Cannes 2016

[domino harvey]

[Trees]

I'll be at Cannes this year. My first time at a major film festival of this type. Hoping to see some great pictures.

I was in Austin for SXSW but the line-up of films was frankly pretty dismal. I barely attended anything. Apparently SXSW now is more focused on video games and "interactive" and discussion panels and so on.

[Werewolf by Night]

I remember when it used to be a music festival before the movies horned in on it.

[Spencah]

I'll be at Cannes this year. My first time at a major film festival of this type. Hoping to see some great pictures.

I was in Austin for SXSW but the line-up of films was frankly pretty dismal. I barely attended anything. Apparently SXSW now is more focused on video games and "interactive" and discussion panels and so on.

How does one attend Cannes anyway? It's not a festival for the public like TIFF or Sundance

[mfunk9786]

Trees is Jeff Wells

[domino harvey]

Doesn't check out, Vinessa Shaw hasn't been one of his forty different avatars

[swo17]

Also, don't forget that article where Wells called Zhou Yun a frumpy chubster.

[Trees]

Doesn't check out, Vinessa Shaw hasn't been one of his forty different avatars

BTW, have you noticed that I settled on one av?

Are there any rumors yet of interesting films at Cannes?

[Newsnayr]

Are there any rumors yet of interesting films at Cannes?

If this list is any indication, it will be a stacked year.

[Zot!]

I'll be at Cannes this year. My first time at a major film festival of this type. Hoping to see some great pictures.

I was in Austin for SXSW but the line-up of films was frankly pretty dismal. I barely attended anything. Apparently SXSW now is more focused on video games and "interactive" and discussion panels and so on.

How does one attend Cannes anyway? It's not a festival for the public like TIFF or Sundance

There are public tickets available...to the festival screenings, but not to the film market screenings.

[yoshimori]

There are public tickets available...to the festival screenings, but not to the film market screenings.

Not sure what you have in mind, but no one can buy a ticket to any screening at the official Cannes festival or market. And no festival tickets are "public".

For the fancy-dress evening premieres only -- those premieres constitute maybe 5% of the festival screenings, the others being the morning and afternoon press screenings of those same films, the Un certain regard screenings, the "day after" screenings, and other special screenings, admission to all of which is on the basis of various level of accreditation badges -- badged press and guests only, if accredited at a certain level, may request "tickets". These are free. But they can be given, not sold, to the eager youths who crowd outside the Palais begging for any "extras" the accredited gods may wish to bestow them.

[Zot!]

Yeah you're right. I went once as an accredited intern, and I had pretty much free access to anything, and I was literally waiting tables during the day. It didn't seem such a big deal to get into the screenings. The bigger deal was getting invites to the the parties.

[Brood_Star]

Are there any rumors yet of interesting films at Cannes?

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It's been recently confirmed that Martel's Zama is not ready at all. Dumont's Ma Loute is slated for a release around the same time, but seeing as Fremaux has previously rejected his films from main comp, he might be sidebar. Otherwise, the titles that most stand out to me are from Serra (!!), Puiu, Ade, Bonello and Bellocchio. Hoping, of course, that the likes of Guiraudie and Pedro Rodrigues can replicate their success. We'll know the lineup in a few weeks.

[TMDaines]

The Guardian have predicted 20 films they expect to show up at Cannes. Looks a stunning line up.

[FrauBlucher]

The 4 that pique my interest are Family Photos (Cristian Mungiu), Paterson (Jim Jarmusch), Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas) and Unknown Girl (Dardenne brothers).

[Trees]

The Neon Demon looks interesting.

[beamish13]

The Neon Demon looks interesting.

Yep. Elle Fanning is shaping up to be a major actress, and I loved her work in Low Down and Somewhere

[colinr0380]

Something that I would not have noted until recently is that the lead of Gaspar Noé's Love, Karl Glusman, is also going to appear in The Neon Demon.

[Trees]

I started watching LOVE the other night. The film literally starts off with a straight-up porno scene set to Erik Satie.... oh boy.

[domino harvey]

Were you waiting for Wallace Shawn to walk in?

[Alphonse Tram]

A very interesting line-up! I'm very pleased to see both Cristi Puiu and Cristian Mungiu in competition.

Jarmusch in competition and his Stooges doc is playing as midnight screening.

Kore-Eda demoted to Un Certain Regard this year.



Competition
"Toni Erdman," directed by Maren Ade
"Julieta," directed by Pedro Almodovar
"Personal Shopper," directed by Olivier Assayas
"American Honey," directed by Andrea Arnold
"The Unknown Girl," directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
"It's Only the End of the World," directed by Xavier Dolan
"Slack Bay," directed by Bruno Dumont
"Paterson," directed by Jim Jarmusch
"Rester Vertical," directed by Alain Guiraudie
"Aquarius," directed by Kleber Mendonca Filho
"Mal de Pierres," directed by Nicole Garcia
"I, Daniel Blake," directed by Ken Loach
"Ma'Rosa," directed by Brillante Mendoza
"Bacalaureat," directed by Cristian Mungiu
"Loving," directed by Jeff Nichols
"Agassi," directed by Park Chan-Wook
"The Last Face," directed by Sean Penn
"Sieranevada," directed by Cristi Puiu
"Elle," directed by Paul Verhoeven
"The Neon Demon," directed by Nicolas Winding Refn

Un Certain Regard
"Varoonegi," directed by Behnam Behzadi
"Apprentice," directed by Boo Junking
"Voir du Pays," directed by Delphine Coulin and Muriel Coulin
"La Danseuse," directed by Stephanie di Giusto
"Clash," directed by Mohamed Diab
"La Tortue Rouge," directed by Michael Dubok de Wit
"Fuchi Bi Tatsu," directed by Fukada Koji
"Omar Shakhsiya," directed by Maha Haj
"Me’Ever Laharim Vehagvaot," directed by Eran Kolirin
"After The Storm," directed by Kore-Eda Hirokazu
"Hymyileva Mies," directed by Juho Kuosmanen
"La Large Noche de Francisco Sanctis," directed by Francisco Marquez and Andrea Testa
"Caini," directed by Bogdan Mirica
"Pericle Il Nero," directed by Stefano Mordini
"Captain Fantastic," directed by Matt Ross
"The Transfiguration," directed by Michael O'Shea

Out of Competition
"The BFG," directed by Steven Spielberg
"Goksung," directed by Na Hong-Jin
"Money Monster," directed by Jodie Foster
"The Nice Guys," directed by Shane Black

Special Screenings
'L'ultima Spiaggia," directed by Thanos Anastopoulous and Davide del Degan
"A Chad Tragedy," directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
"The Death of Louis XIV," directed by Albert Serra
"Le Cancre," directed by Paul Vecchiali

Midnight Screenings
"Gimme Danger," directed by Jim Jarmusch
"The Train to Busan," directed by Yeon Sang-Ho

[Jeff]

On paper at least, that's the strongest competition lineup I recall ever seeing.

[Trees]

Which are the films you guys are most excited about from this list?

[hearthesilence]

We're going to get TWO films from Jarmusch in one year! How about that?

[Jeff]

Which are the films you guys are most excited about from this list?

Dardennes, Mungiu, Park, Jarmusch, Nichols, Arnold. Pretty much all the comp films though.