links for 2009-05-25

"Cannes seems to love, Haneke's blistering, misanthropic cinema, the Austrian filmmaker has had a whopping nine of his ten features with five of them in direct competition at Cannes before this year. But this was his first Palme award. Previously he had won Best Director for "Cache" in 2005 and the Grand Prix for "The Piano Teacher" in 2001 which actually starred jury head, Isabelle Huppert, so someone is probably going to cry bias foul at some point." Round up of the rest of the winners, too.

Not a joke!

In a prescient set of videos, a 20 year old Edgar Wright teaches the young audience of 'Brill' how to make fake blood, vomit, and other effects for the movies.