lazarus
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You just register your email and then there's a date and time the free tickets are released and you just get them from the AFI website. Last year they put people into assigned groups and gave staggered 2-hour ticket windows to each one, but this year they did everybody at once and it was a massive clusterfuck. Hopefully they learned their lesson.
Anyway, a certain number of tix are available that first day, but you can keep checking back because they release more as time goes on. And there are also stand-by lines right before the show if you don't have a ticket at all.
It's difficult to get into the big gala premieres, but that's usually Hollywood stuff that's opening wide soon anyway. The next biggest group is "Special Screenings", which this year included Mommy, Clouds of Sils Maria, Mr. Turner, and Two Days, One Night. I was able to get tix to all of those (and wound up not even going to three of them).
Didn't see as much as in years past because I had my own film shoot that week, but I still managed to catch Cannes favorite The Wonders, Leviathan, the Orson Welles documentary, and Wild Tales, as well as the aforementioned Mommy.
Anyway, a certain number of tix are available that first day, but you can keep checking back because they release more as time goes on. And there are also stand-by lines right before the show if you don't have a ticket at all.
It's difficult to get into the big gala premieres, but that's usually Hollywood stuff that's opening wide soon anyway. The next biggest group is "Special Screenings", which this year included Mommy, Clouds of Sils Maria, Mr. Turner, and Two Days, One Night. I was able to get tix to all of those (and wound up not even going to three of them).
Didn't see as much as in years past because I had my own film shoot that week, but I still managed to catch Cannes favorite The Wonders, Leviathan, the Orson Welles documentary, and Wild Tales, as well as the aforementioned Mommy.