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FESTIVALS 2017

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Well, I forgot to make a thread for Sundance and Berlin, but surely Cannes deserves a repost

Competition

(BPM) Beats Per Minute (dir: Robin Campillo)
The Beguiled (dir: Sofia Coppola)
The Day After (dir: Hong Sang-soo)
A Gentle Creature (dir: Sergei Loznitsa)
Good Time (dirs: Benny & Josh Safdie)
Happy End (dir: Michael Haneke)
In the Fade (dir: Fatih Akin)
Jupiter’s Moon (dir: Kornél Mundruczó)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (dir: Yorgos Lanthimos)
Redoubtable (dir: Michel Hazanavicius)
Loveless (dir: Andrey Zvyagintsev)
The Meyerowitz Stories (dir: Noah Baumbach)
Okja (dir: Bong Joon-ho)
Radiance (dir: Naomi Kawase)
Wonderstruck (dir: Todd Haynes)
You Were Never Really Here (dir: Lynne Ramsay)

Un Certain Regard
Barbara (dir: Mathieu Amalric) – opening film
April’s Daughter (dir: Michel Franco)
Beauty and the Dogs (dir: Kaouther Ben Hania)
Before We Vanish (dir: Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Closeness (dir: Kantemir Balagov)
The Desert Bride (dir: Cecilia Atan and Valeria Pivato)
Directions (dir: Stephan Komandarev)
Dregs (dir: Mohammad Rasoulof)
Jeune Femme (dir: Léonor Serraille)
L’Atelier (dir: Laurent Cantet)
Lucky (dir: Sergio Castellitto)
The Nature of Time (dir: Karim Moussaoui)
Out (dir: György Kristóf)
Western (dir: Valeska Grisebach)
Wind River (dir: Taylor Sheridan)

Out of competition
Blade of the Immortal (dir: Takashi Miike)
How to Talk to Girls at Parties (dir: John Cameron Mitchell)
Visages, Villages (dirs: Agnès Varda & JR)

Midnight screenings
A Prayer Before Dawn (dir: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire)
The Merciless (dir: Byun Sung-hyun)
The Villainess (dir: Jung Byung-gil)

Special screenings
12 Jours (dir: Raymond Depardon)
24 Frames (dir: Abbas Kiarostami)
An Inconvenient Sequel (dir: Bonni Cohen & Jon Shenk)
Claire’s Camera (dir: Hong Sang-soo)
Demons in Paradise (dir: Jude Ratman)
Napalm (dir: Claude Lanzmann)
Promised Land (dir: Eugene Jarecki)
Sea Sorrow (dir: Vanessa Redgrave)
They (dir: Anahita Ghazvinizadeh)
Top of the Lake (dir: Jane Campion)
Twin Peaks (dir: David Lynch)

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It should be mentioned that Top of the Lake is the second season premiere (I forget the title of this season as it's become Sundance's policy to give new seasons subtitles, I noticed that while watching Hap and Leonard and that Gomorrah's new season has a subtitle).

And I thought How to Talk to Girls at Parties would never come out. This began filming almost a year and a half ago. On the other hand, I'm surprised Wonderstruck is finished. It took Haynes over a year to edit Carol.

I kind of wish the Twin Peaks Season 3 premiere was in competition but I guess it can settle for most anticipated.

And how did a movie from the directors of Heaven Knows What get a film in competition? That film was so amateurish and it would have never gotten praise had it not been autobiographical. Next thing you know, they'll enter a James Franco film.

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The competition is quite exciting this year, maybe because there are not so many usual suspects among the filmmakers.
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I find it kind of dull myself. Too many frequent contenders (I kind of surprised they didn't randomly find some Xavier Dolan home movies and call it a film) and is Baumbach's film really a better choice than say, Richard Linklater's Last Flag Flying (why have we heard so little about this one?)?
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Cannes award winners

PALME D’OR: The Square (Ruben Östlund)

GRAND PRIX: 120 Beats Per Minute (Robin Campillo)

BEST DIRECTOR:Sofia Coppola (The Beguiled)

BEST ACTOR: Joaquin Phoenix (You Were Never Really Here)

BEST ACTRESS: Diane Kruger (In the Fade)

JURY PRIZE: Loveless (Andrey Zvyagintsev)

BEST SCREENPLAY: The Killing Of Sacred Deer and You Were Never Really Here

CAMERA D’OR: Jeune Femme (Léonor Sérraille)

70th ANNIVERSARY PRIZE: Nicole Kidman

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Quick question: is How to Talk to Girls at Parties really that bad? Yes, Mitchell's probably the wrong choice to be doing sci-fi and it spent time on the shelf but I can't see it being worse than Southland Tales and Lost River.
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Reviews have been poor, but I can't help but feel it is being misjudged. Imagine if Repo Men debuted in Cannes this year? It would be boo-ed as well.

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I can't imagine Mitchell going full Alex Cox (as I'm sure it's Repo Man you're talking about and not the Jude Law/Forest Whitaker sci-fi film Repo Men). I think his role in Band of the Hand is the closest we'll see that.

And I'm surprised that Good Time is apparently that good. I was expecting another slow and dreary film from the Safdie brothers.
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Yeah the Safdie bros film is really good apparently.
The Sqaure getting the palme is quite a surprise, the WOM was far from unanimous on this one, I was certain 120BPM would get it.
Another strange palmares this year, not as strange as last year though.
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The Toronto Film Festival lineup has been announced.

http://deadline.com/2017/07/toronto-fil ... 202135285/

Notes:
- Not surprised that I, Tonya is there to look for a distributor. No way Miramax was going to self-distribute (speaking of which, I wonder who will distribute the new Halloween coming next year).
- Looks like this was the reason why mother! was moved up. Paramount must be expecting a win (I can't see this playing like Silver Linings Playbook though).
- Annette Bening is making yet another attempt at an Oscar, I see. Too bad she's doing it in a film from the director of Victor Frankenstein.
- I wasn't expecting Malick's next film to be ready in time. I figured Cannes would get it next year.
- Interesting that Untouchable is in competition but won't open until March. I wonder if this may be a work-in-progress screening.

Film most likely to win: The Current War, though The Shape of Water could surprise. I think Sally Hawkins will be the favorite for Best Actress at the Oscars next year.
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Venice lineup

COMPETITION
Human Flow, Ai Weiwei
Mother!, Darren Aronofsky
Suburbicon, George Clooney
The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro
L’insulte, ZIad Doueiri
La Villa, Robert Guediguian
Lean on Pete, Andrew Haigh
Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno, Abdellatif Kechiche
The Third Murder, Koreeda Hirokazu
Jusqu’a la Garde, Xavier Legrand
Ammore e Malavita, Manetti Brothers
Foxtrot, Samuel Maoz
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin McDonagh
Hannah, Andrea Pallaoro
Downsizing, Alexander Payne
Angels Wear White, Vivian Qu
Una Famiglia, Sebastiano Riso
First Reformed, Paul Schrader
Sweet Country, Warwick Thornton
The Leisure Seeker, Paolo Virzi
Ex Libris - The New York Public Library, Frederick Wiseman

OUT OF COMPETITION FEATURES
Our Souls at Night, Ritesh Batra
Il Signor Rotpeter, Antonietta de Lillo
Victoria & Abdul, Stephen Frears
La Melodie, Rachid Hami
Outrage Coda, Kitano Takeshi
Loving Pablo, Fernando Leon de Aranoa
Zama, Lucrecia Martel
Wormwood, Errol Morris
Diva!, Franceso Patierno
Le FIdele, Michael R. Roskam
Diva!, Franceso Patierno
Il Colore Nascosto Delle Cose, Silvio Soldini
The Private Life of a Modern Woman, James Toback
Brawl in Cell Block 99, S. Craig Zahler

OUT OF COMPETITION DOCUMENTARIES
Cuba and the Cameraman, Jon Alpert
My Generation, David Batty
Piazza Vittorio, Abel Ferrara
The Devil and Father Amorth, William Friedkin
This is Congo, Daniel McCabe
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda, Stephen Nomura Schible
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond. The Story of Jim Carrey, Andy Kaufman and Tony Clifton, Chris Smith
Happy Winter, Giovanni Totaro

SPECIAL EVENTS
Casa d’Altri, Gianni Amelio
Michael Jackson’s Thriller 3D, John Landis
Making of Michael Jackson’s Thriller (1983), Jerry Kramer


HORIZONS COMPETITION
Disappearance, Ali Asgari
Especes Menacees, Gilles Bourdos
The Rape of Recy Taylor, Nancy Buirski
Caniba, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel
Les Bienheureux, Sofia Djama
Marvin, Anne Fontaine
Invisible, Pablo Giorgelli
Brutti e Cattivi, Cosimo Gomez
The Cousin, Tzahi Grad
The Testament, Amichai Greenberg
No Date, No Signature, Vahid Jalilvand
Los Versos del Olvido, Alireza Khatami
The Night I Swam, Damien Manivel, Igarashi Kohei
Nico, 1988, Susanna Nicchiarelli
Krieg, Rick Ostermann
West of Sunshine, Jason Raftopoulos
Gatta Cenerentola, Alessandro Rak, Ivan Cappiello, Marino Guarnieri, Dario Sansone
Under the Tree, Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson
La Vita in Comune, Edoardo Winspeare

CINEMA NEL GIARDINO
Manuel, Dario Albertini
Controfigura, Ra di Martino
Woodshock, Kate Mulleavy, Laura Mulleavy
Nato a Casal di Principe, Bruno Oliviero
Suburra – The Series, Michele Placido, Andrea Molaioli, Giuseppe Capotondi
Tueurs, Francois, Troukens, Jean-Francois Hensgens


VENICE CLASSICS DOCUMENTARY COMPETITON
Light Years, Manuel Abramovich
Evviva Giuseppe, Stefano Consiglio
La Lucida Follia di Marco Ferreri, Selma Jean Dell’Olio
The Russian Revolution Through its Films, Emmanuel Hamon
The Prince and the Dybbuk, Elwira Niewiera
La Voce di Fantozzi, Mario Sesti
This is the War Room!, Boris Hars-Tschachotin


SPECIAL DOCUMENTARY SCREENINGS
La Lunga Strada del Ritorno, Alessandro Blasetti
Barbiana ’65 La Lezione di Don Milani, Alessandro G. A. D’Alessandro
Lievito Madre, Le Ragazze del Secolo Scorso, Concita de Gregorio, Esmeralda Calabria

BIENNALE COLLEGE
Beautiful Things, Giorgio Ferrero
Martyr, Mazen Khaled
Strange Colours, Alena Lodkina
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I was not expecting Paul Schrader's film to finished already, seeing how it began filming a few months back.

And it's not often when we get two Errol Morris projects in one year (looks like this is the first part of his Netflix miniseries).
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It's quite a solid line-up venice has. A lot of films I really want to see.
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This is more of a 2018 thing but does anyone else getting the feeling that Sundance has become out of touch with audiences? Between the large number of box office flops (it seems like The Big Sick and Beatriz at Dinner are the only ones that have broken out) and the narrow-minded selection (it feels like it's mostly "quirky comedy" or "current events documentary" nowadays), it makes me wonder if the committee may change things up next year. For example, I've noticed that thrillers are almost never selected (this year, I seem to recall that Wind River was the only one and it's performing better than a lot of the hyped titles theatrically). Does the selection committee simply hate genre-themed titles or did things like Bound to Vengeance (perhaps the worst film to ever play Sundance) scare them off? As for the documentary field, I wouldn't be surprised to see more films like Kedi (would you have thought a film initially produced for YouTube Red would become one of the year's most successful documentaries?) come in. Because it's become obvious that there's more of a demand for stories that don't remind us how much the world sucks (and was Icarus really worth paying $5 million for?).

In short, I'm wondering if we will see more Lady Macbeths and less Patti Cake$ next year. Because it looks like that's what the trends are pointing towards. But of course, we'll likely see more lineups with three Andy Samberg vehicles, two "let's make fun of the mentally ill" comedies, and a few "how much will Netflix overpay" products.
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Telluride lineup was finally revealed this morning. No real surprises with a bunch of films that were already announced for Toronto or just premiered in Venice making up a majority of the slate:
ARTHUR MILLER: WRITER (d. Rebecca Miller, U.S., 2017)
BATTLE OF THE SEXES (d. Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton, U.S., 2017)
DARKEST HOUR (d. Joe Wright, U.K., 2017)
DOWNSIZING (d. Alexander Payne, U.S., 2017)
EATING ANIMALS (d. Christopher Quinn, U.S., 2017)
FACES PLACES (d. Agnes Varda, JR, France, 2017)
A FANTASTIC WOMAN (d. Sebastián Lelio, Chile-U.S.-Germany-Spain, 2017)
FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL (d. Paul McGuigan, U.K., 2017)
FIRST REFORMED (d. Paul Schrader, U.S., 2017)
FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER (d. Angelina Jolie, U.S.-Cambodia, 2017)
FOXTROT (d. Samuel Maoz, Israel, 2017)
HOSTAGES (d. Rezo Gigineishvili, Georgia-Russia-Poland, 2017)
HOSTILES (d. Scott Cooper, U.S., 2017)
HUMAN FLOW (d. Ai Weiwei, U.S.-Germany, 2017)
THE INSULT (d. Ziad Doueiri, France-Lebanon, 2017)
LADY BIRD (d. Greta Gerwig, U.S., 2017)
LAND OF THE FREE (d. Camilla Magid, Denmark-Finland, 2017)
LEAN ON PETE (d. Andrew Haigh, U.K.-U.S., 2017)
LOVELESS (d. Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia-France-Belgium-Germany, 2017)
LOVE, CECIL (d. Lisa Immordino Vreeland, U.S., 2017)
LOVING VINCENT (d. Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, U.K.-Poland, 2017)
A MAN OF INTEGRITY (d. Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran, 2017)
THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE (d. Aki Kaurismäki, Finland, 2017)
THE RIDER (d. Chloé Zhao, U.S., 2017)
THE SHAPE OF WATER (d. Guillermo del Toro, U.S., 2017)
TESNOTA (d. Kantemir Balagov, Russia, 2017)
THE VENERABLE W. (d. Barbet Schroeder, France-Switzerland, 2017)
THE VIETNAM WAR (d. Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, U.S., 2017)
WORMWOOD (d. Errol Morris, U.S., 2017)
WONDERSTRUCK (d. Todd Haynes, U.S., 2017)
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