The Globe and Mail - Scene at Cannes

Glorious indeed

cvardanis — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:56 EDT

It was packed to overflowing this morning for the very first screening of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. The applause at the end and the laughter greeting Brad Pitt's Lt. Aldo Raine - part vengeful warrior, part country ham baked in Jack Daniels - suggest that Tarantino is back after the uderwhelming - Follow link to read full post

Oh Penelope. Just once, could you look crappy for the rest of us?

Elizabeth Renzetti — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:05 EDT

It strikes me as deeply unfair that Penelope Cruz should rise from her sickbed looking like Venus rising from the sea. Yesterday we'd heard that the star of Pedro Almodovar's Los Abrazos Rotos (Broken Embraces) had come down with a case of food poisoning, but this morning Cruz appeared, seeming a tiny - Follow link to read full post

Bang your heads

Elizabeth Renzetti — Mon, 18 May 2009 08:43 EDT

From the outside of Morrison's pub, you would have thought that the Stones or Radiohead were playing a secret gig, not an obscure Canadian metal act that even those of us who grew up in Toronto in the eighties have trouble remembering. But Anvil's not just any washed-up band: Sacha Gervasi's documentary - Follow link to read full post

Von Trier delivers shock and odd

Elizabeth Renzetti — Sun, 17 May 2009 17:05 EDT

Who says that the ability to shock is the privilege of the young? Sometimes you need an old dog to teach the young ones tricks – like how to portray acts so shocking, even in the era of torture porn at the multiplex, that they leave your jaw on the floor. If I had dentures, I'd be groping for them - Follow link to read full post

Faux neige in the bright French sun

Elizabeth Renzetti — Sun, 17 May 2009 13:35 EDT

It was an act of artifice that Louis B. Mayer would have loved: Early this morning outside the Carlton Hotel, Cannes's main garage for the marketing machine, a man stood in the bright sun with a cigarette in one hand and a hose in the other. He was spraying a thick layer of fake snow on the grass and - Follow link to read full post

Girls on film

Elizabeth Renzetti — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:53 EDT

The arrival of Jane Campion's Bright Star, a luminous story about the love between John Keats and his neighbour, Fanny Brawne, has ushered back one of my favourite debates: Is there such a thing as a woman's picture, and if so, can men enjoy it (truly enjoy, that is, without the application of hot coals - Follow link to read full post

Long, beautiful hair

Elizabeth Renzetti — Sat, 16 May 2009 07:56 EDT

Taking Woodstock is Ang Lee's light-hearted look at how the three-day festival of peace, love and brown acid affected a family who owned a motel near Max Yasgur's farm (Yasgur, by the way, is played by Eugene Levy.) The movie's based on a memoir by Elliot Tiber (played by stand-up comic Demetri Martin - Follow link to read full post

Thank God for the real Mariah, frosted tips and all

Elizabeth Renzetti — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:41 EDT

I had a doll once that looked like Mariah Carey[amp]nbsp;- she rode around in her Barbie camper van, usually wearing her wedding dress, Ken nowhere in sight. Sometimes I'd move her arms so she'd flick her hair, and it would land, just so, on her shoulders. Mariah does exactly that, I noticed happily - Follow link to read full post

And she never talks back

Elizabeth Renzetti — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:05 EDT

It's crucial to get noticed here, as Brigitte Bardot famously learned. The only limits are taste and imagination, and they're both pretty boundless. The inflatable press kit for Kore-eda Hirokazu's movie Air Doll, a fantasy about a sex doll who comes to life, rose above the pack. It doesn't perform any - Follow link to read full post

From Cannes to Mom

Elizabeth Renzetti — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:55 EDT

Katie Jarvis, the 17-year-old star of Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank, couldn't make it to Cannes for a very good reason: She had a baby earlier this week. Jarvis is a complete unknown, and a natural screen presence. After much fruitless searching - Arnold was looking for an authentically lippy teenager - Follow link to read full post