Monthly Archives: May 2010

IndiaTimes tells us Martin Scorsese has been busy wooing Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in Cannes, with an eye to feature her in his next film. Question is, what film? William Monahan was to rewrite a script for The Long Play (based on an idea by Mick Jagger), involving two friends in the music business over the course of 40 years, from the days of R&B to hip-hip. Then...

Todd McCarthy, writing for Indiewire, is the first up with a review of the five hour Carlos. Either he’s a fast writer or he’s seen the movie in advance. The screening here in Cannes just got out. I haven’t heard word one from anyone who went – I didn’t go, unfortunately, but will catch it when it airs on IFC: I can‚Äôt recall ever seeing...

Where Jeff Wells goes, trouble often follows. He is not a PC type and therefore, he often gets into a bit of trouble by writing his emotional reactions – hell, we all do. Steve Pond wrote up a funny bit about it and you can go back and piece together the story but I thought you might want a bit of perspective from someone right in the thick of it. Pond writes: When...

In many ways, I feel like an imposter here, slightly embarrassed to be a “blogger” with “my own site.” So I tend to downplay as much as possible or not even mention it at all. It’s one thing to be around Hollywood types, but journalists are a whole different breed. ...

There are three Oscar gets coming out of Cannes: Another Year, Blue Valentine and Biutiful. The unstoppable Weinsteins have Blue Valentine and now SPC has Another Year. They handled An Education last year. The only one up for grabs now is Biutiful. Screendaily via Guy Lodge’s Twitter. Count on Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams from Blue Valentine (one of the best films...

UPDATE: Thanks to Jun for tipping us to the full trailer above. The teaser can be seen after the cut. Im Sang-soo’s The Housemaid is a remake of a classic 1960 South Korean film in which a malign and predatory woman destroys the family that has employed her as a maid. Im’s remake is a big, brassy suspense thriller set in the household of an arrogant, super-rich...

Roger Ebert writes in his Journal from Cannes: Mike Leigh has long been a great director, but now he is surely at the top of his form. “Another Year” has premiered here and is the film everyone I talk with loves the most. It is so beautifully sure and perceptive in its record of one year in the life of a couple happily married, and their relatives and friends,...