By Thierry Frémaux
"Due to the global pandemic, the Cannes Film Festival will not take place this year under its usual conditions, nor on the dates it was scheduled: May 12th to 23rd, 2020.
On March 19, the Festival was postponed to the beginning of July. With Pierre Lescure, the Président of Cannes, we had until April 15 to make a decision.
But on April 13, French public authorities announced that no major cultural event could take place ...
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Robert Solomon is an award-winning actor and pianist from Atlanta, GA. He started acting in high school theater before attending the Georgia Institute of Technology to study applied mathematics. In 2017, he was a member of the Shakespeare Academy @Strat...
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Cannes Film Week : From December 2 to 8, Cannes films came to Buenos Aires!
Cannes films' world tour continues with the Buenos Aires Cannes Film Week from December 2 to 8 2019! The "Semana de Cine" has been held by the Festival de Cannes and the INCAA to ...
Pierre Lescure, President of the Festival de Cannes, and Thierry Frémaux, the Festival's General Delegate, will announce the line-up of the 73rd edition of the Festival de Cannes live on Canal + on Wednesday 3 June at 6:00pm, as well as on the Festival's website and across its social media.
As every year, the event will take place at the UGC Normandie in Paris.
For the occasion, the Festival's General Delegate will reveal 2020's Official Selection, the films to...
Following the French President’ statement, on Monday, April 13th, we acknowledged that the postponement of the 73rd International Cannes Film Festival, initially considered for the end of June to the beginning of July, is no longer an option.
It is clearly difficult to assume that the Festival de Cannes could be held this year in its original form.
Nevertheless, since yesterday evening we have started many discussions with professionals, in France and abroad. They a...
President Macron officially announced yesterday evening that any festival or large gathering would be forbidden till mid july ... at least .
Cannes festival officials had hinted that the festival would not take the form of an online only version, that seems to announce a possible flat cancellation of the 2020 edition. We should be hearing very soon about that .
Photos Michka Verkhovskoy
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On March 19, 2020, the Festival de Cannes announced that it could not go ahead as planned from May 12th to 23rd this year. That statement, made two months before the planned date of the Festival, was a consequence of the global crisis linked to the Covid-19 epidemic.
After having canvassed the views of its Administration Committee and consulted many professionals, from France and abroad, the Festival has announced that it will consider the possibility of a postponement of its 73rd editio...
We were very sorry to receive this message from the Cannes Film Festival management (which, alas, we were expecting).
We hear the Market might take another virtual form, but are still waiting for confirmations.
At this time of global health crisis, our thoughts go to the victims of the COVID-19 and we express our solidarity with all of those who are fighting the disease.
Today, we have made the following decision : The Festival de Cannes cannot be held on the scheduled dates, from M...
Alan Schoenauer, our photographer friend sent us these pictures he took von the legendary Max von Sydow who passed this week.
Here below with with Thierry Fremaux (at Lumière festival)
Legion D'Honneur Festival Lumiere 2012
Below with french director Bertrand TavernierALOHA PICTURES ©
Winner First Price Photographer's Award Cannes Film Festival
Images Collection by Alan Schoenauer Carlotti © & Patrick Mas...
The Official Selection will be unveiled by Thierry Frémaux, Festival de Cannes General Delegate, in attendance of its President Pierre Lescure, on Thursday, April 16th 2020 11 am CET, at the UGC Normandie during a press conference.
Accreditations continue at an intensive pace as we count so far an increa...
Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate of the Festival de Cannes, and Christian Jeune, Director of the Film Department and Deputy General Delegate, and Stéphanie Lamome, Artistic Advisor of the Film Department (a member of the Selection Committee for 10 years), unveil the 2020 Selection Committee :
Virginie Apiou
After studying Modern Literature at la Sorbonne, Virginie Apiou became a journalist for the written press. She also directs TV doc...
Spike Lee © Nicola Goode
The American director Spike Lee is to serve as President of the Jury at the next Festival de Cannes.
At 62, the filmmaker, who is also a screenwriter, actor, editor and producer, has made numerous films that have become cult objects, and he brought the questions and contentious issues of the times to contemporary cinema. But he never lost sight of the public, setting out to raise their awareness of his causes in film after film.
Surrounded by his Jury, which wi...
Cannes films' world tour continues with the Buenos Aires Cannes Film Week from December 2 to 8 2019! The "Semana de Cine" has been held by the Festival de Cannes and the INCAA to coincide with Ventana Sur, the primary Latin American film market, for 11 years.
The 2019 Palme d’or and six feature films from the Official Selection of the 72nd edition have been screened in Argentina:
PARASITE (Gisaengchung) by Bong Joon Ho - Palme d'or
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The Festival de Cannes Film Week in Hong Kong from 12-17 November 2019 © RR
Pierre Lescure, President of the Festival de Cannes, and Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate of the Festival de Cannes, join forces with Adrian Cheng, founder of K11 Group, to bring the essence of the world’s most prestigious film festival to Hong Kong.
Starting from 12 November in Hong Kong with its opening night celebration, the Festival de Cannes Film Week debuts six films from the...
Bosnian born award-winning cinematographer Harun Mehmedinovic, known for his Oscar qualifying short 'In the Name of the Son' (2007), is a modern Renaissance man. Of many talents, Harun is also a director, photographer and writer. His photography work has been published by media outlets such as The New York Times, Wired, Time, Forbes, NPR, CNN, Gizmodo, Slate, Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Vice, and Washington Post. He has contributed photographs and videos to Vogue Italia, National Geo...
Goran Kostic
Accomplished and prolific actor/producer Goran Kostic was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia. His starring role in Angelina Jolie's directorial debut 'In the Land of Blood and Honey' (2011) catapulted him to international recognition. Having appeared in next to sixty film and TV performances, he has worked on such prominent titles as 'Children of Men' (2006), 'Hannibal Rising' (2007), 'Taken' (2008), 'The Last Days on...
Bruno Chatelin and Justice Singleton, 28 years after the presentation in Cannes of her father's film Boyz'n the Hood.
Bruno was the distributor (Sony) who brought to Cannes the film and help ed John Singleton spread his unique message, still vividly remembered, an inspiration for many young filmmakers and for her daughter, a pôet and a filmmaker.
On stage speech from Justice Singleton at the Cinema de la Plage Cannes Classics presentation.
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Atlantics screened on May 16th in the Grand Théâtre Lumière and received best director award
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Selected for the Official Competition, the film will be screened on May 22nd in the Grand Théâtre Lumière.
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Rocketman, Review: Messed-up multi-millionaire music-maestro
Film-makers now need to ask themselves whether it makes good sense to churn out bio-pics with regular frequency. Does the genre hold enough promise to deliver quality cinema? In recent times, many of them are guilty of picking eminent personalities from films and music, with common traits, like troubled childhood, inability to handle fame and fortune, sexual mania or alternative sexual behaviour, and drug abuse. The phenomeno...
(Still from Nina Wu, © Luxbox Films)
By LINDSAY R. BELLINGER
If only the films in Competition and those films in other sections such as Un Certain Regard, where Midi Z's ambitious and somewhat disorienting film Nina Wu premiered could also be up for the best actor awards. If that were the case, then Ke-Xi Wu's dynamic turn as Nina Wu would have hands-down gotten the best actress award, especially since I watched the winning ac...
We were lucky to be able to capture some amazing moments on may 23 with Justice Singleton; the day Boyz n the Hood was screened on the beach with Cannes Classics.
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