May
15
Cannes Day Two: From Hunger to Tyson
What will happen with James Toback's Michael Tyson doc? It will be seen. It must. It's too revelatory, too dramatic, too juicy not to be widely viewed. It screens Friday night. Here's my talk with Toback.
Here's Variety's review of Steve McQueen's Hunger, which I saw Thursday night. This is a talented new filmmaker, hugely gifted, visual and daring. The story of an IRA hunger strike in a Belfast prison is rough to sit through. McQueen throws everything in your face. But he does it with style. And Michael Fassbender--who appears to come close to really starving himself-- is a new star. He's going to play Heathcliff in a new version of Wuthering Heights. I doubt that anyone in the states will pick Hunger up. This is about discovering new talent. There was a rousing ovation from the press; Brit McQueen may be a strong candidate for the Camera d'Or, the prize for first-time filmmakers. Here's Stephen Schaefer.
After the movie, I repaired to the Kung Fu Panda party at the Carlton Pier, which included yummy Asian food served with chopsticks and a greeting from DreamWorks executrix Stacey Snider. I talked online shop with the LAT's Sheigh Crabtree-- whose cinematographer husband Matt Uhry shot a film, Mexico's Los Bastardos, in Un Certaiin Regard-- and ran into Paramount PR chief Michael Vollman hanging out with my own Variety gang.
Next door on the beach was the Focus International plage party, hosted by Andrew Karpen and Jason Resnick, complete with a pounding disco beat and a real beach. The Blindness gang was on hand, from Miramax topper Daniel Battsek to Danny Glover and Gael Garcia Bernal. The yachts twinkled under a fine moon in the harbor, and the sand felt cold under your feet.
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