currently in Cannes
funny how i updated last year with a cannes entry and now i'm in cannes again for the festival!
this should be my last participation with my company as i plan to leave to do freelance work and my own projects within next several months.
my team's watching alot of competition films unlike other markets(we hardly get to enjoy films as we are treating clients or drinking with other teams/companies). so far we watched 4 competition films including BLINDNESS by Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles(CITY OF GOD, CONSTANT GARDENER) a french film with catherine Deneuve called A CHRISTMAS TALE, Ari Folman's animated documentary about his own experience during 1982 Lebannon war called WALTZ WITH BASHIR and lastly LINHA DE PASSE by another brazilian director Walter Salles(MOTORCYCLE DIARIES, CENTRAL STATION, DARK WATER). these were all red carpet galas so we all had to dress up(including bow tie for me) in order to attend these screenings, many of which had the cast and directors in attendance. if you were to ask me my fave so far is LINHA DE PASSE, which is about the lives of 4 brothers and their single mother in present Brazil setting. he co-directed this feature with a long time collaborator Daniella Thomas. i really loved the fact that all 4 brothers had their own goals/dillemas/problems/dreams and their own way of solving or reaching those. it made me think about my own projects and its characters' clear and concise motivations. i'll write further about the flicks later on.
there are so many films that i want to watch here but work is the priority and i'm afraid i may not be able to check out more. but i'm dying to catch CHE by Soderbergh(the 4-hour biopic about Che Guevara) and SYNEDOCHE NEW YORK by Charlie Kauffman before i takes off.
last night my team attended party for a film that we're co-producing called RED CLIFF(also known as BATTLE OF THE RED CLIFF), which is based on the most famous Chinese masterpiece THREE KINGDOMS(aka ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS). THREE KINGDOMS is chinese equivalent of LORD OF THE RINGS in terms sheer magnitude and its psyche into the culture it produced and simply the popularity of the book over the years since its first publication several hundred years ago. RED CLIFF takes one important battle that takes place in the book and turned it into 2 2-hour feature films directed by John Woo and starring a body of all-star chinese-speaking cast including Tony Leung, Chang Chan, Takeshi Kaneshiro, and some other actors i don't know...
anyway, our company invested in this project some time ago and were invited to the party to celebrate the film in cannes. i got to meet John Woo(take a picture together too) and see the cast + Jackie Chan up close. the photos in due time...
i'm coming back home in about 4 days and all i can think about is giving the missus a big sloppy kiss!
this should be my last participation with my company as i plan to leave to do freelance work and my own projects within next several months.
my team's watching alot of competition films unlike other markets(we hardly get to enjoy films as we are treating clients or drinking with other teams/companies). so far we watched 4 competition films including BLINDNESS by Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles(CITY OF GOD, CONSTANT GARDENER) a french film with catherine Deneuve called A CHRISTMAS TALE, Ari Folman's animated documentary about his own experience during 1982 Lebannon war called WALTZ WITH BASHIR and lastly LINHA DE PASSE by another brazilian director Walter Salles(MOTORCYCLE DIARIES, CENTRAL STATION, DARK WATER). these were all red carpet galas so we all had to dress up(including bow tie for me) in order to attend these screenings, many of which had the cast and directors in attendance. if you were to ask me my fave so far is LINHA DE PASSE, which is about the lives of 4 brothers and their single mother in present Brazil setting. he co-directed this feature with a long time collaborator Daniella Thomas. i really loved the fact that all 4 brothers had their own goals/dillemas/problems/dreams and their own way of solving or reaching those. it made me think about my own projects and its characters' clear and concise motivations. i'll write further about the flicks later on.
there are so many films that i want to watch here but work is the priority and i'm afraid i may not be able to check out more. but i'm dying to catch CHE by Soderbergh(the 4-hour biopic about Che Guevara) and SYNEDOCHE NEW YORK by Charlie Kauffman before i takes off.
last night my team attended party for a film that we're co-producing called RED CLIFF(also known as BATTLE OF THE RED CLIFF), which is based on the most famous Chinese masterpiece THREE KINGDOMS(aka ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS). THREE KINGDOMS is chinese equivalent of LORD OF THE RINGS in terms sheer magnitude and its psyche into the culture it produced and simply the popularity of the book over the years since its first publication several hundred years ago. RED CLIFF takes one important battle that takes place in the book and turned it into 2 2-hour feature films directed by John Woo and starring a body of all-star chinese-speaking cast including Tony Leung, Chang Chan, Takeshi Kaneshiro, and some other actors i don't know...
anyway, our company invested in this project some time ago and were invited to the party to celebrate the film in cannes. i got to meet John Woo(take a picture together too) and see the cast + Jackie Chan up close. the photos in due time...
i'm coming back home in about 4 days and all i can think about is giving the missus a big sloppy kiss!