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Johnny Dollar
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 Cannes 2006 It's a little early for a Cannes thread since there's literally no information yet. Still...here it is.
Actually, there is some news. Apparently Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette is going to be in competition this year. Exciting!
Let's remember Cannes 2005, shall we? The year of L'Enfant, of Cache, of the Three Burials of Meliquades Estrada, of Broken Flowers, of Manderlay. History of Violence was there, too. Hardly a great list, actually.
But the explosion of unexpected buzz for Woody Allen and Match Point last year made me so, so happy.
Do we know of any movies, other than Marie Antionette, that will be at Cannes this year?
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Magnus101 wrote: Da Vinci Code will premiere and open Cannes this year. Ugh.
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Johnny Dollar
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I've HEARD that Paris, Je T'aime is gonna play at Cannes...
i hope that's true. I can't wait for some reviews, or, yknow, anything. :o
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mary
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yoshue wrote: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060321/film_nm/cannes_dc;_ylt=Ah3ge87xib1jN.ozXbq3TKxxFb8C;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--
Lots and lots and lots of info. Update:
It is confrimed that Lou Ye's "Summer Palace" and helmer Jia Zhangke's "Still Life" won't go to Cannes.
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kypade wrote: I've HEARD that Paris, Je T'aime is gonna play at Cannes...
i hope that's true. I can't wait for some reviews, or, yknow, anything. :o Same here.
Paris, Je t'aime is one of my most anticipated films of the year. I mean with THESE directors and THAT cast...can it really go wrong? _________________The greatest thing on earth is to love and to be loved in return!
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If I remember right, Wong Kar-Wai is the chair this time. That's really cool since I always wondered what his movie taste is like.
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xiayun wrote: If I remember right, Wong Kar-Wai is the chair this time. That's really cool since I always wondered what his movie taste is like. Unlucky, many Chinese films won't be ready for Cannes, except "Luxury Car" and "Election 2". (I'm going to see "Election 2" in next week.)
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Dr. Lecter wrote: kypade wrote: I've HEARD that Paris, Je T'aime is gonna play at Cannes...
i hope that's true. I can't wait for some reviews, or, yknow, anything. :o Same here. Paris, Je t'aime is one of my most anticipated films of the year. I mean with THESE directors and THAT cast...can it really go wrong? Its either going to be painfully choppy (this coming from someone who liked Coffee and Cigarette) or the most entrancing film of the year. One can only hope and wait.....
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makeshift
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Lynch's new film is supposed to premier, too. 
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Johnny Dollar
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I thought I'd heard Lynch wouldn't quite be finished.....but I don't remember where or when I read that, so I'm probably not accurate.
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yoshue wrote: I thought I'd heard Lynch wouldn't quite be finished.....but I don't remember where or when I read that, so I'm probably not accurate. I wouldn't be surprised. He's been working on it for years now. I'm holding out that it will be there, though. I don't think I can wait much longer. I mean, Rabbits was a nice little project, but I need something feature length now.
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Cannes 2006 films List
http://www.festival-cannes.fr/index.php?langue=6002
All "in competeion" movies, opening film and closing film will be shown in Grand Theatre Lumiere (the most important theater in Cannes).
According to Cannes official press book, UNITED 93, X-MEN: THE LAST STAND, OVER THE HEDGE, SHORTBUS, GUISI (Silk), ELECTION 2 will also be shown in Grand Theatre Lumiere. (Those films are in "out of competeion" section)
According to Jeffery Wells and Variety, Darren Aronofsky wanted THE FOUNTAIN to be shown "in competition", but Cannes people wanted this movie to be shown in "out of competition" section, so Darren Aronofsky decided to not show this movie in Cannes.
PS: In Kevin Smith's official message board, Kevin Smith confirms that he had submitted CLERKS 2 to Cannes. He said that Cannes will make another announcement about the rest of the fest - all the films outside of the competition.
http://viewaskew.com/theboard/viewtopic ... ght=cannes
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SOUTHLAND TALES will also premiere at Cannes.
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From NY Times:
Quote: WITH the manufactured hysteria over "The Da Vinci Code" now little more than a fast-fading hangover, the 59th Cannes Film Festival has begun in earnest. And just as they do every year, the programmers have proved that in between the critical grandstanding and the public-relations hyperbole there actually is room for art, or at the very least some satisfying films. The first few days here have not yet produced any revelations, but filmgoers have again been able to tour the cinematic world, passing through Paris on the way to Paraguay and Tiananmen Square, where the politics are almost as hot as the sex.
Sex and politics are on full boil in Lou Ye's "Summer Palace," an engrossing, estimably ambitious epic about the generation of Chinese students who came of age brutally in 1989 when army tanks took aim at protesters agitating for democratic reforms. Lou Ye, whose previous features include "Suzhou River" and "Purple Butterfly," which also played in competition at Cannes, pins his story on the slim, lovely shoulders of Yu Hong (a sensational Hao Lei), a young student whose sentimental education mirrors that of her fast-changing country. Initially despondent over leaving her boyfriend back home, Yu eventually opens herself up to another student, Zhou Wei (Guo Xiaodong), the man who will become the enduring passion of her life and the spark for much of that aforementioned sex.
The trade papers have been running contradictory dispatches about "Summer Palace," which may have been offered to Cannes without the filmmaker's knowledge and without the sanction of Chinese censors. A Chinese producer claimed that Lou Ye would soon be on a plane back to Beijing, though he did appear at his news conference Thursday, and a representative for the film offered me placid assurances that the director was staying put. It would be a shame if this behind-the-scenes wrangling got in the way of the film, which beautifully blends the political with the personal much as Flaubert does in "Sentimental Education," his moral history of a generation set against the backdrop of revolution, and Philippe Garrel does in "Regular Lovers," his film about May 1968 and its aftermath.
The French touch is further evident in "Summer Palace" with its brief shot of the young Antoine Doinel running on the beach at the end of "The 400 Blows." ... Also from the article, Richard Linklater's "fictionalized adaptation of Eric Schlosser's nonfiction bestseller "Fast Food Nation," was received very warmly. This one, I'd love to see, but i wonder how it unfolds. I don't want another Supersize Me, especially since Fast Food Nation had alot to say about labor, business models, industry, and suburban sprawl. Just as much to say, actually, as it did for the caloric content of the food.
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I believe Volver screened last night, and so far it's the early favorite to win the Palm.
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dolcevita wrote: From NY Times: Quote: WITH the manufactured hysteria over "The Da Vinci Code" now little more than a fast-fading hangover, the 59th Cannes Film Festival has begun in earnest. And just as they do every year, the programmers have proved that in between the critical grandstanding and the public-relations hyperbole there actually is room for art, or at the very least some satisfying films. The first few days here have not yet produced any revelations, but filmgoers have again been able to tour the cinematic world, passing through Paris on the way to Paraguay and Tiananmen Square, where the politics are almost as hot as the sex.
Sex and politics are on full boil in Lou Ye's "Summer Palace," an engrossing, estimably ambitious epic about the generation of Chinese students who came of age brutally in 1989 when army tanks took aim at protesters agitating for democratic reforms. Lou Ye, whose previous features include "Suzhou River" and "Purple Butterfly," which also played in competition at Cannes, pins his story on the slim, lovely shoulders of Yu Hong (a sensational Hao Lei), a young student whose sentimental education mirrors that of her fast-changing country. Initially despondent over leaving her boyfriend back home, Yu eventually opens herself up to another student, Zhou Wei (Guo Xiaodong), the man who will become the enduring passion of her life and the spark for much of that aforementioned sex.
The trade papers have been running contradictory dispatches about "Summer Palace," which may have been offered to Cannes without the filmmaker's knowledge and without the sanction of Chinese censors. A Chinese producer claimed that Lou Ye would soon be on a plane back to Beijing, though he did appear at his news conference Thursday, and a representative for the film offered me placid assurances that the director was staying put. It would be a shame if this behind-the-scenes wrangling got in the way of the film, which beautifully blends the political with the personal much as Flaubert does in "Sentimental Education," his moral history of a generation set against the backdrop of revolution, and Philippe Garrel does in "Regular Lovers," his film about May 1968 and its aftermath.
The French touch is further evident in "Summer Palace" with its brief shot of the young Antoine Doinel running on the beach at the end of "The 400 Blows." ... Also from the article, Richard Linklater's "fictionalized adaptation of Eric Schlosser's nonfiction bestseller "Fast Food Nation," was received very warmly. This one, I'd love to see, but i wonder how it unfolds. I don't want another Supersize Me, especially since Fast Food Nation had alot to say about labor, business models, industry, and suburban sprawl. Just as much to say, actually, as it did for the caloric content of the food. It's apparently filled with crazed PETA-esque rhetoric. I guess the final five minutes is just graphic slaughter house footage. I'm interested to see how people react to it.
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makeshift
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Both Marie Antoinette and Southland Tales are getting huge buzz (positive), too.
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Good news about Marie Antoinette. I'm suddenly very interested in it. When I saw the trailer on the big screen for the first time (in front of ASC) I liked it quite a bit more than I had before.
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lennier wrote: Good news about Marie Antoinette. I'm suddenly very interested in it. When I saw the trailer on the big screen for the first time (in front of ASC) I liked it quite a bit more than I had before. I agree. The second time I saw the trailer recently, it worked much better for me. Dunst still seems a bit young, but she's actually not so much anymore, and she's worked with Sophia before. Hmmmmm....
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getluv
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Dolce are you going to consider seeing SOUTHLAND TALES?
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Dreamgirls are looking pretty good too out of Cannes. We'll see how the 20-minute clip translates to the whole movie.
Volver has a 7.5 IMDb score at the moment with 498 votes. It should be quite a contender at Oscar as well.
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The SOUTHLAND TALES screening was apparently disastrous. "Worst film of the festival" bad.
http://daily.greencine.com/archives/001957.html
Frankly, I always thought it was a trainwreck waiting to happen.
I'm exceedingly disappointed in Cannes this year.
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I'm kinda waiting to hear more about reactions to Babel, Marie Antoinette, and Volver.
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I'm kinda disappointed with Southland Tales' reaction.. people calling it the worst of the lot so far.. 
Volver seems to be the favorite right now. Marie Antoniette needs to be even more loved than Moulin Rouge there to get it, I think - but it's still the only other movie I can see taking the Palm. Hopefully there won't be another bad surprise like last year's L'Enfant... _________________
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