Cannes 2013: Day Five
Day off. It’s the first day during my time in Cannes so far where I’ve never attempted to queue and see any film. In other words, I’ve done fuck-all. But it was worth every minute to saunter around the...
View ArticleCannes 2013: Stranger By The Lake
DIRECTOR: Alain Guiraudie | CAST: Pierre de Ladonchamps, Christophe Paou, Patrick d’Assumçao | SCREENPLAY: Alain Guiraudie | PRODUCER: M141 Productions | RUNNING-TIME: 97 mins | GENRE: Drama |...
View ArticleCannes 2013: Inside Llewyn Davis
DIRECTOR: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | CAST: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman | SCREENPLAY: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | PRODUCER: Studiocanal | RUNNING-TIME: 105 mins | GENRE: Drama...
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As some of you followers might know (predictably closer to none), this is the day I got into Inside Llewyn Davis after 2 days of major ranting about the elitist wonderful priority system of Cannes Film...
View ArticleCannes 2013: Day Seven
A film-packed day preceded by a literally packed early bus trip, almost as worse as being trapped in a tin of tuna, featuring Somebody Who Forgot To Wash – the smell and all. Thankfully, I got into...
View ArticleCannes 2013: Only God Forgives
DIRECTOR: Nicholas Winding Refn | CAST: Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Yayaying Rhatha Phongam | SCREENPLAY: Nicholas Winding Refn | PRODUCER: Film i Vast | RUNNING-TIME: 90 mins | GENRE:...
View ArticleCannes 2013: Day Eight
Most veteran critics partaking in Cannes see four films per day (five, if they’re really vampiric), and I just about manage to average between two to three, the most number my lousy mind and body can...
View ArticleCannes 2013: Day Nine
My penultimate day in Cannes involved myself checking out Alexander Payne’s misanthropic road-trip comedy Nebraska, a stripped-down, back-to-basics affair for Payne, whom I happen to bump into briefly...
View ArticleCannes 2013: Day Ten
And so my final day in Cannes has arrived – after ten days of seemingly endless queueing, the rants and raves in my blog and tweeting the shit out of the festival – it has been a wild, wonderful,...
View ArticleCannes Short 2013: Agophobia
DIRECTOR: Benjamin Ross Hayden | CAST: Kevin Fraser, Nicole Bruce, Julie Cho, Linda Cho | SCREENPLAY: Benjamin Ross Hayden | PRODUCER: Manifold Pictures Company | RUNNING-TIME: 30 mins | GENRE:...
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