Cannes Short 2013: Agophobia
One of my worthwhile discoveries in the Court Métrage or the Short Film Corner in Cannes Film Festival this year was this blindingly ambitious 30-minute short film enticingly titled Agophobia by…
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Cannes 2013: Day Ten
And so my final day in Cannes has arrived – after ten days of seemingly endless queueing, the rants and raves in my blog and tweeting the shit out of…
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Cannes 2013: Day Nine
My penultimate day in Cannes involved myself checking out Alexander Payne’s misanthropic road-trip comedy Nebraska, a stripped-down, back-to-basics affair for Payne, whom I happen to bump into briefly in the Croisette.…
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Cannes 2013: Day Eight
Most veteran critics partaking in Cannes see four films per day (five, if they’re really vampiric), and I just about manage to average between two to three, the most number…
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Cannes 2013: Only God Forgives
Many will detest Nicholas Winding Refn’s ultraviolent, über-stylised, morally bankrupt neo-noir crime saga. This is not a prediction, it’s an observation. Only God Forgives has all the makings of a…
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Cannes 2013: Day Seven
A film-packed day preceded by a literally packed early bus trip, almost as worse as being trapped in a tin of tuna, featuring Somebody Who Forgot To Wash – the…
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Cannes 2013: Day Six
As some of you followers might know (predictably closer to none), this is the day I got into Inside Llewyn Davis after 2 days of major ranting about the elitist…
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Cannes 2013: Inside Llewyn Davis
Satisfaction is indeed a lot sweeter after all the waiting. I’ve queued up for three screenings just to get into the new one from the Coen brothers, and finally managed to…
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Cannes 2013: Stranger By The Lake
The film with the most walkouts I’ve seen so far in Cannes Film Festival 2013 A.D. (counted at about eight, including the fiftysomething woman beside me who seemed to be…
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Cannes 2013: Day Five
Day off. It’s the first day during my time in Cannes so far where I’ve never attempted to queue and see any film. In other words, I’ve done fuck-all. But…
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Cannes 2013: The Past
Give Asghar Farhadi a piece of soap opera material and he’ll more than likely turn it into a riveting, hand-over-mouth domestic drama. He who gave us the powerhouse, Oscar-winning A…
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Cannes 2013: Day Four
The Order of the Day was supposed to be comprised with the Benecio del Toro-starring Jimmy P. as the starter, to be followed by the new Coen brothers’ latest Inside…
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Cannes 2013: Day Three
There’s a reason why most folks stay within 1-mile radius from the Cannes centre ville, because not only it’s convenient to the heart of the buzz but also most screenings…
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Cannes 2013: Fruitvale Station
Make no mistake, Fruitvale Station has the grit and grime of a socio-political picture assembled to win film festival awards (it bagged both of Sundance’s Grand Jury and Audience Prizes) and was…
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Cannes 2013: The Bling Ring
Trust Sofia Coppola for masterminding enchanting tales about rich, upper-middle-class white teenagers transfixed with bourgeois ennui and first-world dilemmas. Her cinematic ouevre is primarily about misunderstood youth, all of whom…
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Cannes 2013: Day Two
I cannot remember the last time I’ve woken myself up at an ungodly hour of 6am to go and queue up for a film screening. Not ever in my lifetime…
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Cannes 2013: Jeune & Jolie
François Ozon, the bad boy of French cinema, is back in his utterly marvellous form in the Croisette after a decade, following last year’s adroit and engaging Dans la Maison with this…
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Cannes 2013: Day One
A few years ago, I thought the Cannes Film Festival regularly takes place on Planet Jupiter – surreal, far-fetched, an unattainable figment of the fabulous imagination. Now I’m on this planet, and it’s fucking awesome to be here.
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Cannes 2013: The Great Gatsby
Many will bemoan Baz Luhrmann’s take on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s immortal tome The Great Gatsby for its deliriously brazen approach on one of America’s greatest pieces of modern literature, synchronising Jazz Age…
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Feast yourself on the Cannes Official Selection film buffet
And so the competitors (and showmakers) of the world’s most esteemed film festival have been revealed this morning during the Conférence de Presse in Paris, officially kickstarting the butt-clenching excitement…
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