Tag: 2017 Cannes Critics Panel
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Campillo’s BPM (Beats Per Minute) Favored to Win Palme d’Or, but Ramsay is the Preferred Palme
We haven't seen these numbers since Blue is the Warmest Color dominated to eventually win the Palme, but Robin Campillo's BPM was selected by...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Wrap-Up: Campillo, Ramsay & Zvyagintsev Place 1-2-3
2017 would see nineteen competition films, and from Day 3 and never giving up the lead, Robin Campillo's BPM held onto its lead to...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 11: Lynne Ramsay Hammers out Career Best & Palme Contender in You Were Never Really Here
Kitchen sink realism in the distant past, You Were Never Really Here counts as feature number four, and yet this is her seventh visit...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 10: Fatih Akin Wants Revenge with In the Fade
Perhaps a surprise inclusion after The Cut was unceremoniously not selected for Cannes on his last time out, not including his pair of Special...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 10: Francois Ozon Gets into Eye of the Storm with Amant Double
A prolific filmmaker with no fixed address, if one can't find François Ozon in Cannes you'll be sure to see him in Berlin, Venice...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Sergei Loznitsa Seeks Justice with A Gentle Creature
With the competition coming to a close, one stand out filmmaker who has been supported by the fest but has yet to land any...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Critics Getting High with Benny & Josh Safdie’s Good Time
You always remember your first time. I was there when the two pees in a pod, Ronald Bronstein and Eleonore Hendricks were included in...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled Mushrooms into Critic Fave
A longstanding "member" of Cannes well before she showcased her skillset with The Virgin Suicides in the Quinzaine (she was probably at the Apocalypse...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Hong Sang-soo’s The Day After Contains Color
I've been running behind with our grid, now in the clear and past the half way mark here is the latest updates from the...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 6: Things Fall Apart in Michael Haneke’s Happy End
Whether it's construction sites, karaoke numbers, hamsters or the elderly, Michael Haneke's quasi sequel to Amour has failed to win over "all" critics. Happy...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 6: Yorgos Lanthimos Does the Mash Potato with The Killing of a Sacred Deer
He'll be referenced as the one who began the Greek New Wave in cinema and there was a time when we didn't quite know...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 6: Baumbach Buries the Hatchet with The Meyerowitz Stories
Almost a dozen features in and The Meyerowitz Stories is Noah Baumbach's first time on the Croisette (if you exclude his screenwriting cred on...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 5: Michel Hazanavicius Jump Cuts to Redoubtable
The first week ends with the return of Michel Hazanavicius and his latest project, Redoubtable. He gave us the OSS films, Cannes invited The...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4: Ruben Ostlund Tumbles Up the Stairs with The Square
He received an earlier screening late last night and has been consider the buzz title (mostly for better) and mentioned in the same breathe...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4: Robin Campillo Finds a Cure with BPM (Beats Per Minute)
With not one, but two items in Cannes this year (the other being L'Atelier from Laurent Cantet in the Un Certain Regard section), Robin...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 3: Kornel Mundruczo’s Jupiter’s Moon Has Trouble Getting Off Ground
In comp for his third time and at the fest for a sixth time, Kornel Mundruczo was expected to move back into the fight...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 3: Bong Joon-Ho Has No Pet Peeve’s with Okja
He first hit the Croisette with another "creature movie" in 2006 with the Directors' Fortnight included The Host, and after showings of Tokyo! (2008)...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 2: Andrey Zvyagintsev Makes No Mistakes with Loveless
Technically the first film to show as it was offered early yesterday night, this is the Russian filmmaker's fourth trip to the Croisette out of his...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 2: Fossil fuels Todd Haynes’ Wonderstruck
The first 8:30 a.m. press screening was a little bit of a nightmare for journos with security measures but into place that were extra...
Live from Cannes 2017: Introducing Our Cannes Critics’ Panel
With no over three hour Romanian or Turkish film offerings, the 70th edition of Cannes with its nineteen Comp items is a rather lean...
