Cannes 2006
February 2024
June 2006
Revenge of the B-movie
Cannes turns wild between the Palais and the plage. Here one finds a land inhabited by lusty ninjas and boa constrictors, by demonic babies and "nightmare detectives". The veteran film-maker John Sayles has a theory that the trash B-movie - with its rubbery monsters and wobbly editing - is now extinct; killed off by technological advances and the rise of the blockbuster. I'm guessing that Sayles has never visited the Cannes marché.
Cannes, Cathars and conspiracy
Fiachra GibbonsFiachra Gibbons: Purporting to rock Christendom and the Papacy to its white silk slippers, the Da Vinci Code opened the Cannes film festival last week and quickly became one of the fastest grossing films of all time. But has a hidden hand been at work here?