Acclaimed director Tim Burton has just been given some new responsibilities. According to the Associated Press, he will head the 2010 Cannes Film Festival Jury. It was recently announced that the Gothic filmmaker would be the one to the lead the judging process at this year’s festival, and in typical Burton fashion, he was low key but thankful for the honor.
After Quentin Tarantino‘s Inglourious Basterds premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, Universal decided that the film needed some adjustments and sent Tarantino back into the editing room.
According to The Wrap, The Weistein Company (Inglourious Basterds production company) wants Tarantino to cut 40 full minutes from the film. The question is, are they trying to cut it short so that appeals to more people and they can make more cash? After all, they can always release the Director’s cut later on. Maybe, maybe not, but one thing is for sure; a film with a running time of 2’40” is too long, especially for American audiences. Although as we have discussed many of Tarrantino’s past films have had long run times. Continue Reading
Startup distributor Oscilloscope has picked up the rights to Michel Gondry‘s new project, The Thorn in the Heart a documentary which recently wrapped the Cannes Film Festival. Gondry seemed excited at the prospect of his new distributors…
“So I called up my best friend Etienne and told him, ‘Guess who’s distributing my documentary about my aunt?’ and he said, ‘who?’ and I said, ‘MCA from Beastie Boys’ and Etienne said, ‘The Beastie Boy bought your Aunt’s documentary?! Get the f*** out of here!’ and I said, ‘Yeah!!!’”
Although Gondry is attached to more mainstream films such as his much loved Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the upcoming superhero flick, The Green Hornet he also has a love for documentaries and has decided to turn to his own family for material.
The 2009 Cannes Film Festival has come to an end and some films have achieved massive success and awards, and others will be disappearing into independent film limbo. Although I’m sure we’ll talk about those films in our Cannes Film Festival roundup, for now, let’s concentrate on the Cannes successes. Below are the winners of both prizes and distribution.
The winners of the the most prestigious award, the Palme d’Or, is Austrian auteur Michael Haneke’s luscious black and white French film, The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band) about life in a small Protestant village in northern Germany just before the advent of World War I.
According to Reuters:
Inglourious Basterds premiered at the Cannes Film Festival a few days ago to mixed reviews. Apparently the movie was lacking a few key elements, so to better the film, Universal wants some edits made. Director, Quentin Tarantino stated the film is, ”[going] to the editing room post-Cannes to make some edits that might include adding a scene.“ Inglourious Basterds is supposed to have a run time of a whopping 2 hours 40 minutes, but it actually only ran for 2 hours 28 minutes. Therefore, the film is technically under it’s contractual obligation of 2 hours 40 minutes.
You know it to be perhaps the preeminent film festival in the world, yet unless you’re a Weinstein, keeping up with the 70-odd features showing at this year’s 62nd annual Cannes Film Festival might not be easy. For your convenience (and entertainment), we’ve compiled a short list of some of the better-reviewed, lesser-reviewed, and all-together buzzworthy (for better or worse…) films to have screened so far at the fest.
Let’s start on a positive note…
Yesterday, we saw the first three TV spots and today we posted the first reviews for Inglourious Basterds, and now we get the crem della crem of TV spots. Not only is this an awesome scene, in which we finally get to see a bit of the blood splatter (or should I say spray), but we get an introduction to the clip from Director Quentin Tarantino, right before he premiered the film in Cannes.
Check out the clip below…
Quentin Tarantino‘s Inglourious Basterds was shown to the International press at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Overall the film has gotten mixed reviews; some absolutely loved the film, and others absolutely hate it. Brad Pitt seems to be the main cause of concern and praise. Personally, I’ve always thought that Pitt is better comedic actor than a serious actor.
Let’s see what our fellow critics have to say about it…
Well, Cannes Film Festival is about to begin, but before it does, studios are trying to entice audiences, filmmakers, and distributors, to see their films with the cunning use of posters! Alex Billington from FirstShowing took a little walk down the Croisette, the famous street in which everything will soon take place, in order to check out some of the artwork being displayed. It seems like everyone, big and small is looking to get some attention from Cannes.
Check out some of the posters on display at Cannes below….
