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Day 5: Live from Cannes: Organized Crime in an Organized Fashion in ‘Gomorrah’
Apart from the Cannes opener the consensus is: all films are finding critics to help champion their film - meaning there is not one film that has broken from the pack. Today's early morning screening of Matteo Garrone's Gomorra can be added to this pack.
Day 4: Live from Cannes: Jim Jarmusch and the Golden Carosse
So before they presented the screening for Tony Manero, the pre-planned award of the The Golden Coach (Le Carosse d'Or) was to be given out to Jim Jarmusch. Filmmaker Cedric Kahn made the introductions with a speech claiming that they are giving hi the award because the 100 plus filmmakers who select the winner each year are in fact jealous of the given person's talents and with Jarmusch there is plenty to be jealous about. The filmmaker behind Stranger Than Paradise, Down by Law and Broken Flowers gave
Day 4: Live from Cannes: Disco and violence go hand in hand for ‘Tony Manero’
Pablo Larrain presented Tony Manero last night. The picture being presented in the Director's Fortnight takes place in Santiago de Chile, 1978. The actor (see below on the right) plays a psycho-path, disco instructor and takes his obsession to crazy levels. So far it's one of my festival favorites.
Day 4: Live from Cannes: Buyers Remorse in ‘Better Things’
Teenagers like to experiment. Drugs happens to be one of the items at the top of that list. Duane Hopkins' directorial debut shows what occurs when drugs take a hold of a person, evokes the overbearing guilt that is associated with feeling responsible f
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,
