Cannes 2009: Humpday
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Cannes 2009: "Kinatay."
There are two easy types of film provocation. You can prod an audience with boundary-pushing images -- say, Chloe Sevigny painting Vincent Gallo's tree -- or by testing their tolerance for style or narrative experimentation -- say, Vincent Gallo driving, driving, driving, driving. "Kinatay" (which translates to "Butchered") tries out...
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Getting closer to the world's first $0 movie.
There's a history of movies whose low budgets and origin stories are more famous than the films themselves. From his 1992 $7,000 debut "El Mariachi" onward, Robert Rodriguez has practically built a career out of this kind of thing. A decade later, Shane Carruth would make a much better movie...
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Quentin Tarantino makes war fun again.
Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" comes out next Friday, but the deluge of negative advance press seems to indicate we should be bored already. Quentin! Always with the talking and the self-indulgence and the references. He doesn't make it easy on himself; unlike Wes Anderson, who went from bad-haircut-geek to styled-out,...
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Shorts, 6/30.
A new issue of Cinema Scope has just gone up, featuring editor Mark Peranson's opener: "2009 was, far and away, the stupidest Cannes ever." He also interviews Corneliu Porumboiu ("Police, Adjective"), while Dennis Lim talks with João Pedro Rodrigues ("To Die Like a Man") and Scott Foundas with Marco Bellocchio...
Fests and events, 6/8.
Michael Guillén talks with programmer James Quandt about "In the Realm of Oshima," currently at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley through July 18. And here's the second part of the interview. The New York Asian Film Festival (June 19 through July 5) rolls out its guest list and schedule....
"Drag Me To Hell."
By the B-movie ethics of Sam Raimi's "Drag Me To Hell," the torments inflicted on poor Christine Brown are grossly (and grossly) unfair and yet, there's no denying it, also at least a little bit deserved. Christine (Alison Lohman) is the bank loan officer who makes the fateful final call...
Wrapping Cannes 09.
[Updated through 6/1] "This year's Cannes Film Festival was notable for its blood-splattered screens, digital projections and emergent and resurgent auteurs," writes Manohla Dargis in an overview for the New York Times blog, ArtsBeat. And she's got a nifty link, too, to a chart of rankings from French film critics...
