Thursday, April 18, 2019

Cannes Lineups Announced / Anderson, VR and Cannes

Welcome to Thursday...Time to open the Cannes...

Sorry.


CANNES LINEUPS ANNOUNCED



In the Palme d'Or competition:



Pain and Glory (Almodovar)
The Traitor (Bellocchio)
The Wild Goose Lake (Yinan)
Parasite (Joon-ho)



Young Ahmed (The Dardennes)
Oh Mercy! (Desplechin)
Fire Next Time (Diop)
Matthias and Maxime (Dolan)
Little Joe (Hausner)
The Dead Don't Die (Jarmusch)
Sorry We Missed You (Loach)
Les miserables (Yi)



A Hidden Life (Malick)
Nighthawk (Filho and Dornelles)
The Whistlers (Porumboiu)
Frankie (Sachs)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Sciamma)
It Must Be Heaven (Suleiman)
Sybil (Triet)

Un Certain Regard:

Invisible Life
Beanpole
The Swallows of Kabul
The Brother's Love
The Climb
Jeanne
A Sun That Never Sets
Room 212
Port Authority
Papicha
Adam
Zhou Ren Mi Mi
Liberte
Bull
Summer of Changsha


Special Screenings:

Tommaso
Share
For Sama
Etre Vivant et le Savior
Family Romance LLC


Out of Competition

Rocketman
The Best Years of a Life
Too Old to Die Young
Diego Maradona
Le Belle Epoque

Midnight Screening:

The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil

The complete lineup is here from The Film Stage


My best guess-sight unseen-of Cannes' films that could make the jump to Telluride:  Young Ahmed, Family Romance LLC (Herzog), Matthias and Maxime, Sorry We Missed You and A Hidden Life.

Notable films that many thought might make the lineup but didn't (at least yet) :

The Truth, Midsommar, Wendy and First Cow.  Most noticeable was the absence of Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in...Hollywood.  Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux said the film was not ready though did suggest that the door was still open should Tarantino finish before the festival kicks off on May 14.

And, as was true last year, Netflix will not have any films in any section of the fest.

The Hollywood Reporter covers omissions here.




ANDERSON, VR AND CANNES



One title that we had heard earlier this week that would play during the Director's Fortnight  is Laurie Anderson's Virtual Reality project Go Where You Look: Falling Off Snow Mountain.  The project will consist of three installations according to Michael Nordine writing for Indiewire.  The installations are: Aloft, Chalkroom and To the Moon.

Anderson has collaborated with Hsin-Chien Huang to create the project.

TFF #45 scored Eliza McNitt's Spheres VR presentation last year, which leads me to believe that another VR presentation could easily be part of the TFF #46 lineup and Anderson certainly has been involved with Telluride.  Her most recent TFF presence was in 2015 with her documentary Heart of a Dog.  Anderson also continues to be one of TFF's "Esteemed Council of Advisors".

Indiewire's story about Anderson's VR installation at Cannes is linked here.



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