How To Network At Cannes: 5 Musts for Aspiring Filmmakers
By Dan Mecca
As someone who's been there before and learned a whole lot from the experience, I decided to put together some simple tips for networking at the world's premiere film festival.
Call it a blueprint for what...
(0) Comments | Posted May 23, 2012 | 05/23/12 01:40 PM ET
On the Road
[IFC Films; 2012]
Director: Walter Salles
Runtime: 137 minutes
The problem with On the Road, directed by Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries), is that it wanders, and in no real direction. Of course, that's the whole point, true to Jack Kerouac's seminal American novel....
(0) Comments | Posted May 22, 2012 | 05/22/12 04:25 PM ET
Killing Them Softly
[The Weinstein Company; 2012]
Director: Andrew Dominik
Runtime: 104 minutes
Opening and ending with speeches about these United States and the sameness of our promised land, writer/director Andrew Dominik paints his America with blood and cash and well-worn leather. Brad Pitt stars as Jackie...
(0) Comments | Posted May 22, 2012 | 05/22/12 10:29 AM ET
The We and the I
[Next Stop Production; 2012]
Director: Michel Gondry
Runtime: 103 minutes
With each new film, Michel Gondry falls further and further away from his Charlie Kaufman-scripted opus, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Here in Cannes with his new chamber movie of...
(0) Comments | Posted May 24, 2012 | 05/24/12 10:18 AM ET