Welcome:)

Reminds me of
http://www.videosift.com/video/LFO-Freak

Same director:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Right-Place-best-short-film-Cannes-2006

>> ^Issykitty:
That sounds like bad in the most entertaining sense! It reminds me that I witnessed a most unforgettable 4 hour screening of "The Brown Bunny" at the Cannes Film Festival, which will never be seen again in it's original form (it has been massively edited down). OH. MY. LORD.


Why that man has any attention or financial backing is beyond me... just don't get his appeal.

That sounds like bad in the most entertaining sense! It reminds me that I witnessed a most unforgettable 4 hour screening of "The Brown Bunny" at the Cannes Film Festival, which will never be seen again in it's original form (it has been massively edited down). OH. MY. LORD.

Just because it doesn't win awards at Cannes does not make it "crap," piscatorius.

This is similar to the "Solon" ad that was done a while back.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Cool-commercial-for-solar-power

Same agency maybe?

Edit: The wind clip was done by "Nordpol" from Hamburg/Germany (http://www.nordpol.com) and the solar power one was done by Jung von Matt (also Hamburg)

The wind clip also was a runner up for the 2007 Lion at Cannes, but was beaten in the end by Ogilvy & Mathers Dove "Evolution"

It'd be nice if this were unique, but there is a tradition at Cannes to give these insanely long ovations - basically, until the director/cast/etc. leave the screening.

I'm not saying Moore milked it, either - just that it isn't unique to him or this movie.

...it is as real as YOU want it to be, not all.....personally, opening those Anunaki or reptillian motherfuckers from stem to stern is more up the alley of getback....those bastards will pay one day, if it takes all out risking of anihilation, or inhalation, which comes first....IS UP TO YOU!

oh yeah, thanks for the transisiters ya poncy slime pod-cocksuckers!!!.....(this pisses all alien races off, they have no emotions, hence, cann'ot bust balls....but they perceive it as hostile and put their larvae in your dogs.....)

Fair and Balanced Autopsy

No Man's Land (Bosnian: Ničija Zemlja) is a war drama that is set in the midst of the Bosnian war in 1993. The film is a parable with a tone of ironic black comedy. The film marked the debut of writer and director Danis Tanović. The film is a co-production between companies in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia, Italy, France, Belgium and the UK.

No Man's Land has been compared to The Good Soldier Švejk, Catch-22, M*A*S*H and Waiting for Godot for containing equal parts of irony and futility.

* Best Foreign Language Film, 2003 74th Annual Academy Awards
* Best Foreign Language Film, 2002 Golden Globe Award
* Best Screenplay, 2001 Cannes Film Festival

No Man's Land won Prix du scénario at the Cannes Film Festival, followed by numerous awards, including the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2001, while in competition with French Amélie. Tanović was presented the Oscar by John Travolta and Sharon Stone. Briefly after, Tanović thanked everyone who worked with him on the film and supported its creation. He ended his acceptance speech by saying, "This is for my country".

In total, No Man's Land won 42 awards, including the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, the European Film Academy Award for Best Screenplay, the César Award for Best Debut in 2002 and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2002. It is probably the most awarded first feature film in a history of film making.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283509/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Man%27s_Land_%282001_film%29

Few films can claim a change in government policy among their achievements. But Indigènes (Days Of Glory) by Rachid Bouchareb has made an impact at the highest level. The 128-minute film focuses on the actions of Moroccan and Algerian men who fought alongside French soldiers to liberate France from the Nazis in World War II. As well as inspiring French President Jacques Chirac to reintroduce pensions for France's North African war veterans, and recognise their vital contribution to victory, the lead actors gave such a strong performance that they were jointly honoured with the Best Actor award at Cannes this year.

The story:

1944-1945 - The liberation of Italy, Provence, the Alps, the Rhone Valley, Vosges, and Alsace was essential if the allies were to achieve victory. The assault was led by the First French Army, recruited in Africa in order to avoid the control of the German commissioners and the Vichy authorities. It was made up of around 200,000 men, including 130,000 “indigenes” (natives) - 110,000 North Africans and 20,000 Africans. The rest of the men were two thirds “pieds- noirs” (French colonials) and one third young frenchmen who had fled the occupation. Days of Glory focuses on the African/Arab volunteers who were subject to much racism and bigotry within the French army ranks even though they were willing to fight for a country they had never before stepped foot on. Victory, and the subsequent advance on Germany, was only achieved after much bloodshed and great losses.

The film relates the forgotten story of the soldiers known as “Indigènes” following the epic adventures of four of them: Abdelkader, Saïd, Messaoud and Yassir (le goumier) a mobile corps, reputed for their endurance, ground sense , and courage in close combat. They are sent to the front line. Each one is in pursuit of a different objective throughout the passage across France which they liberate, arms in hand.

Yassir joined for the booty he expected to collect.

Messaoud was surprised by the welcome from the French. He hopes to marry and live in France, to escape the arpatheid in Algeria.

Saïd wishes to escape poverty in Morocco, and hopes to find a family in the French army.

And Abdelkader who is fighting for liberty and equality, in joining the French army he hopes for France’s recognition, and more justice towards the colonised Algerians once the war is over.

http://www.indigenes-lefilm.com/

The stir La Haine caused in 1995 was, in part, due to its controversial subject matter - les banlieues (the suburbs) - which had, since the 1980s, become synonymous with France's major problems of unemployment, social exclusion, racial conflict, (sub)urban decay, criminality and violence. It was also due, in part, to its negative portrayal of the police who, with the exception of one officer of North African descent, are represented as violent, racist and uncomprehending. It was also due in part to its sympathetic, some might say indulgent, representation of an excluded and multi-ethnic suburban youth.

The film was a huge commercial success and provoked much debate in France over its unflinching presentation of urban and police violence. The then-prime minister Alain Juppé arranged a special screening and ordered his entire cabinet to watch the film; police guards at the screening at Cannes turned their backs on the director, cast and crew as they walked past in protest of its portrayal of police brutality. Kassovitz won the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1996 and the movie was nominated for the Palme d'Or; the film also picked up the César Award for Best Picture

Marketing. Elephant was sold particularly well to European critics and it played to their misconceptions/prejudices about the youth of America (evil computers, evil video games, evil guns, evil homosexuality, evil Beethoven just to be cheeky). The Cannes victory was purely a function of a bad year at Cannes and the fact that van Sant, like Lynch and the Dardennes, is an obsessive and repetitive auteur.

I find Elephant to be more a MoMA-style video installation rather than a document of Columbine. I want to hang it on a wall and it works particularly well on that level. It is still one of the most beautiful DV movies out there. And I really love all of the quiet, long, hand-held tracking shots. No American high school has ever been so quiet and pretty and emotionally barren as the high school in this film.

But the History of Violence was bollocks.

archchef - Never ever see GERRY. Besides making ELEPHANT seem as action-packed as STAR WARS, it is like watching paint dry while you are trapped and suffocating inside the paint.

No need for an apology - I made the mistake of not posting it sooner. Just remembered the comment I wanted to make about this film...

Random Related Fact: the actors who play the alleged 'terrorists' were flying back from picking up an award (from Cannes I think). At the airport they were detained by the police under UK anti-terrorist law and questioned about any further films they would make 'promoting Islam'. Strange, scary stuff...

Just saw the Powerade ad version - turns out they won the following awards for it:
1. International ANDY Awards, 2003 (Distinction) for Beverage Non-Alcohol - Campaign
2. Cannes Lions - International Advertising Festival, 2003 (Shortlist) for Non-Alcoholic Drinks

By the Wieden + Kennedy agency.

IMDB trivia[1] on this film:

# Jonas Geirnaert (then 21 years old) was a student animation and hadn't even graduated, when he came upon a registration form for the Cannes Festival on their site, decided he had nothing to lose and sent in his "graduation-work". He had told nobody, thinking he wouldn't even be selected anyway. To his surprise, he won in the category "Best Short Film".

# Geirnaert drew all of the animation (more than 9,000 drawings) himself. It took him two years. The sound however he had to prepare in less than half a day, because the deadline for sending in the work to Cannes had actually already expired.

# The version of the shortfilm that won the Jury Award at Cannes was an unfinished version.

[1] http://hungarian.imdb.com/title/tt0408786/trivia