Under my radar, the reactions to The Substance after its Cannes premiere has definitely piqued my interest.  I'm not familiar with the writer/director, Coralie Fargeat, who has one previous film, Revenge under her belt, but the new one is irresistibly described as "body horror fairy tale".



 

Cannes screening of Oct 7 documentary Bearing Witness canceled under orders from the IDF amid security concerns. 

It's not made clear how the IDF can order the cancellation of a screening in Cannes, but it's clear the presenters somehow needed to ask permission. Just another awards season in Hell. 

Jinnistan wrote:

Rampop II wrote:

Cannes screening of Oct 7 documentary Bearing Witness canceled under orders from the IDF amid security concerns. 

It's not made clear how the IDF can order the cancellation of a screening in Cannes, but it's clear the presenters somehow needed to ask permission. Just another awards season in Hell. 

The film wasn't technically part of the festival, so the decision to cancel wouldn't have come from the Cannes organizers.

But there must be a reason why it was the IDF's call. It may just be that the IDF had intel and the organizers played it safe, but the way the article tells it, the IDF didn't advise them to cancel. It was an order. The presenters apparently had to ask permission of the IDF to screen at the chosen location. Maybe just something to do with protocol or the IDF's ability to ensure security, who knows.
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Cannes Winners for 2024 (tried to maintain formatting so the links work)

In Competition

The following awards were presented for films shown in Competition:

• Palme d'Or: Anora by Sean Baker
• Grand Prix: All We Imagine as Light by Payal Kapadia
• Jury Prize: Emilia Pérez by Jacques Audiard
• Best Director: Miguel Gomes for Grand Tour
• Best Actress: Adriana Paz, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, and Zoe Saldaña for Emilia Pérez
• Best Actor: Jesse Plemons for Kinds of Kindness
• Best Screenplay: The Substance by Coralie Fargeat
• Special Prize: The Seed of the Sacred Fig by Mohammad Rasoulof

• Un Certain Regard Prize: Black Dog by Guan Hu
• Un Certain Regard Jury Prize: The Story of Souleymane by Boris Lojkine
• Un Certain Regard Best Director:


• The Damned by Roberto Minervini
• On Becoming a Guinea Fowl by Rungano Nyoni


• Un Certain Regard Performance Prize:


• Anasuya Sengupta for The Shameless
• Abou Sangare for The Story of Souleymane


• Un Certain Regard Youth Prize: Holy Cow by Louise Courvoisier
• Special Mention: Norah by Tawfik Alzaidi

• Meryl Streep
• Studio Ghibli
• George Lucas

• Armand by Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel


• Special Mention: Mongrel by Chiang Wei Liang and You Qiao Yin

• The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent by Nebojša Slijepčević


• Special Mention: Bad for a Moment by Daniel Soares

• First Prize: Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know... by Chidananda S Naik
• Second Prize:


• Out of the Window Through the Wall by Asya Segalovich
• The Chaos She Left Behind by Nikos Kolioukos


• Third Prize: Bunnyhood by Mansi Maheshwari

• Colored by Tania de Montaigne, Stéphane Foenkinos, Pierre-Alain Giraud

• In Competition: The Seed of the Sacred Fig by Mohammad Rasoulof
• Un Certain Regard: The Story of Souleymane by Boris Lojkine
• Parallel section (first features): Desert of Namibia by Yôko Yamanaka

• The Seed of the Sacred Fig by Mohammad Rasoulof

• Grand Prize: Simon of the Mountain by Federico Luis
• French Touch Prize of the Jury: Blue Sun Palace by Constance Tsang
• Leitz Cine Discovery Prize for Short Film: Montsouris Park by Guil Sela
• Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award: Ricardo Teodoro for Baby
• Gan Foundation Award for Distribution: Julie Keeps Quiet by Leonardo Van Dijl
• Canal+ Award for Short Film: Absent by Cem Demirer
• SACD Award: Julie Keeps Quiet by Leonardo Van Dijl

• Universal Language by Matthew Rankin

• Europa Cinemas Label Award for Best European Film: The Other Way Around by Jonás Trueba
• SACD Prize for Best French Film: This Life of Mine by Sophie Fillières
• Golden Coach: Andrea Arnold

• Ernest Cole: Lost and Found by Raoul Peck
• The Brink of Dreams by Nada Riyadh and Ayman El Amir

• Three Kilometres to the End of the World by Emanuel Pârvu
• Best Short Film: Southern Brides by Elena López Riera

• Citizenship Prize: Bird by Andrea Arnold

• AFCAE Art House Cinema Award: The Seed of the Sacred Fig by Mohammad Rasoulof


• Special Mention: All We Imagine as Light by Payal Kapadia

• Kodi for Dog on Trial
• Grand Jury Prize: Xin for Black Dog
• Mutt Moment:


• Bird
• Kinds of Kindness
• Megalopolis

• Mike Faist
• Sophie Wilde

Nice work, amigo! I've been enjoying this list all day. I never knew Cannes had so many varied awards, and of such character! Palm Dog, Cinéfondation, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury! Very educational. 

Suck it, Hollywood!

Yeah, I’m taking the week or so off like I normally do. I’ll post my picks when I’m on my laptop, kind of a pain to copy from a spreadsheet on my phone.

Rock wrote:

Yeah, I’m taking the week or so off like I normally do. I’ll post my picks when I’m on my laptop, kind of a pain to copy from a spreadsheet on my phone.

I'm thankful for any contributions.  Are you contributing to any other (ie, real) publications or sites this time?

Rock wrote:

Most excited for The End, The Shadow Strays and The Substance.

Jesus fuck.  A documentarian known for the most vicious preservations of evil (Act of Killing) decides to make his fiction feature debut about the post-apocalypse....and it's a musical.  I didn't even need to see Tilda standing there to know she must be involved in this.  And Michael Shannon too.  And all of these people are worried about Coppola bringing it all down.
 

Rock wrote:

Most excited for The End, The Shadow Strays and The Substance.

Here's the full list:
Seeds
The Quiet Ones
The Damned
Men at War
Triumph
Ick
Collective Monologue
Linda
Riff Raff
Else
Vermiglio
Harvest
The Wolves Always Come at Night
Hold Your Breath
The End
The Substance
Sweet Angel Baby
Friendship
Dead Mail
The Shadow Strays

Last edited by Rock (8/27/2024 8:57 pm)

Jinnistan wrote:

Those are the ones you have tickets for?

Yeah, I did 2 packages of 10 tickets each. The ordering process was a little annoying in that they made me check out 1 package before picking the tickets for the other, but otherwise the system was less buggy than previous years.

Rock wrote:

(I kinda gave up after my first rejection lol)

God dammit.  Who the fuck are we competing with here, folks?  Brian Tellerico?  Stephanie Zachareck?  Why are these bitches getting paid?