--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip of all the Moore stuff] > In other Cannes news, as mentioned before much of the > buzz so far is about "My Blueberry Nights" There is something so completely beguiling about the beautiful Norah Jones. I will run, not walk to see this film. > and the > Coen brothers' new film, "No Country For Old Men." Can the Coen brothers make a bad film? Hardly. I have seen each of their films at least four or five times. The only one I didn't like was "The Big Lebowski". My favourite is "The Hudsucker Proxy" and my favourite line in it is when Norville (played by Tim Robbins) says "...the whole thing, Amy, is what your beatnik friends call 'karma', the great circle of life and death." Now, on reading the above line, it doesn't sound "funny" at all. But Robbins puts the accent on the "ma" of "karma" instead of the "kar" part and he's obviously read it in a book somewhere and is trying desperately to look cool in front of Amy in order to impress her how "au courant" he is by being familiar with beatnik culture because Amy hangs out in beatnik cafes. I guess you had to be there, but it comes off as totally charming and hilarious. > But, as always at Cannes, it's a jury process, and > NO ONE has a clue at this point which films will get > the prizes, not even the jury themselves. They sit > and talk it over for hours a day, reviewing the > relative merits of *all* of the films they have seen, > making the best decision they can. Just FYI, one of > the jurors this year is *not* a filmmaker or an actor, > somewhat of a departure from recent years. He's Nobel- > Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk, Turkish author of > "Snow" and "My Name Is Red." It's a real delight for > me to be able to hear him speak in interviews, because > he's one of the balliest writers I've ever encountered. > In "Red" he did something so off the wall that I've > never seen a writer attempt it. He created a mystery > novel in which every chapter of the story is told by > a different person. Or, in a couple of chapters, by a > dog. Pamuk is a real risk taker, and as it turns out > a real film freak, so I am interested in hearing > which films he likes. > > Cannes is a real media zoo, but there is something > about the festival itself and the jury process and > the very French sense of *reverence* for film as an > artform that is still inspiring, 60 years on... >
