2023 Festivals/Awards Thread

[Buscemi2]

Not too surprising. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull also premiered at Cannes.

[transformers2]

Cannes Lineup:

COMPETITION

Club Zero, dir: Jessica Hausner

The Zone of Interest, dir: Jonathan Glazer

Fallen Leaves, dir: Aki Kaurismaki

Four Daughters, dir: Kaouther Ben Hania

Asteroid City, dir: Wes Anderson

Anatomie d’Une Chute, dir: Justine Triet

Monster, dir: Hirokazu Kore-eda

Il Sol dell’Avvenire, dir: Nanni Moretti

La Chimera, dir: Alice Rohrwacher

L’Eté Dernier, dir: Catherine Breillat

La Passion De Dodin Bouffant, dir: Tran Anh Hung

About Dry Grasses, dir: Nuri Bilge Ceylan

May December, dir: Todd Haynes

Rapito, dir: Marco Bellocchio

Firebrand, dir: Karim Ainouz

The Old Oak, dir: Ken Loach

*Banel et Adama, dir: Ramata-Toulaye Sy

Perfect Days, dir: Wim Wenders

Jeunesse, dir: Wang Bing

OUT OF COMPETITION

Killers of the Flower Moon, dir: Martin Scorsese

Jeanne du Barry, dir: Maïwenn

The Idol, dir: Sam Levinson

Cobweb, dir: Kim Jee-woon

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, dir: James Mangold

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS

Omar La Fraise, dir: Elias Belkeddar

Acide, dir: Just Philippot

Kennedy, dir: Anurag Kashyap

CANNES PREMIERE

Le Temps d’Aimer, dir: Katell Quillevere

Kubi, dir: Takeshi Kitano

Cerrar los Ojos, dir: Victor Erice

Bonnard, Pierre et Marthe, dir: Martin Provost

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

Anselm, dir: Wim Wenders

Occupied City, dir: Steve McQueen

Man in Black, dir: Wang Bing

UN CERTAIN REGARD

*How to Have Sex, dir: Molly Manning Walker

The Delinquents, dir: Rodrigo Moreno

Simple Comme Sylvain, dir: Monia Chokri

The Settlers, dir: Felipe Galvez

The Mother of All Lies, dir: Asmae El Moodier

The Buriti Flower, dirs: Joao Salaviza & Renee Nader

*Goodbye Julia, dir: Mohammed Kordofani

*Omen, dir: Baloji Thasiani

The Breaking Ice, dir: Anthony Chen

Rosalie, dir: Stéphanie Di Giusto

The New Boy, dir: Warwick Thornton

*If Only I Could Hibernate, dir: Zoljargal Purevdash

*Hopeless, dir: Kim Chang-hoon

*Rien à Perdre, dir: Delphine Deloget

*Les Meutes, dir: Kamal Lazraq

Terrestrial Verses, dirs: Ali Asgari & Alireza Khatami

La Regne Animal, dir: Thomas Cailley

*Denotes first film; eligible for the Camera d’Or

The image of a Cannes crowd watching episodes of The Idol has had me cackling all morning.

[Buscemi2]

The Idol sounds like a total train wreck that will get praise because A24 produced it. Lily Rose Depp should not under any circumstances be tasked to carry a project. She might have a famous surname and look like her mother but she's not a good actor.

[numbersix]

If it's anything like Levinson's last film, then it's going to be awful. And that one had good actors.

[Buscemi2]

To me, it feels like Levinson is a hack who got lucky with Euphoria. He's not much of a director and as a screenwriter, Deep Water might have been one of the worst-scripted studio films in recent memory.

He's pretty much Taylor Sheridan with a different kind of excess.

[numbersix]

I am mistaken, The Idol is a TV series, not a film

[transformers2]

Elemental has been added to the Cannes lineup. Its world premiere will close out the Out of Competiton section on May 27th.

[transformers2]

Neon has acquired the rights to Pablo Berger's Robot Dreams ahead of its Cannes debut.

[Buscemi2]

The long-delayed The Marsh King's Daughter is opening the Tribeca festival. Seeing how this festival tends to screen a lot of low-profile titles, I have to imagine it ends up being a day-and-date release somewhere. It also seems like Amazon no longer has international rights as it's not listed in any coming soon list related to Prime.

[Buscemi2]

Looks like Indiana Jones is a disaster. The Metacritic so far is a 53, worse than Kingdom of the Crystal Skull's 65.

[transformers2]

The North American rights for Cannes competition titles May December and Anatomy of a Fall have been acquired by Netflix and Neon respectively.

[Buscemi2]

Can't say I'm surprised Netflix got Todd Haynes' latest. He kind of burned his bridges with the studios after his last two flopped.

[numbersix]

Can't say I'm surprised Netflix got Todd Haynes' latest. He kind of burned his bridges with the studios after his last two flopped.

Plus the quoted pricetag is surpriginly low. Must have been shot on a low budget with the cast on scale.

[Buscemi2]

Portman's career isn't what it used to be and outside of Moore, the cast consists of character actors and people without Wikipedia pages. In addition, Sky Cinema already got the UK rights so that could have driven down the asking price.

As for the possibility of a low budget, it was shot in Georgia last fall over five weeks so it could have cost less than your typical Blumhouse production. $3 million, $4 million tops, I'd guess.

[numbersix]

Ah yes, Georgia has a competitive film tax credit, so that makes sense. And I've seen Sky put 1-2m into a project