Thank you! I will certainly do so
― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Thursday, 12 May 2016 16:46 (seven years ago) link
im rooting for almodovar.
#wrongOpinions
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 12 May 2016 18:11 (seven years ago) link
^^^leading a wrong existence.
― StillAdvance, Friday, 13 May 2016 10:47 (seven years ago) link
stuck a tenner on Farhadi
― Number None, Friday, 13 May 2016 10:55 (seven years ago) link
I've said it many times but I loathe Almodovar. The Guiraudie got terrible reviews, sadly. The new Dumont looks fantastic and I hope he wins.
― Mr. Hathaway. (jed_), Friday, 13 May 2016 21:08 (seven years ago) link
The Maren Ade got mid-film applause. Hope the palm goes to her.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 14 May 2016 18:38 (seven years ago) link
It's been SEVEN years since her last film?! tick tick tick
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 15 May 2016 09:10 (seven years ago) link
new jarmusch
― flappy bird, Monday, 16 May 2016 02:01 (seven years ago) link
Even by his standards it sounds boring.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 16 May 2016 04:34 (seven years ago) link
u sound boring
― 1st Amendment absolutist in favor of the unltd publication of sextapes (schlump), Monday, 16 May 2016 05:40 (seven years ago) link
I like Jarmusch sometimes!
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 16 May 2016 10:25 (seven years ago) link
is it me or this is worse Cannes fest of the past ten years or so? only hearing about disapointments.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 19 May 2016 16:04 (seven years ago) link
also, the hatred of Dolan warms my heart. he really is Montreal's equivalent of Drake at the moment.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 19 May 2016 16:06 (seven years ago) link
i've liked some of the acting (even) in his (bad) films, but i think the bloom may be off the twink.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 May 2016 16:11 (seven years ago) link
Huh, from what I hear people seem pretty happy. Ade broke review record!
― Frederik B, Thursday, 19 May 2016 16:16 (seven years ago) link
Eh? So far the Ade, Assayas and now the Mungiu are all getting rave reviews, and things like the Dumont and the Jarmusch have pleased fans of their work
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/may/19/graduation-review-cristian-mungiu-romania-cannes-2016
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Friday, 20 May 2016 10:18 (seven years ago) link
Refn's new one supposed to be terrrrible and am reading great things about J_P Leaud as a dying Louis XIV in Albert Serra's latest.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 20 May 2016 10:40 (seven years ago) link
voting for Verhoeven
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 20 May 2016 10:44 (seven years ago) link
I've said it many times but I loathe Almodovar
un-possible!
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, May 19, 2016 1
If I were 22, Heartbeats would be my favorite "youth" film. And parts of Mommy were his most sustained work. Watching him is always going to be fraught: he commingles horrible ideas and good ones like that's his intention.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 May 2016 10:53 (seven years ago) link
good chance Toni Erdmann will win this.
people loved it, kinda commercial and Miller won't choose an "Are film" per se imo
― nostormo, Friday, 20 May 2016 16:12 (seven years ago) link
Yeah this seems to be a better batch of films judging by reviews than the past few years... when you really had to struggle to find any positive consensus film.
― abcfsk, Friday, 20 May 2016 16:27 (seven years ago) link
What's an Are film?
Mungiu seems to be in with a good chance of doing the double.
― Mr. Hathaway. (jed_), Friday, 20 May 2016 16:34 (seven years ago) link
Art Film sorry
― nostormo, Friday, 20 May 2016 20:53 (seven years ago) link
Ah right, of course.
― Mr. Hathaway. (jed_), Friday, 20 May 2016 21:11 (seven years ago) link
Raves pretty much all around for the Verhoeven.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 21 May 2016 16:01 (seven years ago) link
Lol, I just noticed right now I screwed up the enddate on this.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 21 May 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link
Ken again
― Number None, Sunday, 22 May 2016 18:58 (seven years ago) link
The 71 year old man gave the award to the 79 year old. Identity politics out of art competitions, please!
― Frederik B, Sunday, 22 May 2016 19:05 (seven years ago) link
I was hoping for Aquarius or Toni Erdmann. The prizes are really the festival's achile heels.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 22 May 2016 19:33 (seven years ago) link
and I say as shameless zero to a hundred ken loach fan.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 22 May 2016 19:40 (seven years ago) link
None of us have seen these films (I think?) but the choices seem extremely strange. Especially the Dolan. The consensus seems that the jury choices are further from the critical opinion than they have ever been this year.
― CRANK IT YA FILTHY BISM! (jed_), Monday, 23 May 2016 02:47 (seven years ago) link
No, I don't think anyone has seen them. But a bunch of films got glowing reviews for trying something new, something strange, being a voice we haven't seen before, and the jury went with something incredibly boring and safe. Remarkably every director who's film won an award had won an award at Cannes before. Farhadi the least rewarded, The Past only won Best Actress.
― Frederik B, Monday, 23 May 2016 09:51 (seven years ago) link
Assayas might also only have won Best Actress, for Clean.
― Frederik B, Monday, 23 May 2016 09:52 (seven years ago) link
just cannot imagine the andrea arnold being esp good. why is she so overrated? why do people just eat up that kind of social brit miserablism she loves serving up repeatedly?
― StillAdvance, Monday, 23 May 2016 10:14 (seven years ago) link
She fills the gap until the next Ken Loach Palme d'Or winner comes along.
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Monday, 23 May 2016 10:17 (seven years ago) link
I can't deal with Ken Loach movies any more, fair enough for portraying how shitty the UK benefits system is, but I can't physically bring myself to watch any more of his movies. You see one of his idealised proles, then you've seen the lot of them, and they all have hearts of gold. Sort of like the filmic equivalent of Millet's noble peasants.
― calzino, Monday, 23 May 2016 10:24 (seven years ago) link
the winners of the directors fortnight and intnl critics week awards are usually the better films in any case. so am looking forward to wolf and sheep and toni erdmann.
id be interested to see if arnold takes her mike leigh-style pity to the american characters in her one.
― StillAdvance, Monday, 23 May 2016 10:29 (seven years ago) link
The more I look into this, the worse it looks. When the selection was announced, there was a bit of an outcry that no women of color was chosen, but I thought, who were they going to choose? Well, turns out Director's Forthnight found two, one, Sharbanoo Sadat, one the main prize of the selection, while the other Houda Benyamina, won the Camera d'Or. That's a pretty clear indictment of Un Certain Regard, at the least.
― Frederik B, Monday, 23 May 2016 14:48 (seven years ago) link
Cannes is breaking apart by sexism and racism, honestly.
cant figure out if you are bemoaning or supporting women of colour winning at cannes.
― StillAdvance, Monday, 23 May 2016 15:29 (seven years ago) link
I'm bemoaning that they weren't in official selection.
― Frederik B, Monday, 23 May 2016 15:44 (seven years ago) link
oh everyone I know who works for Cannes are going to defend the woman (and non-white women) non-selection with the always hilarious argument of meritocracy, it's a lost cause. last year i was told something along the lines of 'the president of the jury is female' what else do you want. but Dolan, Assayas and Loach need more recognition.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 23 May 2016 16:01 (seven years ago) link
It's not a lost cause. The meritocracy argument is obviously bullshit when films like Sean Penns The Last Face or Hazanavicius' The Search makes it through. People need to repeat this, research, spread the facts. The facts are these: Since 2000 one Palm has gone to a film that wasn't both western and directed by a male (Uncle Boonmee). 11/17 Camera d'Or awards has gone to such a film. 7/17 Golden Lions, 8/17 Golden Bears, 8/17 Golden Leopards. 8/17 Un Certain Regard Awards. Cannes is the clear extreme outlier, and it's their problem. They do not capture what's actually going on in world cinema.
― Frederik B, Monday, 23 May 2016 16:09 (seven years ago) link
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/pictures/cannes-2016-posters-d-or
shame commercial posters dont look like these.
― StillAdvance, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 08:10 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
The tension is unbearable.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 00:02 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 26 May 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link