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Day 4: Live from Cannes: Loss from a teenager’s POV in ‘Lake Tahoe’
My plunge in Latin American cinema continued with a Mexican coming-of-age film that played at Berlin Film Festival and walked away with top honors there. FIPRESCI's "Revelation of the Year" is a showcase screening at Cannes' Critic's Week every year focusing on a film the organization feels deserves more attention - and not surprisingly,
Day 4: Live from Cannes: Bruised Family take Different paths in ‘Linha de Passe’
Day 4 got underway with an 8:30 a.m. starting time at the Théâtre Lumière for one of my most anticipated pictures of the year. Set in poorer sections of Sao Paulo, the low budgeted, well-detailed Linha de Passe juxtaposes five micro stories of a family of five.
Cannes Producer’s Patch: Paramount Vantage
They don't have anything showing here in the competition categories, but they have a good ensemble of projects in the post production phase which means 2009 is shaping up to be a good year for output. Paramount Vantage have a dozen or so projects include the Sundance hit American Teen and some cool sounding flicks in Alex Pastor' Carriers and Jeff Nachmanoff's Traitor.
Cannes Market Musts: The Lucky Ones
To be domestically distributed by Lionsgate, The Lucky Ones stars Rachel McAdams, tim Robbins and Michael Pena in the tale of three soldiers take...
Cannes Producer’s Patch: Celluloid Dreams
After a hugely successful Sundance film festival, it is to Cannes that the Paris-based Celluloid Dreams is looking towards with the hopes of finding a three peat victory with the Dardenne's latest. The Dardenne film is what we are most looking forward to seeing, the same goes for the Sundance winner, the IFC film Ballast and Director Fortnight's Better things.
