Cannes
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Cannes 2012: Jeff Nichols’ ‘Mud’ preview
This year’s 65th Cannes Film Festival boasts an unusually strong American presence within its competition strand, including Jeff Nichols’ highly anticipated new film Mud (2012). Despite only previously having directed two features, Nichols has rapidly built a name for himself after his stunning 2007 debut Shotgun Stories wooed critics at the Sundance Film Festival and…
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Cannes 2012: ‘Cosmopolis’ preview
If A Dangerous Method (2011) had been made by Stephen Frears, no one would have battered an eyelid, but coming from Canadian body horror master David Cronenberg meant a fairly decent if dull costume drama suffered for simply not being Videodrome (1983). However, the announcement that Cronenberg’s next feature Cosmopolis (2012), an adaptation of the…
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Cannes 2012: ‘Amour’ preview
Austrian auteur Michael Haneke returns to French language cinema this year with his new film Amour (Love, 2012), which will premiere in competition at the 65th Cannes Film Festival. Haneke has long been a favourite with the festival – The Piano Teacher won the Grand Prix back in 2002. He has since won the Palme d’Or…
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Cannes 2012: ‘Killing Them Softly’ preview
One of the most eagerly-anticipated films of the 65th Cannes Film Festival has to be Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly (2012). Based on the 1974 George V. Higgins novel Cogan’s Trade, the film stars Brad Pitt as Jackie Cogan, a mob enforcer who is called in when a gang-run poker game gets ripped off. The…
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Cannes 2012: ‘On the Road’ preview
Finally emerging at this year’s 65th Cannes Film Festival after half a century in development hell, Walter Salles’ adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s Beat Generation classic On The Road (2012) – starring Sam Riley, Garret Hedlund and Twilight lead Kristen Stewart – will certainly be worth a look when it’s released here in the UK in…
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Cannes 2012: ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ preview
The first trailer is still doing the rounds for US director Wes Anderson’s return to live-action filmmaking, Moonrise Kingdom (2012). Reuniting Anderson with regular collaborators Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman – on top of a fine cast including Bruce Willis, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand and Harvey Keitel – the trailer reveals the director’s…
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Cannes 2012: ‘The Hunt’ preview
Danish director Thomas Vinterberg garnered widespread international acclaim in the mid-1990s with his debut feature film Festen (The Celebration, 1998), an unsettling, naturalistic drama exposing a dysfunctional upper-class Danish family with a shocking secret. Vinterberg’s first film was also the inaugural work of the Dogme 95 movement, adhering to a filmmaking manifesto he had produced…
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Cannes 2012: ‘Lawless’ preview
Those of you who have been kept awake at night wondering what had happened to John Hillcoat’s adaptation of Matt Bondurant’s historical novel The Wettest County in the World can finally rest easy, as the film – renamed Lawless (2012) – will receive its World Premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. This recent name…
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Cannes 2012: Competition jury announced plus more films added
The 65th Cannes Film Festival today announced the main competition jury members who will be joining head juror, Italian film director Nanni Moretti, in presiding over the festival and ultimately awarding the coveted Palme d’Or prize. Foremost amongst the newly announced jurors are European actresses Diane Kruger and Emmanuelle Devos, who will join Scottish actor…
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Cannes 2012: ‘The Angels’ Share’ preview
Coming off the back of last year’s critically-acclaimed yet rarely-seen Route Irish (2010), Palme d’Or-winning British director Ken Loach reunites with screenwriter Paul Laverty this year for Scottish comedy-drama The Angels’ Share (2012). Yet again, Loach will present his latest film to the world via the Croisette after it was selected to screen in competition…