May 13, 2005
I was going to start linking to all the developments and interviews and such at Cannes, related to the films there that I'm excited about. At first I was primarily going to cover the coverage Last Days (which from what I understand will actually be opening in the States this summer) and I had started copying down links to share later on. But what with the press conference yesterday with Gus Van Sant and Michael Pitt yesterday, and the realization that I was suddenly almost equally excited about the new Woody Allen film and the new Atom Egoyan film, and with the new Cronengerg film about to premiere and Austin's own Kyle Henry right there in the Director's Fortnight with his film Room - well, the floodgates are such that I think I'll just do the wise thing and leave the linkage to GreenCine...at least for the time being.
I will, however, mention this trailer I discovered, via Twitch, for a film I was completely unaware of: an adaptation of Bukowski's novel Factotum. After I saw Bukowski: Born Into This last fall, this was the first novel of his that I picked up. It didn't strike me as a book screaming for an adaptation, but the film has a great cast, and I really like the sort of appropriately drunken haze that the lazily lovely trailer evokes.
Posted by David Lowery at May 13, 2005 6:23 PM
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If you haven't already, and for a taste of Factotum director Bent Hamer's style, you should definitely check out his previous gem "Kitchen Stories"/ "Salmer fra Kjøkkenet".
Posted by: Withnail at May 14, 2005 9:54 AM
That's a great trailer. The link you posted didn't work for me here's the one I found at Twitch: http://media.filmweb.no/trailere/sf/SFN20050131/vkjdgdp12.mov
Posted by: jmj at May 14, 2005 12:19 PM
Thanks for the correction, JMJ: that entire post was full of typos.
Hey Withnail! I remember 'Kitchen Stories' - and by remember, I mean I recall the week it played here, and the fact that I missed it, and also the fact that I was charmed by its trailer in the weeks leading up to its limited engagement. Thanks for reminding me of it - I'll add it to ye olde Netflix Qeue.
Posted by: Ghostboy at May 14, 2005 4:52 PM