via Filmmaker magazine Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild picked up the FIPRESCI prize, given by an international jury of film critics, as the best film in the Un Certain Regard section of the main selection. Sergei Loznitsa’s In the Fog picked up the FIPRESCI prize in the Competition, while the jury gave the Director’s Fortnight prize to Rachad Djaidani’s...
Monthly Archives: May 2012
Prize of Un Certain Regard: Despues de Lucia (Michel Franco) Un Certain Regard Special Distinction: Dject (Aida Begic) Un Certain Regard for Best Actress: Emilie Dequenne (A Perdre la Raison), Suzanne Clement (Laurence Anyways) Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize: Le Grand Soir (Gustave Kervern & Benoit Delepine) (thanks to JennyL) Cannes’ Un Certain Regard jury...
Headhunters opened in the US a month ago, but we were distracted with preparations for Cannes and I let it slip past without posting. Thanks to Pierre de Plume for reminding me. Jo Nesbø is a name you should know, because Martin Scorsese is interested in adapting The Snowman, one of Nesbø’s Harry Hole detective thrillers. Headhunters is showing on only 39...
Loving everything we see and hear about Holy Motors. What’s great about this playfully sinister poster and many of the images from the film is how they look familiar and fantastical at the same time. Homogenous stretch limos and anonymous body suits, simultaneously generic and deviant. Full-size after the cut. ...
Nespresso Grand Prize: Aqui y Alla (Spain) dir. Antonio Mendez Esparza Pedro (Pedro de los Santos) returns home to his mountain village in the Mexican province of Guerrero after years of working odd jobs in the U.S. … Pursuing his own version of the American Dream, Pedro forms a band, the Copa Kings; the only real happiness the family feels is when he’s strumming...
Winners of 44th Directors Fortnight ART CINEMA AWARD 2012: No (Pablo Larrain, Chile-U.S.-Mexico) EUROPA CINEMAS LABEL 2012: The Repentant (Merzak Allouache, Algeria-France) SACD PRIZE 2012: Camille Rewinds (Noemi Lvovsky, France) From Variety via Chicago Tribune: Chilean Pablo Larrain’s ”No,” took the top Art Cinema Award at Cannes’ 44th Directors’...