Film General

[Hayden]

Cannes is looking really tasty this year.

Asako I & II dir. Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
Ash Is Purest White dir. Jia Zhangke
Burning dir. Lee Chang-dong
Capernaum di. Nadine Labaki
BlacKkKlansman dir. Spike Lee
Cold War Paweł Pawlikowski
Dogman dir. Matteo Garrone
Everybody Knows dir. Asghar Farhadi
Girls of the Sun dir Eva Husson
Lazzaro Felice dir. Alice Rohrwacher
The Image Book dir. Jean-Luc Godard
The Little One dir. Sergey Dvortsevoy
Shoplifters dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Leto dir. Serebrennikov
Three Faces dir. Jafar Panahi
Under The Silver Lake dir. David Robert Michell
The Wild Pear Tree dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Yomeddine dir. Abu Bakr Shawky
Donbass dir Sergei Loznitsa
Long Day's Journey Into dir. Bi Gan
The House That Jack Built dir. Lars Von Trier
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote dir. Terry Gilliam
10 Years in Thailand dir. Aditya Assarat, Wisit Sasanatieng, Chulayarnon Sriphol, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Climax dir. Gaspar Noe
Mirai of The Future dir. Mamoru Hosoda

Like, look at that. That's not even all the films, just what I'm looking forward to (albeit, I think I've listen 90% of what's in competition).

Still surprised (along with most people) at the lack of several titles, but I have no complaints. This looks exciting.

[Hayden]

Just some poooiiinnttlesss guesses

Palme D’or: Lazzaro Felice
Grand Prix: Ash Is The Purest White Cold War
Jury Prize: Shoplifters
Director: Jafar Panahi
Actor: Yoo Ah-In
Actress: Vanessa Paradis Zhao Tao
Screenplay: BlackkKlansman & The Wild Pear Tree

Un Certain Regard: Rafiki

EDIT: Capernaum will probably win something.... and Burning could snag the Palme.

[Hayden]

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[cestuneblague]

Yeah I don't really follow Cans but I did hear Lars Von Trier made a sort-of ruckus again, did he like make a film casting himself as Hitler's therapist or sth

[Hayden]

The Venice Film Festival line-up is LIT. So glad about the Coen's changing their new project into a film instead of a miniseries.

New projects from:

Paul Greengrass
Julian Schnabel
Coens
Assayas
Yorgos Lanthimos
Damien Chazelle
Carlos Reygadas
Jennifer Kent
Mike Leigh
Alfonso Cuaron
Jacques Audiard (sorry Norm)
Laszlo Nemes
Guadagnino
Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck
Kusturica
Yimou
Sergei Loznitsa (somehow????)
Tsai Ming-liang
Orson Welles

Like, that's something to get pumped about.

No Canadian presence in the mix but oh well. Hurry up with that film Dolan.

[Hayden]

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/201810...uage-films

BBC's whipped up a pretty solid list in case anyone's looking for where to start/continue with non-English films. It's not terribly edgy, but it's a pretty good blanket.

[Skinny]

The new Halloween is a whole lot of fun. It's about four different films awkwardly mashed into one, and all the better for it. It's full of massive plot holes and inexplicably moronic decisions made both on- and off-screen, and all the better for it. Every single character is oddly unlikeable, and all are better for it. Nods to the original abound, most obviously in the Carpenter-helmed soundtrack, the sinister, Loomis-esque psychiatrist, and repeated use of first-person steadicam, and a couple of the shot choices are inspired, especially as The Shape ket-stomps menacingly through streets crammed with trick-or-treating potential victims. I'm also always up for a tense game of hide and seek in a dark room which is - for no apparent reason - filled with mannequins. It'll never beat the original, or the entirely unrelated Halloween III for that matter, but it's an enjoyably over-the-top, ridiculously campy, comfortingly nostalgic, reliably taut, and insanely ideas-heavy romp that is worth popping to the cinema for, particularly on this date if possible.
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2021 in full effect. Come drop me some recs. Y'all know what I like.

[badseed]

[Hayden]

RIP Jonas Mekas