DAY NINETEEN
I woke up early and was able to get on a WIFI signal to check my email. I sent one to my mom and let her know I didn't have to spend the night on the streets of London. Tom was still sleeping so I decided at 8am I should wake him up so I could get going.
A cup of tea later and after a quick check of train timetables, we were on our way by bus to Liverpool Street Station. I had come full circle as we rode the same bus I took late that first night I arrived in London ...
DAY EIGHTEEN
The day started early with a bowl of cereal, yogurt and fresh fruit. Then it was time to pack the purple carpet bag again and head off to another train station. Wynford drove me to the station, where the price for a train ticket had gone from $35 Pounds if I had purchased the ticket online the night before, to $69. Since my credit card wasn't working, we walked over to the National Express bus office where a ticket to London was a mere $23, which I had in cash.
Howe...
The Cannes Critics Prizes
At the Cannes International Film Festival (France, May 13-24, 2009) a jury of FIPRESCI presented three prizes.
Prize to a film in competition:
"The White Ribbon" (Das weisse Band) by Michael Haneke
(Germany, Austria, France, Italy, 2009).
Prize to a film in the section "Un Certain Regard":
"Police, Adjective" (Politist, Adjectiv) ...
In the morning, I fixed myself a cup of tea and woke up slowly. Breakfast was fresh fruit and cereal. Wynford's daughter appeared, waking late after a costume party where the theme was the Flintstones - how fun! Wynford and I said goodbye to her and headed off by car through the surrounding Rhondda Valley.
There were terraced houses everywhere; the doors and window frames were a multitude of colors, all stacked neatly in rows. We talked about the different terms for housing like townhouse...
The official Jury of this 62nd Festival de Cannes, presided by Isabelle Huppert, revealed the Prize winners during the Closing Ceremonies on the evening of May 24th.
IN COMPETTION - FEATURE FILMS
Palme d'Or
DAS WEISSE BAND (The White Ribbon) directed by Michael HANEKE
Grand Prix
UN PROPHÈTE (A Prophet) directed by Jacques AUDIARD
Lifetime achievement award for his work and his exce...
The Palme d'Or was awarded to Michael Haneke for "The White Ribbon"
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The Grand Prize was awarded to Jacques Audiard for "A Prophet"
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The Best Screenplay Prize was awarded to Lou Ye for "Spring Fever".
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The award for Best Actress went to Charlotte Gainsbourg for her role in "Antichrist"
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The Best Director Prize was awarded to Brillante Mendoza for "Kinatay"
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The Jury Prize was awarded to two films:
- Fish Tank by Andrea Arnold
- Thirst by Park Chan-Wook
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The Palme d'Or for the Best Short Film was awarded to Arena by João Salaviza. A Special Mention went to The Six Dollar Fifty Man by Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland.
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The Camera d'Or for Best Debut Feature was awarded to Warwick Thornton for "Samson and Delilah". A Special Mention went to Ajami by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani, presented in the Directors' Fortnight.
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Terry Gilliam sketched by Nesta Morgan at the Cannes press conference.
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“Don Quixote rides again,” Gilliam said. “We’ve re-written the script and finally got the script back from the lawyers… and the plan is to begin shooting next springtime.”
Jeremy Thomas, whose 1986 epic, The Last Emperor, went on to win nine Accademy Awards, is attached to the project, Gilliam said.
Nesta Morgan has sketched Jeremy Thomas during the panel on distribution at the UK film Center Pavilion in the International Village."The secret of my success: A prod...
Un Certain Regard 2009 presented 20 films from 24 directors hailing from 20 different countries. 2 of the works were first films.
The program opened on Thursday 14th, with KASI AZ GORBEHAYE IRANI KHABAR NADAREH (No One Knows About Persian Cats) by Bahman Ghobadi.
Presided over by Paolo Sorrentino (Director and Sceenwriter - Italy), the Jury was comprised of:
Julie GAYET (Actress - France), Uma DA CUNHA (Journalist - India), Marit KAPLA (Festival director Göteborg -Sweden), Piers...
The student film Baba /2008/ by screenwriter and director Zuzana Špidlová has won the Cinéfondation grand prize - the Prix de la Cinéfondation - at this year's International Film Festival in Cannes, which closes on May 24, 2009. The movie, which was made as an undergraduate exercise at the Film and TV Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU), was selected to represent the Czech Republic in the prestigious festival's official program, in the educational section Cinéfondatio...
Another night of sound sleep and I was refreshed. Nina made some fresh toast from home-made bread with butter and jam while I showered and packed my things. I actually tried a bit of marmite on one slice! It wasn't as horrible as everyone says, but it was very salty. William, Nina, Pookey and I all piled into the car for a drive to the beach. After stopping to apply fly ointment to Romeo and Chili, we were on our way.
There was a HUGE castle, Bamburgh Castle, once the capital of Northumbr...
The official Cannes Festival awards are always preceded by the announcement of prizes for the films which screened in two other Cannes selections.
- At Directors Fortnight (La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs), the Art Cinema Award, judged by a jury of independent art-house operators; the SACD Prize, which is awarded by the French authors-rights management society and for which only French-language features are eligible, and the 7th "Regards Jeunes," given to a director for his or her fi...
About the film:
Winding up the Competition, the Cannes Film Festival welcomes a Taiwanese filmmaker, Tsai Ming-Liang, with the presentation of his latest film, Face, starring three French actors: Fanny Ardant – whose directorial debut film Ashes and Blood is up for a Caméra d’Or, Laetitia Casta and Jean-Pierre Léaud. This film project developed at the bidding of the Louvre museum, which incited Tsai Ming-Liang to set the mythical story of Salome to film, including ...
About the film:
The Competition feature Map of the Sounds of Tokyo by Spanish director Isabel Coixet tells a story of love and vengeance in the Japanese megacity. Coixet recalls the genesis of her film: "Films, like tunes or poems, spring from strange encounters, from odd associations that can be completely incongruent but full of magic. In the case of Map of the Sounds of Tokyo, I “saw” the story (I don’t want to sound like some kind of visionary, but this i...
The Short Films in Competition will begin screening today. The
international Short Film Jury is presided by British director John
Boorman; the panel is made up of actresses Leonor Silveira and Zhang
Ziyi and directors Ferid Boughedir and Bertrand Bonello. At tomorrow
night's Closing Ceremonies, they will announce the winner of the Short
Film Palme d'Or. Nine films are in the running:
Missing by Jochem de Vries (Netherlands), Arena by João Salaviza (Portugal),...
COMPETITION - Grand Théâtre Lumière
08:30am and 7:00pm: VISAGE (Face) by Tsai Ming-liang – 2h18
12:00 noon and 10:30 pm: MAP OF THE SOUNDS OF TOKYO d’Isabel Coixet – 1h49
UN CERTAIN REGARD - Salle Debussy
20h00 – CLOSING
Prizes and screening of awarded films
COURTS-METRAGES – Salle Debussy
11:00am:
MISSEN (Missing) by Jochem De Vries – 12’
ARENA by João Salaviza – 15’
KLUSUMS (Silence) by Laila Pakalnina – 14’
RUMBO A PEOR (Worstw...
