Cannes, 5/25.

With just hours to go before the Palme-winners are announced, a slew of organizations are scrambling to get their awards - and press releases - out. FIPRESCI, the international federation of film critics, has, in addition to declaring Fernando Eimbcke's Lake Tahoe the "Revelation of the Year," is honoring Hungarian Kornél Mundruczó's Competition entry, Delta; Steve McQueen's Un Certain Regard entry, Hunger; and presenting the the François Chalais Award to Marco Tullio Giordana's Sanguepazzo (a "Special Screening"). Camillo De Marco reports for Cineurpa.

Jay Stone of the CanWest News Service reports that Atom Egoyan's Adoration has won "the ecumenical jury prize - the award given for movies that celebrate spiritual values." Via Movie City News.

For Time, Mary Corliss sorts through the indicators and finds a wide open race for the Palmes.

A few big roundups: Ty Burr (Boston Globe), Emmanuel Burdeau (Cahiers du cinéma), Eric Kohn (Stream), Jonathan Romney (Independent), Jason Solomons (Observer; plus his "Trashes d'Or") and Anne Thompson (Variety).

"Cringiest press conference," "most candid quote" and so on: Arifa Akbar in the Independent on the stars behaving and misbehaving at Cannes.

Online viewing tip #1. The Guardian's Xan Brooks has an overview of a few of this year's high profile films.

Online viewing tip #2. Having just returned home from Cannes, filmmaker Raymond De Felitta "decided to look for some vintage Cannes material on YouTube hoping to see what resemblance, if any, the current festival has to its no doubt infinitely more sedate and appropriate earlier incarnation." And he's come up with one of "the absolutely silliest pieces of film I've yet found posted on the good and great thing called YouTube."

Posted by dwhudson at May 25, 2008 7:25 AM