Apr 2 2009 'Basterds' Premiering at Cannes
Love him or hate him, the incontrovertible fact stands that Quentin Tarentino does make movies. Now that we have that understanding, here's some news about his latest film, Inglourious Basterds. According to Variety, the Brad Pitt-starring, Nazi-killin', poorly-spelled epic will be premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in May. I know that's not much time to get a costume together, but that's how it is sometimes.
For those of us unable to get ourselves to the French Rivera this year, this means we'll probably be hearing about that dialogue-free, 45-minute Nazi decapitating scene for months before we get to see it.
Mar 19 2009 'Up' Opening Cannes
Pixar's old-guy-traveling-with-a-fat-boy-and-his-house film, Up will be opening the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, Variety reports. There, the audience will recognize the picture as a flowing, contemplative, utterly charming commentary on finding meaning in sedentary, octogenarian life, and as a metaphor for impotence.
Jun 8 2007 Synecdoche New York and Other Cannes Posters
IonCinema has a good batch of early film posters from Cannes, including the Coens' No Country For Old Men, DiCaprio's The 11th Hour, and Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut, Synecdoche New York. The poster Synecdoche isn't that amazing, but it does do well towards its primary function of reminding me how excited I am about a film written and directed by Charlie Kaufman and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman. I'll have my little Kauf/Hoff boner poking through my sweat pants all evening.
May 22 2007 No Country for Old Men clips
Lower long distance rates, you say? I am somewhat flabbergasted.
Five clips of No Country for Old Men, the Coen brothers scathing anti-Stallone diatribe drugs and murder drama are now online over at commeaucinema.
Watch out, though, the site's in French. And the French are not to be trusted.
Honestly though, I'm not sure why you'd want to see out of context movie clips before you see the actual movie. Why not just get half the punchline to four or five bits before you go see a comedy show? Or just go f*** yourself. Why can't you people just leave me alone! *whimper*
Apr 19 2007 Cannes Film Festival Roundup
"We are/the Coen Bro-thers/Don't get a-long with others..."
The Cannes film festival is set to open in...Cannes...with a lineup of heavy hitting auteurs (does anyone actually know what this word means?)
The festival will open with Wong Kar Wai's first English movie, Blueberry Nights, and will include new movies from the Coen brothers, Gus Van Sant, Steven Soderbergh, Michael Winterbottom and Michael Moore.
Quentin Tarantino is also said to be bringing a special version of Death Proof that he created specifically for the festival.
One only hopes that this will be the version without 50 minutes of pointless jabbering. Jesus Christ, I finally watched Grindhouse the other night and I feel like I should've gotten laid at least four times over after having to listen to that much inane girl palaver.
Kurt Russel was awesome though. That dude's f***in' harsh.
