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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 8, 2021 13:51:13 GMT
This is funny!
The actual reason behind the polemic is theatre’s owners. People forget that Cannes and Frémaux didn’t have any issue against Netflix until the theatre’s owners moaned when he included Netflix films in the main competition a few years ago.
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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 10, 2021 2:01:59 GMT
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Post by MagdaFR on Jul 18, 2021 13:05:22 GMT
Putting this here for now. I don't know if it is covenient or not to open the festival. Annette got initially very good reviews but then some people hated it. It kind of faded, even with Carax's win.
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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 18, 2021 15:53:40 GMT
Yes, it’s usually not considered a good thing competitively speaking to open a festival. Cannes, in special, usually chose not very good films. That wasn’t the case with Annette, of course! They usually are out of competition films.
EDITED, these are Venice recent opening films:
2020 Daniele Luchetti’s The Ties (out of competition) 2019 Hirokazu Kore-eda's The Truth 2018 Damien Chazelle‘s First Man 2017 Alexander Payne‘s Downsizing 2016 Damien Chazelle‘s La La Land (it actually won Bes Actress for Emma Stone) 2015 Baltasar Kormákur‘s Everest (out of competition) 2014 Alejandro González Iñarritu’s Birdman 2013 Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity (out of competition) 2012 Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalism (out of competition) 2011 George Clooney’s The Ides of March 2010 Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan (it won the Marcelo Mastroianni award for best promising actor for Mila Kunis)
The films aren’t actually bad…at all! Much better than what Cannes usually selects. But yeah, they rarely are remembered by the jury at the end of the festival.
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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 19, 2021 10:08:39 GMT
It will be the new Almodóvar (in competition)! Again, that’s not bad! Actually, it sounds pretty good!
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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 19, 2021 10:12:44 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 19, 2021 11:09:26 GMT
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Post by MagdaFR on Aug 15, 2021 2:07:11 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 15, 2021 2:19:10 GMT
Last year, they released a list with the selected films but the festival itself was cancelled it. That’s why people are saying that TPOTD is this year Nomadland regarding festivals. Even when Telluride didn’t happened, the film was still in their official line-up. Who knows if it will happen something similar this year! Hopefully, things get better everywhere.
I imagine that the so-called “Academy contingent” is mainly old members. In the last few years they have tried to include a more diverse and international voters but I wonder who has more influence at this point: the old or the new guard.
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Post by queenzod on Aug 15, 2021 3:06:37 GMT
San Miguel County has an 80% fully vaccinated rate and a 90% 1+ dose rate among its tiny population of 8,000 people. Not too bad. Not sure what the kerfuffle is.
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