Cannes 2010

[knives]

I'll let better people make their own cracks about this one.

[Minkin]

He does have experience reviewing films.

[lacritfan]

Terry Gilliam was busy.

[Oedipax]

Bleh.

[Lemdog]

And we have hit a new low.

[Brian C]

Just imagine the bitching when two-time Palme winner Darren Aronofsky is announced as Jury President in 2021.

[lacritfan]

I'll let better people make their own cracks about this one.

Oh wait, just thought of one :
Fran-Cannes-weenie

[dad1153]

A J.D. Salinger documentary (five years in the making) from screenwriter Shane Salerno might be a late entry into this year's Cannes: http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/secre ... -the-film/

Salerno financed the film out of his pocket, interviewed 150 sources, and accumulated so much information that he collaborated on a 700-page companion book with bestselling author David Shields.

The 150 sources interviewed in the film either worked with Salinger at The New Yorker or had contact with him otherwise, or were greatly influenced by him. The famous names include Philip Seymour Hoffman, Edward Norton, John Cusack, Danny DeVito, John Guare, Martin Sheen, David Milch, Robert Towne, Tom Wolfe, E.L. Doctorow, A. Scott Berg, Elizabeth Frank, Gore Vidal, and many other fans, journalists, filmmakers, playwrights, and artists inspired by Salinger's work.

The film -- kept under the radar until now -- wasn’t done in time for consideration at this year's Sundance Film Festival. As a result, the filmmaker hoped to present it at a spring film festival, like Cannes. It will be shopped shortly by WME Entertainment and Robert Offer for distribution and remake. The book, also complete, will be shopped by IPG’s Brian Lipson and literary agent Henry Dunow.

[Dadapass]

Robin Hood to Open Cannes

[Dadapass]

[perkizitore]

[Duncan Hopper]

Is that Juliette Binoche? What a horrible poster.

[knives]

Tonight on Cannes Idol

[bigP]

The pitch accompanying the poster:

Continuing the series of heroines as representations of screen mysteries, initiated two years ago, festival organizers were charmed by this allegorical figure of the cinema who gives life to the image with a single stroke of her luminous brush.The figure illuminates the scene with her presence; the magic of her enigmatic gaze heightened by her austere attire, the grace of her gesture is an invitation to follow.

Honestly, this really is a poor, poor choice of poster. The technical standard of the photography is Foundation Art & Design level and conceptually it really fails to get across any form of a message of the heroine as a representation of screen mystery or that the scene is representative of anything other than Juliette Binoche posing as if she had just whirled around two magic paintbrushes. From a technical standpoint, I would have been more impressed if the text had been created during the shot by Binoche's own hand (a skill that is also taught on foundation art & design courses with the use of anything that creates light) but sadly they've gone for text that looks horribly synthetic and clearly seperate from the scene and with just far too much (unforgiveable) lens-flare effect. I'm just sad that Binoche is standing in the frame and not President Burton.

[tavernier]

I thought it was k d lang

[Brian C]

I thought it was Isabella Rossellini.

[colinr0380]

I was going to say Tilda Swinton!

[stephenp]

I seem to remember the Edinburgh Film Festival used a similar light-writing "allegory" a couple of years ago...

...although I think it used shots of Filmhouse staff waving sparklers in the Meadows rather than Juliette Binoche!

[greekboy]

I though it was a pic of 80's era Dave Gahan from Depeche Mode.

[carax09]

That's weird, because I thought it was Gary Numan circa The Pleasure Principle.

[hangman]

The pitch accompanying the poster:

Continuing the series of heroines as representations of screen mysteries, initiated two years ago, festival organizers were charmed by this allegorical figure of the cinema who gives life to the image with a single stroke of her luminous brush.The figure illuminates the scene with her presence; the magic of her enigmatic gaze heightened by her austere attire, the grace of her gesture is an invitation to follow.

As good as their pitch sounds the actual product just fell flat. It look way too reminiscent of American Idol

[ellipsis7]

Such a contrast with last year's wonderful poster art...

[mfunk9786]

[Murdoch]

^ I was thinking the same thing