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Who will get the gold from Steven Spielberg and his fellow jurors?http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/in-contention
Who will get the gold from Steven Spielberg and his fellow jurors?http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/in-contention
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More Cannes prizes to discuss. We'll illustrate with Jessica Chastain at Cannes because.... she pretty! Always prizeworthy Mmmmmcccchastainy! poll by twiigs.com FIPRESCI -International Federation of Film CriticsCOMPETITION  Blue i...
More Cannes prizes to discuss. We'll illustrate with Jessica Chastain at Cannes because.... she pretty! Always prizeworthy Mmmmmcccchastainy! poll by twiigs.com FIPRESCI -International Federation of Film CriticsCOMPETITION  Blue is the Warmest Colour by Abdellatif Kechiche (France, 2013)This three hour lesbian coming of age drama stars newcomer Adele Exarchopoulos and the ever more impressive Léa Seydoux (Farewell My Queen, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Midnight in Paris ...and many more recently). It's considered a threat for tomorrow's awards from the competition jury, too. Wouldn't you just love to listen to Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee, Christoph Waltz and Nicole Kidman arguing about its graphic 20 minute lesbian sex scene and whether that's just exploitative titillation or artistically justified storytelling?UN CERTAIN REGARD  Manuscripts Don't Burn by Mohammad Rasoulof (Iran, 2013)PARALLEL SECTIONS Blue Ruin by Jeremy Saulnier (USA, 2013), a noirish revenge thriller, which played in Directors Fortnight. Radius/The Weinstein Co. picked it up for distribution CANNES Ecumenical JuryWINNER The Past by Asghar Farhadi (Iran, 2013)COMMENDATIONS Miele by actress Valeria Golino (her directorial debut!) and Like Father Like Son by the acclaimed Hirokazu Kore-eda
about 2 hours ago
Sarah may prefer to run, but she doesn’t get anywhere particularly notable in this determinedly flat character study from debuting Quebecois writer-director Chloe Robichaud. Sophie Desmarais gives a precisely tuned performance as a...
Sarah may prefer to run, but she doesn’t get anywhere particularly notable in this determinedly flat character study from debuting Quebecois writer-director Chloe Robichaud. Sophie Desmarais gives a precisely tuned performance as a gifted young runner whose commitment to the activity has obliterated any vestiges of a personality or social life, a condition that Robichaud... Read more »
about 4 hours ago
Cambodian film 'The Missing Picture' wins Un Certain Regard sectionhttp://www.hitfix.com/blogs/in-contention
Cambodian film 'The Missing Picture' wins Un Certain Regard sectionhttp://www.hitfix.com/blogs/in-contention
about 4 hours ago
India is “regressive for women” and a “depressing” place to be, says Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat, explaining why she divides her time between India and the US. She was speaking the 66th Cannes International...
India is “regressive for women” and a “depressing” place to be, says Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat, explaining why she divides her time between India and the US. She was speaking the 66th Cannes International Film Festival, at an interaction at The Variety Studio. Mallika has flaunted the link of her interview on her Twitter page. [...]
about 4 hours ago
"Blue Is the Warmest Color," "Inside Llewyn Davis" and "Like Father, Like Son" are among the awards possibilities being talked up in an unusually wide-open Cannes year.
"Blue Is the Warmest Color," "Inside Llewyn Davis" and "Like Father, Like Son" are among the awards possibilities being talked up in an unusually wide-open Cannes year.
about 4 hours ago
At midnight on May 26th, Netflix will premiere the highly-anticipated fourth season of Arrested Development. Like it’s original programming, all the episodes will be available to watch at once. Which means we can catch up with the ...
At midnight on May 26th, Netflix will premiere the highly-anticipated fourth season of Arrested Development. Like it’s original programming, all the episodes will be available to watch at once. Which means we can catch up with the Bluth family after seven years in one go. Following character posters, a poster re-uniting the whole cast, and a hilarious official trailer, it’s all come down to this. And, as a special bonus, unleash your inner James Cameron and do what you want with Tobias! Netflix has unveiled a new interactive poster which contains a number of hidden Easter eggs. Finding them all will unlock five new clips, offering a brief glimpse into the various Bluths and how they’re doing in the here and now. Check ...Click to continue reading ‘Arrested Development’ Interactive Poster: Easter Eggs & 5 New Clips
about 5 hours ago
French director Jerome Salle's film stars Orlando Bloom and Forest Whitaker as honest, first-rate detectives in South Africa's Capetown.read more
French director Jerome Salle's film stars Orlando Bloom and Forest Whitaker as honest, first-rate detectives in South Africa's Capetown.read more
about 5 hours ago
Well, that was a bit longer of a layoff between posts than I intended or anticipated, but I’m still here, folks. Let’s do Day Two!***********************************I have decided that Friday, April 26, spent bumping around from auditori...
Well, that was a bit longer of a layoff between posts than I intended or anticipated, but I’m still here, folks. Let’s do Day Two!***********************************I have decided that Friday, April 26, spent bumping around from auditorium to auditorium and throughout the greater lobby area of the Chinese multiplex for the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival, was probably the single greatest day dedicated to watching movies that I’ve ever spent in my not-so-illustrious 53 years on this planet. Seven movies in a span of approximately 17 hours, with no breaks other than the time it took to get in and out of lines leading into the theaters and the restrooms. (I packed lunch and dinner.) The Swimmer, Voyage to Italy, Ruggles of Red Gap, I Am Suzanne!, It Always Rains on Sunday, Hondo and Plan Nine From Outer Space,all great in their own special ways. So what to do for an encore?Well, one thing was for certain—there would be nowhere near the amount of cinema consumed on Saturday as there had been the previous day. After I said my bleary-eyed post-Ed Wood good-byes to Richard and Ariel, I trudged through the front door of my humble Glendale manse at around 3:00 a.m., but I didn’t actually get to sleep until about 3:30. As I tumbled gracelessly down the rabbit hole toward some desperately need shuteye, I calculated my simple plan—I would set the alarm for around 9:00 a.m., thus skipping the festival of Bugs Bunny cartoons scheduled to celebrate the iconic character’s 75thbirthday which began around 9:30 a.m., and instead make my way back to the Chinese complex in time for the Deliverance screening which started around 11:45 a.m. I figured I could get by on somewhere in the neighborhood of six hours of sleep and still have enough in the tank to get me through the four movies I had on the docket for the day.But my dazed and confused body had other ideas. Without any electronic prompting from my clock, my eyes popped open promptly at 6:30 a.m., after two whole 90-minute sleep cycles. I was wide awake, exhausted but unable to keep my head from stirring about the movies of the past day and the ones yet to come. When it became clear, after a few minutes of tossing and turning, that I wasn’t going to get any more sleep, I decided to get up and start writing up what I’d seen of the festival so far. After logging part one of my post on Friday’s adventure, I hightailed it to the train station and hopped the one stop into Hollywood. This day would be slower, more measured, but still filled with the promise of transcending whatever physical reservations I had in favor of another brilliant experience.Once I arrived, with some considerable excitement I settled into my spot toward the front of the Chinese #1, the big centerpiece auditorium (477 seats) within the Chinese multiplex, in anticipation of seeing Deliverance on the big screen for the first time since 1973, when I was a 13-year-old high school freshman. I was already fairly movie savvy at that age, and I’d heard talk about the movie circulating since its release—by the time it made it to our hometown theater the Academy Awards for 1972 had already passed, so word of the grueling nightmares that awaited its four weekend adventurers (and those who bought tickets to see it) had trickled down even to the most isolated corners of Southern Oregon. But even if I knew (more or less) what to expect, my dad, who barely paid attention to the movies, wouldn’t have known Deliverancefrom Up the Creek. So when I cleverly appealed to his taste for the outdoors and casually suggested that maybe we could go see that new canoeing movie (I needed that accompanied adult to circumvent the “R” rating), he glanced at the tiny ad on the local movie calendar, which conveniently showed only the name of the movie, pictures of the actors looming over a silhouette of three men paddling their boat, and an ominous tag line (“Where does the camping trip end… and the nightmare begin?”), and agreed to take me to see it. Success
about 6 hours ago
Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston and Mia Wasikowska topline Jim Jarmusch's film about a vampire couple who has been together throughout the ages.read more
Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston and Mia Wasikowska topline Jim Jarmusch's film about a vampire couple who has been together throughout the ages.read more
about 6 hours ago