28 May 2015
THE 1995 CANNES PROJECT
Updated thoughts now that it's over: Thanks so much to Nick for putting all of this together! I don't suppose I'll have as many chances to do such high-volume movie watching come the end of summer, and I'm tremendously happy to have started off my last summer of pre-grad school freedom with such a crazy, totally rewarding and surprisingly instructive project.
Whip-smart film writer and all-round good human being Nick Davis makes a habit every year of celebrating the Cannes International Film Festival by spending some time exploring a previous edition of the festival, and this year, he's made it a 20th anniversary party, by digging into the films of the 1995 festival. And for the first time, he's invited some folks along to join him in forming a sort of alternate jury and critics pool. One of whom, I'm happy to report, is me.
Every day, I and the rest of the "jurists"shared our capsule thoughts on the films that premiered in 1995 years ago on that date, in the main competition at Cannes and some of the sidebar selections. And I'd urge you all to keep tabs on the developments at Nick's place, since that's where I and several others had our big conversation about the movies as well as announcing our own, two-decades-of-hindsight-later picks for what should have won the big Cannes prizes.
Here's the index for all my own individual thoughts on the movies, day by day.
Day 1: 5/17 (Opening Night: The City of Lost Children)
Day 2: 5/18
Day 3: 5/19
Day 4: 5/20
Day 5: 5/21
Day 6: 5/22
Day 7: 5/23
Day 8: 5/24
Day 9: 5/25
Day 10: 5/26
Day 11: 5/27
Day 12: 5/28 (Closing Night: The Quick and the Dead
Roundtable Discussions (at Nick's site)
Roundtable #1, 17-21 May
Roundtable #2, 22-24 May
Whip-smart film writer and all-round good human being Nick Davis makes a habit every year of celebrating the Cannes International Film Festival by spending some time exploring a previous edition of the festival, and this year, he's made it a 20th anniversary party, by digging into the films of the 1995 festival. And for the first time, he's invited some folks along to join him in forming a sort of alternate jury and critics pool. One of whom, I'm happy to report, is me.
Every day, I and the rest of the "jurists"shared our capsule thoughts on the films that premiered in 1995 years ago on that date, in the main competition at Cannes and some of the sidebar selections. And I'd urge you all to keep tabs on the developments at Nick's place, since that's where I and several others had our big conversation about the movies as well as announcing our own, two-decades-of-hindsight-later picks for what should have won the big Cannes prizes.
Here's the index for all my own individual thoughts on the movies, day by day.
Day 1: 5/17 (Opening Night: The City of Lost Children)
Day 2: 5/18
Day 3: 5/19
Day 4: 5/20
Day 5: 5/21
Day 6: 5/22
Day 7: 5/23
Day 8: 5/24
Day 9: 5/25
Day 10: 5/26
Day 11: 5/27
Day 12: 5/28 (Closing Night: The Quick and the Dead
Roundtable Discussions (at Nick's site)
Roundtable #1, 17-21 May
Roundtable #2, 22-24 May
4 comments:
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Sounds awesome! But...I was secretly hoping to see your opinion on Fury Road this weekend so I can geek out in the comment section about how incredible it was
ReplyDeleteHow are you guys finding the dates of the films' appearance at Cannes? I've been looking for them to follow-up with you guys tomorrow, but I can't find them.
ReplyDeleteHooray, your own headquarters! SO GLAD you're playing this game with me.
ReplyDelete@moviemotorbreath: You can follow this link to a schedule I've just posted of what films played on which dates. I included all the Competition titles, marking the three that proved completely elusive with English subtitles (or, in Waati's case, elusive in any form) as well as all the Sidebar titles that I, at least, will be posting on. By all means, play along as fully as you like!
And I have gone ahead and updated the main body with that link.
ReplyDeleteJeremy- Have faith. It's the next thing I plan to write.