2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway & Edgar Pera’s 3x3D

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#75. Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, & Edgar Pêra’s 3x3D

Gist: Three directors world-renowned directors explore 3D and its evolution in the field of cinema. Jean-Luc Godard’s dive into the controversial format has been on every cinephile’s must-see list since it was announced a couple of years ago, while Peter Greenaway and Edgar Pera make ostensibly their first stabs at the third dimension in this omnibus project, in which all three films are set to explore the evolution of the spectator and time. Godard’s The Three Disasters is a film about the historical memory of the 3D; Greenaway’s Just in Time One crosses space with 900 years of compiled history; and Pera’s Cinesapiens will be a short history of the Cinema viewer, from the cave to silent cinema, through sound to color and from stereoscopic 3D to holocinema.

Prediction: À la last year’s atrocious, near genre-ending septet, 7 Days in Havana, we expect this to accompany Godard’s solo feature in Un Certain Regard. (Unless J-LG has gotten over his semi-recent phobia of the Grand Théâtre Lumière, which prompted his last feature, Film Socialisme, to screen out of the Main Competition.) They’ll have the polarization glasses on hand anyway for Gatsby, so may as well kill as many birds with those stones as possible.

Blake Williams
Blake Williams
Blake Williams is an avant-garde filmmaker born in Houston, currently living and working in Toronto. He recently entered the PhD program at University of Toronto's Cinema Studies Institute, and has screened his video work at TIFF (2011 & '12), Tribeca (2013), Images Festival (2012), Jihlava (2012), and the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley. Blake has contributed to IONCINEMA.com's coverage for film festivals such as Cannes, TIFF, and Hot Docs. Top Films From Contemporary Film Auteurs: Almodóvar (Talk to Her), Coen Bros. (Fargo), Dardennes (Rosetta), Haneke (Code Unknown), Hsiao-Hsien (Flight of the Red Balloon), Kar-wai (Happy Together), Kiarostami (Where is the Friend's Home?), Lynch (INLAND EMPIRE), Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs), Van Sant (Last Days), Von Trier (The Idiots)

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