Footnotes from France/Heading West/Early Invitation

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FOOTNOTES FROM FRANCE

Cleaning out the files and folders from Canes and its aftermath I turned up a series of reviews for in-competition films.  Here they are:

MUD

The Hollywood Reporter http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/cannes-matthew-mcconaughey-mud-review-329907

HitFix http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/review-mud-brings-jeff-nichols-moodiness-to-the-mainstream



WHITE ELEPHANT

The Hollywood Reporter http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/white-elephant-cannes-festival-review-327653


THE PAPERBOY

Rope of Silicon http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/paperboy-movie-review-2012-cannes-film-festival/


COSMOPOLIS

Thompson on Hollywood http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/cannes-review-david-cronenbergs-cosmopolis


THERESE DESQUEYROUX

The Playlist http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/cannes-review-therese-desqueyroux-starring-audrey-tautou-is-a-banal-version-of-masterpiece-theater-20120526



HEADING WEST

The CEO and I will be heading to California at the end of July and first of August.  Going to visit family, look at stuff, will probably haul finished screenplays along and throw them at people...see if anyone takes a look.

Attention friends in the L.A. area...we're coming and hope to see some of you!



EARLY INVITATION

Tentative plans are already in place to repeat last year's MTFB soiree: "The Guide to the Ride/The Flow of The SHOW".  Specifics are not definitive other than we're planning to do it again at the River Club and it will likely be late Friday afternoon.

We're aiming to provide some refreshment and a nosh and, with any luck, a special guest or two.

It was the highlight of the festival for me last year to get to meet actual living, breathing readers.  I hope everyone who came last year will return and that we get some new faces there as well.

I'll pass along further details as they firm up...but, rest assured...YOU ARE INVITED!

Cannes Concludes: The Winners, The Critics, The Meaning and The Reviews

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The 65th Cannes Film Festival came to a close yesterday and they closed the extravaganza with the traditional presentation of the Palme D'or and other awards. Here they are.




AWARDS FOR CANNES COMPETITION FILMS (Via Awards Daily)



Palme d’Or:

AMOUR (LOVE) – Michael HANEKE

Grand Prix:

REALITY – Matteo GARRONE

Prix de la Mise en Scene (best director):

Director: POST TENEBRAS LUX by Carlos Reygadas

Prix d’interpretation feminine (best actress):

Cristina Flutur & Cosmina Stratan DUPÃ DEALURI (AU-DELA DES COLLINES/BEYOND THE HILLS)

Prix d’interpretation masculine (best actor):

Mads Mikkelsen JAGTEN (LA CHASSE/THE HUNT) (- Thomas VINTERBERG)

Prix du Scenario (best screenplay):

Cristian Mungiu – DUPÃ DEALURI (AU-DELA DES COLLINES/BEYOND THE HILLS)

Camera d’Or (best first feature):

BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD by Benh Zeitlin

Prix du Jury (jury prize):

Ken Loach for THE ANGELS’ SHARE

Palme d’Or (short film):

SESSIZ-BE DENG (SILENCIEUX/SILENT) – L.Rezan YESILBAS









CRITICAL RECEPTION

Both Ioncinema and Screen Daily spent a good deal of time compiling the collective critical response to the 22 films that were in competition in Cannes. The top 6 from the Ioncinema group:

1) Amour

2) Holy Motors

3) Beyond the Hills

4) Rust and Bone

4) You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet

4) Mud



Just on the Ioncinema cusp were: In the Fog and Moonrise Kingdom

Here's the link to the complete chart:

http://www.ioncinema.com/news/cannes-critics-panel-hanekes-amour-should-beat-caraxs-holy-motors



From Screen Daily the top six were:



1) Amour and Beyond the Hills

3) Rust and Bone, The Hunt, Killing Them Softly, In the Fog



Close on the Screen Daily chart: The Angel’s Share and Mud.

Here's the link to The Screen Daily Chart:

http://www.screendaily.com/journals/2012/05/26/k/j/v/Cannes-jury-grid_Day-12.pdf



When the charts are combined…here’s the critical top ten from Cannes

1) Amour

2) Beyond the Hills

3) Mud

4) In the Fog

5) You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet

6) Holy Motors and The Hunt

8) Moonrise Kingdom

9) The Angels Share

10) Killing Them Softly



Next: Rust and Bone





So what does all this mean for Telluride in 3 months?



Bank on seeing “Amour” and “Beyond the Hills”.



If “Rust and Bone” had won any prize at all, I’d also include it on the “bank on it” list…though I still think it’s highly likely.



“Reality”, which had lost some Telluride steam because of fairly weak critical reception over the last week…actually ended the festival back in the possible/probable category because of its Grand Prix win.



Two other T-ride probables that I think suffered some this past fortnight: “Cosmopolis” and “On the Road”.



Getting a boost for Telluride consideration among the competition films: “Mud”, “Holy Motors”, “The Hunt” “The Angel’s Share” and “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet”.



The two out of competition films that caught my eye with some (a lot of) Telluride potential were “The Sapphires” and “No”.



I’m still unconvinced that Carlos Reygadas “Post Tenebras Lux” will end up in Telluride despite its win for Direction.



Now, I spend the next 3 months ferreting out which of these actually is going to end up in Telluride on Labor Day and the other films that will join them.



BACK TO A DAILY



Michael’s Telluride Film Blog returns as a daily blog on Thursday (except for Sundays) and will run Daily until the 39th Telluride Film Festival comes to an end. Join me in my obsession!



AND NOW REVIEWS...

I have included links in this third installment of reviews for films at Cannes:

COSMOPOLIS

HITLIST http://social.entertainment.msn.com/movies/blogs/the-hitlist-blogpost.aspx?post=c919c4ca-25d8-43ff-8590-5351f972e8e6&_nwpt=1

PLAYLIST http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/cannes-review-david-cronenbergs-cosmopolis-robert-pattinson-don-delillo-paul-giamatti-samantha-morton-juliette-binoche-20120525

HIT FIX http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/review-robert-pattinson-has-a-devils-haircut-on-his-mind-in-cronenbergs-cosmopolis

MCN http://moviecitynews.com/2012/05/cannes-competition-review-cosmopolis

THR http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/cosmopolis-review-robert-pattinson-cannes-329230

ON THE ROAD

THR http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/on-road-cannes-review-kristen-stewart-328624

WRAP http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/cannes-2012-kristen-stewart-embraces-topless-beatnik-role-road-41231

ROS http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/on-the-road-movie-review-2012-cannes-film-festival/

HIT FIX http://www.hitfix.com/motion-captured/review-on-the-road-makes-great-use-of-kristen-steward-garrett-hedlund-and-sam-riley

PLAYLIST http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/cannes-review-walter-salles-on-the-road-kristen-stewart-kirsten-dunst-garret-hedlund-sam-riley-jack-kerouac-20120523

KILLING THEM SOFTLY

WELLS http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2012/05/kill_me_now_1.php

THE PAPERBOY

HIT FIX http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/review-the-paperboy-straddles-the-line-between-trash-and-treat

WRAP http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/cannes-2012-nicole-kidman-and-zac-efron-get-sweaty-and-trampy-paperboy-41441

FILM STAGE http://thefilmstage.com/reviews/cannes-review-the-paperboy/

THR http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/paperboy-cannes-review-zac-efron-nicole-kidman-329071

HOLY MOTORS

ION http://www.ioncinema.com/news/cannes-2012-holy-motors-review

TIME OUT http://www.timeout.com/film/reviews/92787/holy-motors.html

ROS http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/holy-motors-movie-review-2012-cannes-film-festival/

HIT FIX http://www.hitfix.com/motion-captured/review-holy-motors-is-dizzying-visionary-and-one-of-a-kind

PLAYLIST http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/cannes-review-leos-caraxs-holy-motors-is-an-anything-goes-stew-of-big-ideas-that-doesnt-always-work-20120524

MUD

PLAYLIST http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/cannes-review-jeff-nichols-mud-starring-matthew-mcconaughey-reese-witherspoon-20120526


FIRST SHOWING http://www.firstshowing.net/2012/cannes-2012-review-jeff-nichols-wonderful-southern-drama-mud/

LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE

IONCINEMA http://www.ioncinema.com/reviews/cannes-2012-like-someone-in-love-review

MUBI http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/cannes-2012-abbas-kiarostamis-like-someone-in-love

IN ANOTHER COUNTRY

THE PLAYLIST http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/cannes-review-its-isabelle-huppert-times-three-in-hong-sangsoos-light-in-another-country-20120522

MUBI http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/cannes-2012-hong-sang-soos-in-another-country

POST TENEBRAS LUX

THE PLAYLIST http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/cannes-review-carlos-reygadas-post-tenebras-lux-20120523

THE HUNT

MOVIE CITY NEWS http://moviecitynews.com/2012/05/cannes-reviews-the-hunt-room-237

WHITE ELEPHANT

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/white-elephant-cannes-festival-review-327653



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Cannes-Other Thoughts/Usual Suspects/MCN Overview

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CANNES-OTHER THOUGHTS

The 65th Cannes Film Festival launches in two weeks and admittedly I have been focused on a half dozen films that are in the lineup that I believe have the greatest chance (at least at this point) of being in Telluride over the Labor Day weekend.  That's not to say that there aren't other TFF #39 possibilities in the Cannes mix.  Today, I'll take a look at some that also could make their way across the Atlantic to the San Juans.

LOW LIFE (OR THE UNTITLED JAMES GRAY PROJECT)

This film stars Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Renner and Joaquin Phoenix and although Gray has never made the trip to Telluride has always seemed like a film maker who could.

Look at this story from Just Jared:
http://www.justjared.com/2012/04/30/marion-cotillard-jeremy-renner-james-gray-project-stills/

MUD


Jeff Nichols had a breakout at Sundance last year with "Take Shelter" and this is his follow up.  Again, since he's been making noise (as has Lee Daniels with Precious and who is also at Cannes with "The Paperboy") this could be a possible.  Check this story from The Playlist:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/new-pics-of-matthew-mcconaughey-tree-of-life-star-tye-sheridan-in-jeff-nichols-mud-20120502


MOE ON THE USUAL SUSPECTS

Stories/Stills from Cannes films

AMOUR (via Hit Fix)

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/in-contention/posts/cannes-check-michael-hanekes-amour


COSMOPOLIS (via The Playlist)

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-robert-pattinson-needs-the-meaning-of-the-enflamed-in-the-first-clip-from-cosmopolis-20120503

ON THE ROAD (also via The Playlist)

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/on-the-road-soundtrack-features-ella-fitzgerald-son-house-slim-gaillard-alongside-original-score-20120501


MCN CANNES OVERVIEW

And finally, check out Movie City News' first in  a series of profiles of the films of Cannes here:

http://moviecitynews.com/2012/05/countdown-to-cannes-anderson-cronenberg-hillcoat/


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