cannes film festival

Fish Tank from shepster 65 days old

[ ... ] first two features have debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, and both won the Jury Prize. The first was certainly worth the attention, but sadly ...

Home from shepster 77 days old

[ ... ] in the Critics Week section of the Cannes Film Festival last year. This is a quirky little film (by debutant director Ursula Meier) following a ...

A Trio from Mr. Trilogy from shepster 124 days old

[ ... ] Iron, which won the Palme d'Or a the cannes film festival as well as being oscar nominated (I'd watched Man of Marble to get the context for this ...

Abuse, Abortion and Alienation from shepster 130 days old

Okay, three to blast through but before I do I just found out that the BBC is showing the remaining 11 episodes of the first series of the Swedish Wallanders ...

Synecdoche, New York from shepster 174 days old

[ ... ] New York, which premiered at the Cannes film festival last year before bombing at the box office in a haze of atrocious distribution and mixed ...

Akiresu to kame/La mujer sin cabeza (Achilles and the Tortoise/The Headless Woman) from shepster 227 days old

Two unreleased festival films from last year, the first being the new Takeshi Kitano, which premiered at Venice, and the second being Lucrecia Martel's ...

More confusion... from shepster 227 days old

as I realised that I'd completely forgotten about a couple of films I saw a couple of weekends ago so I'll hold off on the new (ish) stuff until I've ...

Wendy and Lucy/Two Lovers/Entre les murs (The Class) from shepster 237 days old

[ ... ] Lovers Two Lovers premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last year and received a fairly good reception. At the beginning we see Leonard (played ...

Corsets, Campness and Kidnapping... from shepster 334 days old

okay there probably aren't (m)any corsets in Mansfield Park as it's a period drama so it fits for the title. This version I saw was the film one from ...

Waltz With Bashir from shepster 364 days old

This is a film which has intrigued me since the reviews started coming in for it at Cannes (for those aside from the tens of loyal, hardened devotees ...