Cannes Overview

Cannes predictions/winners:

Palm D'or Prediction -- Volver; Winner -- The Wind That Shakes The Barley
Runnerup Prediction -- Babel; Winner -- Flandres
Best Director Pred -- Pedro Costa for Colossal Youth or Sofia Coppola; Winner -- Babel
Best Actor Prediction -- Giacomo Rizzo for "The Family Friend" (or Nuri Ceylan for Climates); Winner -- ensemble of Indigenes
Best Actress Prediction -- Lei hao for Summer Palace (seems too irresistible for political reasons, but could also be Penelope Cruz for Volver or Kate Dickie for Red Road); winner -- ensemble of Volver


Here are all the movies I saw at Cannes. And scroll below for adds to my daily diary. (Hey, since I don't own a laptop right now, I have to choose between telling you what movies I've seen or simply going to more movies. I decided to see more movies.)

CANNES MOVIES (updated as of May 30)

The Da Vinci Code *
Summer Palace ** 1/2
The Wind That Shakes The Barley *** 1/2
Poison Friends *
The Page Turner *
Princess ** 1/2
Volver *** or *** 1/2
Boffo! *
The Unforgiven *
7 Virgins ** 1/2 or ***
Dreamgirls preview ***
Red Road ** (but well-directed)
Charlie Says *
Shortbus ** 1/2 (but sweet)
Serambi ** 1/2
Climates ***
Southland Tales *
The Lights of Dusk ** 1/2
World Trade Center preview ** 1/2
Platoon *** 1/2
Il Caimino ** 1/2 or ***
URO ** 1/2
Salvador (w Daniel Bruhl) *
Flanders * 1/2
Babel **
Program de Court Metrages ** (shorts: Jane Campion ** 1/2, Gaspar Noe * 1/2, Francois Ozon *** 1/2, Eugene Green no stars, Monte Hellman *)
The Way I Spent The End Of The World ** 1/2 or ***
Jimbadyne **
The Right of the Weakest *** 1/2
Marie Antoinette **
Suburban Mayhem *
Silk/Guisi no stars (but had to walk out with 20m to go to make another screening)
Azul & Asmar *** 1/2
Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror no stars
The Friend of the Family * 1/2
Days of Glory/Indigenes ***
Redtrieval/Z Odyzesku ** 1/2
2:47 no stars
La California no stars
Lying no stars
Colossal Youth **
The Singer * 1/2
Nouvelle Chance (aka OOh La La) * 1/2
Change of Address ** 1/2
White Palms **
Congorama *** 1/2
Cronica Una Fuga ***
Clerks II **
Transylvania ** 1/2
Election 2 ***
The Boy On The Galloping Horse ***
977 (no rating -- walked out after 40m for goodbye dinner w Stephen at La Pizza)
Cabiria *** 1/2 (reissue of silent classic)
Fast Food Nation * 1/2
The Labyrinth of the Faun *** 1/2