Monday, May 27, 2013

Cannes Film Festival Roundup

Well folks, the awards have been dispersed, the stars are packing up and heading home, the 2013 Cannes Film Festival is over. As your resident insomniac with too much time on his hands, I have listed the award winners as well as some news that I thought was pretty cool, because boy oh boy did shit go down at this years festival! Eyes on the prize people. For those out of the film festival loop (membership requirements: one scarf), the Cannes...

Trance

Trance (2013) - dir. Danny Boyle The mind has become hot property in cinema these days. Following the smash success of Inception and it's dream within a dreams shtick, movies have been foraying deeper into the mind with hopes to: A) challenge audiences with the complexity of its unconventional narrative and structure; and B) Take your money. With Trance, Danny Boyle has opted to fail at both of these, and thrown in a sub par heist movie...