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Film Festivals 2016

Posted: March 29th, 2016, 6:30 am
by Chienfantome
Well, the very first official program news from the Cannes Film Festival has emerged this morning : Woody Allen's "Café Society" will open the festival next may.

There's been a lot of speculation those last few days around the US selection (Money Monster, The Nice Guys...), but nothing official except for Allen's film.

Re: Film Festivals 2016

Posted: March 29th, 2016, 10:56 am
by numbersix
Hopefully Silence will finally come out.

Re: Film Festivals 2016

Posted: March 29th, 2016, 11:03 am
by BanksIsDaFuture
We just finished Awards season, and here comes the next round with the major festivals. It never ends :lol:

Re: Film Festivals 2016

Posted: March 29th, 2016, 1:53 pm
by Chienfantome
numbersix wrote:Hopefully Silence will finally come out.
Word is it won't be ready in time for Cannes. We'll see.
BanksIsDaFuture wrote:We just finished Awards season, and here comes the next round with the major festivals. It never ends
NEVER !!

Re: Film Festivals 2016

Posted: March 29th, 2016, 3:07 pm
by JohnErle
With movies like Deadpool being released in February, the summer movie season never ends either.

Re: Film Festivals 2016

Posted: March 29th, 2016, 4:55 pm
by Buscemi
I read Loving is rumored to be at Cannes. I believe this will be the favorite for the Oscars (yes, over The Birth of a Nation).

Re: Film Festivals 2016

Posted: March 30th, 2016, 3:54 am
by Chienfantome
indeed there's a lot of talk about Loving being at Cannes.

Sean Penn's The Last Face, either of Malick's new films (Weightless and Voyage of Time), Jarmusch's Paterson, Spielberg's BFG, and the already mentioned Money Monster and Nice Guys are the other ones rumored to be near Cannes.

Re: Film Festivals 2016

Posted: April 5th, 2016, 10:11 am
by Chienfantome
Cannes Film Festival, here I come !
I got my accreditation and a place to stay, I'm officially going to the Croisette next month. I only need to pick my train tickets and I'll be all good.
:D

Re: Film Festivals 2016

Posted: April 5th, 2016, 10:31 am
by W
Chienfantome wrote:Cannes Film Festival, here I come !
I got my accreditation and a place to stay, I'm officially going to the Croisette next month. I only need to pick my train tickets and I'll be all good.
:D
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Yay! How well can you hold a camcorder?

(No shit, someone was filming Batman v Superman right in front of me the Friday it opened.)

Re: Film Festivals 2016

Posted: April 5th, 2016, 11:38 am
by Chienfantome
I'm a cinema maniac. Not only do I not record anything, but I smash the head of the ones who do ;)

Re: Film Festivals 2016

Posted: April 14th, 2016, 6:02 am
by numbersix
Cannes Line-up

COMPETITION
Toni Erdmann, Maren Ade
Julieta, Pedro Almodóvar
American Honey, Andrea Arnold
Personal Shopper, Olivier Assayas
La Fille Inconnue, Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
Juste La Fin Du Monde, Xavier Dolan
Ma Loute, Bruno Dumont
Paterson, Jim Jarmusch
Rester Vertical, Alain Guiraudie
Aquarius, Kleber Mendonça Filho
Mal De Pierres, Nicole Garcia
I, Daniel Blake, Ken Loach
Ma’ Rosa, Brillante Mendoza
Bacalaureat, Cristian Mungiu
Loving, Jeff Nichols
Agassi, Park Chan-Wook
The Last Face, Sean Penn
Sieranevada, Cristi Puiu
Elle, Paul Verhoeven
The Neon Demon, Nicolas Winding Refn

OUT OF COMPETITION
Café Society, Woody Allen (opening film)
The BFG, Steven Spielberg
Goksung, Na Hong-Jin
Money Monster, Jodie Foster
The Nice Guys, Shane Black

UN CERTAIN REGARDE
Varoonegi, Behnam Behzadi
Apprentice, Boo Junfeng
Voir Du Pays, Delphine Coulin & Muriel Coulin
La Danseuse, Stéphanie Di Giusto
Eshtebak, Mohamed Diab
La Tortue Rouge, Michael Dudok De Wit
Fuchi Ni Tatsu, Fukada Kôji
Omor Shakhsiya, Maha Haj
Me’ever Laharim Vehagvaot, Eran Kolirin
After The Storm, Hirokazu Kore-Eda
Hymyilevä Mies, Juho Kuosmanen
La Larga Noche De Francisco Sanctis, Francisco Márquez & Andrea Testa
Caini, Bogdan Mirica
Pericle Il Nero, Stefano Mordini
The Transfiguration, Michael O’shea
Captain Fantastic, Matt Ross
Uchenik, Kirill Serebrennikov

MIDNIGHT
Gimme Danger, Jim Jarmusch
Bu-San-Haeng, Yeon Sang-Ho

Re: Film Festivals 2016

Posted: April 14th, 2016, 6:37 am
by Chienfantome
3 Korean films in official selection, including the new film from Park Chan-wook in competition and the new film from the director of The Chaser out of comp.
And that Korean film in midnight screening is about people taking a train to flee Seoul after a zombie outbreak... only to discover there are zombies in the train too. The director makes his first live action film after 3 animated features.

Those 3 Korean films alone make this Cannes line-up uber-exciting for me, but I'm also pleased to see the names of Verhoeven, Dolan, Jarmusch, Mendoza, Nichols, Refn, Kore-eda, Spielberg and others lining up as well. And a few interesting newbies to Cannes, like Kleber Mendonça Filho.
I can't wait to hear about the Director's Fortnight line-up next week, too.

I really hope I'll be able to get into the Korean screenings.

Re: Film Festivals 2016

Posted: April 14th, 2016, 7:09 am
by numbersix
Yeah it's a decent line up. Most exciting films for me are definitely Loving, Agassi, American Honey, and Aquarius

Re: Film Festivals 2016

Posted: April 14th, 2016, 10:59 am
by BanksIsDaFuture
Chienfantome wrote: And that Korean film in midnight screening is about people taking a train to flee Seoul after a zombie outbreak... only to discover there are zombies in the train too.
Well, this sentence piqued my interest more than anything...

Re: Film Festivals 2016

Posted: April 14th, 2016, 12:12 pm
by Chienfantome
I'm very curious about this one. Actually the director made back-to-back films in the same universe. The first one is animated, entitled "Seoul Station", and tells of the zombie outbreak in Seoul in animation.
"Train to Busan", the one screening in Cannes, follows in live action what happens for the people fleeing Seoul and the outbreak. It's not a direct sequel as the characters shouldn't be the same, but it extends the universe.

The two films should be released more or less at the same time this summer in Korea. "Seoul Station" had its world premiere last week at the Brussels Fantastic Film Festival and won the Silver Crow for 2nd Best Film of the competition.