Cannes Film Festival 2018

[Chris Knipp]

Festival de Cannes May 8-19, 2018: films in Competition announced.

Franco-Swiss director Jean-Luc Godard with Le livre d'imag/The Image Book, Italian Matteo Garrone with Dogman, or the American Spike Lee with BlacKKKlansman will be in competition this year at Cannes, the organizers have announced.
The French Stéphane Brizé with En guerre, Christophe Honoré with Plaire, aimer et courir vite/Sorry Angel and Eva Husson with Les Filles du soleil, the American David Robert Mitchell with Under the Silver Lake, the Chinese Jia Zhang-ke with Ash is Purest White, the Japanese Hirokazu Koreeda with Shoplifters or the Iranian Jafar Panahi with Three Faces will also be in line for the Palme d'Or competition from 8 to 19 May. The whole list is below.

Official selection
Competition
Everybody Knows/Todos lo saben (dir: Asghar Farhadi) – opening film
At War/En guerre (dir: Stéphane Brizé)
Dogman (dir: Matteo Garrone)
Le Livre d’Image/The Image Book (dir: Jean-Luc Godard)
Asako I & II (dir: Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
Sorry Angel/Plaire, aimer, et courir vite (dir: Christophe Honoré)
Girls of the Sun/Les Filles du soleil (dir: Eva Husson)
Ash Is Purest White (Chinese: 江湖儿女) (dir: Jia Zhang-Ke)
Shoplifters/ 万引き家族 Manbiki Kazoku, (dir: Hirokazu Koreeda)
Capernaum/Capharnaüm (dir: Nadine Labaki)
Burning (dir: Lee Chang-Dong)
BlacKkKlansman (dir: Spike Lee)
Under the Silver Lake (dir: David Robert Mitchell)
Three Faces (dir: Jafar Panahi)
Cold War (dir: Pawel Pawlikowski)
Lazzaro Felice/My Bitter Land (dir: Alice Rohrwacher)
Yomeddineيوم الدين (dir: AB Shawky)
Leto (L’Été/Summer) (dir: Kirill Serebrennikov)

Un Certain Regard
Runs 8-19 May 2018.
Opening Night Film: Donbass (dir. Sergei Loznitsa)
Angel Face (dir: Vanessa Filho)
Border/Gräns (dir: Ali Abbasi)
El Angel (dir: Luis Ortega)
Euphoria (dir: Valeria Golino)
Friend (dir: Wanuri Kahiu)
The Gentle Indifference of the World (dir: Adilkhan Yerzhanov)
Girl (dir: Lukas Dhont)
The Harvesters (dir: Etienne Kallos)
In My Room (dir: Ulrich Köhler)
Little Tickles (dir: Andréa Bescond & Eric Métayer)
My Favorite Fabric (dir: Gaya Jiji)
On Your Knees, Guys (Sextape) (dir: Antoine Desrosières)
Sofia (dir: Meyem Benm’Barek)

Out of competition
Solo: A Star Wars Story (dir: Ron Howard)
Le Grand Bain/Sink or Swim (dir: Gilles Lellouche)
Little Tickles/Les chatouilles (dir: Andréa Bescond & Eric Métayer)
Long Day’s Journey Into Night (dir: Bi Gan)

Midnight screenings
Arctic (dir: Joe Penna)
The Spy Gone North/공작 (dir: Yoon Jong-Bing)

Special screenings
10 Years in Thailand (dir: Aditya Assarat, Wisit Sasanatieng, Chulayarnon Sriphol & Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
The State Against Mandela and the Others (dir: Nicolas Champeaux & Gilles Porte)
O Grande Circo Mistico/The Great Mystical Circus (dir: Carlo Diegues)
Dead Souls (dir: Wang Bing)
To the Four Winds (dir: Michel Toesca)
La Traversée (dir: Romain Goupil)
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word (dir: Wim Wenders)
Closing film
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (dir: Terry Gilliam)

Directors’ Fortnight
Runs 9-19 May 2018.
Pajaros de Verano (Birds of Passage) (dirs: Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego) – opening film
Amin (dir: Philippe Faucon)
Carmen y Lola (dir: Arantxa Echevarria)
Climax (dir: Gaspar Noe)
Comprama un Revolver (Buy Me a Gun) (dir: Julio Hernandez Cordon)
Les Confins du Monde (dir: Guillaume Nicloux)
El Motoarrebatador (The Snatch Thief) (dir: Augustin Toscano)
En Liberte! (dir: Pierre Salvadori)
Joueurs (Treat Me Like Fire) (dir: Marie Monge)
Leave No Trace (dir: Debra Granik)
Los Silencios (dir: Beatriz Seigner)
The Pluto Moment (dir: Ming Zhang)
Mandy (dir: Panos Cosmatos)
Mirai (dir: Mamoru Hosoda)
Le Monde Est a Toi (dir: Romain Gavras)
Petra (dir: Jaime Rosales)
Samouni Road (dir: Stefano Savona)
Teret (The Load) (dir: Ognjen Glavonic)
Weldi (Dear Son) (dir: Mohamed Ben Attia)
Troppa Grazia (dir: Gianni Zanasi) – closing film

Critics Week
Runs 10-18 May 2018.
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
FEATURES
Wildlife, dir: Paul Dano (opening film)
Our Struggles, dir: Guillaume Senez
Shéhérazade, dir: Jean-Bernard Marlin
Guy, dir: Alex Lutz (closing film)
SHORT FILMS
La Chute (The Fall), dir: Boris Labbé
Third Kind, dir: Yorgos Zois
Ultra Pulpe (Apocalypse After), dir: Bertrand Mandico
FEATURE COMPETITION
Chris The Swiss, dir: Anja Kofmel
Diamantino, dirs: Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt
Egy Nap (One Day), dir: Zsófia Szilágyi
Fuga (Fugue), dir: Agnieszka Smoczynska
Kona Fer I Stríð (Woman At War), dir: Benedikt Erlingsson
Sauvage, dir: Camille Vidal-Naquet
Sir, dir: Rohena Gera
SHORT FILM COMPETITION
Amor, Avenidas Novas, dir: Duarte Coimbra
Ektoras Malo: I Teleftea Mera Tis Chronias (Hector Malot – The Last Day Of The Year), dir:
Mo-Bum-Shi-Min (Exemplary Citizen), dir: Kim Cheol-Hwi
Pauline Asservie (Pauline, Enslaved), dir: Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet
La Persistente, dir: Camille Lugan
Rapaz (Raptor), dir: Felipe Galvez
Schächer, dir: Flurin Giger
Tiikeri (The Tiger), dir: Mikko Myllylahti
Un Jour De Mariage (A Wedding Day), dir: Elias Belkeddar
Ya Normalniy (Normal), dir: Michael Borodin

The 2018 Cannes film festival runs 8-19 May

[Chris Knipp]

Big talk about Cannes 2018: what's in, what's not.

Notable inclusions are works by Jean Luc-Godard, Pawel Pawlikowski, Wim Wenders and Spike Lee, as well as a genuine blockbuster in the form of Solo: A Star Wars Story.

But maybe more notable is what's missing or excluded. Contrary to expectations, there is nothing, so far anyway, by Lars von Trier, Mike Leigh or Terry Gilliam. [Note: the last two were added later.]

Maybe the biggest news is the exclusion of Netflix. Cannes decided this time against allowing in Competition any film by the giant without a theatrical release. And Netflix in reply refused to participate in the festival in any out-of-competition category.

Despite the talk about the underrepresentation of women in the industry - see the SFIFF doc Half the Picture - there is a dearth of films by women directors. Cannes Festival Director Thierry Fremaux is unapologetic about this and says the Festival will never act unilaterally to correct the imbalance.

Godard's film is a photo essay like his other recent pictures. Pawilikowski's Cold War is the story of a romance traced across multiple countries in the Fifties. Spike Lee's Blackkklansman is the story of a black man who infiiltrates a KKK chapter, and will likely be one of the most provocative films of Competition.

Other films in Competition come from Egypt, Japan, Lebanon, South Korea and China. Included are to by dissident directors in serious trouble with their repressive governments. Jaafar Panahi has been banned from leaving Iran, but will debut with Three Faces. The Iranian government has been requested by the Cannes authorities to allow him to attend. Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov has been under house arrest since 2010 on fraud charges. His Leto is a movie about the underground rock 'n roll scene in Soviet Russia. Russia has been requested to allow him to come to the Riviera for the fest as well.

[Chris Knipp]

Critics Week Cannes 2018.



The Jury President of Critics Week (La Semaine de la Critique) this year is Norwegian director Joachim Trier.

Trier is the director of the brilliant debut Reprise (SFIFF 2007), Cannes selections Oslo, August 31st (ND/NF 2012) and Louder than Bombs, and 2017's Thelma (NYFF 2017) which debuted at Toronto. Trier will be joined by American actress and director Chloë Sevigny, Argentinian actor Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, a recent César winner for his role in Robin Campillo's 120 Beats Per Minute; Eva Sangiorgi, the new Italian director of the Viennale, the Vienna International Film Festival; and the French culture journalist Augustin Trapenard.

The selection will be announced tomorrow.

[Chris Knipp]

Cannes Classics program announced


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Orson Welles will be featured at next month’s Cannes Film Festival, though not his previously unfinished The Other Side of the Wind yet - Netflix is holding onto it due to its tiff with the Cannes directors. But a new doc The Eyes of Orson Welles is coming from Mark Cousins - the series includes tributes and docs about film & filmmakers plus restorations. Included are works involving Martin Scorsese, Jane Fonda, Chris Nolan and John Travolta. And The Golem.

The Eyes Of Orson Welles explores the director's visual process, using drawings, paintings and early works Cousins got access to through Welles' daughter, Beatrice. Beatrice could not prevail on Netflix to release The Other Side of the Wind.

There will be a tribute to Alice Guy, first female director/producer in a new doc by Pamela B. Green. Sundance offers Susan Lac's HBO doc Jane Fonda in Five Acts which Jane will be present for. Chris Nolan will present a new 70mm print of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey on its fiftieth anniversary made from the original camera negative, "a true photochemical film recreation," with a 15 min intermission as when the film was originally shown in spring 1968.

Ingmar Bergman is also to be featured with Searching for Ingmar Bergman, a parallel tracing of her own and his careers b Margarethe von Trotta;Jane Magnusson's Bergman — A Year In A Life tracing 1957, when Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal came out; plus a digital 4K restoration of the original neg of The Seventh Seal presented by the Swedish Film Institute. Other gems: Wilder's The Apartment, De Sica's Bicycle Thieves, Besson's The Big Blue (its 39th anniversary) and the musical Grease, which will be screened on the beach. Full program is below.

Cannes Classics 2018
Beating Heart, dir: Henri Decoin (1939 France)
Bicycle Thieves, dir: Vittorio De Sica (1948 Italy)
Enamorada, dir: Emilio Fernández (1946 Mexico – Martin Scorsese to introduce)
Tokyo Story, dir: Yasujiro Ozu (1953 Japan)
Vertigo, dir: Alfred Hitchcock (1958 U.S.)
The Apartment, dir: Billy Wilder (1960 U.S.)
Diamonds Of The Night, dir: Jan Němec (1964 Czech Republic)
War And Peace. Film I. Andrei Bolkonsky, dir: Sergey Bondarchuk (1965 Russia)
The Nun, dir: Jacques Rivette (1965 France)
Four White Shirts, dir: Rolands Kalnins (1967 Latvia)
The Hour Of The Furnaces, dir: Fernando Solanas (1968 Argentina)
Specialists, dir: Sergio Corbucci (1969 France, Italy, Germany)
João And The Knife, dir: George Sluizer (1971 Netherlands)
Blow For Blow, dir: Marin Karmitz (1972 France)
One Sings The Other Doesn’t, dir: Agnès Varda (1977 France)
Grease, dir: Randal Kleiser (1978 U.S. with John Travolta in attendance)
Fad, Jal, dir: Safi Faye (1979 Senegal, France)
Five And The Skin, dir: Pierre Rissient (1981 France, Philippines)
The Island Of Love, dir: Paulo Rocha (1982 Portugal, Japan)
Bagdad Café, dir: Percy Adlon (1987 Germany)
The Big Blue, dir: Luc Besson (1988 France, U.S., Italy)
Driving Miss Daisy, dir: Bruce Beresford (1989 U.S.)
Cyrano De Bergerac, dir: Jean-Paul Rappeneau (1990 France)
Hyenas, dir: Djibril Diop Mambety (1992 Senegal, France, Switzerland)
Lamb, dir: Paulin Soumanou Vieyra (1963 Senegal)
Destiny, dir: Youssef Chahine (1997 Egypt, France)

- Deadline Hollywood.

[Chris Knipp]

Devika Girish on Tribeca 2018


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Cannes begins in five days. Tribeca (Apr 18, 2018 – Apr 29, 2018) recently ended. So meanwhile here is a roundup by Devika Girish, whom I met at ND/NF in March, of her 2018 Tribeca favorites in the film review Vague Visages including a succinct rundown on a debut feature by Kent Jones, director of the New York Film Festival.

[Chris Knipp]

SCREENDAILY describes 20 Cannes films to watch for.

Many of these sound good. For the SCREENDAILY article: CLICK. They come from across the categories: Competition, Un Certain Regard, Out of Competition/Special screenings, Directors' Fortnight, and Critics Week.

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