Sadly, I won’t be in Cannes this year (though horror stories of volcano-related airport delays getting there are making me a little less envious), but I will be part of the indieWIRE team on this side of the Atlantic ensuring that the many folks (Eugene Hernandez, Brian Brooks, Eric Kohn, Todd McCarthy, Anne Thompson and Sydney Levine!) over there have some support. And honestly, I feel pretty grateful I’ve got to go as many times as I have, and there’s something a little nice about not having to hustle around the south of France for 12 days with an empty stomach, a lowest-common-denominator press badge, rusty French, and – let’s face it – a hangover. But maybe I’m just convincing myself as the watching 30 Rock or Modern Family finales in my pajamas vs. watching the new Woody Allen or Apichatpong Weerasethakul or Mike Leigh or Olivier Assayas or Xavier Dolan or Gregg Araki in fancy dress wear on the French Riviera (not to mention this part) is not exactly an even match.
Anyway.. Part of what I will be doing is updating film pages for every single film screening on the Croisette, from the Official Competition to Director’s Fortnight to Un Certain Regard. criticWIRE grades, links to our coverage whether iW proper or one of our many new bloggers, trailers… It’s hopefully gonna be a good mine for the many among us not able to be there. Here’s links to all the pages, which already have a wide array of information and will build in the next two weeks:
IN COMPETITION:
“Tournee,” directed by Mathieu Amalric
“Des Hommes et des Dieux, directed by Xavier Beauvois
“Biutiful,” directed by Alejandro Gonzales Innaritu
“Hors la loi,” directed by Rachid Bouchareb
“Un Homme Qui Crie” (A Screaming Man), directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
“Housemaid,” directed by Im Sangsoo
“Copie Conforme” (The Certified Copy), directed by Abbas Kiarostami
“Outrage,” directed by Takeshi Kitano
“Poetry,” directed by Lee Chang-dong
“Another Year,” directed by Mike Leigh
“Fair Game,” directed by Doug Liman
“Route Irish,” directed by Ken Loach
“You, My Joy,” directed by Sergei Loznitsa
“La Nostra Vita,” directed by Daniele Luchetti
“Utomlyonnye Solntsem 2,” directed by Nikita Mikhalkov
“La Princesse de Montpensier,” directed by Bertrand Tavernier
“Loong Boonmee Raleuk Chaat” (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives), directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
“Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project,” directed by Kornél Mondruczó
“Chongqing Blues,” directed by Wang Xiaoshuai
OUT OF COMPETITION:
“Carlos,” directed by Olivier Assayas
“Robin Hood,” directed by Ridley Scott (opening film)
“You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger,” directed by Woody Allen
“Tamara Drewe,” directed by Stephen Frears
“Wall Street – Money Never Sleeps,” directed by Oliver Stone
“The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu,,” directed by Andrei Ujică
“The Tree,” directed by Julie Bertucelli
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS:
“Kaboom,” directed by Gregg Araki
“L’Autre Monde” (Black Heaven), directed by Gilles Marchand
SPECIAL SCREENINGS:
– “5XFavela,” directed by Carlos Diegues (with short films by Manaira Carneiro, Wagner Novais, Rodrigo Felha, Cacau Amaral, Luciano Vigidal, Cadu Barcelos, Luciana Bezerra)
“Inside Job,” directed by Charles Ferguson
“Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow,” directed by Sophie Fiennes
“Nostalgia for the Light,” directed by Patricio Guzman
“Draquila – L’Italia Che Trema,” directed by Sabina Guzzanti
“Chantrapas,” directed by Otar Iosseliani
“Abel,” directed by Diego Luna
“Countdown To Zero,” directed by Lucy Walker
UN CERTAIN REGARD:
“Blue Valentine,” directed by Derek Cianfrance
“O Estranho Caso de Angelica,” (Anjelica), directed by Manouel de Oliveira
“Les Amours Imaginaires” (Heartbeats), directed by Xavier Dolan
“Los Labios,” directed by Ivan Fund and Santiago Loza
“Simon Werner a Disparu…” directed by Fabrice Gobert
“Film Socialisme,” directed by Jean-Luc Godard
“Unter Dir Die Stadt” (The City Below), directed by Christoph Hochhausler
“Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs),” directed by Lodge Kerrigan
“Pal Adrienn,” (Adrienn Pal), directed by Agnes Kocsis
“Udaan,” directed by Vikramaditya Motwane
“Marti Dupa Craciun” (Tuesday, After Christmas), directed by Radu Muntean
“Chatroom,” directed by Hideo Nakata
“Aurora,” directed by Cristi Puiu
“Ha Ha Ha,” directed by Hong Sangsoo
“Life, Above All,” directed by Oliver Schmitz
“Octubre,” directed by Daniel and Diego Vega
“R U There,” directed by David Verbeek
“I Wish I Knew,” directed by Jia Zhang Ke
“Carancho,” directed by Pablo Trapero
DIRECTORS FORTNIGHT:
“Alegria” (Joy), directed by Marina Méliande and Felipe Braganca
“All Good Children,” directed by Alicia Duffy
“Alting bliver godt igen” (Everything Will Be Fine), directed by Christoffer Boe
“Año bisiesto,” directed by Michael Rowe
“Benda Bilili!,” directed by Renaud Barret & Florent de la Tullaye
“La Casa muda” (The Silent House), directed by Gustavo Hernandez
“Cleveland vs. Wall Street,” directed by Jean-Stéphane Bron
“Des Filles en noir,” directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac
“Ha’Meshotet” (The Wanderer) directed by Avishai Sivan
“Illégal,” directed by Olivier Masset-Depasse
“The Light Thief,” directed by Aktan Arym Kubat
“Little Baby Jesus of Flandr,” directed by Gust Vandenberghe
“La Mirada invisible” (The Invisible Eye), directed by Diego Lerman
“Picco,” directed by Philip Koch
“Pieds nus sur les limaces” (Lily Sometimes) directed by Fabienne Berthaud
“Le Quattro volte,” directed by Michelangelo Frammartino
“Shit Year,” directed by Cam Archer
“Somos lo que hay” (We Are What We Are), directed by Jorge Michel Grau
“Tiger Factory,” directed by Woo Ming jin
“Todos vós sodes capitáns,” directed by Oliver Laxe
“Two Gates Of Sleep,” directed by Alistair Banks Griffin
“Un Poison violent,” directed by Katell Quillevéré
Special Screenings:
“Stones In Exile,” directed by Stephen Kijak
“Boxing Gym,” directed by Frederick Wiseman
CRITIC’S WEEK:
“Armadillo,” directed by Janus Metz
“Bedevilled,” directed by Cheol So Jang
“Belle épine,” directed by Rebecca Zlotowski
“Bi, dung so !,” directed by Phan Dang Di
“The Myth of the American Sleepover,” directed by David Robert Mitchell
“Sandcastle,” directed by Boo Junfeng
“Sound of Noise,” directed by Ola Simonsson & Johannes Stjärne Nilsson
Special Screenings:
“Le Nom des gens,” directed by Michel Leclerc
“Copacabana,” directed by Marc Fitoussi
“Rubber,” directed by Quentin Dupieux
