Saturday, May 23, 2009 8:00PM - By Kara Stanford-Jones
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.
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Thursday, May 21, 2009 10:30AM - By Guest Writer
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…
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Friday, May 15, 2009 5:45PM - By Krystal Clark
During the opening ceremony at the Cannes Film Festival they showed a nice video montage featuring all the films making their debuts this year. I can honestly say the most anticipated feature has to be The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. It’s Heath Ledger’s final film, and features Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell as his replacement’s in the role of Tony.
In the video montage each film doesn’t really get that much time to shine but the few seconds you do see are well worth it.
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Monday, May 11, 2009 1:10PM - By Mali Elfman
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….
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:21AM - By Mali Elfman
Now that Cannes selection has been announced, more information about the movies has started to be revealed. One exciting little tidbit is that Quentin Tarantino‘s new film, Inglourious Basterds clocks in at a whopping 2 hours 40 minutes. This is Benjamin Button long; the type of movie where you need to plan ahead and start watching it by a certain time otherwise you end up having to leave to get a snack or falling asleep in the back row.
With this kind of subject matter and such a long run-time, the film will be one of two things: amazing or painful. If the story is interesting and done well, the run time doesn’t matter. Quentin Tarantino makes pretty entertaining movies, and this one shouldn’t be any different.
So instead of just saying “this as a long movie,” let’s step into Tarantino world and see how long this film really is…
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Thursday, April 23, 2009 10:08AM - By Mali Elfman
If only Cannes were not so far away.
The official lineup has been announced and there are some big names that will be going head to head this year. Quentin Tarantino‘s Inglourious Basterds, Ang Lee‘s Taking Woodstock, Pedro Almodovar’s Broken Embraces, Ken Loach’s Looking for Eric, and Jane Campion‘s Bright Star, are all some of the most talked about and anticipated films of the year. Although that is not to put any of the other amazing filmmakers on the competition list aside. If they made it in the running it’s assured that they will have something amazing to present.
As previously discussed, Disney’s Up will be opening the festival on May 13th and it was just announced that Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky will be closing it on May 24th. Sounds like 11 days of heaven if you ask me. We’ll be doing our best to bring you coverage from the Festival, so be sure to check back in.
Check out all 52 films that will be screened this year at Cannes 62nd Festival and a list of the judges below…
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:00PM - By Mali Elfman
First Sundance opened with Mary and Max and now Up will open Cannes! Apparently it’s a animation world! It was just announced today by Disney/Pixar’s that the new summer 3-D animation Up, directed by Pete Docter, will premiere as the opening night movie at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. This will be the first time that either a Disney movie or an animated film have opened the festival, which is known for showing the the best of the best.
I guess that Cannes is showing that they’re not blind to the changes in the industry. Who said that you can’t be pretigious and have a sense of what’s going on in the world!? (Oh yeah, that was the Oscars)
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Sunday, December 14, 2008 12:00PM - By Michael Da Silva
There is no doubting that Kelly Reichardt is a director on the up. Her 2006 sophomore feature Old Joy captivated those within the independent milieu and, despite some minor flaws, her latest effort Wendy and Lucy continues to heap praise on what looks to be a bright directorial future, in the American-indie genre.
Wendy and Lucy is the story of a mammoth road trip from Indiana to Alaska, whereby Wendy (Michelle Williams) has only her dependable dog Lucy for company, as she chases the promise of a summer job in a fish cannery.
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