Wednesday

The news from Cannes this year is interesting. Michael Moore, Quentin Tarantino and Wong Kar-Wai all have new films coming out. Most intriguingly of all, for me, is the offering from the Coen brothers: No Country for Old Men. It sounds like a return to their old style and content of film-making - a drug deal gone bad, the wrong man in the right place, and lots of violence. Tommy-Lee Jones, Woody Harrelson star. I've never really got in to the whole Cannes vibe. It seems to support good films, but sometimes falls horribly short - awarding films just because they're obscure/foreign/pretentious, priding itself on being different. Recently it seems to have turned more commercial, especially with the premiere of some of the Star Wars films. Apparently, yesterday Tarantino's latest movie was cheered by critics, but the important news is that because of its poor reception in the U.S. we won't get to see Grindhouse as two films back-to-back. They've re-edited it and are now going to show them as two full-length features. As always, though, Cannes has been nicely timed with the Monaco Grand Prix. Hmm.