Getaway

Courtney Solomon's Getaway is a

The French Connection

William Friedkin's The French Connection is about 2 NY cop played by Gene Hackman and Roy Schrader, who try to uncovered drug smuggling business with French connection. The classic Hollywood policier won five 1972 Academy Award including Best Picture, Director and Actor. ****

2013 September News Briefs

Ron Howard's Rush stars Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Bruhl get glowing review after 2013 Venice Film Festival premiered. 

2013 Toronto: Jason Reitman circling Adam Sandler, Rosemary De Witt and Jennifer Garner for Man, Woman and Children. 

The Grandmaster

Wong Kar Wai's The Grandmaster follow the early years of martial arts master Ip Man life in Fong Shan stars Tony Leung and Zhang Ziyi. 

A Stranger

Bobo Jelcic's A Stranger (Croatia, 2013) a man fear offending his own community by attending his muslim friend's funeral in forever divided Yugoslavian today. 2013BERf, 2013SAR. RATING:2.5

George Clooney and Sandra Bullock at 2013 Venice Film Festival Opening Gala

George Clooney and Sandra Bullock enjoy great reception from audience and critics alike on their new film GRAVITY that open 2013 Venice Film Festival

Floating Skyscrapper

Tomasz Wasilewski's Floating Skyscrapers (Poland, 2013) - 2013KVeotw Best Film Winnner. Kuba attends an art opening with his girlfriend of two years and bumps into Mikal. The connection between these two young men is instantaneous and intoxicating, and despite opposition from all sides, he allows Mikal into his life. The results go beyond anything he could have imagined. This intimate and bold second feature from Polish director Tomasz Wasilewski captures the often-complicated consequences of finding love where others do not want it. 2013KVeotw, 2013TRI. RATING: 3

The Wolverine

James Mangold's The Wolverine (US, 2013) RATING: 3  - The Marvel team has recast the Incredible Hulk three times in recent years, but when it comes to their most popular hothead, Wolverine, there’s only one actor fit to wear the claws: Hugh Jackman returns for his sixth screen appearance as the adamantium-reinforced superhero in James Mangold’s smart, Japan-set “The Wolverine,” an entertaining and surprisingly existential digression from his usual X-Men exploits. Though Wolvie comes across a bit world-weary and battle-worn by now, Jackman is in top form, taking the opportunity to test the character’s physical and emotional extremes. Fans might’ve preferred bigger action or more effects, but Mangold does them one better, recovering the soul of a character whose immortality left something to be desired.

Snowpiercer

Bong Joon Ho's Snowpiercer (South Korea, 2013) - Two decades into a second Ice Age, a few thousand human survivors live out their days aboard a state-of-the-art luxury train in “Snowpiercer,” an enormously ambitious, visually stunning and richly satisfying futuristic epic from the gifted Korean genre director Bong Joon-ho (“The Host,” “Memories of Murder”). A rare high-end sci-fi/fantasy pic made completely outside the studio system, and that even rarer case of an acclaimed foreign helmer working in English with no appreciable loss of his distinctive visual and storytelling style, Bong’s adaptation of French graphic novel “Le Transperceneige” reps a pricey investment ($40 million) for majority producer CJ Entertainment, but seems a downright bargain compared with the cost of forging such pics on Hollywood turf. A heavy marketing blitz combined with Bong and co-star Song Kang-ho’s considerable fan bases will drive strong biz at home (where the pic opens Aug. 1), if less than the whopping $64 million earned by “The Host” in 2006 — until recently, Korea’s all-time box office champ.

R.I.P.D

Robert Schwenke's R.I.P.D (US, 2013) - Transforming the supernatural into the subpar, R.I.P.D. aspires to the hip, zippy, irreverent spirit of Men In Black, but this effects-heavy action-comedy is simply too unremarkable to generate much of a pulse. Co-stars Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds are not without their charms, but director Robert Schwentke (RED) has made a film that culls together marketable elements without ever really getting them to congeal into anything satisfying. RATING: 2

The Frozen Ground

Scott Walker's The Frozen Ground (US, 2013) - A bleak and deliberately dour police procedural that follows the real-life events surrounding Alaska’s most notorious serial killer Robert Hansen, a family man who over a period of some 12 years abducted and killed at least 24 women in the 1970s and ‘80s, the impressively staged The Frozen Ground is a striking platform for strong, intense and serious performances from Nicolas Cage (as determined cop) and John Cusack (as manipulative killer). While straight-forward in tone and structure, the film is admirably non-exploitative as it lays out the developing drama.

Bhaag Milkha Bhaag

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (India, 2013) *** 1/2 - Farhan Akhtar gives a powerful performance as Milkha Singh AKA The Flying Sikh who overcome great family tragedy to become the world champion runner and Olympian.

Everybody Has A Plan

Ana Piterbarg's Everybody Has A Plan is an Argentinian film stars Viggo Mortensen as a twin brothers who entangled in underworld kidnapping business. 2012TOR. **1/2

Viggo Mortensen’s trademark quiet strength and enigmatic stillness works to impressive effect in Ana Piterbarg’s moody and evocative drama Everybody Has A Plan (Todos Tenemos Un Plan), largely set against backdrop of Argentina’s tough and isolated the Tigre Delta, a labyrinthine tangle of islands and waterways which has its own codes and sense of justice.

Byzantium

Neil Jordan's Byzantium stars Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton in artsy but toothless vampire tale with feminist twist. 2012TOR, 2013SANF, 2013SEA, 2013TRI. **

A lush and atmospheric vampire tale that may be short on fangs but rich in moody menace, Neil Jordan’s latest delve into gothic genre drama – after Interview With The Vampire 17 years ago – provides a fine platform for striking performances from Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton, though may lack the sheer gore quota to draw in horror fans.

2013 Variety's Ten European Directors To Watch

Eat Sleep Die

1 Gabriela Pitchler - Eat Sleep Die - Sweden, 2012
2 Michiel Ten Horn - The Deflowering of Eva Van End - The Netherlands, 2012
3 Mika Ronkainen - Finnish Blood, Swedish Heart - Finland, 2012
4 Wojtek Smarzowski - Traffic Department - Poland, 2013
5 Roar Uthaug - Escape - Norway, 2012
6 Elina Psykou - The Etermal Return - Greece, 2013
7 Elisa Fuksas - Nina - Italy, 2012
8 Nana Ekvtimishvili , Simon Gross - In Bloom - Georgia, 2013
9 Felix Van Groeningen - The Broken Circle Breakdown - Belgium - 2012
10 Emil Christov - The Color of The Chameleon - Bulgaria, 2012

EW The Greatest Movies of All Time (7/5/2013)

Orson Welles' Citizen Kane

1 Citizen Kane
2 The Godfather
3 Casablanca
4 Bonnie and Clyde
5 Psycho
6 It's A Wonderful Life
7 Mean Streets
8 The Gold Rush
9 Nashville
10 Gone With The Wind
11 King Kong
12 The Searchers
13 Annie Hall
14 Bambi
15 Blue Velvet
16 Singin' In The Rain
17 Seven Samurai
18 Jaws
19 Pulp Fiction
20 The Sorrow and The Pity
21 Some Like It Hot
22 Toy Story
23 Notorious
24 The Sound of Music
25 2001: A Space Odyssey
26 Bicycle Thieves
27 The Maltese Falcon
28 The Wizard of Oz
29 North By Nortwest
30 Sunrise
31 Chinatown
32 Duck Soup
33 The Graduate
34 Adam's Rib
35 ApocalypseNow
36 Rosemary's Baby
37 Manhattan
38 Vertigo
39 The Rules of The Game
40 Double Indemnity
41 The Road Warrior
42 Taxi Driver
43 The Lord of The Rings: The Return of The King
44 On The Waterfront
45 Mr. and Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington
46 The Adventures of Robin Hood
47 A Clockwork Orange
48 It Happened One Night
49 Goldfinger
50 Intolerance
51 A Hard Day's Night
52 Titanic
53 The Empire Strikes Back
54 Breathless
55 Frankenstein (1931)
56 Schindler's List
57 Midnight Cowboy
58 The Seventh Seal
59 All The President's Men
60 Top Hat
61 The Silence of The Lambs
62 E.T.
63 Network
64 The Best Years of Our Lives
65 Last Tango in Paris
66 The Shining
67 Rebel Without A Cause
68 Goodfellas
69 Dr. Strangelove
70 L'avventura
71 American Graffiti
72 The 400 Blows
73 Cabaret
74 The Hurt Locker
75 Touch of Evil
76 Lawrence of Arabia
77 Dog Day Afternoon
78 Raiders of The Lost Ark
79 Night of The Living Dead (68)
80 Dazed and Confused
81 Blade Runner
82 Scenes From a Marriage
83 The Wild Bunch
84 Olympia
85 Dirty Harry
86 All About Eve
87 La Dolce Vita
88 The Dark Knight
89 Woodstock
90 The French Connection
91 Do The Right Thing
92 The Piano
93 A Face in The Crowd
94 Brokeback Mountain
95 Rushmore
96 Sullivan;s Travels
97 Diner
98 All About My Mother
99 There Will Be Blood
100 Sweet Smell of Success

TEN GREATEST HORROR FLICKS
1 Psycho
2 King Kong
3 Rosemary's Baby
4 Frankenstein (1931)
5 The Silence of The Lambs
6 The Shining
7 Night of The Living Dead
8 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
9 Carrie (1976)
10 Alien 

TEN GREATEST ACTION FILMS
1 Seven Samurai
2 North By Northwest
3 The Road warrior
4 The Adventures of Robin Hood
5 Goldfinger
6 Raiders of The Lost Ark
7 Dirty Harry
8 The French Connection
9 Die Hard
10 Kill Bill Vol 1

TEN GREATEST FAMILY MOVIES
1 Bambi
2 Toy Story
3 The Sound of Music
4 The Wizard of Oz
5 E.T
6 The Little Mermaid
7 The Red Balloon
8 Shrek
9 National Velvet
10 Spirited Away

TEN GREATEST COMEDIES
1 The Gold Rush
2 Annie Hall
3 Some Like It Hot
4 Adam's Rib
5 Duck Soup
6 Manhattan
7 It Happened One Night
8 Dr. Strangelove
9 Rushmore
10 Sullivan's Travels

TEN GREATEST FOREIGN FILMS
1 Bicycle Thief
2 The Rules of The Game
3 Breathless (1960)
4 The Seventh Seal
5 L'avventura
6 The 400 BGlows
7 Scenes From a Marriage
8 La Dolce Vita
9 All About My Mother
10 Tokyo Story

TEN SEXIEST FILMS
1 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
2 Out of Sight
3 The Seven Year Itch (1955)
4 Body Heat
5 Secretary
6 Unfaithful
7 My Beautiful Laundrette
8 The Big Easy
9 Bound
10 American Gigolo

TEN GREATEST DOCUMENTARY
1 The Sorrow and The Pity
2 Olympia
3 Woodstock
4 Hoop Dreams
5 Nanook of The North
6 Crumb
7 Gimme Shelter
8 Titicut Follies
9 Don't Look Back
10 The Up Series
 

 
 

The Circus

Charles Chaplin's The Circus (US, 1928) - 1929AA, 1981TEL, 2005SEA, 2006PALM, EGM, TAS - RATING: - Charlie Chaplin once again dons the tattered threads of his iconic alter ego in this underrated effort. Desperate to elude the police who have mistaken him for a notorious pickpocket, the bumbling vagabond joins the ranks of a traveling circus. While posing as a big top performer, the Tramp falls head over heels for an equestrienne (Merna Kennedy) who just so happens to be the daughter of the circus's no-nonsense ringmaster (Al Ernest Garcia).

The Cleaner

Adrian Saba's The Cleaner (Peru, 2012) - 2012SANSnd, 2013PALM, 2013SANF, 2013SEA - RATING: - In the midst of a mysterious and deadly epidemic in Lima, Perù, a depressed and isolated man cleans up after the dying. When he takes in a frightened young boy who has lost his mother, he’s quietly transformed by the experience of caring for another human being

This Is The End

Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen's This Is The End (US, 2013) - RATING: 3 - Fleshing out their unreleased 2007 short film Jay and Seth vs. The Apocalypse, multi-hyphenate Seth Rogen and co-producer Jay Baruchel delve into end times with the winning, unabashedly vulgar This Is the End, in which a bunch of comedic Hollywood actors, playing themselves, cope with panic and paranoia while Armageddon unfolds outside around them.

Cockneys Vs Zombies

Matthias Hoene's Cockneys vs Zombies (UK, 2012) - 2013SEA - RATING: 2 - When East London is overrun with zombies, a pair of bank robber brothers hole up in their father’s retirement community in this riotous splatter comedy. Like any high-concept movie of this variety – from Strippers vs Werewolves to Cowboys & Aliens – the title tends to give away pretty much the entire movie, but at least Cockneys vs Zombies is blessed with enough self-aware humour and some smart cameo performances to set it apart from the usual pack of low-budget British horror fare.

Tracked

Hideo Gosha's Tracked (Japan, 1985) - 1986JAA - RATING: 3 - When a fugitive begins a romance with the woman hiding him from the law, it becomes uncertain whether he will ever escape the shadow of his heinous crimes--or the detectives hot on his trail.

No Rest For The Wicked

Enrique Urbizu's No Rest For The Wicked (Spain, 2012) - 2012SANSic - RATING: 3.5 - Film noir and contempo Spain make a near-perfect match in the explosive “No Rest for the Wicked,” the kind of movie that gives dramas about bad cops a good name. Featuring a grippingly visceral central perf by Jose Coronado as a policeman who makes a big mistake at the outset and spends the remainder of the film paying for it, pic is credible, fast-moving, hard-nosed fare, confirming helmer Enrique Urbizu’s reputation as one of Spain’s sharper genre helmers. Spanish crix and auds have warmed to “Wicked,” with offshore play a possibility for fans of upscale thrillers.

On The Job

Erik Matti's On The Job (Philippines, 2013) - 2013CANdf - RATING: 3.5 - On The Job is about the ambitions and passions of four men trying to make a living, for themselves and their families. It shows the parallels between two prison inmates who are contract killers, and the two agents of the law investigating the murders. As they get caught in a web of machination of corrupt government officials, their jobs lead them on a head-on collision against each other with their loved ones as collateral damage.

Special 26

Neeraj Pandey's Special 26 (India, 2013) - RATING: 3.5 - Based on a real life group of con artists who pulled off many clever robberies during 1980s, and robbed famous businessmen and politicians by pretending to be the CBI or Income tax officers and conducting raids, on the pretext of conducting raids they would take away all the black money hoarded by them.

Man Of Steel

Zack Snyder's Man of Steel (US, 2013) - RATING: 3.5 - An unapologetically supersized reboot of the Superman franchise, Man Of Steel doesn’t lack for spectacle, but after a while its emphasis on grand gestures and unwavering gravitas stops feeling heroic and begins to seem like overkill. Director Zack Snyder has fashioned a brawny, science-fiction-heavy action movie that’s far removed from the charming, understated tone of the original Christopher Reeve films of 30 years ago, and the boldness of that vision — aided by a quietly compelling turn from Henry Cavill — has its merits. But despite being intermittently gloriously thrilling, Man Of Steelstruggles to juggle all its many ambitions and plot strands, resulting in a film that never quite soars like a bird or a plane.

2013 Brief Notes on Cinema

Principal photography has begun on Michael Mann’s untitled feature starring Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Tang Wei and Wang Leehom for Legendary Pictures.

Ivan Sen's Mystery Road (Australia, 2013) - Prrmiered at 2013 Sidney Film Fest, this thrilling Australian western is about an aboriginal cop who try to solves a brutal murder of an aboriginal girl in the outback. 

Paul Wright's For Those in Peril (UK, 2013) - 2013CANcw - RATING: 3.5 - In a small Scottish fishing town, the lone survivor of a tragic boating accident that claim 5 young lives, must deal with his guilt with tragic consequences.

Alfonso Cuaron's Solo Con Tu Pareja (Mexico, 1991) Nominated 4 Ariel Award, the film stars Daniel Gimenez Cacho as a playboy who mistakenly diagnose with AIDS, want to end his life but instead he found love in unexpected way.

Zero Focus

Yoshitaro Nomura's Zero Focus (Japan, 1961) - RATING: 3 - Teiko, a young newlywed, bids farewell to her new husband, Kenichi, in a Tokyo station, as he leaves to conclude business in Kanazawa, promising to return on December 12. But the 12th comes and goes with no word from Kenichi. Teiko’s only clue to her husband’s whereabouts is a couple of strange postcards she finds among his belongings. When Kenichi’s employers invite her to Kanazawa to help them locate him, Teiko finds herself embroiled in a complicated mystery.

2013 Top Bollywood Films

Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, Race 2, Aashiqui 2, Special 26, Shootout at Wadala

1. YJHD topping this list is no surprise with the extensive marketing and pre release promotions undertaken by the production house. Though the much talked about lead couple, Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone already added horse power to the buzz around the film, the publicity and promotions have gotten the film smashing records on its very first weekend. Madhuri Dixit's much talked about dance number and the top charting music of the film did the rest.
2.  Race 2 - Critics may have slammed this film, but the BO collections proved it to be a super hit. Who more than the star studded cast and the much hyped promotions can be credited for the same!
3. Aashiqui 2 -  Aashiqui was a blockbuster back in the 90's. Could it's sequel repeat the magic that too with newcomer leads in Aditya Roy Kapur and Shraddha Kapoor, when the Bhatt camp was not getting their cards right? It certainly did and made the two the new heartthrobs in town. The music and promotions worked wonders, made the film a BO success.
4. Special 26 - A well conceptualized and executed film with smart and intense promotions. You could not miss the mention of Special 26 around you. Add to it a real incident based story, Akshay Kumar's debut as a singer and the next film by the Wednesday director, Neeraj Pandey. Special 26 got their plan right on the target.
5. Shootout at Wadala -  Three item numbers, the firsts of Priyanka Chopra and sunny Leone, and another sizzling one by the super hot Sophie Choudry. The much spiced up dialogues and action. And a love making scene to spice up this gangster saga with extensive promotions. There was nothing that could stop SAW from stealing the BO show.

Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani

Ayan Mukherjee's Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (India, 2013) - RATING: 4 - Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani is the story of the relationship between two characters, Bunny (Ranbir Kapoor) & Naina (Deepika Padukone), at two separate but defining times in their lives... first, when they are just out of college and standing on the crossroads of multiple decisions that will shape who and what they become... and then later on, in their late-twenties when they meet again, holding on to certain fulfilled and certain unfulfilled dreams, at a crossroads of another nature this time... how these two characters affect, change, befriend and eventually fall in love with each other is the journey the film aspires to take us on...

After Earth

M, Night Shyamalan's After Earth (US, 2013) - RATING: 2 - An intriguing but decidedly underwhelming mixture of genres, tones and sensibilities, After Earth has the benefit of being one of this summer’s crop of aspiring blockbusters that isn’t a sequel, prequel, reboot or based on existing material. But that supposed originality doesn’t mean much when the execution is this scattershot, as director M. Night Shyamalan and stars Jaden Smith and Will Smith deliver a trite sci-fi adventure that’s probably too intense for younger viewers and not sophisticated enough for adults. (SCREEN)

Ranbir Kapoor - Bollywwod Hearthrob With Acting Skill to Match

Belongs to the fourth generation of highly prestigious and considered to be the first family of Bollywood (Hindi film industry): Kapoor Family. Son of Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh; nephew of actors Randhir Kapoor, Rajiv Kapoor, Kunal Kapoor. Grandnephew of actors Shashi Kapoor, Jennifer Kendal, Shammi Kapoor, Geeta Bali; cousin of actresses Kareena Kapoor, Karisma Kapoor.

Ayan Mukherjee's Wake Up Sid (India, 2009) *** 1/2

Prakash Jha's Raajneeti (India, 2010) ****

Siddharth Anand's Anjaana Anjaani (India, 2010) ***

Imtiaz Ali's Rockstar (India, 2011) ***

Anurag Basu's Barfi (India, 2012) *** 1/2

Ayan Mukherjee's Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (India, 2013) ****

Nothing Bad Can Happen

Katrin Gebbe's Nothing Bad Can Happen (Germany, 2013) - 2013CANucr - RATING: 3.5 - Young Tore belongs to the Jesus FreakS, a Christian punk movement rebelling against established religion whilst at the same time following Jesus' precepts of love. One day, in what appears to be a miracle, Tore manages to repair a car which has broken down and gets to know the driver, Benno. Before long, Tore moves into a tent in Benno’s garden and gradually becomes part of his family. But Benno can’t resist playing a cruel game, designed to test Tore’s faith. As the violence become more and more extreme, Tore’s capacity for love is pushed to its limits.

For Those in Peril

Paul Wright's For Those in Peril (UK, 2013) - RT: 93 - 2013CANcw 

A Hen in The Wind

Yasujiro Ozu's A Hen in The Wind (Japan, 1948) - RT: 83

When a Soldier return home at the end of WW II, he refuses to forgive his wife for prostituting herself one night in order to pay off medical bills after their son's sudden illness. 

Miele

Valeria Golino's Miele (Italy, 2013) - 2013CANucr - RT:100 - RATING: 3 - Jasmine Trinca of The Best Of Youth fame, gives another outstanding performance as administer of mercy killing in Valeria Golino's fine directorial debut. As the time progress, her character starts to questioning her stance on the right to die issue and this is where the film successfully argue that there is no clear black or white line in this issue.

The Interval

Leonardo Di Costanzo's The Interval (Italy, 2012) - 2012TOR, 2012VENh, 2013NDNF - RT:90 - RATING: 2.5 - NOTES: A young man work for the mafia befriend his captor, a young woman barely his junior, after both of them spend the whole day locked in abandoned building. - A boy and a girl are locked in an enormous abandoned building in a rundown area. She is a prisoner and the local clan leader has forced him to be her warder. Despite their youth, both of them have grown up too fast. Veronica acts like a mature and open-minded woman whilst Salvatore is like a man who wants to hold on to his job and lead a quiet life. Thus, when faced with the violence of this incarceration, the two young people have different reactions: Veronica is restless and rebellious; Salvatore is more remissive and accommodating, either out of fear or realism. They are both victims but it is almost as though each blames the other for their reclusion. However, as the hours go by, their mutual hostility is transformed into an inevitable intimacy, consisting of reciprocal discoveries and confessions. Between the walls of that isolated and frightening place, Veronica and Salvatore find a way to rekindle those adolescent dreams and ideas put aside too soon. Thus the two of them enjoy a break from their prematurely adult lives and in the end are tempted to transform their imaginary escape into a real one before the gang presents Veronica with its verdict.

Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers

Les Blanks' Garlic Is Good as Ten Mothers (US, 1979) - 1979TEL - RATING: 3 - Les Blank's documentary explores how garlic is use in different culture throughout the world

The Summer of Flying Fish

Marcela Said's The Summer of Flying Fish (Chile, 2013) - 2013CANdf - RATING: 3 - Using flare tension between white land owners and Mapuche tribes in Chile as a backdrop of coming of age story, The Summer of Flying Fish become the first scripted drama from Chilean docu filmmaker Marcela Said. - In “The Summer of Flying Fish,” Chilean docu director Marcela Said makes a subtle shift into scripted drama, shaping scenes of tension between white landowners and the local Mapuche natives so as to seem unrehearsed. Said’s technique blends flashes of melodrama with such naturalistic choices as shooting on location and working mostly with non-actors, resulting in a challenging fiction/nonfiction hybrid that’s stylistically neither fish nor fowl. From a festival programmer’s perspective, “Summer” is a dream offering: a refined, politically conscious film by a female director that reveals a seldom-seen social dynamic. In commercial spheres, however, it should be a much harder sell.

The Rendezvous of Deja Vu

Antonin Peretjatko's The Rendezvous of Deja Vu (France, 2013) - 2013CANdf - RATING: 2 - A road movie meet sex farce genre in a not so funny French comedy that critique harshly on French culture and establishment.- Hector meets Truquette on Bastille Day and becomes obsessed with seducing her. The plan is to get her to the seaside pronto. Pator is not complaining, especially if her friend Charlotte comes along for the ride. So off they go, down the country roads of a broke and broken France. Times are hard ! Suddenly the government cancels a month of summer. Everyone back to work ! A wad of cash and two gun shots later, the group splits in two like France itself. But careering away from work in no way daunts the remaining trio, dead set on relocating the Bastille Girl and reveling in an endless summer.

Renoir

Gilles Bourdos' Renoir (France, 2012) - 2012CANucr, 2013PALM - RATING: 3 - Biographical story about August Renoir, the painter, relationship with his offsprings  especially the filmmaker Jean Renoir in early nineteenth century France. - The bright Summer sunlight of the Cote d’Azur cast a golden glow over Renoir, greatly enhancing the appeal of an impeccably crafted, tenderly felt traditional period piece. Dramatising a defining moment in the lives of Pierre-August Renoir and his young son Jean, the film offers a tasteful, sensitively handled production that should readily appeal to an older demographic and to the arthouse audience who have supported similar works down the years from Camille Claudel to Seraphine.

Behind The Candelabra

Steven Soderbergh's Behind The Candelabra (US, 2013) - 2013CANic - RATING: 3.5 - Surprisingly touching and honest look at gay love as it evolve through out the years. Michael Douglas and Matt Damon give an outstanding performances as the true life couple.- Beneath the flamboyant furs, twinkling rhinestones and bitchy asides, Behind The Candelabra emerges as a touching gay love story from an age when nobody in American showbusiness would have dared to venture out of the closet. Director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Richard LaGravenese tread lightly on the social significance of events, focusing largely on the personal heartache in the bittersweet relationship between entertainer Liberace and his lover Scott Thorson.

The Hangover Part III

 

Todd Philips' The Hangover Part 3 (US, 2013) - RATING: 3 - It is not the epic conclusion that Warner Bros hoping for the very profitable series, BUT it is quiet entertaining in many levels. - As much a thriller as a comedy, The Hangover Part III brings Todd Phillips’ R-rated guys-night-out trilogy to an oddly subdued, sometimes downright dark conclusion. Loyal fans of the series, and of outrageous comedy in general, will probably still buy in, if only for a sense of closure. But even with a couple of new additions to its returning core cast Part III could be a tricky sell to casual moviegoers looking simply for good-time action and broad laughs.

2013 Cannes Film Festival

IN COMPETITION

Behind The Candelabra             Steven Soderbergh            US             2013

Blue is The Warmest Color             Abdellatif Kechiche             France             2013

Borgman             Alex Van Warmerdam             Netherlands     2013

Castle in Italy, A         Valeria Bruni Tedeschi            France             2013

Great Beauty, The      Paolo Sorrentino            Italy             2013

Grigris             Mahamat Saleh Haroun             Chad             2013

Heli      Amat Escalante             Mexico             2013

Immigrant, The             James Gray     US             2013

Inside Llewyn Davis    Joel Coen    US             2013

Jimmy P. Psychotherapy of A Plains Indian   Arnaud Desplechin            France             2013

Like Father Like Son             Hirokazu Kore Eda            Japan             2013

Michael Kohlhaas             Arnaud Pallieres             France             2013

Nebraska             Alexander Payne             US             2013

Only God Forgives             Nicolas Winding Refn             Denmark          2013

Only Lovers Left Alive             Jim Jarmusch             US             2013

Past, The             Asghar Farhadi             France             2013

Shield of Straw             Takashi Miike   Japan             2013

Touch of Sin, A             Jia Zhangke            China             2013

Venus in Fur             Roman Polanski             France             2013

Young and Beautiful             Francois Ozon             France             2013

UN CERTAIN REGARD

 As I Lay Dying             James Franco             US             2013

Bastards             Claire Denis    France             2013

Bends   Flora Lau      Hong Kong    2013

Bling Ring, The             Sofia Coppola             US             2013

Death March             Adolfo Alix Jr.             Philippines       2013

Fruitvale Station Ryan Coogler             US             2013

Golden Cage, The / La Jaula De Oro            Diego Quemada Diez             Mexico             2013

Grand Central             Rebecca Zlowtoski             France             2013

Manuscripts Don't Burn             Mohammad Rasoulof             Iran             2013

Miele    Valeria Golino Italy             2013

Missing Picture, The      Rithy Panh     France             2013

My Sweet Pepperland             Hiner Saleem Iraq             2013

Norte, The End of History             Lav Diaz             Philippines       2013

Omar   Hany Abu-Assad            Palestine          2013

Sarah Prefers to Run Chloe Robichaud             Canada             2013

Stranger By The Lake             Alain Guiraudie             France             2013

Tore Tanzt / Nothing Bad Can Happen             Katrin Gebbe             Germany          2013

Wakolda             Lucia Puenzo             Argentina         2013

DIRECTORS' FORTNIGHT

Ain't Misbehavin / Un Voyageur            Marcel Ophuls France             2013

Apres La Nuit             Basil De Cunha             Portugal           2013

Blue Ruin             Jeremy Saulnier             US             2013

Congress, The             Ari Folman             Israel             2013

Dance of Reality, The             Alejandro Jodorowski             US             2013

Henri             Yolande Moreau             France             2013

Ilo Ilo             Anthony Chen             Singapore       2013

Jodorowsky's Dune    Frank Pavich  US             2013

Last Days on Mars, The             Ruairi Robinson             US             2013

Les Apaches             Thierry De Peretti            France             2013

Magic Magic             Sebastian Silva             US             2013

Me Myself and Mum             Guillaume Gallienne             France             2013

On The Job             Erik Matti            Philippines       2013

Rendezvous of Déjà vu, The / La Fille du 14 Juillet    Antonin Peretjatko             France             2013

Selfish Giant, The      Clio Barnard             UK             2013

Stop Over / L'escale             Kaveh Bakhtiari             Iran             2013

Strange Course of Events, A             Raphael Nadjari             France             2013

Summer of Flying Fish, The             Marcela Said   Chile             2013

Tip Top             Serge Bozon France             2013

Ugly     Anurag Kashyap             India             2013

We Are What We Are            Jim Mickle US             2013

CRITICS' WEEK

Ain't Them Bodies Saints             David Lowery             US             2013

Disentanglement, The             Sebastien Pilote             Canada             2013

For Those in Peril     Paul Wright UK             2013

Lunchbox, The             Ritesh Batra    India             2013

Major, The             Yuri Bykov Russia             2013

Our Heroes Died Tonight             David Perrault             France             2013

Owners, The / Los Duenos             Agustin Toscano, Ezequiel Radusky             Argentina         2013

Salvo    Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza             Italy             2013

Suzanne             Katell Quillevere             France             2013

You and The Night    Yann Gonzales             France             2013

OUT OF COMPETITION

All Is Lost             JC Chandor             US             2013

Blind Detective             Johnnie To        Hong Kong    2013

Blood Ties             Guillaume Canet             France             2013

Great Gatsby, The      Baz Luhrman            US             2013

Last of The Unjust, The             Claude Lanzmann            France             2013

Moonsoon Shootout             Amit Kumar India             2013

Zulu      Jerome Salle     South Africa   2013

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

 Bite The Dust             Taisia Igumentseva             Russia             2013

Bombay Talkies  Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Barnejee, Karan Johar, Anurag Kashyap   India  2013

Homeland             Mohamed Hamidi             Morocco        2013

Max Rose             Daniel Noah    US             2013

Monsoon Shootout             Amit Kumar India             2013

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight             Stephen Frears             UK             2013

Seduced and Abandoned             James Toback            US             2013

Stop The Pounding Heart             Roberto Minervini             US, Italy      2013

Weekend of A Champion             Frank Simon   US             2013

CANNES CLASSIC

Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, The            Ted Kotcheff            Canada            1974

Autumn Afternoon, An            Yasujiro Ozu   Japan            1962

Beauty and The Beast    Jean Cocteau             France            1946

Borom Sarret            Ousmane Sembene            Senegal            1966

Charulata / Lonely Wife, The      Satyajit Ray      India            1964

Cleopatra            Joseph L. Mankiewicz            US             1963

Con La Pata Quebrada             Diego Galan   Spain             2013

Desert of The Tartars, The             Valerio Zurlini   Italy             1976

Fedora Billy Wilder  US            1978

Goha    Jacques Baratier            Tunisia            1957

Hiroshima Mon Amour            Alain Resnais             France             1959

Last Detail, The            Hal Ashby  US            1973

Last Emperor, The            Bernardo Bertolucci            Italy            1987

Le Joli Mai            Chris Marker France            1963

Lucky Luciano            Francesco Rosi Italy            1973

Manila In The Claw of Brightness    Lino Brocka            Philippines       1975

Opium Arielle Dombasle             France             2013

Purple Noon            Rene Clement            France            1960

Queen Margot            Patrice Chereau            France            1994

Shepard And Dark    Treva Wrumfeld             US             2013

Story of Children and Film      Mark Cousins            UK             2013

Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The            Jacques Demy   France            1964

Visions of Eight             Youri Ozerov, Milos Forman, Mai Zelterling, Claude Lelouch, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger, Kon Ichikawa            Germany          1972

AWARD WINNERS

Palme d’Or
Blue is the Warmest Colour (La Vie D’Adele Chapitre 1 & 2) by Abdellatif Kechiche
Grand Prix
Inside Llewyn Davis by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Best Director
Amat Escalante for Heli
Jury prize
Hirokazu Kore-eda for Like Father, Like Son
Best Screenplay
Jia Zhang-ke for A Touch of Sin
Best Actress
Berenice Bejo in The Past (Le Passe) by Asghar Farhadi
Best Actor
Bruce Dern in Nebraska by Alexander Payne
Camera d’Or (Best First Feature)
Ilo Ilo by Anthony Chen (presented in Directors’ Fortnight)
Palme d’Or Court Metrage (Short Film)
Safe by Moon Byoung-gon
Special Mentions to Whale Valley (Hvalfjordur) by Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson and 37°4 S by
Adriano Valerio

The Un Certain Regard prize for Cannes 2013 has gone to Rithy Panh’s The Missing Picture
The jury prize went to Hany Abu-Assad’s Omar.
The directing award went to Alain Guiraudie’s Stranger By The Lake.
A Certain Talent prize went to the ensemble cast of Diego Quemada-Diez’s La Jaula De Oro.
The Avenir prize went to Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station.
International critics association Fipresci has given its Cannes Competition honor for 2013 to Abdellatif Kechiche’s teenage lesbian drama Blue is the Warmest Colour (La Vie D’Adele - Chapitre 1 & 2).
In Un Certain Regard, the Fipresci prize went to Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof’s Manuscripts Don’t Burn. Elle Driver handles sales.
Jeremy Saulnier’s US thriller Blue Ruin won the Fipresci prize for the parallel sections in Cannes.
The Ecumenical jury prize in Cannes went to Asghar Farhadi’s The Past (Le Passe).

Guillaume Galliennes’s Me, Myself and Mum - an autobiographical comedy about his relationship with his mother scoops unofficial top prize at Cannes Directors' Fortnight.
Me, Myself and Mum also won the SACD prize granted by France’s writers and composers guild and aimed at a French language film in the selection. Serge Bozon’s Tip Top also got a special mention.
the Europa Cinemas Label prize, aimed at supporting the distribution of the winner across the Europa Cinemas network, went to Clio Barnard’s The Selfish Giant.

Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza’s Salvo has won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival’s 52nd Critics’ Week.The jury also gave a special mention to Argentinean comedy Los Duenos, by Agustin Toscano and Ezequiel Radusky. The Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers SACD Prize, worth €4,000, went to Canadian feature Le Demantelement, directed by Sébastien Pilote.