In chronological order:
James Toback’s Tyson
Indiana Jones premiere, and Everything is Fine
In the market: Uwe Boll goes to Vietnam
How to throw a renegade karaoke party in Cannes
In the market: Sex and Breakfast
Raymond Depardon’s La Vie Moderne
James Gray’s Two Lovers
Che distribution speculation, and the French Forrest Gump
Pre-Che jitters
Post-Che fallout
Olivier Assayas’ Summer Hours and Terrence Davies’ Of Time [...]
Quentin Tarantino comes to Cannes. Topics of discussion: what he stole and who he stole it from, why film composers aren’t to be trusted, and how he got his “ass reamed” at Sundance.
Plus: the Sex and the City movie dodges Cannes.
Quentin Tarantino will give the Cinema Master Class lecture at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
A new New York State budget makes room for a tripling of film production tax incentives, designed to stop the flow of productions running away to nearby states like Connecticut.
The remake of Prom Night is expected to narrowly beat out Street [...]
Does FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL’s annoying marketing campaign a sign that “viral” marketing has taken a turn for the boring? Or is the bloggy rage it’s inspiring just another hint that the bloom is somewhat off the Apatow rose?
Guy Ritchie HAD street cred?
The stars will be out at Sundance––judging films. Plus: the fall of the Globes, the looming question of a DGA strike, and the first award of the season for Jonny Greenwood.
With one day left in the year, let’s make sure to beat that “Bergman and Antonioni were the last of the Great Film Auteurs” dead horse one last time.
Harvey Weinstein has always been the loudest guy in Indiewood. Here are three signs that he might be getting ready to shut up and play nice.
