Blog Reports by Paul Greenwood
Serenity PreviewJoss Whedon's Serenity is a movie extension of his very short lived series, Firefly, which ran briefly in 2002. Fourteen episodes were filmed, only eleven of which actually aired before it was cancelled by the network. But fan power has brought...
Cannes Film Festival - Day 1, WednesdayAnd so it begins. Alongside forty thousand other maniacs, I've made it along to the most famous film shindig in the world, the 60th Festival De Cannes and, health, sanity and money permitting, I'll hopefully be able to give you a flavour of it over...
Cannes Film Festival - Day 2, ThursdayMere verbs sometimes have a way of transmuting themselves into actual emotions here on the Croisette. I have this day discovered two new states of consciousness: queuing and sweating. Queuing and sweating, sweating and queuing. It transpires that if...
Cannes Film Festival - Day 3, FridayEvery day is a school day here in Cannes. Lesson number one was that there is indeed a night-time bus service, thank God. Lesson number two is that some press passes are more equal than others. Standing in the queue for No Country For Old Men, the...
Cannes Film Festival - Day 4, SaturdayBed at 0230 and up 0600 to make sure of a seat at the first morning screening - you cannae beat it. Fortunately the first morning screening was Michael Moore's Sicko, and it's my new favourite film of the fest so far. The man may have his...
Cannes Film Festival - Day 5, SundayWell pardon me all to hell. I’ve just seen a good Uwe Boll film. For some reason, the pain of seeing Bloodrayne: Deliverance wasn’t enough to dissuade me from going along to another one of his films. It’s called Postal, and it’s a riot. As ever,...
Cannes Film Festival - Day 6, MondayJeez oh, what a day that was, beginning très early with Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park and ending très late with Tarantino’s Death Proof, with some pretty fun stuff in between. Paranoid Park is fairly typical Van Sant of late, wispy and...
Cannes Film Festival - Day 7, TuesdayAt last a little controversy here in Cannes, as the Death Proof press conference turned into a difference of opinion and a battle of wills, with Quentin Tarantino and Kurt Russell on one side and Harvey Weinstein on the other. Snake and QT were busy...
Cannes Film Festival - Day 8, WednesdayA combination of exhaustion, heatstroke, dehydration, malnutrition and quite possibly scurvy is beginning to set in I think. It just isn’t natural to watch so many films over so many days, with only bread, cheese and alcohol to sustain you. A day of...
Cannes Film Festival - Day 9, ThursdayWhile things aren’t exactly winding down here in Cannes, there’s certainly a distinct thinning out. Where there were previously about fifty screens each showing around five films a day, there are now about twenty screens still operating, each...
