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2011 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In Voted Top Film
It was shut out by the jury members at this year’s festival, but Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In topped call films in our inaugurl Cannes Critics’ Panel betting out the likes of
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Inside the 2011 Cannes Film Festival: Tree of Life Wins Palme
Thierry Frémaux finally got his wish (to show The Tree of Life) and now, he can return the gift to Malick with the Palme d’Or. The jury headed by president Robert De Niro (with
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Inside the 2011 Cannes Film Festival: Surprise Un Certain Regard Winners
The jury comprised of Emir Kusturica and peers caught critics by surprise in selecting a pair of unpopular Croisette items for this year’s Un Certain Regard prize. Beating out the likes of Bruno Dumont’s
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Inside the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Day 10: 21 Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Elena
Saving the best for last, it was nice to watch a world premiere for a film that had already won an award (the jury, who had seen the film before handing out the night’s
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Inside the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Day 8: Justin Kurzel’s Snowtown
If there is anything especially hopeful in this bleak, off-putting in the queasy kind of way portrait of a serial killer is the assured hand, moody translation of the material from first time helmer
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Inside the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Day 7: Joachim Trier’s Oslo, August 31st
August 31st took place on May 18th. After soaking it up on the international circuit with 2006′s Reprise, Joachim Trier moves from what you could call the ideal calling card to a sophisticated sophomore
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Inside the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Day 7: Catalin Mitulescu’s Loverboy
And the movement known as Romanian New Wave which begin with 2005′s The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu is slowly tapering out. With less films making direct correlations to the Nicolae Ceauşescu dictatorship era, we
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Inside the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Day 6: Eric Khoo’s Tatsumi
After previously presenting Be with Me (2005) and My Magic (2008), for his third film on the Croisette, Eric Khoo brings an homage piece about a manga artist who modified the artform inserting what
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Inside the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Day 6: Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life
Despite not knowing how the festival will play out, Monday, May the 16th is when the highlight of the 2011 edition premiered and the official press conference as you can see in the video
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Inside the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Day 5: Sean Durkin’s (Martha Marcy May Marlene)
Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene was the first of the two back-to-back Fox Searchlight titles showing at the festival this year — the other one, needs no mention. For the Borderline Films guys,
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Inside the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Day 5: Kamen Kalev’s The Island
In the hands of a budding Spanish filmmaker, we’d have a chilly, atmospheric mood piece, but in the hands of a Bulgarian, well the results aren’t even mixed, they’re dreadful. With Kamen Kalev’s sophomore
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Inside the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Day 4: Liza Johnson’s Return
It was the world premiere night in the Directors’ Fortnight section for Liza Johnson and her debut feature film, Return. Starring Michel Shannon in a minor supporting role and focusing on Linda Cardellini in
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Inside the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Day 3: Gerardo Naranjo’s Miss Bala
In a departure film of sorts for the director who gave us I’m Going To Explode and Drama/Mex, Gerardo Naranjo makes the zone/border that separates California from Mexico come across as Afghanistan. Not sure
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Inside the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Day 2: Hagar Ben Asher’s The Slut
Not sure if the film’s title accurately denotes the life choices of our central character here in The Slut, but we get a sense that our heroine is the type that would do things
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"Ron and I wanted to make a film that looked at what it means to be an outsider and we wanted to explore what it takes to reach out to someone whose life is very removed from your own."
