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Complete 2012 Cannes Film Festival Coverage
Inside Cannes Day 1 to 12. Day 0 – 1 – 2 – 2b – 3 – 3b – 4 – 5 – 6 – 6b – 6c – 7 – 8 – 9
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Interview: Michel Franco – After Lucia (Despues de Lucia) | Cannes 2012
With Daniel and Ana (selected for Directors’ Fortnight – Cannes 2009) Mexican helmer Michel Franco peers into an unfathomable true life crime that is an assault on the class system and an unfortunate pair
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Cannes Critics’ Panel: Haneke’s Amour is Tops Among Critics, Holy Motors Places Second
The clear favorite among our panelists this year was the Palme d’Or winner. Haneke’s Amour (4.1) was an across the boards critical darling of the fest until, Leo Carax’s Holy Motors (3.8) made this
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Inside Cannes 2012: Complete List of Award Winners (in Pictures)
Much like how we relate to previous Oscar winners of years past, it shouldn’t take more than three to five years before we start to pondering the following list of winners below and why
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Cannes Critics’ Panel: Haneke’s Amour Should Beat Carax’s Holy Motors
We asked our Cannes Critics’ Panel of experts to weigh in on who should win the three top prizes at the 2012 edition of the Cannes Film Festival, and for our added amusement we also
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Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 11: Jeff Nichols’ Mud
In only his third outing, Jeff Nichols has pretty much made a name for himself – it began with Shotgun Stories (2007) at the Berlin Film Festival and then really picked up with a
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Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 10: David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis
His fourth feature film at Cannes since Crash was awarded the Special Jury Prize (1996), the novel to screen adaptation of Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis sees Robert Pattinson deliver, perhaps his best performance to date
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Inside Cannes 2012 Day 9: Five Quotes from the Paperboy Press Conference
1. “Felt like I had been let out of some cage.” - John Cusack Lee Daniels proposed that the actor visit some of the qualities found in the character Cusack played in The Grifters.
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Inside Cannes 2012 Day 9: Five Quotes from the Post Tenebras Lux Press Conference
1. “It’s a way of looking at life — and life is somewhat transformed in film.” - Carlos Reygadas Filmmaker discusses the difference in terms of exterior and interior shots. 2. “An image any
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Cannes 2012: Room 237 | Review
Cinema 3.0 is in Full Bloom, and it’s Turned some of us into OCD Madmen Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is firmly canonized as horror film perfection among cinephiles young and old; it’s the place
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Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 8: Walter Salles’ On the Road
It took three decades to bring the seminal book to the big screen, and finally, the road trip tome from Jack Kerouac received a mid fest showing. His fifth trip on the Croisette, (two shorts
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Inside Cannes 2012 Day 8: Five Quotes from the On the Road Press Conference
1. “I got to live more in those four weeks than typical, for me in my normal life” – Kristen Stewart The film began shooting in Montreal, where the actress took on the role
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Inside Cannes 2012 Day 7: Five Quotes from the Killing Them Softly Press Conference
1. “The crime film is the most honest American film.” - Andrew Dominik Filmmaker discusses why he likes this genre the most, as its acceptable that all the characters are obsessed with money, wealth.
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Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 7: Ken Loach’s The Angel’s Share
Not sure if Guinness World Records took note of this new Cannes factoid, but The Angel’s Share is Ken Loach’s record breaking 13th film in the Main Competition (get an eye full of his Cannes
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Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 7: Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly
We’re officially past the midway point of the festival, and it’s sort of fitting that in a U.S. heavy year that we wind up with Andrew Dominik’s third feature film and second in the
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Cannes 2012: Like Someone in Love | Review
Kiarostami Baffles and Electrifies with his own Brand of Tokyo Story Having morphed into a predictably unpredictable filmmaker so far in the 21st century, the extent to which Abbas Kiarostami’s new film Like Someone
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Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 6: Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone in Love
A second straight film outside his native Iran, Kiarostami’s set in Japan tale known as Like Someone in Love will not be receiving the same fate as his Palme d’Or winning The Taste of
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Inside Cannes 2012 Day 6: Michel Franco’s After Lucia (Despues de Lucia)
One of the major new discoveries in the Directors’ Fortnight section back in 2009 for Daniel & Ana, Michel Franco’s second visit to the Croisette brought him to the Debussy theatre and an Un
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Inside Cannes 2012 Day 6: Rodney Ascher’s Room 237 Cannes 2012
When you cover a film festival either solo or as a team, you manage to always have a title that “got away”, which happened to be the case in Park City earlier in the
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Inside Cannes 2012 Day 6: Pablo Stoll Ward’s 3
Early in the morning, the Directors’ Fortnight section hosted the international premiere to Pablo Stoll Ward’s 3. Starring a broken up family of the father (Humberto De Vargas), mother (Sara Bessio) and late teens
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Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 5: Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt
It’s been a long time since we saw this Dane at the Cannes Film Festival in the Main Competition capacity. Thomas Vinterberg ‘s second feature film Festen (The Celebration) in 1998 claimed the Jury Prize
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Inside Cannes 2012 Day 5: Five Quotes from the Love Press Conference
1. “It think that Michel Haneke is one of the greatest filmmakers in the world. But I won’t do others”. – Jean-Louis Trintignant The current stage actor lists the filmmaker as the principle reason
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Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4: Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills
Once again, it appears as if we’ll be associating the name of Cristian Mungiu with the Palme d’Or. By the looks of how the trades, critical mass and the results of our critics’ panel,
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Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4: John Hillcoat’s Lawless
Formerly know as “The Wettest County,” before shifting to a title which was once being used by Terrence Malick on a project currently in post, Lawless is John Hillcoat’s fifth feature film, third based
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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."
