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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2013: Katrin Gebbe’s Tore Tanzt
Tore Tanzt- Katrin Gebbe Section: Un Certain Regard Buzz: This first feature film from German filmmaker, Katrin Gebbe, is an exploration of a young man’s increasingly dangerous liaison with a religious Christian punk group,
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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2013: Anurag Kashyap’s Ugly
Ugly – Anurag Kashyap Section: Directors’ Fortnight Buzz: Not a stranger to prolific film festivals, Anurag Kashyap’s films have debuted in Venice (Dev D), Toronto (That Girl in Yellow Boots) and most recently last
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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2013: Basil Da Cunha’s Ate ver a luz
Ate ver a luz – Basil Da Cunha Section: Directors’ Fortnight Buzz: Basil da Cunha is a Swiss filmmaker of Portuguese descent. In 2011 and 2012, his short films Nuvem and Os vivos também
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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2013: Rithy Panh’s The Missing Image
The Missing Image – Rithy Panh Section: Un Certain Regard Buzz: Cambodian director Rithy Panh, perhaps best known for his 2003 documentary, S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine or a 2008 Isabelle Huppert film,
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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2013: Mohammad Rasoulof’s Anonymous
Anonymous – Mohammad Rasoulof Section: Un Certain Regard Buzz: Mohammad Rasoulof, one of the three Iranian filmmakers famously arrested in 2010, is set to cause more waves with this latest film, reportedly shot in
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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2013: Lucia Puenzo’s Wakolda
Wakolda – Lucia Punezo Section: Un Certain Regard Buzz: After winning the Critics Week Grand Prize in 2007 for her directorial debut, XXY, Argentinean director Lucia Puenzo took her sophomore effort, The Fish Child
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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2013: Jeremy Saulnier’s Blue Ruin
Blue Ruin – Jeremy Saulnier Section: Directors’ Fortnight Buzz: Jeremy Saulnier, cinematographer for Matthew Porterfield’s Putty Hill and I Used to Be Darker, unveils his sophomore directorial effort in the Directors’ Fortnight. A thriller
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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2013: Alex Van Warmerdan’s Borgman
Borgman – Alex Van Warmerdan Section: Main Competition Buzz: Alex Van Warmerdan’s latest film is immediately of note because it’s the first Dutch film to play the Main Comp in thirty eight years. But
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Cannes 2013 Derby: Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grande Bellezza Tops Eric’s Palme d’Or Predictions
Before I even begin considering the offerings in the field of eighteen Main Competition items, it’s the composition of the jury members (team of nine lead by Steven Spielberg) where my dissection begins. While
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Cannes 2013 Derby: Refn’s Only God Forgives Tops Nicholas’ Palme d’Or Predictions
Nicolas Winding Refn won Best Director at Cannes for his 2011 film Drive when Robert De Niro was jury president. While many may presume that Spielberg may shy away from Refn’s entry, I think
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Cannes 2013 Derby: James Gray’s The Immigrant Tops Blake’s Palme d’Or Predictions
Obviously, we won’t know till we see the films. But last year I predicted Amour‘s victory based on the likely preferences of the jury, so that makes me some kind of prophet in my
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Bobcat Goldthwait, Buddy Giovinazzo & Joe Dante Among Fantasia Fest’s 2013 Frontieres Co-Prod Market
Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival – it takes place this year between July 18 and August 6 and has always been about more than just the films. They offer plenty of panel discussions and
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Cannes 2013: Jarmusch’s “Only Lovers Left Alive” Among Five Last Minute Additions
Confirming some last minute additions to this year’s lineup, Cannes officials announced some exciting new titles, including (which we predicted) Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive, headlining Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston as impassioned
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Directors’ Fortnight Loads Up on: Jodorowsky, Jeremy Saulnier, Ruairi Robinson, Clio Barnard, Serge Bozon and Lynne Ramsay
Heavy on the French film items and with a side dish of Chilean influence, this year’s Directors’ Fortnight also known as the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs is offering “double” Alejandro Jodorowosky, and the highly anticipated
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52nd Cannes Critics’ Week Packed with Salvo, Quillévéré’s Suzanne & Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
As hard it is to predict, the sidebar section all the way at the other end of the Croisette contains a trio of titles that were tipped to show up at the fest by
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Folman’s The Congress Opens Directors’ Fortnight
Yesterday’s glaring omission from the Cannes lineup will be the opening film for the Directors’ Fortnight. Edouard Waintrop has nabbed Ari Folman’s The Congress, which we (along with many others) predicted would have been
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2013′s Un Certain Regard Includes Plenty of Vets (Claire Denis, Rithy Panh, Rasoulof, Guiraudie, Abu-Assad) & Newbies too (Coogler)
2013′s Un Certain Regard section carries a whopping five first time feature filmmakers that’ll be measuring themselves up against auteur cinema heavyweights. While we nailed predictions for Alain Guiraudie’s L’inconnu du Lac, Rebecca Zlotowski’s
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Escalante, Bruni-Tedeschi, Warmerdam & New Zhangke Crack 2013 Cannes Main Comp Line-Up
The Official Selection for the 66th Cannes Film Festival has been unveiled and noticeable absentees in the list of 19 Main Comp films and the Un Certain Regard section include Terrence Malick, Ari Folman’s
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Sofia Coppola’s “The Bling Ring” Opens Un Certain Regard in Cannes’ Year of the Woman?
We doubt that it’ll be as populated as Sundance was, but if this year’s Cannes Film Festival should be remembered for anything, it will surely be noted as one of the most female friendly
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US in Progress Paris: Tully, Meyerhoff and Zinn Among 6 Selected
The US in Progress Paris which promotes about a half dozen American independent film currently in post-production to European buyers in the context of the Champs Elysées Film Festival in Paris (this June) have
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2013 Panama IFF: Sights & Sounds
The highlight of the 2013 edition of the IFF Panama has to be the presence of veteran actress Geraldine Chaplin (Doctor Zhivago) — while I had just a smidgen of an idea of what was
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Arnaud Desplechin’s Jimmy P.
#1. Arnaud Desplechin’s Jimmy P. Gist: Desplechin’s first film in 5 years, his first English language, U.S. production pits muse Mathieu Amalric vs. Benicio Del Toro as the titular Picard. Adapted from Psychotherapy Of
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Joel & Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis
#2. Joel & Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis Gist: Follows an aspiring singer-songwriter (Oscar Isaac) as he navigates the 1960s folk-music scene in New York City’s Greenwich Village. T Bone Burnett produced the film’s
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Asghar Farhadi’s The Past
#3. Asghar Farhadi’s The Past Gist: Farhadi returns to the spotlight after the success of 2011′s A Separation, with a domestic drama about an Iranian man leaving his French wife and 2 children to
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Ari Folman’s The Congress
#4. Ari Folman’s The Congress Gist: In The Congress, an aging actress (Robin Wright) with a disabled child agrees to a large payment to have a full body imaging that will be digitized and
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