Who will win the Palme at Cannes? (2010 edition)

Of note: Tim Burton is jury head this year.

I'm gonna pick Apichatpong Weerasethakul. For the fun of it, no particular reason. All I'm askin for is Innaritu not winning it.

Actually there is a reason, great title!

eh

imo discussion thread is this one:

CANNES 2010

coz i started it

You forgot to make it a poll.

You also have forgotten to start the detrius thread for 2011.

have to vote for im sang-soo, just cuz he directed one of my favorite films that nobody saw (or if they did, it was probably censored), a good lawyer's wife

trailer's kind of crap but it's good to see him playing his strong suit (psychosexual stuff) instead of political satire (wasn't a huge fan of the president's last bang)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw4-QDg8f6s

nice to see lee chang-dong back, secret sunshine was good but seemed trad and safe after the wtfness of oasis. poetry looks like more tearjerk, music in the trailer is making me retch, but the storyline directly addresses korean cinema's dirty little secret, rape. interested to find out what he does with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3adZ4JX_5nE

Still four more films to be announced though, right?

yeah, where are all the Americans ones everyone thought will be on the list ?
(Coppola one, for example)

though if you ask me - a less commercial Cannes is a better Cannes.

my only problem with Cannes 2010 is Tim Burton as the head of jury.
i hope he wont fuck things up with the winners

also hope the competition wont be as violent and provocative as last year was.
(seems it wont be - looking at the list of directors)

I'm guessing Burton takes Mike Leigh's chances down a peg.

didnt know Mathieu Almaric is also a director.
(this is his 4th film)

Kitano is a figure Burton might like, though Kitano didnt make a good movie in ages.

takeshis' and glory to the filmmaker are both decent. if a bit - well a lot - too japanese to have popular appeal worldwide.

i also liked zatoichi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apa1r1iFuvs

that looks like a parody though. maybe it is!

lol @ that trailer. 40 shots of people yelling at other people.

i've seen two of the films mathieu almaric directed. they are your typical art-house movies, vague stories about vague characters lost in their own malaise, drifting around picturesque places, narrative irresolution, that type of thing. very french. very pretty. sort of boring.

Glenn Kenny:

the moment, despite the presence of new films from Abbas Kiarostami, Bertrand Tavernier, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, the competition looks a lot less interesting than does Un Certain Regard.

* And why might that be? For me, it has quite a bit to do with never caring if I see another film by Alejandro Gonzales Innaritu again. And that goes maybe double for Nikita Mikhalkov. There, I said it.

* At the moment it looks pretty unlikely that I'll be going this year, and if'n I don't, one of the things I'll miss is the Cannes ritual, established with the premiere of Match Point, of getting into silly, low-temperature arguments about whatever ultimately insubstantial Woody Allen picture is making its debut there.

* What makes Un Certain Regard so interesting? A new Lodge Kerrigan, a new Hong Sangsoo, a new Cristi Puiu, a new film either partially or fully by Godard, that sort of thing...

Kitano is a figure Burton might like, though Kitano didnt make a good movie in ages.

― Zeno, Thursday, 15 April 2010 17:43 (2 days ago)

Zatoichi is easily one of his best, come on mayn.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul is possibly the best name in the history of names.

Ken Loach added to the competition lineupzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I don't pay much attention to the festival circuit, but Apichatpong Weerasethakul (yes, I cut-and-paste) seems to get a lot of attention right now, so I'm guessing he'll win. Unless there's someone coming up behind him--I hadn't even heard of him when Syndromes started turning up all over decade-end lists, so I'm sure I'm a year or three behind the curve.

Weerasethakul is a shoe-in for the new GLBT award at Cannes.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

That is the most plotty A.W. title imaginable

Another vote for Apichatpong. "A Letter To Uncle Boonmee" was dope. (and can be seen, for a small fee, here: http://www.theauteurs.com/films/4093)

Uncle Boonmee is suffering from kidney failure. As an avid practitioner of Yoga, he is well aware of his body. He knows that he will die in 48 hours. He feels his illness must be related with his bad karma. He has killed too many communists, he says. Boonmee calls his distant relatives to take him back from hospital to die at home, a longan farm. There, they are greeted by the ghost of his deceased wife who has re-appeared to take care of him. His lost son also returns from the jungle in an ape-like form. The son has mated with a creature known as a ‘monkey ghost’ and has lived in the trees with her for the past 15 years. On the first night, Boonmee talks about his past lives that he remembers. On a second night, while the ghost wife is doing his kidney dialysis, Boonmee has a sudden urge to visit a place she has mentioned. So the group takes a journey into the jungle at night. It is full of animals and spirits. They finally reach a cave on top of the hill. Boonmee realizes that this is the cave in which he was born in the first life that he can remember. Then he passes away, taking with him tales that span hundreds of years.

/\/\/\

OOPS SPOILER ALERT

(I guess)

EXCLUSIVE UNCLE BOONMEE NEWS UPDATE

Voted Housemaid just because the plot sounds like Burton might like it. also that it's a remake. I only know about 4 of the directors.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

you can watch a letter to uncle boonmee for $1 at mubi.com

http://mubi.com/films/4093

it's such a sadness that you think you've seen joe on your fucking computer

god i still can't believe it's now called mubi

mubi

MUBI

another cannes related MOOBI selection, you can watch the original housemaid for free

http://mubi.com/films/2039?from_theauteurs=1

why is it called mubi?

sounds like some cutsey dot-com bullshit to me

MUBI?!?!

i mean "the auteurs" was pretty goofy but... MUBI!?!?

I love mubis

it's sooch a sadnays dat you dink you've sleen a mubi on your flucking tayophone

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/2010/05/13/the_auteurs_is_now_mubi/

apparently sum ppl can't pronounce "movie"?

and didn't know what "auteurs" means

I would've preferred Joyce's "moompitcher"

I'll just call it another site I don't visit.

He called on ad agencies all over the world to find a simple, easily-typed name. “Find me my global brand, my Sony,” he told them. It took nine months, but finally an agency in Tokyo knew they had found the name. Mubi.

i.e. cutsey dot-com bullshit

I'll just call it another site I don't visit.

― rim this, fuck that (Eric H.), Friday, May 14, 2010 1:45 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

* drives off on motorcycle *

jeez, they link our reviews, rebel.

I'll just call it another site I don't visit.

― rim this, fuck that (Eric H.), Friday, 14 May 2010 17:45 (4 hours ago) Permalink

*1/2

damn ilx should have put some money on this