As the Cannes Film Festival celebrates its 75th anniversary, the concurrent Marché marches into its 63rd year. The wilder, oft-times disreputable sister of the more sedate, ergo, more esteemed, official festival, there’s no shortage of tales when it comes to the Cannes Market.
There’s no better place to start than Cannon’s “go-go” boys: Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus. Cannon flew 18 staffers to the 1986 festival and took over the Martinez Hotel, encircling it with bodyguards. Cannon’s endless line of posters along the Croisette made the late critic Roger Ebert dub that year the “Cannon Film Festival.”
“Golan [was] one of the last free-wheeling dealmakers at an event where a lot of people would like to be capitalist buccaneers, but few have the courage or the capital,” wrote Ebert. “People still talk about the time Golan had lunch with Jean-Luc Godard at the Majestic Hotel and wrote out a contract on a table napkin,...
There’s no better place to start than Cannon’s “go-go” boys: Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus. Cannon flew 18 staffers to the 1986 festival and took over the Martinez Hotel, encircling it with bodyguards. Cannon’s endless line of posters along the Croisette made the late critic Roger Ebert dub that year the “Cannon Film Festival.”
“Golan [was] one of the last free-wheeling dealmakers at an event where a lot of people would like to be capitalist buccaneers, but few have the courage or the capital,” wrote Ebert. “People still talk about the time Golan had lunch with Jean-Luc Godard at the Majestic Hotel and wrote out a contract on a table napkin,...
- 5/10/2022
- by Angus Finney
- Variety Film + TV
Any Chrisotph Waltz or Tim Burton fans out there? If so, you're in luck. Catch a live stream Q&A with the two icons as they discuss their latest film "Big Eyes." The picture tells the outrageous true story of one of the most epic art frauds in history. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, painter Walter Keane had reached success beyond belief, revolutionizing the commercialization of popular art with his enigmatic paintings of waifs with big eyes. The bizarre and shocking truth would eventually be discovered though: Walter’s works were actually not created by him at all, but by his wife Margaret. Here's the info on where you can see the Q&A: Sunday December 7, at 9:45 a.m. Pacific, 12:45 p.m. Eastern The Q&A will feature Tim Burton and Chrisoph Waltz discussing the film, with Angie Errigo moderating The live stream will be feature...
- 12/6/2014
- backstage.com
John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers are rogue CIA agents in Pierre (Taken) Morel's action thriller. The critics have taken no prisoners … how about you?
In a former life, Luc Besson was the visionary film-maker who directed Subway, Leon and The Fifth Element. But somewhere along the line, the Frenchman worked out that making the sort of hi-octane Hollywood action movies which Hollywood itself is now almost rather to ashamed to film was not only lucrative, but could be easily achieved with the minimum of effort. These days, all he has to do is come up with a sufficiently barmy screenplay and tap up one of his cohorts to take over the director's chair, and the likes of Liam Neeson and John Travolta are knocking at his door demanding an AK47 and a licence to kill Euro-bad guys.
From Paris With Love, which stars Travolta as the maverick (read: insane) CIA agent Charlie Wax,...
In a former life, Luc Besson was the visionary film-maker who directed Subway, Leon and The Fifth Element. But somewhere along the line, the Frenchman worked out that making the sort of hi-octane Hollywood action movies which Hollywood itself is now almost rather to ashamed to film was not only lucrative, but could be easily achieved with the minimum of effort. These days, all he has to do is come up with a sufficiently barmy screenplay and tap up one of his cohorts to take over the director's chair, and the likes of Liam Neeson and John Travolta are knocking at his door demanding an AK47 and a licence to kill Euro-bad guys.
From Paris With Love, which stars Travolta as the maverick (read: insane) CIA agent Charlie Wax,...
- 3/1/2010
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
'When it's perfectly Ok to talk during a film'
Is it all right to talk during a film? Of course not! My personal rule is that, as the lights dim, the audience is allowed to conclude any discussions quickly in the faintest whisper. Then silence. But it's complicated. We'd all agree that it's Ok to respond to what is happening on the screen by crying or laughing. Angie Errigo, of Empire magazine, was sitting next to me once during a horror film. At one scary moment, she actually shouted: "Oh, No!" Angie is in a noble tradition. The New Yorker's legendary Pauline Kael would often get carried away during thrillers, crying out, "Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!" at increasing volume.
In press screenings, wisecracks are always acceptable. One film, I remember, was produced by a Us company with a classy, British-sounding name: Hyde Park Entertainment. When their logo flashed up – bafflingly featuring London's Tower Bridge,...
Is it all right to talk during a film? Of course not! My personal rule is that, as the lights dim, the audience is allowed to conclude any discussions quickly in the faintest whisper. Then silence. But it's complicated. We'd all agree that it's Ok to respond to what is happening on the screen by crying or laughing. Angie Errigo, of Empire magazine, was sitting next to me once during a horror film. At one scary moment, she actually shouted: "Oh, No!" Angie is in a noble tradition. The New Yorker's legendary Pauline Kael would often get carried away during thrillers, crying out, "Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!" at increasing volume.
In press screenings, wisecracks are always acceptable. One film, I remember, was produced by a Us company with a classy, British-sounding name: Hyde Park Entertainment. When their logo flashed up – bafflingly featuring London's Tower Bridge,...
- 12/16/2009
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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