Posts Tagged ‘62nd Cannes Film Festival’

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    Cannes: Cinema Paradiso
    Exhausted! That is what I am. I have been to film festivals and film festivals, and when I got the opportunity to come for the first time to Cannes, I knew it was the biggest one, but had never imagined it would be so big. May be, that’s what everyone finds out the first time here. And if you are a journalist who also has to write for his newspaper (because the newspaper...
    by Runumi G at May 22nd, 2009 at 06:05 am
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    Cannes: ‘Basterd’ Tarantino!
    Tarantino is back, and how! Inglourious Basterds created all the anticipated storm here at Cannes. Quite surely, the presence of Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt played a major role in that. But that was outside the theatres – the Grand Lumiere Red Carpet screening will be in the evening, but the early morning media screening saw a packed house, followed by a mad scramble...
    by Runumi G at May 20th, 2009 at 04:05 am
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    Cannes: Almodovar, Loach, Resnais
    Is it the effect of the recession gloom I don’t know, but the peddlers of heavy stuff have all come with feel good films this time to Cannes. If Ang Lee’s ‘return-to-innocence’ ode to Woodstock, not surprisingly called Taking Woodstock, lightened the Cannes delegates’ mood left shocked and awed by Lars von Trier’s Antichrist and some gory stuff in a few other...
    by Runumi G at May 20th, 2009 at 04:05 am
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    Cannes: Antichrist
    Speechless. That was what most of the critics who came out last night from the media screening of Danish master Lars von Trier’s Antichrist. What a shocker of a film this is. Forget Jane Campion’s Bright Star, Jacques Audiard’s Un Prophete, Park Chan-wook’s Thirst, Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock, Ken Loach’s Looking for Eric – all quite good films – and get...
    by Runumi G at May 18th, 2009 at 11:05 am
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    Cannes: Vengeance’s secret formula to success
    Dear filmmaker (and film lover) friends in India. I have just discovered the secret formula through which you can get your film into Cannes, possibly even the competition section. Get some French investment in the project, sign a big French name (such as music icon Johnny Hallyday) and develop a story which has a French connection – even a remote one will do. That’s...
    by Runumi G at May 17th, 2009 at 05:05 am
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    Cannes: Taking Woodstock, Un Prophete
    Ang Lee means tragic stories. At least that has been the case in recent years. Watch Taking Woodstock, and you will be astounded his this man changes genres like we change shirts. How many directors in contemporary world cinema can we think of who has such versatility in terms of theme, treatment and making as Lee? From Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to Lust, Caution,...
    by Runumi G at May 16th, 2009 at 06:05 am
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    Cannes: Kya Karein Ki Naa Karein…..
    This morning, I suddenly recalled the song “Kya Karein Ki Naa Karein Ye Kaisi Mushkil Bhai” from Rangeela. Man, this song could be the anthem of anyone visiting Cannes Film Fest, that too for the first time. What to take, and what to leave? – completely confusing. As a journalist, I am supposed to cover any possible India-angle stories apart from the main festival...
    by Runumi G at May 15th, 2009 at 07:05 am
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    Cannes: Recession, Ceylan, Spring Fever
    The carnival has begun in the true sense, though there is no mistaking the impact of recession. The American Pavilion at the Marche du Film has apparently witnessed around 30 per cent drop in pre-registrations, and the usual Hollywood star bandwagon is largely missing this time here, barring those starring in films being shown. One representative of a film company from...
    by Runumi G at May 14th, 2009 at 03:05 am
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    Cannes: Uplifted?
    Get ready for the great debate. Was it right to open the 62nd Cannes Film Festival with a Hollywood blockbuster, animation or not? Or was it the need of the hour to uplift (pun intended) the mood made gloomy by the recessionary trend. Whatever it is, you will enjoy Up, directed by Pete Doctor. It is that typical Disney-Pixar animation film. But there are differences between...
    by Runumi G at May 13th, 2009 at 04:05 am
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    Cannes: What recession, what Swine Flu? It’s the Competition that will make all swoon
    Palais des Festivals, 1 boulevard de la Croisette, Cannes, Alpes-Maritime, France. It is the level 3 of this Mecca of cinema, at the Wi-Fi Zone for the media, that I am sitting in. In front of me across the wide glass windows is the Mediterranean Sea, with the numerous yachts gently bobbing on the waves created by the incoming breeze. Down below, at another level, queues...
    by Runumi G at May 12th, 2009 at 01:05 pm
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