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Cannes Film Festival to show 5 Bond films

slyfoxslyfox
edited May 2012 in News Posts: 940
The Cannes Film Festival "will screen five of the best-known Bond entries on the Cannes beach, including the series debut Dr No, which was released in 1962. The other films, being shown as part of the Cinema de la Plage screenings, are From Russia With Love, Diamonds Are Forever, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Casino Royale."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/may/10/james-bond-cannes?newsfeed=true
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  • JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
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    I would kill to see FRWL and CR in the theater. Kill.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    JWESTBROOK wrote:
    I would kill to see FRWL and CR in the theater. Kill.

    Really? FRWL I can understand but CR? How old are you 10? How can you have missed CR on the big screen?
  • JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
    Posts: 5,745
    TheWizardOfIce wrote:
    JWESTBROOK wrote:
    I would kill to see FRWL and CR in the theater. Kill.

    Really? FRWL I can understand but CR? How old are you 10? How can you have missed CR on the big screen?

    Watch the tone please.
    I'm 17. So I would have been 11.. yes. :)

    Made it for Quantum of Solace though. And DAD was my first theater Bond. My parents took me at a very young age.

  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    JWESTBROOK wrote:
    TheWizardOfIce wrote:
    JWESTBROOK wrote:
    I would kill to see FRWL and CR in the theater. Kill.

    Really? FRWL I can understand but CR? How old are you 10? How can you have missed CR on the big screen?

    Watch the tone please.
    I'm 17. So I would have been 11.. yes. :)

    Made it for Quantum of Solace though. And DAD was my first theater Bond. My parents took me at a very young age.


    Gutted. How come you didnt badger your parents to take you to CR? DAD was a 12 too so if they blagged you into that when you were 7 why not CR?

    See it if you can - CR is the most exhilirating Bond film I've seen on the big screen; although only seen DN, YOLT and everything from LTK onwards.
    GF, OHMSS and TSWLM would be epic on the big screen - surely theres got to be some re -releases for the 50th?
  • JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
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    To be honest the internet wasn't what it is now, so I probably was completely unaware to the fact that a new Bond was being released. After all, at the time I only knew Brosnan and Connery as Bond.
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
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    Diamonds Are Forever is a bad choice. The other four, great but there must have been something better that could have been shown. I don't count it as one of the 'best-known entries' in the series.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    edited May 2012 Posts: 28,694
    Samuel001 wrote:
    Diamonds Are Forever is a bad choice. The other four, great but there must have been something better that could have been shown. I don't count it as one of the 'best-known entries' in the series.

    GF should be in its place. DAF stinks up the place for the others.
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
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    JWESTBROOK wrote:
    I would kill to see FRWL and CR in the theater. Kill.

    Can't speak for FRWL but CR looked great on the big screen, sorry you missed it.

    I'd like to see TLD at the cinema again, saw it when I was 5 so it'd be great reliving childhood memories. LTK would also be cool because I was too young to get in at the time.

    I'm suprised they chose DAF. I think maybe they could've thrown a Moore, Dalton or Brosnan in instead of DAF. I think TSWLM, TLD or GE would've been better choices.
  • slyfoxslyfox
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    Samuel001 wrote:
    Diamonds Are Forever is a bad choice. The other four, great but there must have been something better that could have been shown. I don't count it as one of the 'best-known entries' in the series.

    I agree, the one anomaly in the list. Although it’s a witty entry in the cannon, I feel it’s more famous for its Fleming title and Shirley Bassey title song than anything else. Whilst GF is over-rated for me, I would have expected it to turn up on this list. The others I’m not surprised by.
  • OHMSS69OHMSS69
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    I'm glad they are giving OHMSS the love it deserves, though I don't understand the rationale for DAF.
    What no Roger Moore or Pierce Brosnan films?
    Very interesting....
  • licensetoforumlicensetoforum
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    OHMSS69 wrote:
    I'm glad they are giving OHMSS the love it deserves, though I don't understand the rationale for DAF.
    What no Roger Moore or Pierce Brosnan films?
    Very interesting....
    My thoughts exactly. I wasn't expecting Dalton's entries to make it, but none from Moore, or even Brosnan?!?!? Why even have CR out, Craig is about to have another film!

  • VeryBondVeryBond
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    I have great affection for DAF and I think it's very unfairly maligned, but I agree that a Moore or Brosnan would have been a more appropriate choice.

    And why not mid-period Connery - TB or YOLT, which represent Bondmania at its height - instead of BOTH DN and FRWL?
  • KerimKerim Istanbul Not Constantinople
    edited May 2012 Posts: 2,629
    I'm guessing Cannes is showing DAF so that everyone attending can instead spend their money on drinks/popcorn or at various resturants.

    Anything other than DAD or AVTAK would have been more acceptable than DAF.
  • RC7RC7
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    Yes, very strange showing 4 of 5 made within a 9 year period and then tagging on a film made 35 years later. Why not just do FRWL, OHMSS, TSWLM, TLD, CR? Odd.
  • VeryBondVeryBond
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    It could be worse, they could have picked LTK.

    :P
  • OHMSS69OHMSS69
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    RC7 wrote:
    Yes, very strange showing 4 of 5 made within a 9 year period and then tagging on a film made 35 years later. Why not just do FRWL, OHMSS, TSWLM, TLD, CR? Odd.

    IMO DN and OHMSS earned their spots but why not a Moore film (he was Bond the longest and had the most films) and Brosnan (though not my favorite Bond he was very popular in the eyes of most fans)

    BTW @RC7 your choices are very good.
  • licensetoforumlicensetoforum
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    I would have chosen GF, OHMSS, TSWLM, TLD, GE.
  • JarrodJarrod
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    I like the idea of FRWL, OHMSS, TSWLM, LTK, & GE. Craig already has representation with Skyfall. Though, where I live (New York) they actually just showed Goldeneye recently at the midnight movies (though I missed it). And some years ago they showed a bunch of Bond films at New York's Film Forum as a major Bond retrospective. I did manage to see FRWL, GF, YOLT & OHMSS. I couldn't make it to the Roger Moore ones unfortunately, and I was a bit bummed I missed Thunderball. I've seen FRWL twice in the theater, and OHMSS I've seen screened three times. I've seen all the Bond films as they've been released since TSWLM, with the exception of LTK, which seriously bums me out. I'd love to see LTK on the big screen some day, a totally underrated one in my mind.
  • VeryBondVeryBond
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    Regardless of it's quality, the lowest point in my Bond fandom was going to LTK on opening day and the theatre was completely empty. That was truly depressing.
  • identigraphidentigraph
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    VeryBond wrote:
    Regardless of it's quality, the lowest point in my Bond fandom was going to LTK on opening day and the theatre was completely empty. That was truly depressing.

    wow, really, was this in the UK or US?
  • slyfoxslyfox
    edited May 2012 Posts: 940
    Its logical why they've thrown in CR as opposed to GE or another PB film. As well as being the best modern Bond film of recent times, they've tried to distance themselves from the PB era with the reboot, and it's good to keep the audience in check that Daniel Craig is still the current Bond ahead of the next film. You don't want people craving for PB again in a few months. It's all part of keeping the Craig Bond interest sky high up to SF. You'll be amazed at the amount of general cinema-going public who I've spoken to about Bond have asked me which actor will be playing Bond in the new film.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
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    Where is one of Roger's??!! Geez.
    Should have had TSWLM or FYEO.
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
    Posts: 12,837
    VeryBond wrote:
    It could be worse, they could have picked LTK.

    :P

    You did not just say that. LTK is the best Bond film of all time!
  • JBFan626JBFan626
    Posts: 1,497
    Kerim wrote:
    I'm guessing Cannes is showing DAF so that everyone attending can instead spend their money on drinks/popcorn or at various resturants.

    Anything other than DAD or AVTAK would have been more acceptable than DAF.

    They wanted to include the most entertaining Bond film.

    :-bd
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    JBFan626 wrote:
    Kerim wrote:
    I'm guessing Cannes is showing DAF so that everyone attending can instead spend their money on drinks/popcorn or at various resturants.

    Anything other than DAD or AVTAK would have been more acceptable than DAF.

    They wanted to include the most entertaining Bond film.

    :-bd

    and the best written Bond film :) DAF has an outstanding script, full of quotable one-liners and classic scenes... a real gem !!
  • SandySandy Somewhere in Europe
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    Here we go again :-SS
  • PrinceKamalKhanPrinceKamalKhan Monsoon Palace, Udaipur
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    slyfox wrote:
    The Cannes Film Festival "will screen five of the best-known Bond entries on the Cannes beach, including the series debut Dr No, which was released in 1962. The other films, being shown as part of the Cinema de la Plage screenings, are From Russia With Love, Diamonds Are Forever, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Casino Royale."

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/may/10/james-bond-cannes?newsfeed=true

    Those are all good picks. Interesting that there's no Moore, Dalton or Brosnan ones. Despite a lot of the criticism DAF gets, I find it's a very popular entry among audiences, probably due largely to Tom Mankiewicz's witty dialogue.

  • gt007gt007 Station G
    edited May 2012 Posts: 1,182
    From 007.com:

    BOND ON THE BEACH
    CANNES PLAYS HOST TO FIVE CLASSIC FILMS

    James Bond will be in the south of France from tonight. As part of the celebrations for Bond’s 50th anniversary, Cannes Classics are screening five 007 films on the beach during the Cannes Film Festival. The screenings start tonight, Thursday 17th May, with a double-bill of DR NO and CASINO ROYALE and continue on the 20th, 21st and 23rd. This is the first time the James Bond films have ever been screened during the festival. And another first, the official trailer for the 23rd adventure, SKYFALL, will be publicly screened on Monday 21st May introduced by French actress Bérénice Marlohe who plays Severine in the film. Tying the classic and the new together in the world of Bond, Bérénice Marlohe will be joined by Martine Beswick who will introduce FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE. Martine played Zora in FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE and was also Paula in THUNDERBALL.

    The other films being shown as part of the Cinéma de la Plage Bond screenings are ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE and DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER. These two titles will debut in high definition Blu-ray later this year in BOND 50, a collectible box-set featuring all 22 James Bond films on Blu-ray disc.
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
    edited May 2012 Posts: 15,690
    gt007 wrote:
    These two titles will debut in high definition Blu-ray later this year in BOND 50, a collectible box-set featuring all 22 James Bond films on Blu-ray disc.

    I still can't believe they decided not to finish the previous blu-ray set, only to start a new one with a 50th anniversary design, almost forcing fans to re-buy the blu-rays they already own.......
  • gt007gt007 Station G
    Posts: 1,182
    DaltonCraig007 wrote:
    gt007 wrote:
    These two titles will debut in high definition Blu-ray later this year in BOND 50, a collectible box-set featuring all 22 James Bond films on Blu-ray disc.

    I still can't believe they decided not to finish the previous blu-ray set, only to start a new one with a 50th anniversary design, almost forcing fans to re-buy the blu-rays they already own.......

    That's why I held off buying that set. I was 100% sure they would release the full collection for the 50th anniversary.
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