You think showbiz is glamorous? If so, then it doesnt get any more glam than the Cannes film festival on the French Riviera, right? Well, that all depends on who youre with and what youre doing.
While Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Leonardo DiCaprio and George Clooney stroll up the red carpet outside Cannes Palais for glitzy premi
eres, underneath them in the basement bunker is the Marche du Film.
Forget the Warner Bros. and films like “Ocean’s Thirteen,” this is the real movie market takes place, where the down-and-dirty buying and selling goes on, and where businessmen and women will spend and make hundreds of millions of dollars before the festival ends next week.
Hundreds of companies such as Maxim Media, IndustryWorks and Phranakorn Film hawk rights for television, DVD and other products for movies with titles such as Autopsy: A Love Story, Mans Job, Hanuman: The White Monkey Warrior and documentary Bakushi which tells of The Incredible Lives of Rope-Masters.
Asked what a Rope-Master is, a representative for Tokyo-based Gold View Co Ltd., replied: about men who tie up women. Enough said. And ever wondered what happened to Oscar winner Faye Dunaway? You can catch her in Fashion The Movie. Ah, Faye, its been a long time since Bonnie and Clyde.
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Posted by: Bob Tourtellotte
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Congrat´s on your blog.
- Posted by bcn connectionI must say I have always been intrigued by the `art´ of rope tying, the Japanese masters and so on. No other angle to it, if you know what I mean. The first time I laid my eyes on the so-called rope art was at a photography exhibition being held at an art gallery, with wonderful pictures by Craig Morey and others. I learnt it was called bondage I am sure you are aware of that - and, it has an amazing respected history in the Orient, mostly in Japan. It was interesting to discover a tradition from such a distant past yet still present in contemporary Japan. Hopefully, it will be an interesting documentary or film. Let´s wait and see.
that’s interesting to know. I honestly don’t know anything about it. But what I think is interesting, and what I was trying to point out is just the variety of movies/DVDs from around the world that you see here.
- Posted by Bob Tourtellottecheers,
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