Blog posts by year and monthMay 2010
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Johnny Depp as Jean Luc Godard
A shocking post-festival exclusive reveals that only in Cannes its very self could so distantly separated extremes of cinematic innovation unite simply to épater les bourgeois.
French lesson
Ah Cannes, so long ago now and yet a gaggle of Godardians were most distrait following my review of Jean Luc's latest addition to his oeuvre, the unmitigated disaster that is Film Socialisme, but with due respect for your views, allow me to explain myself.
5 live review: Bad Lieutenant
5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews Bad Lieutenant. Go to Mark on 5 Live for more reviews and film debate. (Please note this content is only available to UK viewers)
Cannes Fin
Time to go home but not before a last report on Doug Liman's thriller Fair Game, starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn, a movie version of the true story of CIA operative Valerie Plame who paid the price for her husband's reaction to the evidence that launched the Iraq war during the Bush Cheney years.
Cannes 2010 Day 7 - Route French
In today's Cannes movie round-up: Ken Loach's Route Irish, Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams, Sergei Loznitsa's Schastye Moe, Vikramaditya Motwane's Udaan, Stephen Kijak's Stones in Exile, and seven words on Olivier Assayas's Carlos.
Cannes 2010 Day 7 - Out of the Pass
It's all been going so well and now I'm not quite feeling myself, mainly because I no longer am myself apparently.
Cannes 2010 - My Day 6, Stephen Woolley's Year 29
Stephen Woolley, legendary British producer whose epic back catalogue of cinematic brilliance includes Mona Lisa, Angel, Scandal, The Big Man, Little Voice, and The Crying Game - not to mention his own directorial debut Stoned (that Rolling Stones movie you didn't see), lends us an insider's per...
Cannes 2010 Day 6 - The Worst Film of the Festival
Three reviews today: Kitano's Outrage, Godard's Film Socialisme and Kiarostami's Copie Conforme and one of them is by far the worst film at Cannes this year with days left to go...
Cannes 2010 Day 5
Stop press: there's now a serious contender for Best Actor in Alejandro González Iñárritu's Biutiful, and as a special treat I get to chat with one of my heroes, Fernando Trueba, the man behind the overlooked Mad Monkey, and now completing an animated movie in collaboration with the brilliant...
Cannes 2010 Day 4 - So what's good this year?
On a diet of about four films per day including Mike Leigh's Another Year, Gregg Araki's Kaboom, the cultish possessed car tyre movie Rubber, Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, and Hideo Nakata's Chatroom, I can't argue that most food groups aren't being served this year, but who is looking like Chef of the Cannes kitchen at the halfway point?