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Interview: Filmdrunk's Vince Mancini -
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How Hits Become Flops -
New Twists on Familiar Material at SIFF
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Melissa McCarthy on Rex Reed -
Critics' Coppola Privilege Problem -
The Showrunner as Auteur
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Chinese Cuts of Hollywood Movies -
VODetails: 'Twixt' -
LaBute Trashes Critic -
Young Ebert's Letter to the Editor -
Survey: Bueller? Bueller?
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Superheroes and Shakespeare -
Poitras and Snowden -
'Man of Steel' Reviews
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Breaking a Rotten Tomatoes Record -
Refined Talk, Vulgar Auteurs
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Early 'Monsters U' Reviews -
Vince Vaughn, Salesman Actor -
Tales of Hollywood Survival -
The Dude Days of Summer -
Notes on Vulgar Auteurism
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Need Traffic? Bash Critics -
Things Critics Will Tell You -
Stereotyping Young Critics -
Barbed Wire: 'The Internship'
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VODetails: 'V/H/S/2'
Death to Exposition
Hollywood's Most Complex Franchise
Uwe Boll Got Better (and Worse)
Defending the MandarinCriticwire at Cannes: The Top Films and Performances Poll
COMMENTS: A good, but not great year. It will be remembered as the year Holy Motors revved its engines on the Croisette.
BEST FEATURE
1. Holy Motors
2. Amour (Love)
3. Beyond the Hills
4. Moonrise Kingdom
5. The Hunt
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. Like Someone In Love
2. You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet!
3. In Another Country
4. The Paperboy
5. The Taste of Money
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Denis Lavant, Holy Motors
2. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Amour (Love)
3. Mads Mikkelsen, The Hunt
4. Jared Gilman, Moonrise Kingdom
5. Cristina Flutur, Beyond the Hills
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Emmanuelle Riva, Amour (Love)
2. Kara Hayward, Moonrise Kingdom
3. Cosmina Stratan, Beyond the Hills
4. Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone
5. Viggo Mortensen, On the Road
Ben Kenigsberg, Time Out Chicago
BEST FEATURE
1. Beyond the Hills
2. Like Someone in Love
3. Moonrise Kingdom
4. Amour (Love)
5. Holy Motors
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. Killing Them Softly
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Jean-Louis Trintingnant, Amour (Love)
2. Suzanne Clément, Laurence Anyways
3. Denis Lavant, Holy Motors
4. Cosmina Stratan, Beyond the Hills
5. Aniello Arena, Reality
Robert Koehler, Film Critic/Programmer
BEST FEATURE
1. Post Tenebras Lux
2. Holy Motors
3. Manhã de Santo António (short)
4. Hold Back (Rengaine)
5. Mekong Hotel
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. Beyond the Hills
2. Cosmopolis
3. Mystery
4. White Elephant
5. 11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Denis Lavant, Holy Motors
2. Mads Mikkelsen, The Hunt
3. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Amour (Love)
4. Tye Sheridan, Mud
Eric Kohn, Indiewire
COMMENTS: Expectations were impossibly high this year and so a number of world class auteurs failed to deliver the masterpieces expected of them. But my own top five list reflects an ample mixture of quality from veterans (Haneke, Carax, Garrone) and rising stars (Larraín, Wheatley). That's enough to keep Cannes relevant.
BEST FEATURE
1. Amour (Love)
2. Holy Motors
3. No
4. Sightseers
5. Reality
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. The Paperboy
2. Polluting Paradise
3. The Sapphires
4. Me and You
5. Beyond the Hills
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Denis Lavant, Holy Motors
2. Emmanuelle Riva, Amour (Love)
3. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Amour (Love)
4. Gael Garcia Bernal, No
5. Mads Mikkelsen, The Hunt
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Edith Scob, Holy Motors
2. Paul Giamatti, Cosmopolis
3. Scoot McNairy, Killing Them Softly
4. Kristen Stewart, On the Road
5. Alfredo Castro, No
Manolis Kranakis, Flix
In general, a festival made out of great contradictions, combining films that were let downs (On the Road, Cosmopolis, The Paperboy) and films that turned out to be almost masterpieces (Amour, The Hunt, Rust and Bone, In the Fog). Above all, we'll all remember this as the the festival where Leos Carax was back with a vengeance with the best film of the whole festival and probably one of the best of the year and the years to come!
BEST FEATURE
1. Holy Motors
2. Amour (Love)
3. In the Fog
4. Rust and Bone
5. The Hunt
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. Cosmopolis
2. Reality
3. On the Road
4. The Paperboy
5. Post Tenebras Lux
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone
2. Denis Lavant, Holy Motors
3. Jean Louis Trintignant, Amour (Love)
4. Mads Mikkelsen, The Hunt
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Emmanuel Riva, Amour (Love)
2. Kylie Minogue, Holy Motors
3. Matthias Schoenaerts, Rust and Bone
4. William Ruane, The Angel's Share
5. Matthew McConaughey, The Paperboy
7 Comments
Jordan Mintzer | June 12, 2012 11:16 AM
With the exception of Pablo Larrain's "No," I find it rather disappointing that this poll hardly bothers to mention or rate films that screened in the Directors' Fortnight and Critics' Week sidebars. How can one offer an opinion or wrap-up of Cannes by only covering the Official Selection and practically ignorning the other sections entirely? Haneke, Carax, Audiard, Reygadas, Weerasethakul, Nichols, Dolan and Loach all premiered their earliest works in either the DF or CW, and it's unfortunate that the critics surveyed here seemed to limit their coverage to the tenured auteurs of the Official Selection rather than seeking out those of the next generation at the Palais Stephanie or the Miramar...
ligya | June 10, 2012 2:50 PM
mi mi mi mi mi mi mi mi Robert Pattinson
mimimimmimmimimimimimi robert Pattinson
carol | June 1, 2012 11:57 AM
Falta robert pattinson , su trabajo fue espectacular!
MDL | May 29, 2012 11:39 PM
It's because critics are sheep too. Consensus is often built within a critical enclave that becomes a consensus because they say it is.
Elaine | May 29, 2012 3:09 PM
I honestly do not understand how there are not more mentions of Pattinson. He did a superb job.