Some more news from Cannes has developed over the last day. Despite what I was told about critics cheering Tarantino's Death Proof, a lot of them were apparently unhappy. Some of them were calling for the movie to be put back together as Grindhouse, and claiming Weinstein (the producer) had butchered it by demanding they be shown as two separate films. From the U.S. there are stories that audiences walked out either because they didn't like the film, or because they didn't realise there would be another one straight after. Either way, it seems that Weinstein hasn't learnt one of the oldest lessons in cinema history - that Europeans often like movies Americans don't. Tarantino's quote to the press about the possibility of him winning another Palm d'Or is a classic: 'There's only one list more illustrious than the list of directors who won the Palm d'Or. It's the list of directors who didn't.' The critic from theguardian gives the movie 2 stars.
In other news, the Coen brothers have already started planning their next feature: Burn After Reading. To be made in collaboration with Working Title again, this movie is set to star George Clooney, Brad Pitt and John Malkovich. Then, incredibly, they have another planned that seems like a small, personal film: A Serious Man
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I liked this quote from Quentin:
"I've always had a thought maybe that I might have been Shakespeare in another life. I don't really believe that 100%, and I don't really care about Shakespeare, I've never been into Shakespeare, but then people are constantly bringing up all of these qualities in my work that mirror Shakespeare tragedies and moments and themes."
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