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Gregg Araki’s new movie has a poster to match its name, and should convince some of the eager Sundancers to catch it when it plays the festival shortly. We saw Kaboom in Cannes last year where the film was awarded the first Queer Palm, although we weren’t able to see it a few months later [...]
Optimum Releasing have just sent us the brand new trailer and poster for Javier Bardem’s latest movie, Biutiful. The movie is directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and also stars Maricel Álvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib, Guillermo Estrella, Eduard Fernández and Cheikh Ndiaye. It’s set for release January 28th. Simon actually got to see the movie when he [...]
Cannes 2010 played host to the unveiling of Another Year, Mike Leigh’s latest peek into the heart of suburbia and now there’s a new trailer in advance of its 5th of November UK release date. We saw the film in Cannes, and you can read our review here. It’s usually a mistake to give plot [...]
This year’s festival at Cannes played host to the premiere of the Stephen Frears big screen adaptation of Posy Simmonds’ Guardian comic strip Tamara Drewe, and its mixture of filth and stiff upper lips made a decent impression on the assembled critics. Our man in Cannes gave us his review here and I can’t wait [...]
Before jetting back to Britain, the last film I saw on the Croisette was the early morning screening of Doug Liman’s political biopic Fair Game, which I had billed as one of the highlights of the whole schedule when it was first announced. Fair Game is ostensibly an amalgamation of the lengthily-titled memoirs of Valerie [...]
The time has come, dear friends and listeners, for the grand announcements that litter the end of prestigious events like this Cannes film festival, so gather round and Ill tell tale of who have become the chosen few. I fear the sun has gone to my head… Anyway, all archaics aside, the Sunday evening ceremony [...]
I’m not really one for photographs, hence the serious lack of any images to accompany this year’s Cannes film festival coverage, but sometimes even I feel compelled to go all pap and snap-happy… Walking into the Salle Debussy- the second largest screen at the Palais de Festivals- we were met with images from Burton’s brilliant [...]
The penultimate film on my schedule for this year’s festival is something of a strange beast: Oliver Assayas’ Carlos is a made for TV mini-series that the festival organisers picked up to screen as one continuous, five and a half hour long feature on the Croisette. While the prospect of almost six hours in a [...]
There appears to be a pattern emerging for the films included in this year’s Cannes film festival. Almost without exception, the list of films is populated by auteurs, making films that are very “on-brand”, following that director’s familiar artistic manifesto so that what we watch is almost stereotypically of them. Biutiful is another, like Mike Leigh’s [...]
The second film of today’s viewing schedule saw me taking my seat to watch Stephen Frears’ newest offering Tamara Drewe, an adaptation of the graphic novel by Posy Simmonds (which had run as a comic strip in the Guardian), which itself was an adaptation of Far From The Madding Crowd, in a modern, round-about way. [...]
First off, I feel I must comment on the way festival staff (specifically the ushers/security team) dealt with the queuing members of the media before the screening. My enjoyment of Woody Allen’s latest was almost spoiled initially by the debacle created by another chaotic queuing process that almost spilled over into something ugly on Saturday [...]
I’ll keep it brief, because there is only so much bashing one film can take from one man, and I dont usually believe in exorcising critical demons in public unless a film really REALLY deserves it. But trust me, R U There did deserves it with a vengeance. I am enormously astounded that the film got [...]
Mike Leigh’s is always going to be a difficult filmic brand to promote among certain circles, with a group of critics I know personally split roughly fifty/fifty on his work: I think from conversations with the anti-Leigh brigade that the problem lies in his distinct, but often unthrilling narrative manifesto. There is never a guaranteed [...]
Going into the festival there were a select few films that I had earmarked as definites for viewing: Wall Street 2 was top of the list, and closely following it was Gregg Araki’s Kaboom, a delightfully intriguing prospect for anyone familiar with Araki’s body of work. Araki is one of those indie-darling, festival veterans who [...]
I must admit that Mathieu Almaric’s Tournee largely sneaked under my radar prior to my arrival at the festival this week, but would most probably have made it on to my Highlights article in the run-up had I been more aware of it. You see, not only am I a huge admirer of Almaric as [...]
The second film of the day, and the third from my recommended list; Chatroom turned out to be even more of an intriguing project than I had ever anticipated. I had expected an excellent vehicle for Aaron Johnson to prove his acting acumen under the sturdy helmsmanship of Hideo Nakata, with the inevitable atmospheric tension, [...]
Ridley Scott’s take on the Outlaw of Sherwood Forest is one of the most anticipated films of the year and it was this film that opened the Cannes film festival yesterday. Dave saw the film a few days ago and his review is here and Simon (who is currently in Cannes for HeyUGuys) got to [...]
Arguably the most hotly anticipated film of the year will finally land on British shores in September of this year- pushed back no doubt to keep it fresh in the minds of the important few come awards season, but thanks to the organisers of the Cannes film festival, I have been able to see it [...]
Flicking through one of the many dailies that are a staple part of the festival, I came across the news that Variety are announcing that French heavy-weight actors Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel will team up once more for Thomas Langmann and La Petite Reine’s adaptation of the French detective novels. The production- a near [...]
