https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5603-the-horse-race-begins
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 5 May 2018 16:04 (six years ago) link
Lars von Trier is one of the most important filmmakers of the last fifty years
that's it, lead with the lolz
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 5 May 2018 16:05 (six years ago) link
I really liked The Wonders, will be interested to hear what Rohrwacher's new film is like
― Dan S, Saturday, 5 May 2018 16:07 (six years ago) link
Well, this site (linked in the Criterion post) gives it the best odds to win the Palme. Based on who knows.
https://www.jigsawlounge.co.uk/film/reviews/cannes2018/
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Saturday, 5 May 2018 21:44 (six years ago) link
Neil Young is great, and he managed to predict Nuri Bilge Ceylan correctly that one time. But no, a woman is not going to be allowed to win at Cannes, anyone think Denis Villeneuve will agree to that? He made a film about a misogynistic mass murder that ended with a severely wounded woman telling the male protagonist 'it's not your fault'.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 5 May 2018 21:49 (six years ago) link
Lmao I was an extra in that but have never seen it
― Simon H., Saturday, 5 May 2018 22:23 (six years ago) link
Lol. It was kinda always shit, but time has NOT been kind to it.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 5 May 2018 22:46 (six years ago) link
not sure about likelihoods, but Lazzaro Felice looks super ambitious to me
I also loved Secret Sunshine and Poetry, so I'm looking forward to Lee's new film Burning
― Dan S, Saturday, 5 May 2018 23:01 (six years ago) link
Jia or Farhadi or Hamaguchi or GTFO
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Saturday, 5 May 2018 23:43 (six years ago) link
Panahi > Farhadi and it's not even close.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 6 May 2018 08:31 (six years ago) link
Re Lars earnestness - nymphomaniac is about as tone deaf as it gets - it’s 3 hours too long
― Peak redundacy (Ross), Sunday, 6 May 2018 08:42 (six years ago) link
Nah, it's a flawed masterpiece
― Frederik B, Sunday, 6 May 2018 09:01 (six years ago) link
it works v well as a culminating work, which has me worried for the new one tbh
― Simon H., Sunday, 6 May 2018 12:34 (six years ago) link
Jia or Farhadi or Hamaguchi or Panahi or GTFO
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Sunday, 6 May 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
I've now seen three movies by Christophe Honoré, and to my surprise two of them turned out to be musicals! I'm wondering if his new one is too
Ehrlich said he thought that Farhadi's Everybody Knows was his best since A Separation
― Dan S, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 02:06 (six years ago) link
Faint praise
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 07:12 (six years ago) link
Convinced.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 08:28 (six years ago) link
Farhadi is one of those directors, like Fatih Akin and - sad to say because I used to like him a lot - Christian Mungiu, where whatever aesthetic ideas they had at one point has become calcified and they're basically just great scripts. It's doubly sad because they're both taking up space that could go to good image-makers, but we're sorta also missing out on some very good novelists.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 09:54 (six years ago) link
Most directors -- the good ones anyway -- have a pretty strict set of aesthetic ideas and things they think about, either in the content of their scripts, their politics and how some of these are transmitted visually. So no Mungiu isn't taking up space, the execution is still there w/ Graduation
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 11 May 2018 16:31 (six years ago) link
Nah, it's crap.
― Frederik B, Friday, 11 May 2018 20:08 (six years ago) link
So far the competition seems a bit so-so. The Godard sounds predictably great, but I'm not that excited by the rest. The Serebrennikov turns out to be a biopic about Viktor Tsoi from the Russian band Kino, but it sounds quite pedestrian and way too pleasant for it's subject. The 8 hour Wang Bing about Chinese death camps sounds absolutely amazing, on the other hand.
― Frederik B, Friday, 11 May 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
im not sure I've the fortitude for an 8 hour documentary about death camps in the gobi desert
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 11 May 2018 20:16 (six years ago) link
idk this could be great but honestly the prospect of sitting through a pessimistic feature-length screed writing off the future from the POV of an old-ass dude sounds like torture to me sorry
http://www.indiewire.com/2018/05/the-image-book-review-jean-luc-godard-cannes-1201963343/
― Simon H., Friday, 11 May 2018 21:04 (six years ago) link
I'd honestly much rather have full on fatalism than the faux concerned cynicism of someone like Bigelow or Villeneuve. And politically, it can't really be any stupider than his Dziga Vertov films, no? More Godardian montage-essay is a-ok with me. This new short was good as well:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO5Y6wlPn5kIt's an attack on Macron, who sent riot forces to handle protesters at the Notre-Dame-des-Landes (NDDL) designating it a Zone a Defendre (ZAD) or 'defence zone'. Or at least I think it is.
― Frederik B, Friday, 11 May 2018 21:18 (six years ago) link
i am very excited about this film
ASH IS PUREST WHITE: perhaps the finest “stop snitching” film to ever come out of China. Makes a clean companion with MMD in its elliptical timeline, its charting of wide scale change, and its delightful disco dancing.— Charles Bramesco (@intothecrevasse) May 11, 2018
― devvvine, Friday, 11 May 2018 21:28 (six years ago) link
now THAT I can rock with
― Simon H., Friday, 11 May 2018 21:43 (six years ago) link
xpost Friends in the know have told me the Godard short is a fake :/
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 11 May 2018 23:24 (six years ago) link
haven't seen any of these
― flopson, Friday, 11 May 2018 23:53 (six years ago) link
after what Jeff Wells wrote about the Honore film (he walked out of it cuz it was "cummy") i will probably punch him in the face if i ever see his stupid mug again.
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 12 May 2018 00:35 (six years ago) link
hate that motherfucker so much
― Simon H., Saturday, 12 May 2018 00:38 (six years ago) link
it's like Rex Reed went into the Black Lodge and came out a hetero aspect-ratio nitwit
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 12 May 2018 01:31 (six years ago) link
A world where a Jeff Wells gets to cover Cannes has already gone thru the Black Lodge.
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Saturday, 12 May 2018 01:50 (six years ago) link
Nah, it's crap.― Frederik B, Friday, 11 May 2018 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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Like I said, convinced.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 12 May 2018 10:59 (six years ago) link
https://d1nslcd7m2225b.cloudfront.net/Pictures/1200xany/4/9/0/1282490_Jury-Grid-DAY-5.jpg
― Alba, Sunday, 13 May 2018 09:17 (six years ago) link
And here are the Chinese critics
#Cannes2018 Our Chinese critics didn’t enjoy Girls of the Sun pic.twitter.com/7mktWT706a— Chinese Critics Grid (@CriticsGrid) May 13, 2018
― Alba, Sunday, 13 May 2018 09:22 (six years ago) link
Update on the Screen International list
We have a new leader atop the @Screendaily critics jury grid. #Cannes2018 pic.twitter.com/hyM5f4Sm2j— Tim Grierson (@TimGrierson) May 13, 2018
― Alba, Sunday, 13 May 2018 10:03 (six years ago) link
I've never seen (or even previously heard of) any Rohrwacher's stuff before but this sounds neat
http://variety.com/2018/film/reviews/happy-as-lazzaro-review-1202808832/
― Simon H., Monday, 14 May 2018 12:26 (six years ago) link
Both Corpo Celeste and The Wonders are really great. She is a major new filmmaker. Alba Rohrwachers sister :)
― Frederik B, Monday, 14 May 2018 12:57 (six years ago) link
I've been trying not to read too much about Lazzaro Felice so as not to spoil the surprise. The Wonders was lovely and memorable. Corpo Celeste is available on the library streaming app Kanopy, so maybe I'll watch that this week
― Dan S, Monday, 14 May 2018 13:51 (six years ago) link
the trailer for the LVT is less than encouraging tbh
― Simon H., Monday, 14 May 2018 14:09 (six years ago) link
Kore-eda's Shoplifters is also getting pretty great reviews. Sounds like it has echoes of Nobody Knows, my favorite film of his so far
― Dan S, Monday, 14 May 2018 18:17 (six years ago) link
After the Storm was the best Kore-eda in years, so I could actually sorta believe he recovered his mojo.
― Frederik B, Monday, 14 May 2018 20:08 (six years ago) link
An outlying opinion, but the best tweet:
Unfortunately the new Spike Lee often reminds me of Three Billboards or the Starsky & Hutch w/ Owen Wilson.— Miriam Bale (@mimbale) May 14, 2018
― Alba, Monday, 14 May 2018 21:15 (six years ago) link
Are you Alba Rohrwacher, Alba? Because if so, cool!
― Frederik B, Monday, 14 May 2018 22:11 (six years ago) link
Yeahhh I'd be happy to be wrong but I'm concerned LVT might have tripped over a little too far into troll mode
So in Lars Von Trier's film premiering at Cannes tomorrow the male characters have names and the women characters are LADY 1, 2, 3 and Simple. I was worried this year's festival was too feminist so I am relieved. #Cannes71 #cannes2018— Another Gaze: A Feminist Film Journal (@anothergaze) May 14, 2018
― Simon H., Tuesday, 15 May 2018 00:14 (six years ago) link
It's the second time in 25 years that LvT has a male protagonist, and he has used nameless characters before. He is not trolling.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 09:16 (six years ago) link
Lvt's entire career is built on trolling ppl.
Glad to help you understand.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 09:25 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I've written about him for years, interviewed his collaborators, he is not trolling.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 10:47 (six years ago) link
he's too frequently a clown (and not a good one)
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 11:16 (six years ago) link
The weird thing about LVT is that people seem much more keen on reviewing him than reviewing his films. Maybe it's that fear of being fooled that does this.
― Alba, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 12:05 (six years ago) link