If they wanted a new American director in competition they should have taken a look at Tangerine and included Sean Baker :( If he winds up in Quinzaine I am going to get pissed.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 13 April 2017 13:14 (seven years ago) link
http://www.indiewire.com/2017/04/cannes-film-festival-2017-lineup-surprises-snubs-beguiled-wonderstruck-1201804979/
Cannes is often slammed for not giving enough exposure to women directors in its Official Competition. This looks like another year bound to generate similar controversy, as only three women directors are featured in this year’s competition. Plenty of people expected Sofia Coppola’s “The Beguiled,” an erotic thriller based on Thomas Cullinan novel, to make it into competition. It did, alongside Lynne Ramsay’s “You Were Never Really Here,” which stars Joaquin Phoenix as a war veteran trying to save a young woman from sex trafficking (Ekaterina Samsonov, also in “Wonderstruck”). Then there’s Cannes regular Naomi Kawase from Japan, whose movies are often screened at the festival even as they remain unreleased in much of the world. Her latest, “Radiance,” is also a part of the lineup. Needless to say, there will be plenty of discussions in the weeks to come about new films from women directors that could have made it in this year.
Gotta love that we're now just openly tagging her "the female director that's always at Cannes and no one else sees her movies."
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Thursday, 13 April 2017 16:06 (seven years ago) link
voted for the todd haynes movie despite knowing nothing about it, i didn't even know he had a new one in the can. didn't expect that at all after the 8 year gap between I'M NOT THERE and CAROL (one of my favorite movies of 2015).
― flappy bird, Thursday, 13 April 2017 17:19 (seven years ago) link
oh it's based on a children's book. boo
― flappy bird, Thursday, 13 April 2017 17:20 (seven years ago) link
Naomi Kawases latest got her widest release yet, and she's one of the best directors in the lineup. Still the Water was irredeemable, though.
Voted Loznitsa.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 13 April 2017 17:32 (seven years ago) link
Some of Kawase's movies have been released on digital formats in the UK, eg
https://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/sweet-bean
― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 13 April 2017 18:07 (seven years ago) link
That had bio release in Denmark, and is better than anything Kore-eda and Kurosawa has done in ages. Actually, Kawase is the best example Cannes has when they say that the gender problem is not on their end - though three women in competition is an embarassment again. Kawase won the Camera d'Or, then moved to competition with the great Shara, and followed it up with two more personal auteur films, of which The Haunted Forrest won the Grand Prix. It then became the only Grand Prix winner in the last 25 years without US release.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 13 April 2017 18:35 (seven years ago) link
voted for the todd haynes movie despite knowing nothing about it, i didn't even know he had a new one in the can. didn't expect that at all after the 8 year gap between I'M NOT THERE and CAROL (one of my favorite movies of 2015).― flappy bird, Thursday, April 13, 2017 5:19 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― flappy bird, Thursday, April 13, 2017 5:19 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
He made Mildred Pierce during that period.
― Chris L, Thursday, 13 April 2017 18:38 (seven years ago) link
I've read next to nothing about any of these except Haynes and Coppola.
I suppose Lynne Ramsay deserves another shot despite that sewage she produced last time (6 years ago).
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 April 2017 20:15 (seven years ago) link
hey I liked the sewage
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 13 April 2017 20:56 (seven years ago) link
I couldn't get thru 45 minutes of Kevin
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 April 2017 20:58 (seven years ago) link
to hell with this festival, women are only good for iconic posters I guess.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 13 April 2017 21:16 (seven years ago) link
woops sorry for that.
And really, they're only good enough for the poster af being fixed up. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/mar/30/cannes-film-festival-2017-airbrushing-claudia-cardinale
― Frederik B, Thursday, 13 April 2017 21:24 (seven years ago) link
after
I only watched said sewage about a year ago, so she's still a good five years away from me forgiving her.
The Coppola is the only one I know anything about at this point. I'm intrigued; should I bother with the Eastwood orginal?
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Thursday, 13 April 2017 23:13 (seven years ago) link
yes
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 13 April 2017 23:24 (seven years ago) link
I can't even begin to guess. Coppola is the only director on this list that I'm even slightly familiar with.
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 13 April 2017 23:33 (seven years ago) link
that's the DON SIEGEL original, crypto
(i actually think it's one of their lesser collabs, of interest mainly for Geraldine Page, whose role is taken by N Kidman in the new film)
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 April 2017 03:23 (seven years ago) link
I was p sure it was Siegel, but was too lazy to open a new window to check.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Friday, 14 April 2017 04:49 (seven years ago) link
Quinzaine program is up:
A CIAMBRA de Jonas CarpignanoALIVE IN FRANCE de Abel FerraraL’AMANT D’UN JOUR de Philippe GarrelBUSHWICK de Cary Murnion & Jonathan MilottCUORI PURI de Roberto De Paolis THE FLORIDA PROJECT de Sean BakerFROST de Sharunas BartasI AM NOT A WITCH de Rungano Nyoni JEANNETTE, L’ENFANCE DE JEANNE D’ARC de Bruno DumontL’INTRUSA de Leonardo Di CostanzoLA DEFENSA DEL DRAGÓN de Natalia Santa MARLINA SI PEMBUNUH DALAM EMPAT BABAK de Mouly SuryaMOBILE HOMES de Vladimir de FontenayNOTHINGWOOD de Sonia Kronlund ÔTEZ-MOI D’UN DOUTE de Carine TardieuPATTI CAKE$ de Geremy Jasper THE RIDER de Chloé ZhaoUN BEAU SOLEIL INTÉRIEUR de Claire Denis WEST OF THE JORDAN RIVER (FIELD DIARY REVISITED) de Amos Gitai
Sean Baker got robbed :( Still no sign of Östlund, Joachim Trier and Ergüven.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 20 April 2017 12:10 (seven years ago) link
What's Quinzaine?
― Heavy Doors (jed_), Thursday, 20 April 2017 18:54 (seven years ago) link
They use it to make tonic water.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Thursday, 20 April 2017 19:02 (seven years ago) link
Director's Forthnight = Quinzaine de Realisateurs. I think I say Quinzaine because I also say Semaine = Critics Week, which I say to differ from other Critics Weeks at other festivals. So it's Semaine, Quinzaine, Un Certain Regard and Competition.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 20 April 2017 19:50 (seven years ago) link
I see. Why aren't Denis and Dumont in the official competition?
― Heavy Doors (jed_), Thursday, 20 April 2017 20:12 (seven years ago) link
Because the guys who chose the films for competition are morons...
― Frederik B, Thursday, 20 April 2017 20:22 (seven years ago) link
I mean, there's almost no chance that Claire Denis making a film based on Roland Barthes isn't twice as good as whatever pap Doillon or Hazanavicius has made this time. But it's probably also weirder and less sellable. Cannes is getting more and more boring each year imo. Hope it changes soon.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 20 April 2017 20:29 (seven years ago) link
Is the Denis her science fiction film Fred?
― Heavy Doors (jed_), Thursday, 20 April 2017 20:36 (seven years ago) link
Apparently it's a comedy based on Barthes' The Lovers Discourse starring Juliette Binoche and Gerard Depardieu. According to IMDB she has two other projects in production, so I don't really know what's going on.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 20 April 2017 20:40 (seven years ago) link
Loathe Depardieu but can't help to be curious about that one.
― On Some Faraday Beach (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 21 April 2017 08:37 (seven years ago) link
He was pretty good in Valley of Love. He has become so absurd at this point, that he probably mostly fits into sorta meta-projects, which Denis' new film sorta sounds like as well.
― Frederik B, Friday, 21 April 2017 08:45 (seven years ago) link
Isn't the Hazanavicius the Godard/Wiazemsky biopic? That one seems like a real winner.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 21 April 2017 12:06 (seven years ago) link
Meh. Hazanavicius should have been banned to sidebars after the atrocious The Search.
― Frederik B, Friday, 21 April 2017 12:20 (seven years ago) link
Was being sarcastic.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 21 April 2017 16:43 (seven years ago) link
Oh. Okay. Sorry. It honestly has gotten a lot of hype, and he did win all the oscars the last time he delved into film history.
― Frederik B, Friday, 21 April 2017 20:21 (seven years ago) link
hmm, curious about the lynne ramsay, don't know whether to be optimistic or not as she hasn't made a great film this millennium
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 21 April 2017 20:28 (seven years ago) link
Btw there's not a single film from Scandinavia at Cannes this year. Not in Competition, nor in Un Certain Regard, Quinzaine or Semaine :( After Joachim Trier and Ruben Östlund were tipped for competition, and after the two last UCR's were won by Iceland and Finland. A complete shutout. That's a major disappointment.
― Frederik B, Friday, 21 April 2017 20:35 (seven years ago) link
Ohhhh sheeet:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cannes-roman-polanskis-new-film-added-official-lineup-998136
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Thursday, 27 April 2017 17:51 (seven years ago) link
Ostlund also added to competition (at Fred's behest, I can only assume)
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 27 April 2017 21:10 (seven years ago) link
I'm happy :) But that was a glaring omission, and became even weirder when he didn't show up in Quinzaine. The Trier is probably just bad.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 27 April 2017 21:11 (seven years ago) link
Well it won't be Okja.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 19 May 2017 17:43 (six years ago) link
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-entertainment-news-updates-may-cannes-2017-netflix-s-first-movie-1495195649-htmlstory.html
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 19 May 2017 17:53 (six years ago) link
this festival can go to hell once and for all
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 19 May 2017 17:56 (six years ago) link
Yeah don't think it will win but reviews seem pretty good.
― devvvine, Friday, 19 May 2017 18:00 (six years ago) link
http://deadline.com/2017/05/brett-ratner-cannes-hotel-du-crap-controversy-1202091929/
― nomar, Friday, 19 May 2017 18:01 (six years ago) link
^can't tell if this is a joke or not
dear god, this is unbearable.
― devvvine, Friday, 19 May 2017 18:08 (six years ago) link
Following along, so much of the sidebars looks good. But the main competition looks kinda dreadful, tbh.
― Frederik B, Friday, 19 May 2017 20:25 (six years ago) link
Ratner the epitomé of namedropping Hollywood douchebro.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 19 May 2017 21:49 (six years ago) link
Not sure how reliable this is, but ...
https://cannes-rurban.rhcloud.com/index.pl/2017
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 14:08 (six years ago) link
Voted for the film with the most Huppert in.
― devvvine, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 14:19 (six years ago) link
Eric, that link has Beguiled as the most highly rated film but it hasn't even screened yet.
― Whooremeister (jed_), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 01:01 (six years ago) link
Nathaniel Rogers on Le Redoutable:
Robbing Garrel of his trademark mop of curls to play the male pattern baldness of Godard seems so perverse though! I can't get over it.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 01:22 (six years ago) link
I can imagine Killing of a Sacred Deer winning Kidman a prize.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 01:23 (six years ago) link
that shitstain Jeff Wells loathes the Lanthimos, so im looking fwd
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 04:03 (six years ago) link
x-post: They also owe her one after she lost in Dogville to Marie-Josée Croze in The Barbarian Invasions.
This competition still looks mostly dire. Sean Baker's followup to Tangerine got raves in Quinzaine, though. Really looking forward to seeing that.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 10:36 (six years ago) link
Nick James from S&S calls the Lanthimos "a tedious exercise in morbidity chic", which def makes me want to see it:
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/comment/festivals/cannes-2017-best-so-far-happy-end-western-loveless
The Haneke got a five star review from P Brad in the Graun:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/may/21/happy-end-review-michael-haneke-isabelle-huppert-cannes-2017
― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 10:40 (six years ago) link
Sounds like it's the Coppola that's most likely to do it.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 16:19 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 25 May 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
Even the disarmingly agreeable Bilge Ebiri thinks this year's Cannes lineup is "a bit of a bust."
https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/05/25/canness-beguilements/
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Thursday, 25 May 2017 13:45 (six years ago) link
"beguilements" is one of my favorite words
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 May 2017 13:45 (six years ago) link
The lineup was pathetic. Only five new names of which at least two, Bong Joon-ho and Noah Baumbach, should have had their Cannes debut, like, a decade ago. A bunch of repeaters, and then inexplicable bullshit from people like Doillon and Mondruczo. As the most prestigious film-festival in the world, a response like this is an absolute embarrassment.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 25 May 2017 15:00 (six years ago) link
It's only a film festival Ingrid
― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 25 May 2017 15:03 (six years ago) link
Would srsly love it if an ACT-UP prestige-adjacent pic took the prize in this field
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Thursday, 25 May 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link
x-post: It's the biggest event on the art film calendar. It's millions and millions of dollars. And it's an embarrassment of reactionary aesthetics, eurocentrism and misogyny :)
The ACT-UP drama sounds cool, but if it won it would be the fourth French winner this decade. Add up two English language winners, and the boringness of curators/juries is pretty obvious.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 25 May 2017 15:16 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 26 May 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
I reckon no-votes Loveless will win.
― Whooremeister (jed_), Friday, 26 May 2017 23:24 (six years ago) link
If the ACT-UP film is anywhere near as good as Entre Le Murs/The Class then I'm very excited to see it.
― Whooremeister (jed_), Friday, 26 May 2017 23:25 (six years ago) link
I didn't even vote in this lol
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 27 May 2017 05:09 (six years ago) link
Me neither ha
― Whooremeister (jed_), Saturday, 27 May 2017 15:11 (six years ago) link
Voted Kawase, just because that would be the funniest winner. Also, I like her films. Hoping for the Hong, though, which apparently Will Smith gave a standing ovation.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 27 May 2017 16:08 (six years ago) link
idgaf about fests i dont attend
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 May 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link
Then why don't you fuck off?
I feel like I explain this every year, but who wins what in Cannes pretty much defines what I'll get to see when in Copenhagen. Small cultural market = these things really, really matter.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 27 May 2017 16:37 (six years ago) link
the depends on your definition of "mattering"
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 27 May 2017 16:45 (six years ago) link
for the same reason you dont stfu fred
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 May 2017 17:10 (six years ago) link
you quintessence of pretentious ass
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 May 2017 17:11 (six years ago) link
Well. yeah...
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 27 May 2017 18:37 (six years ago) link
Lol, are you quoting the period film thread?
― Frederik B, Saturday, 27 May 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
Anyways, the side competition are giving out awards:UCR:“UN CERTAIN REGARD” PRIZE
LERD (UN HOMME INTEGRE – A MAN OF INTEGRITY) by Mohammad Rasoulof PRIZE FOR BEST ACTRESSJASMINE TRINCA for FORTUNATA by Sergio Castellitto PRIZE FOR THE BEST POETIC NARRATIVEBARBARA de Mathieu Amalric PRIZE FOR BEST DIRECTIONTaylor Sheridan for WIND RIVER JURY PRIZELAS HIJAS DE ABRIL (APRIL’S DAUGHTER) by Michel Franco
Quinzaine:
Art Cinema Award
“The Rider” by Chloé Zhao
SACD Prize
“Lover For a Day,” by Philippe Garrel
and
“Let the Sunshine In,” by Claire Denis
Europa Cinemas Label
“A Ciambra,” by Jonas Carpignano
― Frederik B, Saturday, 27 May 2017 19:14 (six years ago) link
Not a period film thread, but a pre-menstrual one maybe.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Sunday, 28 May 2017 00:14 (six years ago) link
cinephiles fighting.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 28 May 2017 01:29 (six years ago) link
no wonder we live in a world where apparently netflix and cannes can't seem to cooperate.
everything is going to shit.
lol @ movie not in this poll winning the palme
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 28 May 2017 18:08 (six years ago) link
We don't know yet! Still rooting for Kawase!!
― Frederik B, Sunday, 28 May 2017 18:10 (six years ago) link
Oh. Oh well...
Coppola?
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 28 May 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link
Palme d’Or: Ruben Östlund – The SquareGran Prix: Robin Campillo – 120 Beats Per MinuteJury Prize: Andrey Zvyagintsev – LovelessBest Director: Sofia Coppola – The BeguiledBest Actor: Joaquin Phoenix – You Were Never Really HereBest Actress: Diane Kruger – In the FadeBest Screenplay: Yorgos Lanthimos – The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Lynne Ramsay – You Were Never Really Here
Camera d’Or: Léonor Sérraille – Jeune Femme
― Frederik B, Sunday, 28 May 2017 18:48 (six years ago) link
Coppola first woman in 56 years to win for Best Director. Another embarrassing fact.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 28 May 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link
can't imagine too many women have won the screenplay award either, but better late than never
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 28 May 2017 19:19 (six years ago) link
I think Lynne Ramsay is number four, but the award hasn't been given out each year, and also the last time was Tatiana Niculescu Bran in 2012. So it's not quite the same.
The embarrassment is more the fact that women has won the Grand Prix a couple of times, and Andrea Arnold alone has three Jury Awards, so they definitely make film that the juries like, but somehow never get the directing award... That's a quite typical unconscious misogynistic bias thingy, where something a woman has done was very good, but it probably wasn't really her that did it, you know?
― Frederik B, Sunday, 28 May 2017 19:48 (six years ago) link
that embarrassment exists throughout the entire film industry (maybe less so in Denmark?) and Cannes, like so many institutions at the top of the food chain, aren't willing to make any progress.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 28 May 2017 19:52 (six years ago) link
and not only for directors. pretty much every role in the industry except hair stylist and make up is riddled with that sexist bias.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 28 May 2017 19:54 (six years ago) link
Oh, it's especially awful in Denmark at the moment, unfortunately.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 28 May 2017 19:56 (six years ago) link
So yeah, I agree. But Cannes is even more awful than they could be. Venice, Berlin, Locarno, they've at least given a few awards to women. Cannes just bumbles along, putting Sean Penn and Jacques Doillon in the main competition, then saying there is no room for women because they only choose the best of the best.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 28 May 2017 19:58 (six years ago) link
Tragic how the 'but is she qualified?' argument is represented in all circumstances, in all industries.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 28 May 2017 20:28 (six years ago) link