Cannes 2016

[TMDaines]

That looks like a stacked festival.

First film on the list is spelt wrong: it's Toni Erdmann.

One that struck me is that, on first glance, it does seem like In Competition is for the West, and Un Certain Regard for the rest of the world.

[mfunk9786]

I would buy a plane ticket right this minute if someone offered me passes. That seems like a once in a lifetime Cannes, depending on how some of these films turn out. Absolutely stacked.

[Finch]

Most excited about the Almodovar, Assayas, Dardennes, Jarmusch, Guiraudie, Verhoeven and Refn.

[Oedipax]

I would buy a plane ticket right this minute if someone offered me passes. That seems like a once in a lifetime Cannes, depending on how some of these films turn out. Absolutely stacked.

I'm hoping I can catch most of the titles I'm interested in at the 'Cannes à Paris' screenings that run the last few days of the festival. Haven't been able to confirm whether it's happening again this year or not.

[yoshimori]

Just Park and Mendoza [?! he must have some dirt of Fremaux] from Asia in the comp? Was hoping they'd include the new Tran Anh Hung. Maybe it'll show up, with the Kurosawa, in the Quinzaine, but I'm not holding my breath.

My tenth Cannes. Especially looking forward to the Arnold, Dumont, Puiu, Refn, and (out-of-competition) Serra, but line-ups, lists of names, can be deceiving. Remember 2007? Wong (My Blueberry Nights), Hou (Flight of the Red Balloon), Korine (Mister Lonely), Tarr (Man from London), Kusturica (Promise Me This)? All duds, or worse, chez moi. Still, there're always surprises.

[knives]

The Arnold is with A24 by the way.

[FrauBlucher]

As a big fan of Kleber Mendonca Filho's Neighboring Sounds (2012), I would love to see who picks up Aquarius.

[nosy lena]

Which are the films you guys are most excited about from this list?

Guiraudie, Filho, Puiu, Serra, and Vecchiali.

[lacritfan]

Which are the films you guys are most excited about from this list?

Almodovar, Arnold, Dolan, Jarmusch (2), Mungiu, Refn, Kore-Eda

[Luke M]

Just echoing what others have said, that lineup is amazing. The only major film festival I've attended is the NYFF and I had a blast. Cannes isn't even a bucket list item because I can't even imagine ever attending.

[yoshimori]

Critics' Week line-up:

Features:
Mehmet Can Mertoglu, ALBÜM Turkey
Davy Chou, DIAMOND ISLAND Cambodia
Julia Ducournau, GRAVE [RAW] France
Asaph Polonsky, SHAVUA VE YOM [ONE WEEK AND A DAY] Israel
Oliver Laxe, MIMOSAS Spain
Vatche Boulghourjian, TRAMONTANE Lebanon
K. Rajagopal, A YELLOW BIRD Singapore

Opening:
Justine Triet, VICTORIA [IN BED WITH VICTORIA] France

Closing:
Sandrine Kiberlain, BONNE FIGURE [SMILE] France
+ Laetitia Casta, EN MOI France
+ Chloë Sevigny, KITTY USA

50+5 Screenings:
César Augusto Acevedo LOS PASOS DEL AGUA Colombia
Nadav Lapid, MYOMANO SHEL TZALAM HATONOT [FROM THE DIARY OF A WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER] Israel

Special Screenings:
Alessandro Comodin I TEMPI FELICI VERRANNO PRESTO [HAPPY TIMES WILL COME SOON] Italy
Jean-Christophe Meurisse APNÉE France

[yoshimori]

Directors' Fortnight:

Divines - Houda Benyamina
Dog Eat Dog - Paul Schrader
Fai Bei Sogni - Marco Bellocchio
Fiore - Claudio Giovannesi
L’Économie du couple - Joachim Lafosse
L’Effet aquatique - Sólveig Anspach
La Pazza Gioia - Paolo Virzì
Les Vies de Thérèse - Sébastien Lifshitz
Ma vie de courgette - Claude Barras
Mean Dreams - Nathan Morlando
Mercenaire - Sacha Wolff
Neruda - Pablo Larraín
Poesía Sin Fin - Alejandro Jodorowsky
Raman Raghav 2.0 - Anurag Kashyap
Risk - Laura Poitras
Tour de France - Rachid Djaïdani
Two Lovers and a Bear - Kim Nguyen
Wolf and Sheep - Shahrbanoo Sadat

[tenia]

Which are the films you guys are most excited about from this list?

American Honey and Slack Bay. Possibly the Park Chan wook, the Guiraudie and the Jarmusches. And that's about it for the main competition.

Lots of nice names as yoshimori noted, but who haven't offered many very good things lately (Verhoeven, Almodovar, Loach) or aren't my cup of tea (either I found them over-hyped - Dolan, Mendoza, Assayas, Nichols, Penn - or widely inconsistent - Refn obviously, but Jarmusch too -). If they're all suddenly back to their top game, that could be a massive festival, but if not, it will simply look like the usual suspects doing mediocre stuff but hey, it's Cannes Family !

I'm actually more excited by the Kore-eda and the Poitras.

[dustin]

Most excited about Ade, Filho, Na, Jarmuschs, Refn, Serra, Arnold.

Is it only me secretly wishing Dumont do dramas again?

[doh286]

Cannes Classics line-up has been revealed.

[colinr0380]

I wonder if that brings One-Eyed Jacks closer to a potential Criterion release! And I remember really enjoying Indochine when I saw it back in the late 90s - its a grand scale epic about forbidden love and the end of French colonial rule, though seen more through the eyes of Catherine Deneuve's family matriarch than of the mixed race young couple at the centre of, and causing, all the drama. It strikes me now as very much a product of the wave of epic films that followed the success of The Last Emperor (which went on for a couple more years into films like Beyond Rangoon).

[beamish13]

Cannes Classics line-up has been revealed.

Looks great. I was surprised to see that work on One-Eyed Jacks has been completed, and hopefully a stacked Blu-Ray of Forman's underrated
Valmont is on the horizon.

[Trees]

Cannes Classics line-up has been revealed.

Nice. Ugetsu is a must for me.

• Solyaris (Solaris) by Andreï Tarkovski (1972, 2h47, Russian Federation)
A presentation of Mosfilm Cinema Concern.
Digital frame-by-frame restoration of image and sound from 2K scan of the negative. Producer of the restoration: Karen Shakhnazarov.

• Ugetsu monogatari (Ugetsu) by Kenji Mizoguchi (1953, 1h37, Japan)
Presented by The Film Foundation, KADOKAWA Corporation, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Restored by The Film Foundation and KADOKAWA Corporation at Cineric Laboratories. Special thanks to Masahiro Miyajima and Martin Scorsese for their consultation on this restoration. Restoration funding provided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in association with The Film Foundation and KADOKAWA Corporation.

[Jeff]

As if the competition line-up wasn't already stacked, Asghar Farhadi's The Salesman has been added to the official selection. Several films were added to the other sections as well.

COMPETITION:

“The Salesman” (Asghar Farhadi). Shot in Teheran, “The Salesman” is a contemporary tale centering around a couple who drift into violence because of societal pressures. Taraneh Alidoosti (“About Elly) and Shahab Hosseini (“A Separation”). Farhadi, who won the foreign-language Oscar for “A Separation” in 2012, competed at Cannes with his previous film, the Paris-set “The Past” which earned Berenice Bejo a best actress award and Farhadi the prize of the Ecumenical jury. Sales: Memento

MIDNIGHT SCREENING:

“Blood Father” (Jean-Francois Richet). Produced by Why Not Productions and Chris Briggs, “Blood Father” is a redemption-themed thriller set in New Mexico, starring Mel Gibson as an ex-con forced to step in and help his estranged 16-year-old daughter when drug mobsters threaten to kill her. The screenplay is by U.S. novelist Peter Craig (“The Town”). Sales: Wild Bunch

UN CERTAIN REGARD:

“Hell or High Water” (David Mackenzie). A male-driven heist thriller, “Hell or High Water” star Chris Pine and Ben Foster as two brothers who plot a bank robbery to save their family farm in New Mexico. Jeff Bridges also star. The script, penned by Taylor Sheridan, won the 2012 Black List. A critically-aclaimed young British director, Mackenzie previously won three BAFTA’s for “Starred Up” in 2014 and a BAFTA for “Young Adam” in 2004. He’s had two films play in Berlin, “Hallam Foe” and “Asylum.”

SPECIAL SCREENINGS:

“Wrong Elements” (Jonathan Littell, U.S.) A documentary from U.S. filmmaker Littell, produced out of France, Belgium and Germany, “Wrong Elements” is set in the Congo and Central African Republic following soldiers through jungle as they attempt to flush out the last remaining supporters of Jonathan Kony’s once powerful Lord’s Resistance Army, accused of the deaths of 100,000 of people and abduction of 60,000 children.

“Fool Moon” (“La Foret des quinconces,” Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, France) A contempo relationship dramedy produced by Paulo Branco’s Alfama Films Production, “Fool Moon” reps the feature directorial debut of 28-year-old French thesp-turned -helmer Leprince-Ringuet (“Strayed” “Love Songs”), a four-time Most Promising Actor Cesar nominee who also stars in the film. Sales: Alfama

“Chouf” (Karim Dridi, France/Tunisia) A Marseille drug gang-set vengeance thriller, “Chouf” reps is produced by Jean Brehat from Tessalit Productions and helmed by Dridi, who broke through with Venice competition player ”Pigalle.”

[lacritfan]

Which are the films you guys are most excited about from this list?

Almodovar, Arnold, Dolan, Jarmusch (2), Mungiu, Refn, Kore-Eda

As if the competition line-up wasn't already stacked, Asghar Farhadi's The Salesman has been added

Almodovar, Arnold, Dolan, Jarmusch (2), Mungiu, Refn, Kore-Eda, Farhadi

Directors' Fortnight

Jodorowsky, Almodovar, Arnold, Dolan, Jarmusch (2), Mungiu, Refn, Kore-Eda, Farhadi

[Jeff]

Joining president George Miller on the competition jury will be Arnaud Desplechin, Donald Sutherland, Kirsten Dunst, Mads Mikkelsen, Laszlo Nemes, Vanessa Paradis, Valeria Golino, and Katayoon Shahabi.

[Dead or Deader]

"Woman in Motion". de Festival official poster.

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

Just Park and Mendoza [?! he must have some dirt of Fremaux] from Asia in the comp?

Saw this bit of gossip in The Hollywood Reporter and I thought of you:

Some jury members dispute the festival's claim of neutrality. "When we were deliberating, the festival president came in and said, 'I think it would be good if the Filipino film won a prize,' and that was that," recalls one.

Unless they just told him to go to hell (which isn't how I read "and that was that"), this can only refer to Kinatay.

[Trees]

Sounds like Woody Allen's film received a generally positive reception. A three-minute standing ovation, which is apparently "good" but not "great" by Cannes standards.

[Alphonse Tram]

My most anticipated film of the year, Cristi Puiu’s ‘Sieranevada’ is getting very good reviews: Cristi Puiu’s Brilliant, Bustling, Bristling Sieranevada