Ryan Lambie Nov 28, 2016
For a decade, advertisers tried to pretend that pink videogame hero Kirby was tough and not cute. We look back at some odd campaigns...
If you’ve ever owned a Nintendo console, you’ll probably have heard of Kirby: the pink, baby-faced blob who first made his debut back in 1992. Created by Hal Laboratory, Kirby’s starred in a string of platformers and quirky spin-offs over the past 23 years, beginning with Kirby’s Dream Land on the Game Boy and leading up to this year's Kirby: Planet Robobot on the 3Ds.
See related Star Trek The Next Generation: 10 great guest performances Star Trek Voyager: an episode roadmap Why do Star Trek fans hate Voyager? Why Star Trek: Voyager's fourth season is the best The top 10 roles of Kurtwood Smith
Kirby’s games are more niche than say, Mario and Sonic The Hedgehog, but they’ve...
For a decade, advertisers tried to pretend that pink videogame hero Kirby was tough and not cute. We look back at some odd campaigns...
If you’ve ever owned a Nintendo console, you’ll probably have heard of Kirby: the pink, baby-faced blob who first made his debut back in 1992. Created by Hal Laboratory, Kirby’s starred in a string of platformers and quirky spin-offs over the past 23 years, beginning with Kirby’s Dream Land on the Game Boy and leading up to this year's Kirby: Planet Robobot on the 3Ds.
See related Star Trek The Next Generation: 10 great guest performances Star Trek Voyager: an episode roadmap Why do Star Trek fans hate Voyager? Why Star Trek: Voyager's fourth season is the best The top 10 roles of Kurtwood Smith
Kirby’s games are more niche than say, Mario and Sonic The Hedgehog, but they’ve...
- 11/25/2016
- Den of Geek
Time to check in to see which movies we all can check back in with or catch up with now that they've hit the home market. The big title, Oscar wise is Steven Spielberg's 10th Best Picture nominee as a director, the cold war drama Bridge of Spies with Tom Hanks and Mark Rylance both doing fine work as a lawyer and the spy he must bargain with for a prisoner of war trade. Only one of Spielberg's directorial efforts has ever won Best Picture (Schindler's List, 1993) but which is your favorite? I'd rank them like so...
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Schindler's List (1993) Jaws (1975) E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982) Lincoln (2012) The Color Purple (1985) Bridge of Spies (2015) Saving Private Ryan (1998) Munich (2005) War Horse (2011)
With the disclaimer that everyone knows I'm not a Spielberg aficionado really (the top three are the only ones I'm completely wild about from this list...
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Schindler's List (1993) Jaws (1975) E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982) Lincoln (2012) The Color Purple (1985) Bridge of Spies (2015) Saving Private Ryan (1998) Munich (2005) War Horse (2011)
With the disclaimer that everyone knows I'm not a Spielberg aficionado really (the top three are the only ones I'm completely wild about from this list...
- 2/2/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Original series coming to Netflix in February, include Judd Apatow's "Love," starring Paul Rust and Gillian Jacobs; "Fuller House;" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny," the sequel to the 2000 Oscar-winning Ang Lee movie.
You can also catch up with the first season of "Better Call Saul" and the final season of "Mad Men."
Also debuting, several 2015 films, including the well-reviewed indie "Dope" and French director Gasper Noe's controversial "Love" (not to be confused with the Apatow comedy series!)
Here's the full list of what's new on Netflix in February 2016.
Available Feb. 1, 2016
"A Picture of You" (2014)
"Armageddon" (1998)
"Better Call Saul": Season 1
"Charlie's Angels" (2000)
"Collateral Damage" (2002)
"Cruel Intentions" (1999)
"A Faster Horse" (2015)
"Full Metal Jacket" (1987)
"Game Face" (2015)
"Jennifer 8" (1992)
"Johnny English" (2003)
"The Little Engine That Could (2011)
"The Lizzie Borden Chronicles": Season 1
"Losing Isaiah (1995)
"Masha's Tales": Season 1
"My Side of the Mountain" (1969)
"Para Elisa" (2012)
"Pokémon: Xy":...
You can also catch up with the first season of "Better Call Saul" and the final season of "Mad Men."
Also debuting, several 2015 films, including the well-reviewed indie "Dope" and French director Gasper Noe's controversial "Love" (not to be confused with the Apatow comedy series!)
Here's the full list of what's new on Netflix in February 2016.
Available Feb. 1, 2016
"A Picture of You" (2014)
"Armageddon" (1998)
"Better Call Saul": Season 1
"Charlie's Angels" (2000)
"Collateral Damage" (2002)
"Cruel Intentions" (1999)
"A Faster Horse" (2015)
"Full Metal Jacket" (1987)
"Game Face" (2015)
"Jennifer 8" (1992)
"Johnny English" (2003)
"The Little Engine That Could (2011)
"The Lizzie Borden Chronicles": Season 1
"Losing Isaiah (1995)
"Masha's Tales": Season 1
"My Side of the Mountain" (1969)
"Para Elisa" (2012)
"Pokémon: Xy":...
- 1/25/2016
- by Sharon Knolle
- Moviefone
A sci-fi movie wouldn’t be the same without a hypnotic journey through time and space. Here’s our celebration of cinema’s finest genre vortexes...
It’s a given that any sci-fi protagonist will, at some point in their adventures, descend into a kind of churning whirlpool in space. The experience is probably an entry requirement in the sci-fi hero private smoking room, if such a thing exists. “What? You haven’t been through a vortex of flashing lights? You haven’t stared at the benighted abyss which lies beyond death? Get out. Get out of sci-fi hero club.”
Science fiction is all about poking at the edges of human experience. And sometimes, about what might happen if we head off into the depths of space. What - or who - might we find? Does space loop back on itself, so your ship effectively appears on the other side...
It’s a given that any sci-fi protagonist will, at some point in their adventures, descend into a kind of churning whirlpool in space. The experience is probably an entry requirement in the sci-fi hero private smoking room, if such a thing exists. “What? You haven’t been through a vortex of flashing lights? You haven’t stared at the benighted abyss which lies beyond death? Get out. Get out of sci-fi hero club.”
Science fiction is all about poking at the edges of human experience. And sometimes, about what might happen if we head off into the depths of space. What - or who - might we find? Does space loop back on itself, so your ship effectively appears on the other side...
- 4/27/2012
- Den of Geek
Ben Foster photographed at Sundance in January.Ben Foster doesn't like to talk about himself. This becomes clear immediately after we've begun talking about Ben Foster, though he won't admit it until we're wrapping up.
"Press is very difficult for me," He explains fifteen into our conversation. Some actors do like talking about themselves, I remind him, amiably. "That must be nice for them," Foster quips back sarcastically. On the subject of Rampart and its leading man Woody Harrelson, though, he is much more effusive. "It's so easy to talk about him." the actor says with relief, combining his roles as co-star, friend and first time producer.
"I'm absolutely amazed by the work he did," he offers when the subject of Woody's acclaimed and Oscar buzzing performance as a corrupt cop pops up. "He dropped 30 lbs, he was living the cop lifestyle, he disappeared on set - it was disturbing...
"Press is very difficult for me," He explains fifteen into our conversation. Some actors do like talking about themselves, I remind him, amiably. "That must be nice for them," Foster quips back sarcastically. On the subject of Rampart and its leading man Woody Harrelson, though, he is much more effusive. "It's so easy to talk about him." the actor says with relief, combining his roles as co-star, friend and first time producer.
"I'm absolutely amazed by the work he did," he offers when the subject of Woody's acclaimed and Oscar buzzing performance as a corrupt cop pops up. "He dropped 30 lbs, he was living the cop lifestyle, he disappeared on set - it was disturbing...
- 11/27/2011
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
With Tsr Buzz, you’ll find links to articles, videos and other random things that will help you waste your time just a little bit more.
I agree that Boston is a better place to set movies than New York (okay, maybe I’m biased). I think this fake trailer is too jumbled to be funny, but for all of us who have loved (or hated) movies like Mystic River, The Town, or Good Will Hunting, this is at least amusing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq99S8Euslk
Jeff Bayer once said, (well … tweeted), “Snowfall and penises -- let’s not talk about them unless they’re more than six inches.” Here’s a weatherman (from the Boston area) who believes in this too.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IkuV-_PWBM
2010 is gone. The Oscars are over. The award winning films might still be in theaters, but now they’re in the books.
I agree that Boston is a better place to set movies than New York (okay, maybe I’m biased). I think this fake trailer is too jumbled to be funny, but for all of us who have loved (or hated) movies like Mystic River, The Town, or Good Will Hunting, this is at least amusing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq99S8Euslk
Jeff Bayer once said, (well … tweeted), “Snowfall and penises -- let’s not talk about them unless they’re more than six inches.” Here’s a weatherman (from the Boston area) who believes in this too.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IkuV-_PWBM
2010 is gone. The Oscars are over. The award winning films might still be in theaters, but now they’re in the books.
- 3/1/2011
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
Duo perform hit new single at half-time of NBA super contest.
By Shawn Adler
Rihanna and Kanye West perform during the NBA All-Star Game
Photo: Getty Images
Hometown hero Kobe Bryant may have blistered the Eastern Conference during the first half of Sunday night's (February 20) NBA All-Star Game, but it took Rihanna , Drake, and Kanye West to bring the Los Angeles crowd to their feet, with a rollicking performance during half-time of the gala sporting event.
Wearing a jet black ensemble and flanked on either side by string instrumentalists, RiRi opened the set with an orchestral arrangement of her hit "Umbrella," before segueing into the faster tempo of "Only Girl" and "Rude Boy."
Rihanna was joined on stage for her fourth song when collaborator and rumored former paramour Drake jumped up from the audience to sing the duo's hit "What's My Name."
The rapper might have even scored the most...
By Shawn Adler
Rihanna and Kanye West perform during the NBA All-Star Game
Photo: Getty Images
Hometown hero Kobe Bryant may have blistered the Eastern Conference during the first half of Sunday night's (February 20) NBA All-Star Game, but it took Rihanna , Drake, and Kanye West to bring the Los Angeles crowd to their feet, with a rollicking performance during half-time of the gala sporting event.
Wearing a jet black ensemble and flanked on either side by string instrumentalists, RiRi opened the set with an orchestral arrangement of her hit "Umbrella," before segueing into the faster tempo of "Only Girl" and "Rude Boy."
Rihanna was joined on stage for her fourth song when collaborator and rumored former paramour Drake jumped up from the audience to sing the duo's hit "What's My Name."
The rapper might have even scored the most...
- 2/20/2011
- MTV Music News
DVD Playhouse: January 2011
By
Allen Gardner
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (20th Century Fox) Sequel to the seminal 1980s film catches up with a weathered, but still determined Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas, who seems to savor every syllable of Allan Loeb and Stephen Schiff’s screenplay) just out of jail and back on the comeback trail. In attempting to repair his relationship with his estranged daughter (Carey Mulligan), Gekko forges a reluctant alliance with her fiancé (Shia Labeouf), himself an ambitious young turk who finds himself seduced by Gekko’s silver tongue and promise of riches. Lifeless film is further evidence of director Oliver Stone’s decline. Once America’s most exciting filmmaker, Stone hasn’t delivered a film with any teeth since 1995’s Nixon. Labeouf and Mulligan generate no sparks on-screen, and the story feels forced from the protracted opening to the final, Disney-esque denouement. Only a brief cameo by Charlie Sheen,...
By
Allen Gardner
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (20th Century Fox) Sequel to the seminal 1980s film catches up with a weathered, but still determined Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas, who seems to savor every syllable of Allan Loeb and Stephen Schiff’s screenplay) just out of jail and back on the comeback trail. In attempting to repair his relationship with his estranged daughter (Carey Mulligan), Gekko forges a reluctant alliance with her fiancé (Shia Labeouf), himself an ambitious young turk who finds himself seduced by Gekko’s silver tongue and promise of riches. Lifeless film is further evidence of director Oliver Stone’s decline. Once America’s most exciting filmmaker, Stone hasn’t delivered a film with any teeth since 1995’s Nixon. Labeouf and Mulligan generate no sparks on-screen, and the story feels forced from the protracted opening to the final, Disney-esque denouement. Only a brief cameo by Charlie Sheen,...
- 1/21/2011
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
While checking out the Lovely Machine website because I’m doing a panel with filmmaker Gregory Bayne today at The Conversation I came across his blog, which has some very tastefully curated links. To wit: the opening credit sequence of Gaspar Noe’s Enter the Void. This has been floating around the web but it’s the first time I caught up with it online. These credits are pretty amazing — check them out. Related: Michele Civetta on Enter the Void here at Filmmaker.
- 3/27/2010
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
After two unquestionably adult films (2006’s The Departed and next month’s Shutter Island), Martin Scorcese is looking to shoot one for the entire family. Little kids deserve superior direction, too, right? There’s only so much of The Tooth Fairy and its grating ilk that rugrats should be subjected to, I say.
The legendary auteur, who was recently bestowed with the Cecil B. DeMille Award during the Golden Globes ceremony, is in firm talks to direct The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which would put him back in the saddle alongside both his The Departed producer, Graham King, and The Aviator screenwriter, John Logan. Based on the top-selling 2007 children’s book by author Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret is set in 1930s Paris and focuses on a 12-year-old orphan, named Hugo, who shacks up in a train station while trying to make sense of “a broken robot,” a...
The legendary auteur, who was recently bestowed with the Cecil B. DeMille Award during the Golden Globes ceremony, is in firm talks to direct The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which would put him back in the saddle alongside both his The Departed producer, Graham King, and The Aviator screenwriter, John Logan. Based on the top-selling 2007 children’s book by author Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret is set in 1930s Paris and focuses on a 12-year-old orphan, named Hugo, who shacks up in a train station while trying to make sense of “a broken robot,” a...
- 1/22/2010
- by Matt Barone
- ReelLoop.com
The lucky folks congregating in Park City, Utah, for this year’s Sundance Film Festival will be the first to see the enigmatic Gaspar Noe’s Enter the Void, and I for one am intensely jealous. Only on his fourth feature film, the Argentinian-born French filmmaker has already cemented himself as one of cinema’s ballsiest visionaries, working with reckless abandon, a refreshing sense of middle-finger-you to convention. In his brutal 1998 character study Seol contre teus (I Stand Alone), he granted viewers a fade-to-black warning that the film’s next scene (a vicious bit of father-daughter depravity) may be too tough to handle, and then there was 2002’s polarizing Irreversible, which examines the cause and effect of a rape through a backwards structure, even going so far as to slow the pace down to show the gruesome sexual act without blinking.
Noe’s latest, Enter the Void, has already been screened at previous festivals,...
Noe’s latest, Enter the Void, has already been screened at previous festivals,...
- 1/20/2010
- by Matt Barone
- ReelLoop.com
With 2009 at an end the time has come to look back over things with my personal picks for my favorite films of the year, the biggest disappointments, and a list of promising young directors to watch out for going forward. Please bear in mind that my bottom list is not necessarily what I consider to be bad films (though most of them certainly are) but the films that I was most disappointed by. It's an important distinction. As always it's worth noting that there are both good films (ie Mother) and bad films (ie Giallo) that don't appear because I haven't seen them yet and this is, of course, all purely subjective ...
Todd's Favorite Films Of 2009:
Antichrist
The latest from Lars von Trier is provocative and transgressive in all the right ways. I've been a fan of von Trier from his student days and his return to conventional style...
Todd's Favorite Films Of 2009:
Antichrist
The latest from Lars von Trier is provocative and transgressive in all the right ways. I've been a fan of von Trier from his student days and his return to conventional style...
- 12/31/2009
- Screen Anarchy
Dinner for Schmucks
Opens: July 23rd 2010
Cast: Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Zach Galifianakis, Bruce Greenwood, David Walliams
Director: Jay Roach
Summary: A renowned publisher encourages his friends to invite the most pathetic guests possible for their weekly dinner party. Just as they find the most pathetic man yet, the host is injured and ends up trapped with the man all night long.
Analysis: A remake of director Francis Veber's 1998 César award-winning "Le Diner des cons", 'Schmucks' is one of the highest profile comedies of next year with one of the strongest casts for the genre in recent memory. It also marks the return of "Austin Powers" and "Meet the Parents" helmer Jay Roach who has produced several films in recent years but hasn't directed since 2004's "Meet the Fockers".
The question now lies not in the performers or director but the material itself and whether a Gallic comedy can...
Opens: July 23rd 2010
Cast: Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Zach Galifianakis, Bruce Greenwood, David Walliams
Director: Jay Roach
Summary: A renowned publisher encourages his friends to invite the most pathetic guests possible for their weekly dinner party. Just as they find the most pathetic man yet, the host is injured and ends up trapped with the man all night long.
Analysis: A remake of director Francis Veber's 1998 César award-winning "Le Diner des cons", 'Schmucks' is one of the highest profile comedies of next year with one of the strongest casts for the genre in recent memory. It also marks the return of "Austin Powers" and "Meet the Parents" helmer Jay Roach who has produced several films in recent years but hasn't directed since 2004's "Meet the Fockers".
The question now lies not in the performers or director but the material itself and whether a Gallic comedy can...
- 12/18/2009
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Dinner for Schmucks
Opens: July 23rd 2010
Cast: Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Zach Galifianakis, Bruce Greenwood, David Walliams
Director: Jay Roach
Summary: A renowned publisher encourages his friends to invite the most pathetic guests possible for their weekly dinner party. Just as they find the most pathetic man yet, the host is injured and ends up trapped with the man all night long.
Analysis: A remake of director Francis Veber's 1998 César award-winning "Le Diner des cons", 'Schmucks' is one of the highest profile comedies of next year with one of the strongest casts for the genre in recent memory. It also marks the return of "Austin Powers" and "Meet the Parents" helmer Jay Roach who has produced several films in recent years but hasn't directed since 2004's "Meet the Fockers".
The question now lies not in the performers or director but the material itself and whether a Gallic comedy can...
Opens: July 23rd 2010
Cast: Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Zach Galifianakis, Bruce Greenwood, David Walliams
Director: Jay Roach
Summary: A renowned publisher encourages his friends to invite the most pathetic guests possible for their weekly dinner party. Just as they find the most pathetic man yet, the host is injured and ends up trapped with the man all night long.
Analysis: A remake of director Francis Veber's 1998 César award-winning "Le Diner des cons", 'Schmucks' is one of the highest profile comedies of next year with one of the strongest casts for the genre in recent memory. It also marks the return of "Austin Powers" and "Meet the Parents" helmer Jay Roach who has produced several films in recent years but hasn't directed since 2004's "Meet the Fockers".
The question now lies not in the performers or director but the material itself and whether a Gallic comedy can...
- 12/18/2009
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The official selection of movies to be shown at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival has finally been unveiled. In the festival that will be kicked off on May 13 and wrapped on May 24, a total of 52 films will be featured from four categories, In Competition, Un Certain Regard, Out of Competition, and Special Screenings.
Pedro Almodovar's "Broken Embraces", Ang Lee's "Taking Woodstock" and Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" are listed among the 20 In Competition movies. They will be up against Jane Campion's "Bright Star", Ken Loach's "Looking for Eric", Michael Haneke's "The White Ribbon", Lars von Trier's "Antichrist" and Park Chan-wook's "Thirst" among others.
Terry Gilliam-directed drama fantasy starring Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, Jude Law and the late Heath Ledger, "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus", has been included in the Out of Competition line-up. In the meantime, Sam Raimi's horror "Drag Me to Hell" enters the Midnight Screenings list.
Pedro Almodovar's "Broken Embraces", Ang Lee's "Taking Woodstock" and Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" are listed among the 20 In Competition movies. They will be up against Jane Campion's "Bright Star", Ken Loach's "Looking for Eric", Michael Haneke's "The White Ribbon", Lars von Trier's "Antichrist" and Park Chan-wook's "Thirst" among others.
Terry Gilliam-directed drama fantasy starring Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, Jude Law and the late Heath Ledger, "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus", has been included in the Out of Competition line-up. In the meantime, Sam Raimi's horror "Drag Me to Hell" enters the Midnight Screenings list.
- 4/24/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
So the line-up for this year's Cannes Film Festival was just released today and I damn near fainted from the awesome. This year's competition has got to be the biggest, baddest one in many years, with so many famous auteurs throwing down with their latest films. Who will get the coveted Palme d'Or?
A sampling of just the biggest names who will be in competition: Pedro Almodovar (Broken Embraces), Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds), Park Chan-wook (Thirst), Jane Campion (Bright Star), Michael Haneke (The White Ribbon), Gaspar Noe (Enter the Void), Ken Loach (Looking for Eric), Johnnie To (Vengeance), Lars von Trier (Antichrist), Ang Lee (Taking Woodstock).
Not only that, but out of competition, we have Pixar's Up as the opening film, Bong Joon-ho's Mother, Hikorazu Kore-eda's Air Doll, Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell, and a new documentary by Michel Gondry...
A sampling of just the biggest names who will be in competition: Pedro Almodovar (Broken Embraces), Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds), Park Chan-wook (Thirst), Jane Campion (Bright Star), Michael Haneke (The White Ribbon), Gaspar Noe (Enter the Void), Ken Loach (Looking for Eric), Johnnie To (Vengeance), Lars von Trier (Antichrist), Ang Lee (Taking Woodstock).
Not only that, but out of competition, we have Pixar's Up as the opening film, Bong Joon-ho's Mother, Hikorazu Kore-eda's Air Doll, Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell, and a new documentary by Michel Gondry...
- 4/23/2009
- by Arya Ponto
- JustPressPlay.net
For the most part, the majority of the films Variety speculated would be included at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival made the final list. The only ones that didn't were Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant and Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro out of the group I listed from their early report. However, to make up for it they have added Alejandro Amenabar's Agora starring Rachel Weisz, which is big news if you ask me. Listed below is the early list thanks to Variety. The Cannes' Directors' Fortnight and Critics' Week will be fully announced Friday in Paris. Opener
Up U.S., Pete Docter, Bob Peterson Closer
Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky France, Jan Kounen In Competition
Bright Star Australia-u.K.-France, Jane Campion
Spring Fever China-France, Lou Ye
Antichrist Denmark-Sweden-France-Italy, Lars von Trier
Enter the Void France, Gaspar Noe
Face France-Taiwan-Netherlands-Belgium, Tsai Ming-liang
Les Herbes folles France-Italy, Alain Resnais
In the Beginning France,...
Up U.S., Pete Docter, Bob Peterson Closer
Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky France, Jan Kounen In Competition
Bright Star Australia-u.K.-France, Jane Campion
Spring Fever China-France, Lou Ye
Antichrist Denmark-Sweden-France-Italy, Lars von Trier
Enter the Void France, Gaspar Noe
Face France-Taiwan-Netherlands-Belgium, Tsai Ming-liang
Les Herbes folles France-Italy, Alain Resnais
In the Beginning France,...
- 4/23/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Wow, the speculation this year was pretty heavy on some great genre fare we've been tracking and while we're missing some stunners like Mr. Nobody and a couple others I've been clocking but won't mention, we do get the following:
Antichrist from Lars Von Trier
Enter the Void from Gapar Noe (we've been waiting on a trailer for a long time)
Vengeance from Johnnie To
Thirst from Chan-Wook Park
Inglorious Basterds from Qt
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus from Terry Gilliam
As well as so many others. One of these years Qe will be headed to Cannes for reviews, but not this year folks, (unless we can find a French correspondent or someone donates a few large, hah!)
Full list after the break. via Variety
Opener
"Up," U.S., Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
Closer
"Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky," France, Jan Kounen
In Competition
"Bright Star," Australia-u.K.-France, Jane Campion
"Spring Fever,...
Antichrist from Lars Von Trier
Enter the Void from Gapar Noe (we've been waiting on a trailer for a long time)
Vengeance from Johnnie To
Thirst from Chan-Wook Park
Inglorious Basterds from Qt
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus from Terry Gilliam
As well as so many others. One of these years Qe will be headed to Cannes for reviews, but not this year folks, (unless we can find a French correspondent or someone donates a few large, hah!)
Full list after the break. via Variety
Opener
"Up," U.S., Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
Closer
"Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky," France, Jan Kounen
In Competition
"Bright Star," Australia-u.K.-France, Jane Campion
"Spring Fever,...
- 4/23/2009
- QuietEarth.us
Okay, can I just tell you now, that I wish I can go :sad
But work schedule prevents me from going to Cannes (May is ratings period for TV and thou shall not leave your post!). So, I'll just regale myself with fantasizing I was there, or, by counting the days before I can see the films in/out competition!
And this year? It's great! Quentin Tarantino ("Inglourious Basterds") will face off with Ang Lee ("Taking Woodstock") while fighting Pedro Almodovar ("Broken Embraces") and kicking Jane Campion ("Bright Star") to the curb.
It's going to be fierce!
But before all the competition hoopla, Disney/Pixar will entertain everyone by opening the event with "Up" (the first ever animated film to kick off the festival!).
Oh, and out of competition? The last film made by Heath Ledger, "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" by Terry Gilliam.
Here's the complete line up, oh,...
But work schedule prevents me from going to Cannes (May is ratings period for TV and thou shall not leave your post!). So, I'll just regale myself with fantasizing I was there, or, by counting the days before I can see the films in/out competition!
And this year? It's great! Quentin Tarantino ("Inglourious Basterds") will face off with Ang Lee ("Taking Woodstock") while fighting Pedro Almodovar ("Broken Embraces") and kicking Jane Campion ("Bright Star") to the curb.
It's going to be fierce!
But before all the competition hoopla, Disney/Pixar will entertain everyone by opening the event with "Up" (the first ever animated film to kick off the festival!).
Oh, and out of competition? The last film made by Heath Ledger, "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" by Terry Gilliam.
Here's the complete line up, oh,...
- 4/23/2009
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
- Opening "Up," U.S., Pete Docter, Bob Peterson Closing "Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky," France, Jan Kounen In Competition "Bright Star," Australia-u.K.-France, Jane Campion "Spring Fever," China-France, Lou Ye "Antichrist," Denmark-Sweden-France-Italy, Lars von Trier "Enter the Void," France, Gaspar Noe "Face," France-Taiwan-Netherlands-Belgium, Tsai Ming-liang "Les Herbes folles," France-Italy, Alain Resnais "In the Beginning," France, Xavier Giannoli "A Prophet," France, Jacques Audiard "The White Ribbon," Germany-Austria-France, Michael Haneke "Vengeance," Hong Kong-France-u.S., Johnnie To "The Time That Remains," Israel-France-Belgium-Italy, Elia Suleiman "Vincere," Italy-France, Marco Bellocchio "Kinatay," Philippines, Brillante Mendoza "Thirst," South Korea-u.S., Park Chan-wook "Broken Embraces," Spain, Pedro Almodovar "Map of the Sounds of Tokyo," Spain, Isabel Coixet "Fish Tank," U.K.-Netherlands, Andrea Arnold "Looking for Eric," U.K.-France-Belgium-Italy, Ken Loach "Inglourious Basterds," U.S., Quentin Tarantino "Taking Woodstock," U.S., Ang Lee Out Of Competition "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus," Canada-France, Terry Gilliam "The Army of Crime,
- 4/23/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
- One of the rare times where you'll find me up at 6 in the morning is when Cannes Film Festival selections are announced. A flurry of trades rushed to get the details out, I waited until the chaos was over for the full list (some (THR) had/have Jaco Van Dormael listed in the longlist). For the most part, it appears that the festival is combining the old auteurs (Resnais) along with the new (Andrea Arnold), and have once again come to help out & support a filmmaker such as Lou Ye, who was banned from filmmaking in China for a couple of years for having come to Cannes with the uncensored Summer Palace (2006). This year he brings Spring Fever - about a young threesome overcome with erotic longings. Here are some thoughts on some of the announcements. What Today's List Tells Us Is... that Atom Egoyan (Chloe), Michael Moore, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- 4/23/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
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