30 April 2014

Daydreams of Cannes

Picking at the festival lists popping up during spring, including the mega-list of directors at Cannes:

THE CANNES LINEUP
  • Turkish master Nuri Bilge Ceylan returns to Anatolia with "Winter Sleep."
  • The mythical Dardenne Brothers offer up "Two Days, One Night," starring Marion Cotillard.
  • Two septuagenarian godfathers of British cinema are on the bill: Ken Loach ("The Wind That Shakes the Barley") with red-scare period piece "Jimmy's Hall," and Mike Leigh ("Naked," "Vera Drake") with art biopic "Mr. Turner."
  • Jean-Luc Godard, who butchered the spoken word in "Film Socialisme," goes the rest of the way with "Farewell to Language."
  • Bennett Miller ("Capote," "Moneyball") goes for the hat trick, with the help of Mark Ruffalo and Channing Tatum, in the wrestling pic "Foxcatcher."
  • Atom Egoyan looks to give Ryan Reynolds some gravitas in the child-snatching thriller "The Captive."


THIS PAST WEEKEND IN SAN FRANCISCO
  • "Heaven Adores You," a documentary about the late singer-songwriter Elliot Smith.
  • Taiwanese master Tsai Ming-liang ("What Time Is It There?", "I Don't Want to Sleep Alone") is back with "Stray Dogs," about an impoverished Taipei family.
  • A French legend offers up a five-part miniseries, clocking in at 225 minutes, an examination of the world of art, "Agnes Varda: From Here to There."
  • From Argentina's Menolo Nieto, a labor-organizing drama "The Militant."


TRIBECA LEFTOVERS
  • Angus MacLachlan, writer of 2005's "Junebug," writes and directs "Goodby to All That," starring TV comedian Paul Schneider as a divorced father looking for romance.
  • A mystery involving intercut stories, from Italy, "Human Capital."
  • Another generation of Coppola, Gia (Sofia's niece), translates stories by James Franco with "Palo Alto."
  • Keith Miller follows up "Welcome to Pine Hill" with the gangland tale "Five Star."


SCRAPS FROM BERLIN
  • Richard Linklater spent 12 years filming kids growing up for his drama "Boyhood."
  • An even more recent film from Tsai Ming-liang, "Journey to the West."


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