Uncertain Futures for Bounty at Cannes Film Festival - New York Times

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Cannes-y
Published 5/14/2008 at The Hot Blog
Interesting Cannes kick-off from Tony & The Man at the NY Times… It is a reminder that even the folks with the most secure job slots who are at the top of the group interested in a lot more than marketability are focusing on more than The Movie these days. Fortunately, they do a pretty darned good job laying it all out. They said goodbye to Picturehouse and Warner Indie, though in their remembrance of the four most successful films from the companies, they are kind not to point out than none of these films were Cannes pick-ups anyway, though one of the films ...

Cannes Integrity
Published 5/14/2008 at Hollywood Elsewhere
Cannes Integrity N.Y. Times critics A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis have written that "for many" -- code for themselves and other top-dog elites like Jim Hoberman, John Powers, Glenn Kenny, Scott Foundas , et. al. -- Cannes-spotlighted directors like Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne ( Le Silence de Lorna ), Nuri Bilge Ceylan ( Three Monkeys ) and Lucrecia Martel ( The Headless Woman ) "are the real stars of Cannes . In America their names may be met with blank stares, but here they walk up the same red carpet as some of the most prominent Hollywood filmmakers and ...

Cannes, 5/14.
Published 5/14/2008 at GreenCine Daily
Here we go. Wall-to-wall Cannes, from today through May 25. If the items noted in the "Anticipating Cannes" entry, updated through last night, are any indication, the mood over there is nowhere near as festive as it was when last year's 60th anniversary edition opened. "Everyone may be expecting the bounty of good and even great films from around the world over the next 12 days, but the excitement is tempered by a sense that those films are facing unusually difficult prospects back in the United States." Manohla Dargis and AO Scott open the New York Times coverage on more or less the same downbeat note ...

Press roundup: Meltdown on the Med
Published 5/15/2008 by Paul MacInnes at Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk
Bird's eye view of the opening premiere for Blindness at Cannes 2008 Blue skies for now... bird's eye view of the opening premiere for Blindness at Cannes 2008. Photograph: Fred Dufour/Getty Qu'est-ce que c'est ce Cannes? It's the existential question they're all asking this morning as the 61st film festival got under way on the shores of the Mediterranean sea. For critics and bloggers to be musing on Cannes' direction and its future is nothing new. But with the effects of "le crunch credit" very much lingering in the air there is debate as to whether the festival will remain effective in promoting - and helping to sell - the arthouse ...

NYT: Uncertain Futures for Bounty at Cannes
Published 5/15/2008 by brian (bbrooks@indiewire.com) at indieWIRE: Buzz / Rumors
Everyone may be expecting the bounty of good and even great films from around the world over the next 12 days, but the excitement is tempered by a sense that those films are facing unusually difficult prospects back in the United States. Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott herereport.