-
La Pianiste (2001. Grand Jury Winner)
La Pianiste | The Piano Teacher | 피아니스트 (2001) NC-17 Dir. Michael Haneke Nominated for Golden Palm. Winner of Best Actress (Isabelle Hupert) and Best Actor (Benoit Magimel) and Grand Jury Prize Today I watched THE PIANIST. Film by Michael Haneke. I’ve known about this film for a while; since I was much younger; and… Continue reading
-
Now that Cannes is over . . . bits and pieces of other fests!
Why don’t I start with Seattle Film Festival? Probably one of the longest running film festivals in the world. This one is going for two and a half weeks with 256 feature films. FEATURES. According to IFC.com, here are the list of films that are covered by them , and I love IFC so I’d… Continue reading
-
Winners announced!
2010 Cannes Award Winners: Palme d’Or (Cannes’ highest award): Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Thailand). Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Best Actress: Juliet Binoche, Best Actor: Javier Bardem and Gernamo ___, Grand Prix: Of Gods and Men, Jury Prix: A Screaming Man (Chad), Screenplay Award: Poetry (South Korea), Un Certain Regard: Ha Ha… Continue reading
-
About program section: Competition for Palme D’or
Here is the list for Cannes In-Competition section. All these films… which one will win the golden Palm?! ANOTHER YEAR directed by Mike LEIGH BIUTIFUL directed by Alejandro GONZÁLEZ IÑÁRRITU COPIE CONFORME (CERTIFIED COPY) directed by Abbas KIAROSTAMI DES HOMMES ET DES DIEUX (OF GODS AND MEN) directed by Xavier BEAUVOIS FAIR GAME directed by… Continue reading
-
More films from Cannes
Today I will talk about an American film in Out of Competition section: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (directed by Oliver Stone, starring Shia Labeouf, Carey Mulligan, Josh Brolin) I actually heard about an interview of this film on NPR. I wanna see it for Carey Mulligan! She was great in An Education. Solid Stone… Continue reading
-
Cannes weekend approaches!
Let me talk about the some films that premiered on Cannes Day 2: Korea’s HOUSEMAID (directed by IM Sang-soo, starring JEON Do-yeon) What Jini knows: that it’s a remake from 1960s Korean film by KIM Ki-young (a popular “scandalous” film of the time), that it’s been highly anticipated by Koreans AND Cannes Director Im Sang-Soo… Continue reading
-
Cannes day 1
Here are some pictures of Cannes: Slideshow photos – from IMDB.com (Robin Hood red carpet and after party) Robin Hood is the opening night film of Cannes. I obviously haven’t seen the movie, but just by the look of it, I would not have guessed that such film would be an opener for Cannes. Still,… Continue reading
-
I just learned that Bad Robot is JJ Abram’s company. Did you know that I have a special something for robots too? But mine’s a bit cuter. Continue reading
-
Cannes 2010 is happening
. . . on the other side of the globe, while I am in an area rather far from there, (I guess the sunshine could be similar) Until I am there- mid-May, warm sunshine, walking down the Croisette . . . Je blog! Continue reading
About Me
A Korean American teacher / documentarist who cannot get rid of her old blog sites and often spends hours updating it without much of actual updates. – Jini Shim aka msshimmyshimshim
Till the day I really "Cannes" . . . on y va! 