Randomness:

- Ken Loach's film, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, has won the Palm d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival.

- The most talked about baby in the world has been born, and she is called Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt.

- Deadwood. Is. Over.- Michael Cunningham, author of "The Hours", has adapted his own novel "Specimen Days" for a ( Read more... )

• 10 Things We Know About Cannes: Richard and Mary Corliss (TIME.com) gives you the Cannes for Dummies.
  It’s still THE film festival
  Berlin may be more serious, Amsterdam hipper, Sundance more focused, Toronto more congenial. But Cannes, with its 40,000 visitors from around the world, remains the gold standard for movie conclaves.
  
  Learn humility. ( Read more... )

Some collected reviews from Cannes via GreenCine Daily:

• Marie Antoinette, dir. Sofia Coppola. Starring Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, and Rip Torn. The most favourable describe it as being "so much more ambitious and interesting than a conventional biopic" (Nerve), and "a witty, inventive, modernist-skewed look at girl power and the lack ( Read more... )

• This made me laugh. Apparently 3 members of the jury at Cannes slipped out during the opening-night film of the festival, The Da Vinci Code, to get drinks and watch soccer (or football, if you must insist). Scott Foundas (LA Weekly) wrote on his Cannes blog:
  On Wednesday night, about one hour into the film's official, black-tie opening-night ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I saw Alias 5.15 -- there was Sark, how could I not? When it was good, it was very very good. When it was bad, it was time to push Rachel and Tom off-screen with a slide of the playbar in Windows Media ( Read more... )

So, The Da Vinci Code is officially "codswallop". The critical concensus is "dull", "punishingly long", "faithful to a fault" and "melodramatic". Hands up anybody who didn't see this coming? ... I guessed as much ( Read more... )

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Oh God. I have officially written femslash. Gilmore Girls femslash. UNINTENTIONALLY. How weird is that?

The Cannes Film Festival begins tomorrow!

- And who is on this year's feature films jury? Wong Kar Wai (president), Monica Belluci, Helena Bonham Carter, Lucrecia Martel, Zhang Ziyi, Samuel L. Jackson, Patrice LeConte, Tim Roth and Elia ( Read more... )