Cannes Film Festival 12 - Buzz Talk & News

Two questions: what was your favorite film and best experience? One last recap of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, this time in video form, featuring a group of my blogger/critic friends. Throughout the last few days in Cannes, I met up with five of my...

"This is the end... My only friend, the end." I couldn't get that Doors song out of my head the last few days in Cannes. This year I stuck it out to the end, living in France nearly 14 days before packing up and heading out. The 2012 Cannes Film Fest...

Haneke wins again. The official 65th Cannes Film Festival awards for 2012 were announced tonight, wrapping up 12 days of the international fest. The biggest winner, taking home the Palme d'Or for his 2nd time, is director Michael Haneke and his film...

Happy to report news that one of the must buzzed about, highly acclaimed, incredibly weird, original, and impressive films coming out of the Cannes Film Festival has been bought. Deadline & THR are reporting that Indomina Releasing, an upstart indie...

Ah yes, this is what I've been waiting for. One of the last major premieres at the Cannes Film Festival was Jeff Nichols' third film following Shotgun Stories and Take Shelter, titled simply Mud. This Arkansas-set southern drama is a wonderfully char...

Before seeing this, I was considerably curious to see how filmmaker David Cronenberg (of A Dangerous Method most recently) would handle a philosophical character study about a billionaire taking a limo across New York City. Alas, I was let down to di...

British caravan campers gone wild. Very wild. And very deadly. Sightseers is the latest film from British filmmaker on-the-rise Ben Wheatley, of the controverisal Kill List and Down Terrace previously, and he's back with something a little more light...

Why do I go to film festivals? It's a good question, but perhaps not, because it really has a simple answer: I love film. I love cinema. I love movies. There isn't much required beyond that; it's enough motivation for me to make this small French tow...

As initially stated in my tweet immediately after seeing this: "weirdest, sickest shit I've seen yet." Indeed. Antiviral is the directorial debut of one Brandon Cronenberg, son of the legendarily twisted filmmaker David Cronenberg, and it involves ce...

This film can really be summed up in one word: brutal. But there's other words that work just as well: cool, or badass, or violent, or grim, or smart, or criminal. Killing Them Softly, formerly known as Cogan's Trade (the title of George V. Higgins's...

Through all the tragedy and killing and hopelessness seen at Cannes so far (there's a lot this year), it's a refreshing relief to see something with a little bit of insightful charm. Enough charm to make me smile and laugh while watching, then grow w...

"Django... the D is silent." The best line to end the footage for Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained. The Weinstein Company decided to hold a private press event this evening at the Cannes Film Festival presenting a first look at never-before-seen...

"Django... the D is silent." The best line to end the footage for Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained. The Weinstein Company decided to hold a private press event this evening at the Cannes Film Festival presenting a first look at never-before-seen...

We've already gotten a first look at the adaptation of Cogan's Trade from director Andrew Dominik, which is a bit of a reunion for the collaborators from The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford as it stars Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck...