Black and white! Bleak as winter! Starring no one you’ve ever heard of! Subtitled! Nearly three hours long! Sort of about the war but doesn’t actually have any war in it! Few films this year will be as head-smackingly uncommercial as the latest from Austrian arthouse giant Michael Haneke. Why head-smacking? Because few will be better. Read the rest of this entry »
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Heath Ledger is dead. He’s hanging from a noose under a London bridge. And Terry Gilliam put him there.
That shocking first glimpse of the 27-year-old actor’s last ever screen appearance in Gilliam’s The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus sent a shiver of electricity through the air when the film debuted at Cannes 2009. Of course, Ledger was very much alive when Gilliam shot the scene – as was Parnassus itself. Read the rest of this entry »
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To hell and back with the Danish bad-boy’s most controversial film…
Lars von Trier opens the fridge and lifts out a beer. “I think you should have one,” he says, handing over a bottle as we take an armchair opposite him. “I really think you should.”
Perching on a well-worn sofa, von Trier looks at the cosy clutter around his room. Big TV, piles of papers, PS3 still in the box. “And this is the deer that I shot,” says the director. A deer’s head hangs on the wall. The deer does not look like it’s forgiven him. Read the rest of this entry »
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Even she can’t believe it. “Is it? Wow…” Definitely. “Although on the other hand, it feels about 10.” More like five. “Yeah… But maybe five.” It’s definitely five, five years since Tilda Swinton last stared into an i-D camera. Back then, back in 2003, we celebrated her as Britain’s most unique icon of avant garde style: actress, artist, mother, model. The rest of the world has finally caught on. Read the rest of this entry »
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The porn legend reveals the parts of him you never saw…
1. Ghostbusters
“I was the janitor of the firehouse where the whole thing takes place. I get slimed! A lot of magazines all over the world printed the scene where I’m looking up in the air when the slime comes down. I loved getting slimed! I spent a couple of days on it with Bill Murray and the whole cast. They all knew who I was. Read the rest of this entry »
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Big, fat flakes of white snow suddenly began tumbling down in the roasting afternoon heat of the Cannes film festival. It’s wasn’t global warming. It was just Cannes. Because here, you can do that. The festival is its own Field Of Dreams: if you pay for it, it will come. You want Christmas in May? You got it. You want Jim Carrey throwing snowballs after being brought in on a horse-drawn carriage? You got that too. Read the rest of this entry »
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CANTONA AND SNOW IN CANNES…
Cannes is developing a weird and very excellent penchant for footy flicks, with cosmic documentary Zidane: A 21st Century Potrait tackling the mercurial nutter and Maradona By Kusturica playing in Argentina’s cheat-genius coke-fiend. But no one has ever sent Cannes wild like Eric Cantona did this week. Starring as himself (“lui-meme”) in Ken Loach’s enjoyable-but-slimline comedy Looking For Eric, Man Utd’s seagull-loving French talisman had the audience cheering, laughing and applauding all the way to full time. Read the rest of this entry »
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“I am not a man… I am Cantona.” Scoring applause, laughs and hand-claps all the way through its screening, Brit filmmaker Ken Loach’s contender for the Palme d’Or isn’t the best film of Cannes 2009 but it’s definitely the most beloved. Thank Man Utd’s seagull-loving French talisman for that. Read the rest of this entry »
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Bracing themselves for a chewy line-up of arthouse horrors and hardcore psychodramas, the world’s film critics cocked a quizzical eye at the fact the 62nd Cannes Film Festival was opening with a cartoon.
Inside 15 minutes, the entire audience was choking back tears. Read the rest of this entry »
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ANOTHER KILLER BONG HIT…
Bong Joon-ho. Not excited by that? You should be. Because the Korean filmmaker’s 2003 serial-killer drama Memories Of Murder was one of the best and least-seen movies of the last 20 years. A better claim to fame than having a firstname that’s undeniably amusing to Westerners? Yeah. Having loosed monster-mash The Host on the Cannes crowd in 2005, Bong now bounces back into the killer-thriller genre. This year, we got to meet his Mother. Read the rest of this entry »
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Jonathan Crocker is a freelance journalist based in London. Having previously been a commissioning editor at Total Film, Men’s Health and Time Out, Jonathan also contributes to publications including i-D magazine, ShortList, Little White Lies, TheLondonPaper and Wired. He is available for commissions: contact here!
