Tag: cannes2017
Cannes 2017 Dispatch: NEXT VR Round Up
To call the Cannes Film Festival one of the most elitist film festivals on the calendar is not an unfair assessment. This is doubly true when it came to this year's first ever VR entry into the official program. It...
AnarchyVision: Cannes 2017 Press Conference Interviews
Out of any major film festival, the Cannes press conference is the one to go to. In a place where glamour rules and access to some of the stars requires running quite a gauntlet, it's in the press conference that...
Cannes 2017 Dispatch: A Tour of the Marché
It's been a long while since we last explored the wacky posters on display at Cannes. Amazingly enough, some of those same 2012 posters are still hanging around. But the annual wander through the labyrinthine halls of the Marché du...
Cannes 2017 Dispatch: Official Awards Exclaim Expectations Met
The buzz throughout the week at this year's Cannes Film Festival seemed mostly dominated by a sense of waiting for one film from the Palme d'Or competition that would really break out. In the end, that one clear favorite never...
AnarchyVision: Cannes 2017, THE SQUARE, 120 BPM, THE FLORIDA PROJECT and More
Here's another look at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival as it started to wind down, including another shot at The Square (above), which won the Palme d'or; Lynne Ramsay's return with You Were Never Really Here; the amazing The Florida Project;...
BUSHWICK: Check Out Three Teaser Posters For The Urban Invasion Thriller
Bushwick, an urban invasion thriller directed by Cooties' Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott, played tonight at Cannes in the Directors' Fortnight Features program. Yesterday, Collider debuted three new teaser posters, running with the colors of American patriotism. You will find...
Cannes 2017 Review: THE BEGUILED, A Campy Anatomy of Lust
Sofia Coppola is a filmmaker whose work I've appreciated from a distance. I know she's a great director, but apart from Marie Antoinette, her stories of rich white people and their troubles has held little interest for me. But as...
Cannes 2017 Dispatch: A Strong Year for the Sidebars
The main attraction at what might be the world's most bifurcated film festival is certainly the Palme d'Or competition. But there is always a film or two that finds a fair amount of buzz out of one of the primary...
Cannes 2017 Review: THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER, Love Can Make Us Cruel
Human beings can be kind, generous, and loving. But they can also be self-indulgent, vicious, and cruel. We all want to believe that, under certain circumstances, we would sacrifice and fight for the lives of our loved ones. But would...
AnarchyVision: ALIEN: COVENANT, Cannes 2017, OKJA, LOVELESS, THE SQUARE
A look at the latest in the Alien franchise, as well as Cannes gems Loveless, The Square, and how Okja's Neflix nature has unsettled local purists....
Cannes 2017 Review: THE DAY AFTER Offers Bitter Portrait of Infidelity
Returning to black and white for the first time since The Day He Arrives (which screened in Un Certain Regard in 2011), Hong Sangsoo returns to the Cannes competition section with The Day After, a focused rumination on love and...
Cannes 2017 Review: FACES PLACES, A Delightful and Poignant Capture of Working Life
The Grand Dame of French cinema, Agnès Varda's work has ranged from the New Wave in Cleo from 5 to 7, to feminism and friendship in One Sings, The Other Doesn't, to documenting the life of the poor in The...
Cannes 2017 Review: THE RIDER, Elegaic and Intimate Portrait of Suffering and Cure
Chloé Zhao's first feature film, Songs My Brothers Taught Me, showed the beautiful and difficult life of a young man on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; his relationship with his family, his clashes with white men, and...
HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES Teasers Appear In Advance of Cannes Premiere
Three short teasers have appeared for John Cameron Mitchell's How to Talk to Girls at Parties, an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's short story of the same name. The teasers arrive in advance of the film's bow at the 2017 Cannes...
AnarchyVision: Cannes 2017, Netflix and More!
A curtain-raiser for this year's Cannes Film Festival, with a slate that's got everyone talking. With Jury President Pedro Almodovar speaking of the "paradox" of having VOD-releases in competition, and Will Smith talking about how the likes of Netflix are...
DJANGO LIVES!: Franco Nero Saddles Up Against White Supremacy
Italian actor Franco Nero wants to reprise his role as the coffin-dragging gunfighter made famous in Sergio Corbucci's original 1966 spaghetti Western, Django. Django Lives! will be directed by Pandorum's Christian Alvart from a screenplay by legendary writer/director John Sayles (Lone...
