Terrence Malick’s The tree of life just won 2011 Palme d’Or, and with it, Canne’s jury celebrated a different kind of cinema. Enough to remember Richard Kelly’s second feature, which didn’t get the same kind of attention few years ago.
Sometimes, Cannes Film Festival shows some interesting and yet surprising curiosity for movies usually snubbed by them. This year, everybody was wondering how Takashi Miike and his Hara-Kiri in 3D landed in the official competition. Five years ago, Richard (…)
♦ Introduction
This blog is a place for all contributors of Nisimazine to continue to write, photograph, make video and discuss cinema together after the workshops. An extension of the magazine, this is a free space to keep sharing new insights and experiences through reviews, essays, quotes, interviews and festival reports. You can join any conversation by posting comments. So…, let’s go !
Tuesday 31 May 2011Direct-to-DVD #3
By Geoffrey Crété (France), 31 May 2011 | Direct-to-DVD |Translations: [en]
Thursday 19 May 2011Editorial Nisimazine Cannes 2011 #7
By Maria Ulfsak (Estonia), 19 May 2011 | Editorials |Translations: [en]
With all the journalists around in Cannes, it has made me wonder about the profession of a film critic. Who is a professional film critic? Stereotypically it used to be a grumpy elderly man or woman (more often a man), with dirty glasses and a pack of cigarettes, writing for a daily newspaper. These days film journalism and film criticism has changed a lot. Because of the recession there is less space in the newspapers for the culture, and film journalists and critics have been amongst the (…)
Wednesday 18 May 2011Editorial Nisimazine Cannes 2011 #6
By Levente Czehelszki (Hungary), 18 May 2011 | Editorials |Translations: [en]
I’m standing in front of the cloakroom before an early screening of Gus Van Sant’s Restless, a movie I was really looking forward to watch. The line is so huge that my partner was left behind, and it’s highly unlikely for her to get in, as the theater was already filled with the crème of the penguin imitators.
I’m going into the cinema, where people are desperately fighting for the last seats. The bodyguard kindly sends me to the upper level, but I cannot enter the stairs, as another security (…)
I’m going into the cinema, where people are desperately fighting for the last seats. The bodyguard kindly sends me to the upper level, but I cannot enter the stairs, as another security (…)
Tuesday 17 May 2011Editorial Nisimazine Cannes 2011 #5
By Lukas Traber (Austria), 17 May 2011 | Editorials |Translations: [en]
When I was about to attend my first screening here at the Cannes Film Festival, I was understandably quite excited. I got there half an hour early - or at least what I thought was early, because then it turned out that I got the time wrong and the film actually started one hour later. That wasn’t a bad thing though, because I hadn’t yet had a moment to realize that I had finally arrived in Cannes - a place I had wanted to go since my father explained to me what this festival was about and (…)
Monday 16 May 2011Editorial Nisimazine Cannes 2011 #4
By Anne-Sophie Meusburger (Austria), 16 May 2011 | Editorials |Translations: [en]
Today we reached halfway of the festival. Time to pause and reflect upon whether Cannes has so far lived up to our expectations. For those people who have attended the festival since the beginning, the overwhelming frenzy has already given way to an adjusted and well organized rhythm. Wake up early, sort out the program, rush to the screening and find a seat. You are probably by now used to plunge yourself into crowded areas to get a ticket for Tree of Life, to take a picture with Tilda (…)
Sunday 15 May 2011Editorial Nisimazine Cannes 2011 #3
By Lubos Bisto (Slovakia), 15 May 2011 | Editorials |Translations: [en]
Let’s imagine that the Cannes Film Festival is a film. It is not a film featuring the stars, nor a documentary about what happens in Cannes. It is a multi-genre piece that can only be seen once in a lifetime. No reruns are possible. Everyone involved with the festival is a star in this movie. The old star system has to make way to the new rising stars of Cannes. We all have our parts and we all have to stage something during the course of the festival. Sooner or later, we all explore what (…)
Saturday 14 May 2011Editorial Nisimazine Cannes 2011 #2
By Patrícia Veszprémi (Hungary), 14 May 2011 | Editorials |Translations: [en]
Films either deliberately or unconsciously convey the national identity of their makers. By watching films with an insightful eye, one can capture a picture of their origin. There are few places as multinational as Cannes in May: the town is like a great melting pot of people, countries and film cultures. If you stand for fifteen minutes on any walkway of the festival, the whole world passes by. The global village of world cinema meets in Cannes. So, be prepared for a journey through (…)
Friday 13 May 2011Authority restricts people to become themselves
By Mariana Hristova (Bulgaria), 13 May 2011 | Free section |Translations: [en]
an interview with Tolga Karacelik
Although his feature debut Tool Booth was one of the discoveries in the national competition of the Antalya Film Festival 2010 (Best First Film, Best Cinematographer, Best Actor – Serkan Ercan), the jury of the Istanbul Film Festival did not pay attention to his unquestionable talent. However, Tolga Karacelik definitely deserves a special focus. Born in 1981 in Istanbul, he studied Law at the Marmara University and Film in New York. His latest short film (…)
Although his feature debut Tool Booth was one of the discoveries in the national competition of the Antalya Film Festival 2010 (Best First Film, Best Cinematographer, Best Actor – Serkan Ercan), the jury of the Istanbul Film Festival did not pay attention to his unquestionable talent. However, Tolga Karacelik definitely deserves a special focus. Born in 1981 in Istanbul, he studied Law at the Marmara University and Film in New York. His latest short film (…)
New Turkish Cinema: The Third Wave
By Mariana Hristova (Bulgaria), 13 May 2011 | Free section |Translations: [en]
Being a foreign guest at the Istanbul Film Festival and watching some films different than Turkish doesn’t make much sense. Not because the international competition is not important, on the contrary – it has an exceptional regulation to select films based on arts or literary adaptations and presents a variety of filmmakers coming from around the world. But far more intriguing is the Turkish cinema program consisting of subsections titled Documentaries, New Turkish Cinema and the National (…)
Editorial Nisimazine Cannes 2011 #1
By Eva Kincsei (Hungary), 13 May 2011 | Editorials |Translations: [en]
Prestigious film industry faces teem streets, tourists distracted by as whether to wear a Gucci or a D&G for the night. After the evening explosions, small arms are heard immediately, revenge for the dead son makes them flee to Europe. Cosy cafés and bars are all eager to embrace the razzmatazz for the next twelve days. Troops stationing on rooftops, mass arrests for those who would change the regime. Some Chanels are sauntering the Little Cross Drive and a red carpet is rolled out. (…)
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