2011
Cannes Film Festival It’s the end of the world as we know it, and Lars von Trier feels fine. Well, not “fine,” exactly: he feels as despairing and sceptical and faithless as he usually does, but that’s clearly where he’s comfortable, and where his creative faculties thrive most actively. They’re certainly in rude health in […]
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Harris is McCain
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:38 pm · May 17th, 2011
I had to stop and take a second to point this out. The Julianne-Moore-as-Sarah-Palin production still from in Jay Roach’s “Game Change” seemed about right, nothing to write home about, etc. But this still, courtesy of Entertainment Weekly, stopped me in my tracks. THAT’s Ed Harris? I saw McCain straight away and had to search […]
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Thoughts on Malick’s ‘Tree of Life’
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:17 pm · May 17th, 2011
I decided to sleep on Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life.” After a full day of jury duty, a few moments for dinner and then a trip to West Hollywood for the 7:30 screening — which let out near 10pm — it seemed foolish to jump right in to such a dense piece of work. […]
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CANNES: ‘The Kid With a Bike,’ ‘House of Tolerance,’ ‘Michael,’ ‘Footnote’
Posted by Guy Lodge · 11:42 am · May 17th, 2011
Perhaps lulled by the twin effects of the Côte d’Azur sun and copious amounts of cheap rosé between screenings, I’ve fallen behind somewhat on the reviewing front — but lest you think I’ve only seen one film a day before heading back to the swimming pool at Villa Romance, it’s time for a bit of a Competition […]
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