Exclusive articles:
Cocksucker Blues to Resurface in Cannes?
A docu film that shares the same underground prestige as Todd Haynes' Superstar and has been called one of the best documents on Rock & Roll by Jim Jarmusch may finally be making a premiere this year, almost 38 years or so after the fact. Photographer Robert Frank's cinéma vérité styled Cocksucker Blues was a docu on the Rolling Stone's 1972 American tour which never saw the light of day because the band perhaps thought it too honest of a portrait to be released (the camera does not lie), but in today's world comes across as trivial rock star antics.
Vincent Gallo’s ‘Promises Written in Water’ Heading to Cannes
I wasn't in Cannes the year that Brown Bunny drew more jeers, than cheers, but I imagine that last year's Quinzaine screening of Tetro might have made Vincent Gallo warm up to the idea there are other "venues" for experimental pictures. Hence, Gallo is looking to premiere his latest endeavor, Promises Written in Water in the sidebar section next month.
Wang Bing Might Make Cannes His New ‘Hometown’
The good news is that Cannes might be the lieu for Wang Bing's first foray into fiction film, the bad news is, at least temporarily, we know next to nothing on his next film project except that: it was first mentioned in 2007's Pusan Promotion Plan during the 2007 Pusan International Film Festival and will probably be produced by Lihong Kang. If Bing continues with the same themes of interest, Hometown should relate back to the subject matter the Chinese filmmaker explored in his previous documentary films such as China's own industrial revolution and new economy or the Cultural Revolution.
It’s Going to Be a ‘Shit Year’ in Cannes
Don't get confused by the headline -- I'm definitely not bashing the cuvée of films that'll be the make up of the 63rd edition, I'm simply mentioning that Cam Archer's much anticipated sophomore feature going by the title that I'm hoping will stick beyond the festival is, according to a sources close to our site, a lock for the festival.
Major Actress to Join Amalric in Satrapi and Paronnaud’s ‘Waiting for Azrael’
With filming set to begin this Summer at the Studio Babelsberg just outside Berlin, Celluloid Dreams has a little leeway and might make the big announcement on the Croisette, the lieu where that Persepolis was launched, that not one, but two actresses that will be signing onto Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's Waiting for Azrael, the book to live-action adaptation of Satrapi's illustrated novel Chicken with Plums.
