Lee Chang-dong's Burning topped Le Film Francais and Screen Daily charts, but here at IONCINEMA.com those top honors (with 3.8 scores) were shared with...
After a crazy year where they brought six or seven titles to Cannes (including Tulpan, Waltz with Bashir) in various competition categories, this year The Match Factory bring only a pair of titles in Ajami and Kinatay.
This year there will likely be no omissions or screw ups such as last year’s mistake of leaving the Palme d’Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days out of the process and there won't be the usual favoritism towards already established directors.
I'm not sure what you call those large fishing nets that sweep the bottom of oceans floors in an attempt to capture mass quantities of fish, but I'd say that the curators from the NYFF certainly put this type of strategy into practice when setting up the line-up for the 46th edition to take place at the end of September until the midway point of October.