CANNES: ‘Uncle Boonmee’ Wins Palme D’Or

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• A great day for cinema (Uncle Boonmee). Go JOE Go!

  Comment by Ben — Sunday May 23, 2010 @ 11:28am PDT  Reply to this post

• Yay Apichatpong! Proud as if a sibling won… well, if I had an otherworldly-genius sibling, anyway. So good for him.

  Comment by Dit Shisturber — Sunday May 23, 2010 @ 11:45am PDT  Reply to this post

• Nikki – Cannes is always heavily covered by the international press and domestic press, too. Is Cannes important to the Hollywood industry, or is it just another celeb-obsessed photo event?

  I’ve always wondered.

  Comment by savvydude — Sunday May 23, 2010 @ 12:11pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Cannes hasn’t produce big box office winner in a while but some of the international deal are being made there. In my opinion its a little more than a good photo opt for hollywood!

    Comment by mk — Sunday May 23, 2010 @ 5:14pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Cannes is divided into three distinct groups – competition, market and producers networking / deal making. Cannes is hugely important to Hollywood since it gives the industry a chance to parade its wares to the international market, meet and greet fellow compatriots and sieve through the rumors and gossip to figure out what is true and what is not. Arguments rage on and on about the state of the industry and the value of spending promotional dollars on premieres and events, but the opportunity to gather en masse, meet people face to face and develop new relationships is the single most important thing we do to help this rather odd, sometimes rather antiquated, people driven business survive and grow.

    Comment by Luke G-Jones — Monday May 24, 2010 @ 1:24am PDT  Reply to this post

• What? No “Wall Street 2″ amongst the winners?

  Oliver Stone is ticked to get the Boonmee dropped on him!

  Comment by bobby the saint — Sunday May 23, 2010 @ 12:32pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • WS2 screened out of competition.

    Comment by raggedyanni — Sunday May 23, 2010 @ 2:56pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Wall Street 2 was shown out of competition – thus no win. It was also not one of the more critically-acclaimed films to be shown at Cannes anyway.

    Comment by Vincent Quek — Sunday May 23, 2010 @ 6:39pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Wall Street 2 was out of competition Bobby

    Comment by A.J. — Sunday May 23, 2010 @ 10:06pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Wall Street 2 was screened out of competition.

    Comment by Luke G-Jones — Monday May 24, 2010 @ 1:15am PDT  Reply to this post

    • thanks for the Wall Street 2 update, folks. I was clueless about it. After reading your posts I decided to find reviews about the movie, and the verdict thus far is “mixed”. Shall be interesting to see how the U.S. box office treats this sequel.

      Have a good week all — and thanks again for the additional info.

      – Bobby

      Comment by bobby the saint — Monday May 24, 2010 @ 1:13pm PDT  Reply to this post

      • wall street 2 screened out of competition. it didn’t compete at cannes. it wasn’t a competitor.

        Comment by Eric Yard — Monday May 24, 2010 @ 6:50pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Congrats to Joe. One of the world’s best filmmakers and hopefully this will increase his visibility in the US (yeah right…)

  Comment by Rich S. — Sunday May 23, 2010 @ 4:29pm PDT  Reply to this post

• the hollywood movies were all lemons, in and out of competition

  Comment by Talleyrand — Sunday May 23, 2010 @ 6:04pm PDT  Reply to this post

• looks like a whole lotta films that won’t find distribution in the u.s. –except for the javier bardem film. but i think it already had distribution going into the festival.

  Comment by dudette — Sunday May 23, 2010 @ 6:16pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Damn you Tim Burton.

  Comment by Walker — Sunday May 23, 2010 @ 7:55pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Honestly, I might be in a minority but I’m glad Mike Leigh’s film did not win. Ken Loach should never be compared to Mike Leigh. Ken creates a wonderful reality, Mike creates a very self congratulatory display of reality. In comedy terms, it would be like Buster Keaton versus Charlie Chaplin. Anyone agree?

  Comment by jeremy Henderson — Sunday May 23, 2010 @ 8:41pm PDT  Reply to this post

• for some reason my post did not appear. so i’ll try again. except for biutiful, certified copy, and maybe hahaha looks like a bunch of films that’ll have a tough time getting to the u.s. market. or is this just not p.c. to say?

  Comment by dudette — Monday May 24, 2010 @ 3:26am PDT  Reply to this post

  • i don’t know if it’s not PC but it’s clearly wrong. a great many of these films will trickle into the US via small distributors who are actually interested in film as art, many will wind up available on DVD/on demand, etc. and there will always be an audience (albeit a small one) who wants to see movie that are actually thoughtful and not Hollywood studio dreck. in LA, probably 25 of last yr Cannes films played theatrically with more to come. The Father of My Children just opened. Wild Grass is forthcoming. Vincere just finished a successful arthouse run.

    Comment by not pc — Monday May 24, 2010 @ 12:28pm PDT  Reply to this post

• MacGruber only cost about 10 million dollars to make,

  Comment by vibram fivefingers kso — Monday May 24, 2010 @ 5:54am PDT  Reply to this post

  • MacGruber did not screen in competition.

    Comment by Eric Yard — Monday May 24, 2010 @ 6:51pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I saw KABOOM at Cannes in the midnight screening and that movie is amazing… Araki goes for it and scores. Got a 10 minute standing ovation..

  Comment by Anon — Monday May 24, 2010 @ 9:15am PDT  Reply to this post