Lucky residents of New York and Los Angeles will be able to see Terrence Malick’s Palme d’Or winner The Tree of Life in theaters this Friday. Over the next 6 weeks the film will expand to major markets across the country before finally opening wide on July 8th. The Playlist has the full roll-out schedule from Fox Searchlight. Check the date for your city...
Monthly Archives: May 2011
[notice]Over the past few days, since I went to Cannes, a virus attacked the site. The last time this happened, I was also out of town, but this time in Yosemite. Thankfully, Ryan was at the wheel and he managed to keep things going well in both emergencies. This time, though, the hack was deep. The whole site had to be moved. And as such, there is wonky stuff...
Palme d’Or: The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick) Grand Prix (a tie): Le Gaumin au Velo (Dardennes brothers) & Once Upon a Time in Anataolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) Best Director: Nicholas Winding Refn (Drive) Best Actor: Jean Dujardin (The Artist) Best Actress: Kirsten Dunst (Melancholia) Prix du Jury: Polisse (Maïwenn) Prix du scènario / Best Screenplay: Hearat Shulayim...
The Guardian‘s Vanessa Thorpe says some believe Cannes has been desperate to give Terrence Malick the prize for 30 years. Hanging over the jury’s last-minute deliberations on the Riviera is an even bigger question. Will the favourite, Terrence Malick, turn up to receive his honour if he wins? The director’s long-awaited latest film, The Tree of Life,...
Opening shot of two well-known thrillers. In two high-angle aerial views, we watch convoys of cop cars snaking their way along the sinuous two-lane S-curve of two highways at night. Both screenshots come from the first 30 seconds of each film. Both shots have a caption naming a date decades before the movie itself was released (in other words, they both specify a date...
Xan Brooks, Guardian The mile-o-meter is ticking all the way back to the 1980s on Drive, an existential heist movie that doffs its cap to the back catalogues of Walter Hill, John Carpenter and Michael Mann. Directed with savvy aplomb by the Danish film-maker Nicolas Winding Refn, this plays out under cloudy LA skies and thrums to a narcotic synth-pop soundtrack as it...