Monthly Archives: May 2012
The cinematography of Eric Gautier is one aspect consistently praised in the mixed reaction to On the Road coming from Cannes. At first glance this first clip might not look like a great example, but I love how it’s lit to overexpose the landscape rolling by outside to focus attention on the conversation confined inside the Hudson instead of gazing around at scenery....
Jeff Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere: Walter Salles’ On The Road is masterful and rich, meditative and sensual and adventurous and lamenting all at once. It has Bertolucci’s “nostalgia for the present” except the present is 1949 to 1951 — it feels completely alive in that time. No hazy gauze, no bop nostalgia. Beautifully shot and cut, excitingly...
It’s been another great year at Cannes. When the sun finally came out it was like waking up from a dream. There are many things I will miss but I’m glad to be getting back home. Unfortunately I won’t be seeing David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis, Walter Salles’ On the Road, Lee Daniels’ The Paperboy or Jeff Nichols’ Mud. You don’t...