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Cannes in 60 Seconds: Thursday, May 14, 2009
Filed under: Cannes », Festival Reports », Cinematical Indie »
The second day of the Cannes Film Festival showcased the programmers' commitment to auteurs. Instead of helium balloons in celebration of the family-friendly, animated Up, one of the key screenings was for a very adult drama about an inflatable Air Doll.
Key Screenings: Francis Coppola's Tetro bowed with a red carpet premiere tonight to open the Directors' Fortnight section, while the Un Certain Regard section opened with Bahman Ghabadi's No One Knows About Persian Cats and Hirokazu Kore-eda's Air Doll. Screening in the main competition were Lou Ye's Spring Fever and Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank. Park chan-wook's Thirst screened for the press. [Thanks very much to B-Side's "festival genius" unofficial guide to Cannes, which makes it easy to get a quick sense of what's playing each day.]
Films Sold. Three deals were announced for non-Cannes titles today, and indieWIRE has the details: Jack the Ripper-themed The Red Riding Trilogy (IFC Films), Aleksandr Sokurov's The Sun (Lorber HT Digital), and Jeff Stilson's doc Good Hair, featuring Chris Rock (Roadside Attractions and Liddell Entertainment).
Blog Talk. Peter Kneght provides a good roundup at indieWIRE. Frankly, though, David Hudson at IFC's The Daily provides the best, most comprehensive overview of the fest and the individual films (e.g. Tetro). I've cherry picked of couple of quotes that David found, and added a few others from Day Two.
"Officially, it was the third film I watched here at Cannes, and besides Pixar's Up, it's the best live-action film I've seen so far." -- Alex Billington of First Showing, deeming Park Chan-wook's Thirst the "best" ... of two live-action movies he's seen so far. There's a poster pull-quote for ya!
After the jump: Even more choice review quotes!
Euro Fest Watch: San Sebastian and Rome Gear Up
Filed under: Foreign Language », Independent », Other Festivals », Cinematical Indie »
Next Wednesday, August 29, the Venice Film Festival gets under way. The fest serves as the starting point for the fall season of serious, award-worthy movies, with "secretive in advance but always well curated" Telluride starting two days later and giant monster fest Toronto (349 freakin' movies!) kicking off the following week. Kim Voynar wrote a lovely, detailed article on these major players, but, as reported by Variety in two different articles, other festivals are clamoring for attention too.Located on the northern coast of Spain, San Sebastian hosts the 55th edition of their beloved festival, which takes place from September 20-29. Variety lists the 18 films in competition and highlights Nick Broomfield's Battle for Haditha, Wayne Wang's A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Paulo Barzman's Emotional Arithmetic. The festival opens with David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises and closes with Michael Radford's Flawless.
The Rome Film Festival stormed onto the scene last year to the derision of Venice director Marco Müller , who reportedly snipped that Rome was screening "films that neither we nor Cannes wanted." For this year's edition, Rome scored a possible coup with the already-announced world premiere of Francis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth. According to the festival site, Coppola told a film magazine: "I think film festivals are a thing of the past, completely obsolete ... On the contrary, in Rome there seems to be a sincere desire to choose and screen films for the audience."
As Variety notes, several just-announced titles will be making their European debuts: Sidney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Hector Babenco's The Past, Julio Medem's Caotica ana, Dario Argento's The Mother of Tears, Silvio Soldini's Days and Clouds and Steven Sebring's Patti Smith: A Dream of Life. Expect more news as the program is finalized; the festival runs from October 18-27.
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