Tag: Cannes 2012
Cannes Critics’ Panel: Haneke’s Amour Should Beat Carax’s Holy Motors
We asked our Cannes Critics' Panel of experts to weigh in on who should win the three top prizes at the 2012 edition of the...
Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4: Matteo Garrone’s Reality
Imagine the headlines if this year's Best Actor prize goes to Aniello Arena. The male lead in Matteo Garrone's sixth feature fiction film ...
Complete 2012 Cannes Film Festival Coverage
Inside Cannes Day 1 to 12. Day 0 - 1 - 2 - 2b - 3 - 3b - 4 - 5 - 6...
Interview: Michel Franco – After Lucia (Despues de Lucia) | Cannes 2012
With Daniel and Ana (selected for Directors’ Fortnight – Cannes 2009) Mexican helmer Michel Franco peers into an unfathomable true life crime that is...
Cannes Critics’ Panel: Haneke’s Amour is Tops Among Critics, Holy Motors Places Second
The clear favorite among our panelists this year was the Palme d’Or winner. Haneke’s Amour (4.1) was an across the boards critical darling of...
Inside Cannes 2012: Complete List of Award Winners (in Pictures)
Much like how we relate to previous Oscar winners of years past, it shouldn't take more than three to five years before we start...
Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 11: Jeff Nichols’ Mud
In only his third outing, Jeff Nichols has pretty much made a name for himself - it began with Shotgun Stories (2007) at the...
Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 10: David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis
His fourth feature film at Cannes since Crash was awarded the Special Jury Prize (1996), the novel to screen adaptation of Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis...
Inside Cannes 2012 Day 9: Five Quotes from the Paperboy Press Conference
1. “Felt like I had been let out of some cage.” - John Cusack
Lee Daniels proposed that the actor visit some of the qualities...
Inside Cannes 2012 Day 9: Five Quotes from the Post Tenebras Lux Press Conference
1. “It’s a way of looking at life --- and life is somewhat transformed in film.” - Carlos Reygadas
Filmmaker discusses the difference in terms...
Cannes 2012: Room 237 | Review
Cinema 3.0 is in Full Bloom, and it's Turned some of us into OCD Madmen
Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is firmly canonized as horror film...
Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 8: Walter Salles’ On the Road
It took three decades to bring the seminal book to the big screen, and finally, the road trip tome from Jack Kerouac received a...
Inside Cannes 2012 Day 8: Five Quotes from the On the Road Press Conference
1. "I got to live more in those four weeks than typical, for me in my normal life" - Kristen Stewart
The film began shooting...
Inside Cannes 2012 Day 7: Five Quotes from the Killing Them Softly Press Conference
1. “The crime film is the most honest American film.” - Andrew Dominik
Filmmaker discusses why he likes this genre the most, as its acceptable...
Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 7: Ken Loach’s The Angel’s Share
Not sure if Guinness World Records took note of this new Cannes factoid, but The Angel's Share is Ken Loach's record breaking 13th film in...
Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 7: Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly
We're officially past the midway point of the festival, and it's sort of fitting that in a U.S. heavy year that we wind up...
Cannes 2012: Like Someone in Love | Review
Kiarostami Baffles and Electrifies with his own Brand of Tokyo Story
Having morphed into a predictably unpredictable filmmaker so far in the 21st century, the...
Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 6: Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone in Love
A second straight film outside his native Iran, Kiarostami's set in Japan tale known as Like Someone in Love will not be receiving the...
Inside Cannes 2012 Day 6: Michel Franco’s After Lucia (Despues de Lucia)
One of the major new discoveries in the Directors' Fortnight section back in 2009 for Daniel & Ana, Michel Franco's second visit to the...
Inside Cannes 2012 Day 6: Rodney Ascher’s Room 237 Cannes 2012
When you cover a film festival either solo or as a team, you manage to always have a title that "got away", which happened...
Inside Cannes 2012 Day 6: Pablo Stoll Ward’s 3
Early in the morning, the Directors' Fortnight section hosted the international premiere to Pablo Stoll Ward's 3. Starring a broken up family of the...
Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 5: Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt
It's been a long time since we saw this Dane at the Cannes Film Festival in the Main Competition capacity. Thomas Vinterberg 's second...
Inside Cannes 2012 Day 5: Five Quotes from the Love Press Conference
1. "It think that Michel Haneke is one of the greatest filmmakers in the world. But I won't do others". - Jean-Louis Trintignant
The current...
Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4: Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills
Once again, it appears as if we'll be associating the name of Cristian Mungiu with the Palme d'Or. By the looks of how the...
Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4: John Hillcoat’s Lawless
Formerly know as "The Wettest County," before shifting to a title which was once being used by Terrence Malick on a project currently in...
Inside Cannes 2012 Day 4: Five Quotes from the Lawless Press Conference
1. "I actually play Scrabble". - Tom Hardy
What Tom Hardy does in between takes to prepare in order to be badass in his current...