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...
Inside Cannes 2012 Day 3: Xavier Dolan’s Laurence Anyways
Having played earlier in the day to standing ovation, the scene was set for further applause at the night screening as the Un Certain...
Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 3: Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise: Love
Originally set up to be one film with "three women, three holidays and three loves", Ulrich Seidl decided to break them apart with Paradise:...
Inside Cannes 2012 Day 3: Pablo Larrain’s No
It was a triumphant return for Pablo Larrain today in the sidebar that helped push his sophomore film Tony Manero into the film circuit...
Inside Cannes 2012 Day 2: Rufus Norris’ Broken
The 51st edition of the Critics' Week opened with an award-winning British theatre director Rufus Norris' feature debut, Broken. A tragi-drama that works with...
Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 2: Yousry Nasrallah’s After the Battle
It appears that we've got our first dud of the fest in only day 2 by way of Yousry Nasrallah's After the Battle. While...
Key Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: Protagonist Pictures
Ben Roberts' U.K Sales house Protagonist Pictures might only have one pic playing on the Croisette - but it's the highly touted Special screening...
Key Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: Pathe International
Unless you count Roman Polanski's Tess as a significant invite, Pathe International is pretty much relegated to market screenings, but this week it was...
Key Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: MK2
With three selected films in the Main Comp (Yousry Nasrallah's After the Battle, Abbas Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love, Walter Salles' On the Road)...
Key Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: Memento Films Int.
We Laurent Cantet's Foxfire pegged for TIFF, Jim Mickle's We Are What We Are slotted for Sundance 2013 and Under the Rainbow being an...
Key Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: The Match Factory
Experts in auteur cinema, German sales company The Match Factory have quite the sampling this year with names such as Thai Joe (Mekong Hotel...
Key Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: Kinology
This year the Grégoire Melin's Kinology can do no wrong - they nabbed the best real-estate on the Croisette and reminded us that Harmony Korine's...
Key Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: Inferno Ent.
Sales agent and Prod co. Inferno Ent.'s Jim Seibel and Bill Johnson must totally be stoked at finding one of their own in the...
Key Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: Hanway Films
They might only have a trio of Out of Competition items in Bernardo Bertolucci's Me and You, Laurent Bouzereau's Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir,...
Key Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: Fortissimo Films
Michael J. Werner's Fortissimo Films was surprisingly almost shut out from showing in any of the sections at Cannes (they're repping the Un Certain...
Inside Cannes 2012 Day 2: Five Quotes from the Rust & Bone Press Conference
1. "I cut them off". - Jacques Audiard
When asked about how he made Marion Cotillard disappear, the filmmaker explains that he would not have been...
Key Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: Film Distribution
This year the Paris based sales agent only has a pair of films in Cannes - Gilles Jacob's own doc about the day of...
Key Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: Coproduction Office
Founded by Philippe Bober in the late 80's, the Coproduction Office - a Sales Agent/Production Company based out of Paris comes to Cannes with...
Key Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: Filmnation Ent.
If you think Glen Basner's Filmnation Ent. had a stellar year last year, 2012 is the cherry on the sundae with John Hillcoat and...
Key Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: Elle Driver
The all women French sales agent company based out of Paris oddly has 2/3rds of the New Wave Indian films featured on the Croisette...
Cannes 2012: After the Battle | Review
Nasrallah tackles Tahrir Uprising Barely a Year Later, Will Suffer his own Battle Scars
Taking as its topic the Tahrir Square uprising in February 2011,...
Live from Cannes 2012: Introducing Our Cannes Critics’ Panel
And the tradition continues here on IONCINEMA.com. Our twice daily critical snapshot of the Main Competition selected films (22 films in all, plus the...
Inside Cannes 2012 Day 1: Five Quotes from Moonrise Kingdom Press Conference
1. "I use my memory of what I remember wanting to have happened, and having not actually occured." - Wes Anderson
Filmmaker comments on the...
Cannes 2012: How the Nanni Moretti Lead Jury Might Vote
Which film is the odds-on favorite to grab the Palme d'Or this year. It depends not on who you ask, but who is assigned...
