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Cannes 2010 Predictions: Could ‘The Fighter,’ Black Swan’ & ‘Somewhere’ Premiere In France?

Rodrigo Perez — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:32:00 +0000

It’s not even March, but some sites are already dropping their Cannes 2010 predictions/educated guesses.

ScreenDaily has been the first to drop theirs which means the trades should be behind shortly. Last year when Screen Daily dropped their Cannes 2009 predictions they went about 12 for 19 making their guess work about 63% correct. When the Hollywood Reporter dropped their Cannes predix last year they went about 13 out of 21 which is about 62% accurate.

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TIFF Photos: ‘Good Heart,’ ‘Mother,’ ‘Vengeance,’ ‘Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky’

Rodrigo Perez — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:55:00 +0000

Every year at the Toronto Int. Film Festival there’s always a good little indie that comes out of nowhere — and sadly some of them never seem to see the light of day, much like “$5 A Day” with Alessandro Nivola and Christopher Walken from ’08.

Hopefully, one of these indies that doesn’t go the way of the dodo, is a picture called, “Good Heart.” Now we have no way of knowing whether it’s good or not, but it does star the great Brian Cox and Paul Dano.

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‘Vengeance,’ ‘Nymph,’ ‘Vincere,’ ‘Air Doll,’ More: 10 Trailers You Haven’t Seen From Cannes

samcmac — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:40:00 +0000

The 62 annual Cannes Film Festival is over, we get that, it’s not like we’re clinging on to it or something, but there’s still a lot of films people haven’t seen and ostensibly many of us, including you and I, are going to see them this fall at various film festivals. We decided to dig up a bunch of trailers for Cannes films you probably haven’t seen so far. A few of them aren’t subtitled in English, but it’s still a cool and interesting first-look for most of us.

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Cannes Videoblog Via FirstShowing

Rodrigo Perez — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:58:00 +0000

We didn’t realize this was up already.

We recorded a videoblog (vlog if you like) with FirstShowing’s Alex Billington who diligently recorded like 3-4 video posts at Cannes during his time at the festival (how he managed to find the the energy and time for vlogs, reviews, and regular news is beyond us).

We can’t even remember what’s covered in the conversation (Alex and I talked for 20 minutes before anything was taping too), but it’s probably a decent overview of things we may not have already talked about on the blog like Johnny To’s “Vengeance” which I liked and Alex hated.

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Ang Lee’s ‘Taking Woodstock’ Apparently Accepted For The 2009 Cannes Film Festival; Official Announcement Imminent

Rodrigo Perez — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:40:00 +0000

Speculation about what will appear at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival has almost reached a fever pitch and the announcement is due next week on April 23. Variety and The Hollywood Reporter have written many a speculative and educated guesses piece (and sometime armed with info they pretty much know, but can’t say), but Todd McCarthy’s Variety article from yesterday seems the most informed.

The most recent news? Apparently Ang Lee’s “Taking Woodstock” has been officially accepted.

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