The Coens have a movie coming out, Hail Caesar. But it isn’t clear whether that means the film will show at the festival out of competition.
For the first time in the history of the Festival de Cannes, not one but two leading figures will chair the Jury.
Indeed, American filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen have accepted the invitation from President Pierre Lescure and General Delegate Thierry Frémaux to become the Presidents of the 68th edition of the Festival.
“We look forward to returning to Cannes this year”, Joel and Ethan Coen said from the Hail Caesar! film shoot with George Clooney, Christophe Lambert, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Josh Brolin and Channing Tatum. “We welcome as always the opportunity to watch movies there from all over the world. Cannes is a festival that has been important to us since the very beginning of our career. Presiding over the Jury is a special honour, since we have never heretofore been president of anything. We will issue further proclamations at the appropriate time.”
“I mean, let’s remember some pretentious dudes: Kubrick”
Done. DONE.
This is great news. And they were not ever going to invite just one of them were they…
Funny, I thought there were already two presidents in 1994, the year when Pulp Fiction won: Clint Eastwood & Catherine Deneuve.
But it seems that Deneuve was only vice-president (from Wikipedia).
Can’t get tired of watching Clint taking his time to announce the Pulp Fiction win 🙂
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4s9h2_pulp-fiction-cannes-1994-palme-d-or_webcam
I’m predicting The Lobster to win the Palme d’Or and Marion Cotillard to win best actress for Macbeth.
I always imagine that somehow, someday, one of the major film festivals will have a two person presidency. But in terms of Cannes, I suspected that the first case would be a Dardenne Brothers one. Luc and Jean-Pierre even coordenate the 2006 jury for the Camera D’Or at the Croisette. And I think if they had choose the Dardenne, instead of the Coens, it would be a more “film-buff” option. Don’t get me wrong: I love the Coens works, but they were never sound to me too much interested in debating cinema (unlike the Dardenne), as they are in doing it.
Here’s hoping Todd Haynes’ CAROL gets screened at Cannes and wins Best Actress for the collective Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara and Sarah Paulson !!
I think Carol already won the Palme d’Or this year, or am I mistaken?
That means we’ll have fine choice of winners 🙂 Love all of their works.
I’m a huge fan of Coens, they are legends and deserved this honor! I can’t wait to see Hail, Caesar! and i don’t believe that will be released in February, that would be a waste, put it in December! 2015 is going to be an amazing year, one of the best!
Coens = Best Filmmakers.
The blurb that displayed the cast of “Hail, Ceasar” omitted two-time Academy Award nominee Jonah Hill. I already have it marked down as my anticipated favorite film of 2016. But yeah, it won’t be ready for Cannes 2015.
Hail, Caesar! has a February 2016 release date and is still in principal photography so any showing, in or out of competition or otherwise, at Cannes is very unlikely.
“Anything pretentious” I believe this is one of the most bullshit sentences I see in art critics. I mean, let’s remember some pretentious dudes: Kubrick, Malick, Miles Davis
I love the Coens, but I’d be more interested if John Carpenter was chosen for such an honor. That would be really, really interesting… anything pretentious would be inmediately disqualified for an award, just pure cinema, true art.
Fine choice — no less than the premier film artists working in America for the last 3 decades.