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Cannes Film Festival 2010
Video Details
Mark Cosgrove, Watershed's Head of Programme, talks about his trip to the film festival and reports via Twitter from Cannes. At the festival he'll be getting a sense of what is happening in world cinema and viewing new films that could come to Watershed over the next 18 months.
13 - 20 May 2010
| Duration: | 3mins 18secs |
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Mark rounds up his thoughts on the films he saw and the state of cinema from Cannes 2010
ยป Read of Godard and Cinephiles
Festival Poster
A top the red carpet
Cannes in a Van
Me and Kitano
Sounds Familiarish
Queuing for Godard
Europa Conference
Business being done
Jack Black new pic
Taiwan cinema
Mathieu Amalric on Arte boat
At the 0830 screening
Related Links:
www.festival-cannes.com
Cannes 2010 Tweets
msc45 Got accreditation, got ticket for first film (830 tomorrow am!), got somewhere to sleep #cffshed
msc45 Should it be the 1st 3D film from Japan Shock Labrumth or Chinese Kung-Fu pic 14 Blades? #shedcff
msc45 Abel Ferrara doc on Napoli later tonight - should be interesting #shedcff
msc45 Japanese horror in 3D atmospheric if predictable - still of the opinion when sokurov gets onto 3D it will be interesting #shedcff
msc45 Watched Tarantino n Kitano go up red carpet for robin hood premiere - what a combo #shedcff
msc45 Discussions with Monsieur Gubbins about who is setting the agenda on film policy n strategy n UK.,now bed n early start #shedcff
msc45 In the Lumiere Palais for Chinese pic Chongqing Blues along with 2000 other people - think I might have a schedule for day ! #shedcff
msc45 A gentle start to the day with china on screen - got meeting with Toronto guys who are excited about joan of arc #shedcff
msc45 Tournee didn't do it for me, off to see Catfish in marche then read trade mags n take stock #shedcff
msc45 Catfish is excellent doc on perils of facebook, just passed Mathieu Amalric on Arte boat #shedcff
msc45 The curse of Cannes - realised I was in the wrong Q, now on for Boo Junfeng's film #shedcff
msc45 Had meeting with 3D natural history woman, seeing promo reel on sat #shedcff
msc45 First up is Sylvain Chomet's animation The Illusionist adapted from unmade Tati script #shedcff
msc45 Cannes would be brilliant if there were no people to get in your road #shedcff
msc45 3D a gogo dario argento is working on version of Dracula, Tinto Brass does Caligula! #shedcff
msc45 Mark Kermode - prepare to eat your shoe at Watershed! #shedcff
msc45 Q'ing for Hideo Nakata's eng lang Chatroom, script by Enda 'Hunger' Walsh shld b a shocker #shedcff
msc45 An hour Q'ing n didn't get in - it's times like this you want Cannes makes you scream #shedcff
msc45 No film but off to totono film fest party on beach - so musnt grumble ! #shedcff
msc45 Looks like the new cinema in Toronto could be on for new score to Joan of Arc #shedcff
msc45 This am continues exororations into 3D with nat hist short n Argentinian feature animation #shedcff
msc45 Appreciative reviews of boo junfeng's Sandcastle, iffy reviews of Wall St revisited - what did you expect?! #shedcff
msc45 The problem when actors direct is that actors act up - this is the essential problem of mark ruffalo's sympathy for delicious #shedcff
msc45 When you overhear "we have a tech problem" b4 a 3d screening, time to revise schedule #shedcff
msc45 Woody Allen is getting laughs at press conference but I'm off to Europa cinemas conf #shedcff
msc45 Managed to see some of wonderful Italian film Le Quattro Volte b4 conf - must see rest of it #shedcff
msc45 Headline from Euro Observ figs - 3D driving cinema admissions and digitisation globally #shedcff
msc45 Issue for Europa members is how will smaller independent cinemas afford the digital switchover #shedcff
msc45 35mm film is dead, long live digital - Monsieur Gubbins headline for euro cinemas report. #shedcff
msc45 "Are there benefits for diversity in the transition and who is arguiing for it ?" m Gubbins #shedcff
msc45 Claude eric gives a generous shout for w'shed n recent joan of arc performance #shedcff
msc45 Btw Le Quattro Volte raises the stakes for 6 goats to a whole herd - for those interested #shedcff
msc45 Draquila, Italy Trembles has got the italian govt boycotting Cannes, now onto Artangel film The Arbor #shedcff
msc45 Word on the croisette is that mike Leigh film is a winner, let's see what kitano has to say #shedcff
msc45 The Arbor is truly exceptional, should have been in the director's fortnight #shedcff
msc45 Now with the Ukranians at their party n thinking "what about the tavernier pic at 830am" #shedcff
msc45 In Palais for tavernier pic, mike Leigh leads the screen int critics board - early days #shedcff
msc45 The Tavernier needed more lusty swagger n less time! now film from Chad in comp #shedcff
msc45 Just when you're into ticket groove another layer of complexity appears - cannes keeps you on your toes! #shedcff
msc45 Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's film is quiet, thoughtful n devastating, now for MEDIA panel on digital #shedcff
msc45 'Is this the year of the Watershed in digital ? ' I realise she means a wider digital Watesthed ! #shedcff
msc45 Finished productive meeting with MEDIA - is there tine to get to flat n back for pic #shedcff
msc45 Dinner with swedish film intstitute n german producer n Greek woman who wanted to pray for the world's ills - I suggested Marxism #shedcff
msc45 Godard day in Cannes, his new pic on. The new Inarritu is absolutely jammed 2300 + peeps at 830am #shedcff
msc45 Bardem is a great actor, Inarritu a great director, it's the script what is the problem. Just seen Inarritu go to press conf #shedcff
msc45 Made it into the Godard tantalisingly entitled Film Socialism. let's see what the boss has to say ?! #shedcff
msc45 Film of 2 Godards-1st the great audio visual experimentor, 2nd the Brechtian Maoist #shedcff
msc45 Looks like w'shed'ss #Decalogue season is being used in Europa cinemas Bologna prog #shedcff
msc45 From Godard to a family of Mexican cannibals in Somos lo que Hay - not sensible after lunch #shedcff
msc45 Mexican cannibal pic has UK distrib, expect it at shed sometime next year. We had Swedish vampire last year ! #shedcff
msc45 As for Godard, we shall see ? Fukusaki Kinji's shocker Battle Royale is being converted to 3D #shedcff
msc45 Got ticket for red carpet late night of Takeshi Kitano's new one - off to get the old dj on #shedcff
msc45 Javier Bardem and Inarrutu have just left their eve screening and making way for Kitano #shedcff
msc45 The thing about kitano film is its the kind of pic he thinks we want to see . There's always tomorrow #shedcff
msc45 Change of tactic today, going to delve deeper into director's fortnight n see what we find #shedcff
msc45 Crits harsh on Inarrutu (unfairly) n Kitano (fairly) BBC has new pic with iannuci n oasis liam is making a pic! #shedcff
msc45 Godard film to go straight to VOD after Cannes #shedcff
msc45 Went to wrong cinema n found myself in private screening of closing night film The Tree #shedcff
msc45 Went to LFS do n had a chat with Mike Leigh who is feeling good about being in competition #shedcff
msc45 He said making the film was more nerve wracking than being in competition !! he's ahead with the critics #shedcff
msc45 N chat with prod of Steve McQueen's Hunger,her new film Chatroom is in Un Certain Regard n another 1 on the go #shedcff
msc45 Alicia Duffy's first feature All Good Children is brilliantly directed - should be camera d'or contender #shedcff
msc45 French critics a lot more +ve about inarrutu than brits - I'm with the French on this #shedcff
msc45 Word is the Loach is very good - comp could be head to head between UK dreamteam #shedcff
msc45 La Casa Muda from Uruguay is an inventive effective horror pic in a single take #shedcff
msc45 Apparently the 5hr Oliver Assayas pic Carlos (the jackel) streamed live with Cannes screening #shedcff
msc45 Saw a guy with satin shorts n camoflague tights - not a pretty sight #shedcff
msc45 Watchin Russian film My Joy, dir by Sergei Loznitsa n hotly tipped as a palm d'or winner #shedcff
msc45 Cannes in a van dudes are doing their stuff on the croisette #shedcff
msc45 Final day n 3films including Cristi Puiu's 3hrs Aurora - another hotly tipped pic #shedcff
msc45 Long talked of adaptation of On The Road finally happening with Salles Dir n Sam Riley acting #shedcff
msc45 Watched Xavier Beauvois' Of Gods and Men, it's my tip for the Palm d'Or #shedcff
msc45 Filmed out,no vintage yr but lots of interest. Cannes takes cinema seriously, that's good nuf pour moi #shedcff
