Cannes 2009: Ken Loach, Ang Lee, Andrea Arnold, Jacques Audiard

Derek Elley on Looking for Eric (above, Ken Loach and Eric Cantona) in Variety:
"… helmer Ken Loach and writer Paul Laverty’s ninth feature together is a curious hybrid: Three movies — boilerplate, socially aware Loach; personal fantasy; romantic comedy — wrap around a central core of a hopeless soccer fanatic who’s given a second chance to sort out his life. As in many of Laverty’s scripts, problems of overall tone and character development aren’t solved by Loach’s easygoing direction, though when it works, Eric has many incidental pleasures."
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Anthony Kaufman on A Prophet at indieWIRE:
"If James Toback’s petty-criminal tale Fingers inspired Jacques Audiard’s previous The Beat That My Heart Skipped, it’s Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas [...]

by Massimo David | May 20, 2009   
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Top Ten Undistributed Films in the US in 2007

Jeon do-yeong in Secret Sunshine

Anthony Kaufman at indieWIRE:
"What is it about Korean auteurs that have critics salivating and distributors running for the exits? Last year, Hong Sang-soo’s Woman on the Beach topped indieWIRE’s best undistributed films list for 2007. This year, Hong compatriot Lee Chang-dong’s Secret Sunshine was far-and-way the winner of the honor. Thirty-four of the 106 critics surveyed in the 2007 indieWIRE Critics’ Poll put the film on their list as one of the best undistributed films of the year. But, of course, it’s an accolade that cuts both ways: Call it a back-handed compliment, as Caveh Zahedi once did upon receiving his award for ‘Best Film Not Playing at Theater Near You,’ or a paean for the [...]

by Andre Soares | December 20, 2007   
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