Contributors: Alissa Wilkinson. Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. February 1, Arctic is a pure distillation of the man vs. December 21, Cold War, a decades-spanning romance, will break your heart By Alissa Wilkinson alissamarie. May 14, Cannes leaders just signed a landmark pledge for gender equity in the film industry By Alissa Wilkinson alissamarie.
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The Best of the Cannes Film Festival. Cannes John Travolta brings the mob to the red carpet. Cannes Lebanese film 'Capharnaum' wows critics.
Cannes 'Dogman', a tale of canines, crime and cocaine dealers. Cannes The pope's close-up from Wim Wenders. Cannes 'Blackkklansman', a powerful indictment of racism in America.
Cannes Period love story 'Cold War' wows the festival. Cannes Bartering for blockbusters in the basement of the Palais. But in French, the word con is a vulgar insult descended from the same root as the English c-word. Only a few dozen films are selected to show during the festival, often from prestigious directors whose work has previously played at Cannes.
There are also a number of sections that run parallel to the festival and are programmed by outside organizations during the festival. There are other juries too , which pick films to receive other specialized awards. For instance, director Nadine Labaki is presiding over a jury that will select winners from the Un Certain Regard section. Cannes is widely considered the most prestigious film festival in the world, mainly because of its exclusivity and long history of premiering some of the greatest films of all time.
The festival has launched the careers of many prominent filmmakers, like Quentin Tarantino and Steven Soderbergh. Cannes carefully cultivates its image by programming a limited number of films; by giving awards selected by juries that are stacked with well-known filmmakers, actors, and composers from around the world; and by maintaining the largest film market in the world. It can also propel a film toward success during awards season, months later; The Artist , for instance, premiered at Cannes in , where star Jean Dujardin won the Best Actor award.
It went on to win five Oscars, including Best Picture — the first French film ever to win that prize. Filmmakers who hope to find funding and distribution for their films spend their days at Cannes networking with financiers, distributors, and publicists from all over the world. But the chance of distribution draws a huge crowd to Cannes, nonetheless. Unlike many other important film festivals such as Sundance or Toronto , Cannes is an industry-only festival.
The festival grants credentials to directors, producers, actors, publicists, distributors, and journalists, who have to apply for a badge and be accepted. Attendees have to flash their badges in order to get into screenings. But though Cannes is famous for star sightings, especially on the red carpet, there are ways for ordinary people without a badge to see films there too.
Some film lovers with no other connection to the film industry are able to get a Cannes Cinephile badge by being a member of a film appreciation club. Most people with even a casual interest in great cinema have seen a film that played at Cannes. In , films like Loving and Hell or High Water premiered at the festival.
Sometimes they even get booed. More on that below. But being selected for Cannes is an honor that can help propel a film into other festivals as well. A film that gets booed could be genuinely bad, or it might just have hit the audience strangely.
Sometimes a film gets booed at Cannes and goes on to garner wide acclaim. So if you hear that a film has been booed at Cannes, take it with a grain of salt — and read the reviews. In , the dress code at Cannes nearly caused an international incident.
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