Yeps, so ok lotsa cool stuff was at Cannes this year. These being the prize winners this time around. Bummer that like none of them made it into the West Coast SIFF/SFIFF Fests. Was hoping we'd at least get the Almodovar:
Palme d' Or - Ken Loach "The Wind That Shakes The Barley"
Best Actress and Best Screenplay - Pedro Almodovar "Volver"
Best Director - Alejandro González Iñárritu's "Babel"
Jury Prize - Andrea Arnold "Red Road"
Camera d'Or - Corneliu Porumboiu "A Fost Sau n-a Fost?"
Un Certain Regard - Chao Wang "Luxury Car"
Looking forward to many of these appearing over the coming year stateside! And here's more Infos on some personal faves/oddities/curiosities that I'm anticipating from the fest :
Article in Sight & Sound on the new Almodovar:
http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/49286
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang the Director of "Last Life in the Universe" (which was quite good) also has a new film titled "Invisible Waves":
http://www.invisiblewaves.com/
Turkish Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan who's last film "Uzak" (which I liked) has a new one:
http://www.nbcfilm.com/iklimler/iklimler.php?mid=1
And the Pang Bros "The Eye!" new film which at least styistically/technically looks way cool - sci-fi/horror alternate reality thingy - featuring Tsai Ming-Liang's fave actress:
http://www.re-cyclethemovie.com/
And this one from Korea by Joon-ho Bong the director of "Memories of Murder" just looks totally ridiculous! - in a Ultramonster kind of way:
http://www.thehost.co.kr/
