[quote=“Rodion”]
Does anybody know, how many directors were there, who won Palme d’Or more than once in there life?
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As of 2005, six. As of 2009, 7. GO INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS!
[quote=“Pinkman”]
hahaha, imagine when IB will premiere, that’s only the beginning of your torture Cyd.
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It wont, but I just grow tired of these people (Brad and Angelina) ramming their ‘perfect’ relationship down our necks. These fake PDAs on the red carpet. This is Quentin’s gig, not theirs. I hope the woman takes a back seat and we get to see more coverage from Cannes about the stars of IB. Not one of the stars and his publicity loving girlfriend. Mind you, I hear Brad likes a good party and women (once a cheater, always a cheater)… I doubt she’d led him loose on Cannes with all the women from IB and Quentin Tarantino as the party ring leader 
[quote=“Cyd”]
It wont, but I just grow tired of these people (Brad and Angelina) ramming their ‘perfect’ relationship down our necks. These fake PDAs on the red carpet. This is Quentin’s gig, not theirs. I hope the woman takes a back seat and we get to see more coverage from Cannes about the stars of IB. Not one of the stars and his publicity loving girlfriend. Mind you, I hear Brad likes a good party and women (once a cheater, always a cheater)… I doubt she’d led him loose on Cannes with all the women from IB and Quentin Tarantino as the party ring leader
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To be fair I doubt it’s them ramming anything down anyones throats.
This is Cannes though. A director is a famous actor there like an actor would be at the oscars. God I love that. Plus it’s fantastic to have all the movie people walking down the red carpet in their gorgeous outfits and never once hearing the fucking words “Who are you wearing?” That’s it I’m moving to France!
They play the media like Vanessa Mae plays the violin.
I really cross fingers for wednesday so that:
-IB is good enough at the point it prevents it from receiving the same unanimous Cannes bashing as Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist did this year.
-If the movie’s attacked, it’s not gonna be for the huge freedoms it takes with what happened in real history or for “insulting the Memory of WWII”.
-If the movie’s attacked, it isn’t because everyone at Cannes expected Apocalypse Now or Deer Hunter.
I hope IB is a big fuck you to all the quaint arthouse bullshit in the competition. Thats who QT is anyways. He can do the arthouse stuff, but hes not gonna make some watered down movie for the snobs over there. F em.
Movies need to be important to win, they need to say something about our world…PBBBBBBLT. They need to be entertaining, make an impact, be memorable and have a fuckin pulse!!
And yes Id rather watch a Tarantino film over a boring ass Godard movie anyday. We’ve been conditioned to worship some of these directors and I really dont like some of them that much. Im not saying they aren’t good or influential directors, but damn those old movies can be boring as hell. Great movies to fall asleep to!
Personally I still think American movies are the best kind. They cut thru the BS. Of course I like movies from all over the world but after seeing thousands of movies over the years, my all time favorites are the American ones.
Don’t know if this one’s been posted:
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Some cool quotes:
“This is the cinematic Olympics,” Tarantino said. "What an exciting year for auteurs this year, with four Palme d’Or winners. If you’ve done a movie you’re proud of, that you might be defined by, then to me the dream is not necessarily to be there at Oscar time. That’s wonderful. But my dream is to always go to present the film at Cannes.
“There is nothing like it in cinema,” he said. “Nobody has seen your film. It’s a wet print, fresh out of the lab. The entire world film press is here, and they all see it, at one time. The greatest film critics in the world, who are still critics, and they’re all fighting and debating it. When you think back on your career, it comes down to these high moments. That level of excitement is unparalleled.”
"Directors in my situation don’t normally go this direction, especially when they’re doing something really big. If you have three days scheduled for a scene, it’s easy to (add) the fourth day. It’s nice to have all the time you need, but when you slow down, I think that marbled fat is felt in the pacing. I didn’t want easy and comfortable and I do feel that energy is evident on the screen."
Tarantino flirted with his WWII project for years, once considering it as a miniseries, even a novel, before stripping down to the story of a brigade of brutal soldiers sent to hunt Nazis, and led by Brad Pitt, the biggest star Tarantino has directed.
Said Tarantino: "Once, I was talking to a big actor who said, ‘You’re afraid of stars. You want to be the guy.’ I never feel like I need a star, but a lot of the great Hollywood directors I respect all worked with stars and so there was this aspect in the back of my mind where it was time to do that.
“Brad is an actor I treated just like the other actors, who happens to be this huge movie star. But he is such perfect casting for this character that if Brad Pitt wasn’t famous, I’d have lobbied for him to have the role.”
“Landa is a linguistic genius, and the actor who played him needed the same facility with language or he would never be what he was on the page,” Tarantino said.
Tarantino grew so frustrated at casting that role, he was five days away from calling off the movie when Waltz auditioned.
“I told my producers I might have written a part that was un-playable,” Tarantino said. “I said, I don’t want to make this movie if I can’t find the perfect Landa, I’d rather just publish the script than make a movie where this character would be less than he was on the page. When Christoph came in and read the next day, he gave me my movie back.”
Actually link was posted in the Information Centre topic. Sorry.
His quotes about Christoph are just beautiful. What a tribute to pay.
[quote=“Harry Chinaski”]
I really cross fingers for wednesday so that:
-IB is good enough at the point it prevents it from receiving the same unanimous Cannes bashing as Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist did this year.
-If the movie’s attacked, it’s not gonna be for the huge freedoms it takes with what happened in real history or for “insulting the Memory of WWII”.
-If the movie’s attacked, it isn’t because everyone at Cannes expected Apocalypse Now or Deer Hunter.
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Yes, but Death Proof got like a 10-minute standing ovation at Cannes. It had a great critical reaction. But look what happened…
Yeah the applause/reaction/ovation stuff is BS pretty much. They might just applaud because its QTs film. We want a film that kicks ass for us as fans. We want to applaud it when we’re alone in our living room each time we watch it on DVD years from now.
[quote=“Ify”]
Yes, but Death Proof got like a 10-minute standing ovation at Cannes. It had a great critical reaction. But look what happened…
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DP might be minor for a Tarantino movie but I wouldn’t call it S H I T. For me it’s still above a lot of films, including arthouse ones, I saw during that year. But this isn’t the topic. To come back to topic, I doubt the Cannes competition was the right place to show IB for the first time. Cannes is a place of overreaction. Journalists there love to scream “worst movie ever” or “masterpiece”. Part of them don’t behave in press screenings: whistling or laughing when they hate what they see on screen, using sometimes mobile phones during the screening when they are bored. If IB gets unanimous critical bashing just because it doesn’t meet the irrealistic expectancies critics have for it (i.e. being Pulp Fiction+Deer Hunter) it might kill the movie’s career.
[quote=“Harry Chinaski”]
DP might be minor for a Tarantino movie but I wouldn’t call it S H I T. For me it’s still above a lot of films, including arthouse ones, I saw during that year. But this isn’t the topic. To come back to topic, I doubt the Cannes competition was the right place to show IB for the first time. Cannes is a place of overreaction. Journalists there love to scream “worst movie ever” or “masterpiece”. Part of them don’t behave in press screenings: whistling or laughing when they hate what they see on screen, using sometimes mobile phones during the screening when they are bored. If IB gets unanimous critical bashing just because it doesn’t meet the irrealistic expectancies critics have for it (i.e. being Pulp Fiction+Deer Hunter) it might kill the movie’s career.
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I think you misunderstood. I thought Death Proof was a great film!
Also, I highly doubt a reaction at Cannes will kill IB’s career. If this was true, why does a film hailed as “great” not then go on to have a great filmic career? I don’t think mass audiences give a fuck about Cannes
[quote=“Harry Chinaski”]
Cannes is a place of overreaction. Journalists there love to scream “worst movie ever” or “masterpiece”.
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So they are like total geeks? Sounds kinda like the internet movie fanboy community to me. (think AICN)
[quote=“Crazy Kenneth”]
So they are like total geeks? Sounds kinda like the internet movie fanboy community to me. (think AICN)
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I wouldn’t describe them as geeks. Let’s say that, since Cannes is supposed to be the place for la crème de la crème of world cinema, since it’s a place in which the ones allowed feel privileged to discover expected movies or supposed new talents before the rest of the world, since it’s a high concentration in a small town of movie critics, movie stars, movie industry people from all the parts of the world, it tends to bring passion out of people.
[quote=“Pete”]
I hope IB is a big fuck you to all the quaint arthouse bullshit in the competition. Thats who QT is anyways. He can do the arthouse stuff, but hes not gonna make some watered down movie for the snobs over there. F em.
Movies need to be important to win, they need to say something about our world…PBBBBBBLT. They need to be entertaining, make an impact, be memorable and have a fuckin pulse!!
And yes Id rather watch a Tarantino film over a boring ass Godard movie anyday. We’ve been conditioned to worship some of these directors and I really dont like some of them that much. Im not saying they aren’t good or influential directors, but damn those old movies can be boring as hell. Great movies to fall asleep to!
Personally I still think American movies are the best kind. They cut thru the BS. Of course I like movies from all over the world but after seeing thousands of movies over the years, my all time favorites are the American ones.
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Amen, brother. Amen.
However, I wouldn’t go as far as to say American films are better than foreign films. There’s at least 5-6 foreign films in my Top 20 of all time for sure.
I just think after all is said and done we do films the best IMO. A huge majority of the foreign directors are fans of Hollywood cinema and are/were influenced by it. Thats a fact. From Leone to John Woo. They love our movies more than we do.
Theres great movies from all over the world and alot of my favorites are Foreign, but I think our films have a greater impact on international culture than those films do on us.
I love Cannes for that reason. There is an excitement, an overreaction. A passion if you will. I couldn’t think of a better way to experience movies than with a wild bunch of film critics, whistling, howling, laughing, and hooting the whole way through. An audience reaction, no matter what the reaction might be, is an experience. Except for talking. That really fucking razzes me.
Those people are nuts over there. Theyre like swarms of picture taking, cinema obsessed bees.