Montreal Film Fest Wrap-Up by Stephen Holt
The wonderful joie de vivre that one always experiences at this most delightful of Film Festivals, Montreal’s Festival des Film du Monde 2011, is going to be carried on and felt right on up to the Oscars by the amazing, astounding, hilarious French silent B&W film “The Artist.”
Silent? Black and White? Oscar Contender?? Mais non! How can this be???
Well, take my word for it, “The Artist” is all these things and MORE!
And Harvey Weinstein, fresh off his Oscar Best Picture win last year with “The King’s Speech” is going to be going to the Kodak Pavillion again this yar with his Cannes Film Festival acquistion that I predict AMPAS (the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences) is going to love, love, love!
“The Artist” is so perfectly done, so marvelously executed under the amazingly deft and funny direction of Michael Hazanaviscius that it is really the rarest of rava avis, a sublime cinematic miracle.
It takes what my seem a heavy-handed, tired trope, a satire of Silent Movies comedies and (melo)dramas, and explodes it into something quite wonderful, which is a loving tribute to the magic and the glory and the artistry of that by-gone era. It’s rapturous.
The sold-out audiences in Montreal were in a bliss-out state as they exited the theatre in the Quartier Latin. “The Artist” makes you smile, smile, smile. What movie makes you feel like that in these cynical and serious days?
Well, Woody Allen did exactly that also this year with his tremendous, late-career come-back success of “Midnight in Paris” (which I’ve now famously seen EIGHT times!) And the joie of cinema and movie-going itself that “The Artist” makes you feel is smilar and very French and very universal at the same time. Why? In this case, pourquois? Because it’s silent, with witty English Silent inter-titles, and its’ silence therefore speaks to everyone.
Harvey Weinstein has chosen once again wisely. This movie is gonna hit the Academy (and audiences all over the world) right where it lives, in its’ collective heart. And it’s got prodigious Oscar seeker Harvey behind it. That’s a very strong combination.
One of its’ main strengths and delights is the sure-fire Best Actor Nomination-worthy performance of the French star Jean Dujardin. Dujardin won the Best Actor Prize in Cannes for this. How Dujardin makes us care so deeply for his self-centered Silent Film Star, a Rudolph Valentino/Douglas Faribanks type, here named George Valentin, is another onf of “The Artist”s triumphs.
And he does it without saying one word!
And I predict the Acadmey is gonna love him for that.
Dujardin is dashing, vain, sexy, handsome and very, very funny. He sweeps the audience off its’ collective feet with the aptness and precision of a Chaplin. He makes you think he’s been acting in silent films all his life. AND that you’ve been watching them and enjoying them.And of course, at one time or another, we all have.
“Who needs sound anyway?” “The Artist” seems to be saying.
But wait! Plot complication! Talkies are coming! And sound is in and silent films are out! And “The Artist”s strength is in fully engaging you in wishing this wasn’t so.
The future of film is embodied in the sprightly young movie extra Valentin becomes involved with the ambitious and perfectly pert Peppy Miller. French actress Berenice Bejo turns in the SECOND tour-de-forcce silent performance in this remarkably rich film. In a weak field for actresses this year (so far) Ms. Bejo could score a nomination, too. Are you listening, Oscar?
Seemingly overwhelmed and swept off her feet (and the screen) by Dujardin’s charismatic turn, Bejo holds her own and develops Peppy from merely pretty to pretty amazing as the plot twists keep coming thick and fast and Peppy ends up as peppery and complicated as any leading lady performance this year. AND SHE’S SILENT!
The Degree of Difficulty, in Actors Branch parlance, is off the charts.
American actors John Goodman and Missi Pyle Score, too, also silent, in supporting roles. But it’s Dujardin’s and Bejo’s time to shine, shine, shine Oh! And they dance a lot, too!
Oscar look out! You’re about to be swept off your feet in utter delight! Between “The Artist” and “Midnight in Paris” I predict it’s going to be a very French year at the Oscars!
Of course, everything is tres Francais in the French=speaking province of Quebec and its’ capital city of Montreal. And the Festivel des Films du Monde also specializes in honoring legendary European film icons, usually French, with tributes or “Homages.”
This year Catherine Deneuve was on her way in for the last part of the Festival, which ends Monday, as I was on my way out, having experienced the marvelous first half. And they do special presentations “Coup de Coeur” this year with French filmmaking legend Bertrand Tavernier.
Tavernier, originally a film critic for the Cahiers du Cinema and *gasp* a film publicist in his youth, presented a series entitled “American Cinema: Unappreciated Noirs.”I caught Joseph Losey’s American Hollywood period “The Prowler” (1951) and it was ANOTHER incredible highlight for me of the MWFF 2011.
Blacklisted during the McCarthy witch hunts and self-exiled to England, Joseph Losey is considered by all to be one of the great noir directors with films like “The Servant” and his close collaboration with Harold Pinter.Losey made so many highly regarded British films that most people think he WAS British. But the suspenseful, tightly written(by the also blacklisted and uncredited Dalton Trumbo)and directed by Losey, “The Prowler” totally creeped me out in a wonderful noir way.
Tavernier observed “Every room is uncomfortable and every person is uncomfortable in it.No one in this film is happy.”
Almost a two-hander “The Prowler” boasts career best performances by Evelyn Keyes and Van Heflin, two actors I never really remarked upon much. Keyes’ Scarlett O’Hara’s younger sister Sue Ellen is what Keyes is most known for. A thankless petulant part, that she played very well, but didn’t show her range. But “The Prowler” does! And Van Heflin, who is the creepy cop, who is supposedly protecting her from a prowler, who then becomes her prowler himself, is superb and steathily handsome. While Keyes’ matches him moment for moment, as the hapless repressed housewife who finds herself caught in a web of deception and intrigue she could never have imagined as Heflin kills her husband and then marries her!
Another film I mightily enjoyed was the wild Italian farce, “Nessuno Mi Puo Guidicare” where a spoiled rich woman suddenly finds herself a widow, and then a pauper. And OF COURSE, the only career-path open to her is that of a high class hooker! Written and directed at a break-neck pace by Massimiliano Bruno, its’ improbable premise is made believable by the delightful performance of Paola Cortellesi as the hapless heroine, Alice.
Another Montreal surprise was the serious, 360-degree turn of Danny Huston in a German English language film “Playoff.” Showing an impressive range and simpatico, we have never seen before from him, Huston sports and Israeli-German accednt as an Israeli basketball coach and holocaust survivor who returns to his native Frankfurt to coach the German National Basketball team. Based on the real life story of Max Stoller, Huston really delivers in this his most complex, heroic role.
I got to speak with him and he he told me this hilariouis Oscar anecdote about this father, John Huston and Humphrey Bogart, who were great friends.
Evidently Bogart, a New York blue-blood, who was nothing like hardboiled gangster roles that made him famous thought of the Oscar and the Oscar race as something beneath him and “slightly vulgar.” That is, until he one one. For “The African Queen” under Huston’s direction in 1951.
And doing a fantastic imitation of his Oscar-winning father John, Danny said his father told Bogart, “Well for someone who disdains the Oscar, you seem inordinately proud of it now that you’ve won one.”
Hmmm… Box Office Mojo just changed their release date for CORIOLANUS from December 2 to January 13… it doesn’t indicate that it’s an expansion date… is TWC really waiting until the second weekend in January to start limited release? Even if they show it in a few theaters in December to qualify it, that sounds like a bad idea to me.
Hmmm… Box Office Mojo just changed their release date for CORIOLANUS from December 2 to January 13… it doesn’t indicate that it’s an expansion date… is TWC really waiting until the second weekend in January to start limited release? Even if they show it in a few theaters in December to qualify it, that sounds like a bad idea to me.
@Stephen: Okay, you got me really excited for CORIOLANUS now. And it’s three months until its release, and at least four until I’ll be able to see it in my area. Damn you.
@PaulH: We’ll see. Prestige films can really shine in economic downtimes like these. Witness the $100M+ runs of THE KING’S SPEECH and BLACK SWAN–not two of the easiest films to sell to Joe Moviegoer. If THE ARTIST builds sufficient momentum from awards, butts will be in the seats. Not enough to rival TKS or SWAN (the silent/B&W thing will take some toll), but I wouldn’t be shocked at $40M domestic, provided the buzz is loud enough.
@Stephen: Okay, you got me really excited for CORIOLANUS now. And it’s three months until its release, and at least four until I’ll be able to see it in my area. Damn you.
@PaulH: We’ll see. Prestige films can really shine in economic downtimes like these. Witness the $100M+ runs of THE KING’S SPEECH and BLACK SWAN–not two of the easiest films to sell to Joe Moviegoer. If THE ARTIST builds sufficient momentum from awards, butts will be in the seats. Not enough to rival TKS or SWAN (the silent/B&W thing will take some toll), but I wouldn’t be shocked at $40M domestic, provided the buzz is loud enough.
Just saw Ralph Fiennes’ “Coriolanus” and it’s his masterpiece. HIS best performance ever, blood-curdling, chilling, scarey bat-shit crazy and so is his MOM, which is Big Van, Vanessa Redgrave who is all those adjectives and MORE as she the most ambitious and frightening of mothers, pushes her andrenaline junket son(Fiennes) over the edge. AND MORE.
Jessica Chastain has virtually nothing to do and Big Van blows her off the screen, and she totally dominates the film. Volumnia was never A LEAD in “Coriolanus” but here under Redgrave’s super superb performance she IS. And director Fiennes gives Redgrave/Volumnia her head here and she blows his’ and audiences’ heads off, with her passive aggressive anger.
This is Shakespeare’s play about MOM, I always thought, and Redgrave goes to town, but never loses control. Her Volumnia is all about control and Fiennes’ definitive Coriolanus is about somebody who HAS no control. It’s incredible!
And the Academy will take note. And Fiennes could earn a Best Actor nod, too. Here acting WITH his nose, he totally makes his disregarded play by Shakespeare HIS. HE TOTALLY OWNS it. It’s HIS “Richard III”….He plays his not only as a warrior too proud for his own good, but a paranoid schizophrenic who is just not at ease in his own skin. But only fighting, fighting, fighting, like Jeremy Renner’s character in the “Hurt Locker.”
The critics will love it, I think, as a serious achievement, but will the public? Well, Big Van WILL be nominated and maybe Fiennes’, too.
If there’s a Supp. Actor nod in this, it’s Brian Cox, as Coriolanus’ only friend and mediator. Who Coriolanus also destroys along with himself and everybody he comes in contact with, practically. Gerard Butler is fine in what he has to do, but it’s not enough for a nomination, and the ghost of “300” is something that still haunts his screen performances….so far…though I have high hopes of “Shot Gun Preacher.”
Just saw Ralph Fiennes’ “Coriolanus” and it’s his masterpiece. HIS best performance ever, blood-curdling, chilling, scarey bat-shit crazy and so is his MOM, which is Big Van, Vanessa Redgrave who is all those adjectives and MORE as she the most ambitious and frightening of mothers, pushes her andrenaline junket son(Fiennes) over the edge. AND MORE.
Jessica Chastain has virtually nothing to do and Big Van blows her off the screen, and she totally dominates the film. Volumnia was never A LEAD in “Coriolanus” but here under Redgrave’s super superb performance she IS. And director Fiennes gives Redgrave/Volumnia her head here and she blows his’ and audiences’ heads off, with her passive aggressive anger.
This is Shakespeare’s play about MOM, I always thought, and Redgrave goes to town, but never loses control. Her Volumnia is all about control and Fiennes’ definitive Coriolanus is about somebody who HAS no control. It’s incredible!
And the Academy will take note. And Fiennes could earn a Best Actor nod, too. Here acting WITH his nose, he totally makes his disregarded play by Shakespeare HIS. HE TOTALLY OWNS it. It’s HIS “Richard III”….He plays his not only as a warrior too proud for his own good, but a paranoid schizophrenic who is just not at ease in his own skin. But only fighting, fighting, fighting, like Jeremy Renner’s character in the “Hurt Locker.”
The critics will love it, I think, as a serious achievement, but will the public? Well, Big Van WILL be nominated and maybe Fiennes’, too.
If there’s a Supp. Actor nod in this, it’s Brian Cox, as Coriolanus’ only friend and mediator. Who Coriolanus also destroys along with himself and everybody he comes in contact with, practically. Gerard Butler is fine in what he has to do, but it’s not enough for a nomination, and the ghost of “300” is something that still haunts his screen performances….so far…though I have high hopes of “Shot Gun Preacher.”
The fact that The Artist can be called Oscar-bound just shows you how effin’ weak 2011 has been in movies. Nobody outside of the festival circuit will go to see a SILENT FREAKIN’ MOVIE. No way, no how.
The fact that The Artist can be called Oscar-bound just shows you how effin’ weak 2011 has been in movies. Nobody outside of the festival circuit will go to see a SILENT FREAKIN’ MOVIE. No way, no how.
Stephen Holt says : “Based on the real life story of Max Stoller” – Surely you ment Based on the real life story of Ralph Klein, the legendary Israeli basketball couch…
Stephen Holt says : “Based on the real life story of Max Stoller” – Surely you ment Based on the real life story of Ralph Klein, the legendary Israeli basketball couch…
Ah oui, Gentle Benj! C’est vrai! Mlle. Cotillard DOES have a petite Oscar storm of buzz beginning to gather around her! Mais oui! And what a great performance it is! She’s probably the reason I’ve seen the film EIGHT TIMES! Lolol….I just can’t keep away! I miss it when I haven’t seen it, and yes, perhaps it’s because of her(as well as Woody’s great film itself) and I have heard that Sony Pictures Classics is going to do a BIG Oscar push. It’s doing so well, it could STAY playing in theaters as its’ doing now. And as I said, it’s gonna be a tres francais year at the Oscars and between Rachel MacAdams, Cathy Bates and Maid Marion, they may choose to back Marion as their winning filly. C’est possible! Tres possible! Between “The Artist” which in a few moments is going to be at TIFF and also Telluride, too, and “Midnight in Paris” France and the French are now back IN! Au courant, n’est-ce pas?
Ah oui, Gentle Benj! C’est vrai! Mlle. Cotillard DOES have a petite Oscar storm of buzz beginning to gather around her! Mais oui! And what a great performance it is! She’s probably the reason I’ve seen the film EIGHT TIMES! Lolol….I just can’t keep away! I miss it when I haven’t seen it, and yes, perhaps it’s because of her(as well as Woody’s great film itself) and I have heard that Sony Pictures Classics is going to do a BIG Oscar push. It’s doing so well, it could STAY playing in theaters as its’ doing now. And as I said, it’s gonna be a tres francais year at the Oscars and between Rachel MacAdams, Cathy Bates and Maid Marion, they may choose to back Marion as their winning filly. C’est possible! Tres possible! Between “The Artist” which in a few moments is going to be at TIFF and also Telluride, too, and “Midnight in Paris” France and the French are now back IN! Au courant, n’est-ce pas?
Hahaha, well, let’s not get too carried away. I mean, Weinstein has pulled off three actors in one category before (Best Actress 2001), but it’s really rare. Even in a year like 2002, with seven Miramax-backed acting nominees, it was still only two per category. Judi Dench in J. EDGAR should be a force to be reckoned with, and films like THE DESCENDANTS and EXTREMELY LOUD could generate heavy-hitting supporting actresses. Plus I wouldn’t discount the possibility that the wave of love for MIDNIGHT IN PARIS will bring Marion Cotillard to the show.
Hahaha, well, let’s not get too carried away. I mean, Weinstein has pulled off three actors in one category before (Best Actress 2001), but it’s really rare. Even in a year like 2002, with seven Miramax-backed acting nominees, it was still only two per category. Judi Dench in J. EDGAR should be a force to be reckoned with, and films like THE DESCENDANTS and EXTREMELY LOUD could generate heavy-hitting supporting actresses. Plus I wouldn’t discount the possibility that the wave of love for MIDNIGHT IN PARIS will bring Marion Cotillard to the show.
oops! That should’ve been “Harvey’s GirlS”! Lolol….And with Meryl and Michelle….He’s surrounded by a bevy of Oscar beauties. Not to mention Madonna!
oops! That should’ve been “Harvey’s GirlS”! Lolol….And with Meryl and Michelle….He’s surrounded by a bevy of Oscar beauties. Not to mention Madonna!
Harvey will get traction for allllll of them, be assured. I’m seeing “Coriolanus” tomorrow. “The Maids” oops! That’s by Genet! “The Help” is getting so much traction box-office-wise it’s just unbelievable! How did Sasha describe it? “It’s on FIRE!”
And for a female-centric movie that’s huge! HUGE! So if Harvey’s Girl, Berenice, Andrea and Vanessa take three slots then the “Help”s Carpathia and Jessica Chastain take the other two…Voila! THAT category is sewn up already! Yikes! And it’s not even Labor Day!
I think the WHOLE WORLD is going to fall in love with this improbable Oscar-bound film, “The Artist.” And Harvey is going to have one of the easiest jobs he’s ever had getting voters to watch it! AND it’s only 90 minutes or so!
It’s funny. It’s tragic. It’s dazzling and all with NO SOUND! And the dog! THAT dog! He’s going to be more famous than Rin Tin Tin.
I can’t stop thinking about how wonderful it was….What skill! What a shock! What a film!
Harvey will get traction for allllll of them, be assured. I’m seeing “Coriolanus” tomorrow. “The Maids” oops! That’s by Genet! “The Help” is getting so much traction box-office-wise it’s just unbelievable! How did Sasha describe it? “It’s on FIRE!”
And for a female-centric movie that’s huge! HUGE! So if Harvey’s Girl, Berenice, Andrea and Vanessa take three slots then the “Help”s Carpathia and Jessica Chastain take the other two…Voila! THAT category is sewn up already! Yikes! And it’s not even Labor Day!
I think the WHOLE WORLD is going to fall in love with this improbable Oscar-bound film, “The Artist.” And Harvey is going to have one of the easiest jobs he’s ever had getting voters to watch it! AND it’s only 90 minutes or so!
It’s funny. It’s tragic. It’s dazzling and all with NO SOUND! And the dog! THAT dog! He’s going to be more famous than Rin Tin Tin.
I can’t stop thinking about how wonderful it was….What skill! What a shock! What a film!
And Harvey is going to campaign like mad in ALLLL categories. That includes Berenice Bejo in either Actress category
Hey, there’s a thought. TWC could campaign Bejo as supporting if they can’t get any traction with Andrea Riseborough or Vanessa Redgrave.
And Harvey is going to campaign like mad in ALLLL categories. That includes Berenice Bejo in either Actress category
Hey, there’s a thought. TWC could campaign Bejo as supporting if they can’t get any traction with Andrea Riseborough or Vanessa Redgrave.
Accepted! And what is Sasha’s great term for Harvey Weinstein “The Oscar Whisperer”? Lolol…
Accepted! And what is Sasha’s great term for Harvey Weinstein “The Oscar Whisperer”? Lolol…
Sorry, I just noticed that Sasha did not write this article. I apologize to Stephen Holt. I had read a review of The Artist by Sasha Stone last week and assumed it was her that wrote this.
A thousand pardons 🙂
Sorry, I just noticed that Sasha did not write this article. I apologize to Stephen Holt. I had read a review of The Artist by Sasha Stone last week and assumed it was her that wrote this.
A thousand pardons 🙂
I am so looking forward to seeing The Artist. Reading your review, Sasha, makes me want to see it NOW! But, alas, I live in a relatively small city in New Brunswick, Canada, and I am afraid it may not even make it here. Who knows? I will seek it out in another city and, if I must, I will drive elsewhere to see it.
On another note, Montreal is not the capital city of Quebec . . . Quebec City is the capital.
I am so looking forward to seeing The Artist. Reading your review, Sasha, makes me want to see it NOW! But, alas, I live in a relatively small city in New Brunswick, Canada, and I am afraid it may not even make it here. Who knows? I will seek it out in another city and, if I must, I will drive elsewhere to see it.
On another note, Montreal is not the capital city of Quebec . . . Quebec City is the capital.
Harvey, I’m sure, sees it as having an embarassment of riches, or differently put, covering his bases. ALL of them. He’s back in the game, and as Sasha says, and I’m paraphrasing slightly, ” When it comes to Oscar, never underestimate Dame Judi Dench ~~. OR Harvey Weinstein.”
Harvey, I’m sure, sees it as having an embarassment of riches, or differently put, covering his bases. ALL of them. He’s back in the game, and as Sasha says, and I’m paraphrasing slightly, ” When it comes to Oscar, never underestimate Dame Judi Dench ~~. OR Harvey Weinstein.”
In the barren year of 2011, this claptrap probably makes it in. Fortunately. MAINSTREAM audiences will simply Hurt Locker this into boxoffice oblivion. Bad enough that Weinstein is positioning himself for multiple Oscar contenders…
Also, Hunger Games teaser trailer now out, and already I’m yearning for Kristen Bell as Katniss:
http://www.mtv.com/videos/movie-trailers/686022/the-hunger-games.jhtml#id=1669822
In the barren year of 2011, this claptrap probably makes it in. Fortunately. MAINSTREAM audiences will simply Hurt Locker this into boxoffice oblivion. Bad enough that Weinstein is positioning himself for multiple Oscar contenders…
Also, Hunger Games teaser trailer now out, and already I’m yearning for Kristen Bell as Katniss:
http://www.mtv.com/videos/movie-trailers/686022/the-hunger-games.jhtml#id=1669822
I know. That Sandra Bullock tribute, way back when. I was there for that. Sat through the clips. Then walked out when they unspooled as I realized there was no there there. White bread on top of white bread. She’s gotten better. But not much…
And Harvey W. wants that Oscar and this may be his strongest Best Picture contender from his tremendously packed Oscar plate. Most though are nominations for Performances, Meryl in “Iron Lady”, Michelle W. in “Marilyn” Maybe Kenneth Branage for that, too. But it seems the Oscar Drum Best is sounding loudest for the irrestible “Artist” and Harvey knows that.
He also knows that as improbable as it may seem Jean Dujardin is VERY strong Best Actor contender. He won Cannes. And if Harvey can get that unknown-until-then, middle-aged Italian actor Roberto Benigni a WIN.for Best Actor, I’m betting he’s thinking it could do it for the much more capable and equally unknown(in this country, but not in France) Jean Dujardin. Harvey certainly knows how to work THAT hat-trick.
And the Academy FORWARD LOOKING? They’d like to THINK they are, but they aren’t. And Harvey is going to campaign like mad in ALLLL categories. That includes Berenice Bejo in either Actress category,
Michael Hazanaviscius as director and THAT score! That wonderful score! That SCORE is a very, very strong contender in that category. And oh, yes, Best Sound. Best Sound Editing….Maybe even Editing.
He’s gonna go for all of it, because this is the film that the Academy could love. And most likely will.
You know he’d try to get that wonderfully expressive and sympathetic dog a nomination, too, if he could.
The point is Harvey knows how to work particular street and he’s got a winner in “The Artist.” And I hear that the Actors Branch peeps who’ve seen are in 7th Heaven about it. It will get nominated all over the place and maybe actually win something.
I know. That Sandra Bullock tribute, way back when. I was there for that. Sat through the clips. Then walked out when they unspooled as I realized there was no there there. White bread on top of white bread. She’s gotten better. But not much…
And Harvey W. wants that Oscar and this may be his strongest Best Picture contender from his tremendously packed Oscar plate. Most though are nominations for Performances, Meryl in “Iron Lady”, Michelle W. in “Marilyn” Maybe Kenneth Branage for that, too. But it seems the Oscar Drum Best is sounding loudest for the irrestible “Artist” and Harvey knows that.
He also knows that as improbable as it may seem Jean Dujardin is VERY strong Best Actor contender. He won Cannes. And if Harvey can get that unknown-until-then, middle-aged Italian actor Roberto Benigni a WIN.for Best Actor, I’m betting he’s thinking it could do it for the much more capable and equally unknown(in this country, but not in France) Jean Dujardin. Harvey certainly knows how to work THAT hat-trick.
And the Academy FORWARD LOOKING? They’d like to THINK they are, but they aren’t. And Harvey is going to campaign like mad in ALLLL categories. That includes Berenice Bejo in either Actress category,
Michael Hazanaviscius as director and THAT score! That wonderful score! That SCORE is a very, very strong contender in that category. And oh, yes, Best Sound. Best Sound Editing….Maybe even Editing.
He’s gonna go for all of it, because this is the film that the Academy could love. And most likely will.
You know he’d try to get that wonderfully expressive and sympathetic dog a nomination, too, if he could.
The point is Harvey knows how to work particular street and he’s got a winner in “The Artist.” And I hear that the Actors Branch peeps who’ve seen are in 7th Heaven about it. It will get nominated all over the place and maybe actually win something.
Sorry, can’t root for The Artist no matter how good it is. The Academy needs to look to the future, not the past. They need to make up for last year’s snafu and award the big prize to something that represents the here and now of cinema.
Sorry, can’t root for The Artist no matter how good it is. The Academy needs to look to the future, not the past. They need to make up for last year’s snafu and award the big prize to something that represents the here and now of cinema.
Danny Huston’s been great for awhile.
Danny Huston’s been great for awhile.
I think you mean a 180-degree turn, Stephen, otherwise Danny Huston would just be right back where he started.
I missed the festival this year due to work, but I’m looking forward to seeing The Artist when it gets its commercial release. As for the festival celebrating European icons, it must be remembered that this is the same festival that gave Sandra Bullock a career achievement award almost a decade ago.
I think you mean a 180-degree turn, Stephen, otherwise Danny Huston would just be right back where he started.
I missed the festival this year due to work, but I’m looking forward to seeing The Artist when it gets its commercial release. As for the festival celebrating European icons, it must be remembered that this is the same festival that gave Sandra Bullock a career achievement award almost a decade ago.