Cannes Lineup
It's in. How come I'm not excited? (Lynch's absence doesn't help.)
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posted by NicksFlickPicks at 12:43 PM
Thursday, April 20, 2006
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The Desiring-Image: Gilles Deleuze and Contemporary Queer Cinema ($30/pbk). By Nick Davis. Oxford University Press, 2013.
The book that earned me tenure at Northwestern. Offers a new theoretical model of queer film, born from Gilles Deleuze's rarely-integrated notions of cinema and desire. Chapter-length readings of
Dead Ringers,
Naked Lunch, Shortbus, The Watermelon Woman, Brother to Brother, Beau travail, and
Velvet Goldmine, plus other films along the way! Written for a scholarly audience but hopefully interesting to anyone curious about recent cinema, ideas about desire, or LGBT aesthetics and politics. "Important and needed work...Deeply original." —D.N. Rodowick, "Seductive in its intellect and humbling in its prose." —Michele Aaron
Reading the Bromance: Homosocial Relationships in Film and Television ($32/pbk). Ed. Michael DeAngelis. Wayne State University Press, 2014.
Academic pieces that dig into recent portraits in popular media, comic and dramatic, of intimacies between straight(ish) men. Includes the essay
"'I Love You, Hombre': Y tu mamá también as Border-Crossing Bromance" by Nick Davis, as well as chapters on Superbad, Humpday, Jackass, The Wire, and other texts. Written for a mixed audience of scholars, students, and non-campus readers. Forthcoming in June 2014. "Remarkably sophisticated essays." —Janet Staiger, "Essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary models of gender and sexuality." —Harry Benshoff
Fifty Key American Films ($31/pbk). Ed. Sabine Haenni, John White. Routledge, 2009. Includes my essays on
The Wild Party,
The Incredibles, and
Brokeback Mountain. Intended as both a newcomer's guide to the terrain
and a series of short, exploratory essays about such influential works as The Birth of a Nation, His Girl Friday, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song,
Taxi Driver, Blade Runner, Daughters of the Dust, and Se7en.
The Cinema of Todd Haynes: All That Heaven
Allows ($25/pbk). Ed. James Morrison. Wallflower Press, via Columbia University Press, 2007. Includes the essay
"'The Invention of a People': Velvet Goldmine and the Unburying of Queer Desire" by Nick Davis, later expanded and revised in The Desiring-Image.
More, too, on Poison, Safe, Far From Heaven, and Haynes's other films by Alexandra Juhasz, Marcia Landy,
Todd McGowan, James Morrison, Anat Pick, and other scholars. "A collection as intellectually and emotionally
generous as Haynes' films" —Patricia White, Swarthmore College
Film Studies:
The Basics ($23/pbk). By Amy Villarejo. Routledge, 2006, 2013. Award-winning
film scholar and teacher Amy Villarejo finally gives us the quick, smart, reader-friendly guide to film vocabulary that every
teacher, student, and movie enthusiast has been waiting for, as well as a one-stop primer in the past, present, and future of film production, exhibition,
circulation, and theory. Great glossary, wide-ranging examples, and utterly unpretentious prose that remains rigorous in its analysis;
the book commits itself at every turn to the artistry, politics, and accessibility of cinema.
- Picture Noms % Seen:
- 97%
- Dead End
- A
- Friendly Persuasion
- C+
- Gandhi
- C+
- Director Noms % Seen:
- 96%
- The Crowd
- A
- Sabrina
- B–
- I Want to Live!
- C
- Actress Noms % Seen:
- 100%
- A Star Is Born ('54)
- A
- The Country Girl
- B–
- The Letter ('29)
- B
- Actor Noms % Seen:
- 91%
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- A–
- Champion
- B
- The Affairs of Cellini
- C
- Sup Actress Noms % Seen:
- 100%
- Broken Lance
- C+
- The Bachelor Party
- B
- Paper Moon
- B+
- Sup Actor Noms % Seen:
- 91%
- The Day of the Locust
- C
- Juarez
- C+
- The Paper Chase
- D
- Cinematography Noms % Seen:
- 69%
- King Kong ('76)
- C–
- Shanghai Triad
- B
- Earthquake
- D+
- Screenplay Noms % Seen:
- 76%
- The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer*
- Boomerang!
Most recent screenings in each race;
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7 Comments:
i an excited by a couple of the choices... but...no Inland Empire?
There just isn't a filmmaker here that I trust implicitly. I am pulling for Southland Tales in a huge way after Donnie Darko, but it could really break either way, obviously. I'm worried about Penélope "The Mosquito" Cruz being so central to Volver, and I haven't been as taken by the Kaurismäki, Ceylan, or Moretti that I've seen as I wished I were (though I like them all fine). I'm eager for Marie-Antoinette, but again, only casually. I thought Lou's Suzhou River was intoxicating if somewhat minor, but then Purple Butterfly didn't seem to light anyone's world on fire in '03... and isn't it odd that this is the only Asian film in competition? Not sure what to think about Fast Food Nation. High hopes, too, for Dumont and González Iñárritu, but even they are uneven. Africa, as ever, may as well not exist to these programmers.
I don't mean to be so grouchy. Usually, though, there's a Dogville or a History of Violence or a Holy Girl or a Wong or a Sokurov or a Haneke about which I can't wait to hear first reports. I just don't see myself being on pins and needles about any of these.
I had absolutely the same reaction, though the sheer amount of stuff I'm quite interested to hear about is actually greater than usual.
Still, we're not going, and neither is Lynch! That's almost a plus, right?
Meh. I'm excited about Marie-Antoinette and X3 (I used to be obsessed with the X-men), but otherwise..just..meh.
I'm also scared about Cruz in Volver, but she was solid in All About My Mother, and anything by Almodovar... well. Suffice it to say, I will not be a happy camper if I have to wait until this fall to see it (which is the likely case).
maybe you're all just in bad moods or sumpin' --this looks as good as many a year sight unseen (obviously it could always be atrocious and/or delicious...though I suspect most years are some combo of both)
most excited for
SHORTBUS -it's about fucking time that johncameron mitchell followed up Hedwig.
VOLVER -penelope scchmelope --CARMEN MAURA returns. who cares who else is in it?
MARIE-ANTOINETTE -obviously (the trailer is the reason not really lost in translation --at least for me)
Not sure what happened to Lynch, or how Darren Aronofsky's "Fountain" somehow didn't make the cut, but I think Inarritu's "Babel" and Del Toro's "Pan's Labyrinth" are the strong suits in this linep .. and a special congrats to Linklater on his rather singular accomplishment
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