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Today's in-Competition presentation of Antichrist is the occasion for the Danish director and veteran of many Cannes Festivals Lars von Trier to return. In 2000, Von Trier walked away with the Palme d'Or for Dancers in the Dark, and in 1996, he obtained the Grand Prix du Jury for Breaking the Waves. Europa garnered a Prix du Jury in 1991. To round out the history of the awards, Element of Crime (1984) was given the Grand Prix de la Commission Supérieure Techniqu...
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The Cannes Film Festival loves football… One year after having Maradona on the Croisette for the Out-of-Competition documentary, Maradona by Kusturica, the Festival clearly shows its love of soccer by including a film featuring another legend, Eric Cantona in the company of the director, Ken Loach with the Competition feature Looking for Eric. Other cast member Steve Evets plays the postman from Manchester whose life is in upheaval, and who attempts to ward o...
Malin Akerman and Pascal Vicedomini hosted the Ischia Fest conference at the Italian Village on la croisette.
Thery announced a robust line up of stars and blockbusters including Sting, Christian Slater, Angela Bassett, Heather Graham, Matt Dillon and Italian stars Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Martina Stella and Franco Nero among expected guests on Ischia
Pascal Videcomini with Bruno Chatelin (filmfestivals.com)
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Everyone’s a critic? In times of financial turmoil, apparently everyone is also an economic analyst… Throughout the festival, market veterans, journalists, and onlookers alike have been trying to decipher what impact the world financial crisis, economic recession, or whatever term you prefer has had on the Cannes market. Everyone has an opinion on this sensitive subject and of course not everyone agrees on the issues-- To what degree has the Cannes market been effected? What are the ...
(May 2009) - The Puerto Rico Film Commission, Studio 51, Inc. and the Ricky Martin Foundation announced today the completion of BOARDING PASS (“Pasaje”), the first of 10 shorts films about children’ s rights to be produced in Puerto Rico. Directed by Ana Clavell and produced by Carola González, Boarding Pass deals with a seven-year old child suffering from AIDS. The short, part of the Voces de la infancia (Voices of Childhood) initiative, uses animation as its med...
Brian Johnson of Macleans.ca blog said it best that "This is not your daddy's chain-saw massacre." Walking into The Antichrist, Danish bad-boy Lars Von Trier's latest shocker for Cannes audiences, no one expects a fairy-tale. What you get however pushes the limits of gruesomely disturbing. [warning: spoiler alert. bigger warning: really gruesome and pardon me but fucked-up movie] The film tells the story of an unnamed couple- played by Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbour...
Party time! Do not miss these ones but PLEASE do not ask us for invitesDaily Short Film Corner Happy hour May 14th the Cannes Market opening party, one of the major (serious) events to mingle and start promoting... May 14th Audi terrace The Audi Talents Awards with Thomas Dutronc live showcase May 15th 4pm Czech Film Center and Slovak Film Institue Welcome drinks party May 16th "Millennium" Party - Chacha Beach - Saturday May 16th at 10pmWith the cast and crew of MILLENIUM, the film ...
Presented in the Certain Regard section, the second feature film by Mia Hansen-Løve, entitled Father of My Children , screens today. "This film stems from my encounter with Humbert Balsan," explained the director. "I first met him in early 2004. He wanted to produce my first film. His enthusiasm and trust were decisive for me in All is Forgiven. I didn’t write this movie out of gratitude, however, but because of Humbert Balsan’s personality. He had an exce...
For the first time in his career, Pavel Lounguine, laureate of the Director's Prize in 1990 for Taxi Blues and a Special Mention for the whole cast of La Noce (2000), and President of the Caméra d’Or Jury in 2007, is discovering the honors of screening a film in Certain Regard with today's presentation of Tzar. This particular tyrant is Ivan IV, alias Ivan the Terrible, whose iron fist reigned supreme in 16th-century Russia. A single man had the temerity to oppose him: his c...
Every year, the Cannes Festival awards its Caméra d'Or prize to the director of the best debut feature. The winner will be announced at the Festival Closing Ceremonies, Sunday, May 24, by a Jury chaired by French actor and director Roschdy Zem. His fellow jurors are cinematographer Diane Baratier, filmmaker Sandrine Ray, critic Charles Tesson, Edouard Waintrop of the Fribourg Festival in Switzerland, and Olivier Chiavassa of the Fédération Française des Industries Techniques ...
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One year after the in-Competition presentation of Serbis, Brillante Mendoza is back in Cannes as the advocate for his seventh feature film, Kinatay, competing for the Palme d'Or. In Kinatay, which means "massacre" in Filipino, the streets of Manila turn into a hellhole for Peping, a young criminology student. As a junior member of a local gang, he is never trusted with anything big. One day, however, his crime bosses offer him a lot of money for a very ...
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Undeniably, one of the major events of the day is the arrival in Cannes of Johnny Hallyday and Hong Kong director Johnnie To for the Competition screening of Vengeance, a chillingly somber crime movie of the sort only Johnnie To knows the recipe for. France's national rock star, surrounded by To regulars like Simon Yam, Suet Lam, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, and Lam Ka Tung. He plays a retired hit man who decides to ply his trade again to avenge the murder of his daug...
Actress Malin Akerman will be host of the Ischia Global Fim & Music festival press conference at the Italian Pavillon on the Croisette (42, la croisette)
fest21.com will upload video excerpts from the conference
Swedish-actress Malin Akerman (Watchman) and Italian-actress Martina ...
It may seem a bit too soon to even start thinking about the Sundance Film Festival, while still in the whirlwind of Cannes, yet plans are already in the making for this independent movie festival held every January in Utah. Celebrating their 26th year, Sundance is on the quest of finding new talent with the goal of coming back "fresher" every year. Held at the American Pavilion, Sundance Film Director, John Cooper and Program Director, Trevor Groth, discussed the ever-changing world o...
Cannes Festival and Marche du Film have announced a deal to partner with Argentina's INCAA film institute on a major new Latin American film market and confab named Ventana Sur (or South Window). The partnership is part of a move to export the Cannes brand and expertise abroad. The Ventana Sur will run Nov. 27-30 in Buenos Aires and will feature 50-60 screenings of new Latin American films as well as a meeting place for producers and a digital library of 200-300 films. For Argentina,...
Among the many people who flock to the festival each year are film students hoping to get their foot a little father into the door. Each year hundreds of film students apply to internships with various companies represented at the festival and the lucky ones are given an opportunity to expecience some of the magic and chaos of Cannes. I spoke with a few such students who were excited to share their experience in Cannes thus far with filmfestivals.com. Chr...
With director Ang Lee and stars Emile Hirsch, Imelda Staunton and Demetri Martin present, the premier of "Taking Woodstock" last night was an event not to be missed. While the film's mixed reviews were nothing short of extraordinary, on the contrary the crowd's response to the film was a pleasant one. It could have been the fact that it was my first premier and I was not used to sitting in an tuxedo for two hours while watching a film on 1969's Woodstock, but it plainly did not hold my...
48e Semaine de la Critique DIMANCHE 17 MAI 2009 ESPACE MIRAMAR 11h00 COMPETITION C’est gratuit pour les filles (France, 23’), Marie Amachoukeli & Claire Burger Adieu Gary (France, 1h15), Nassim Amaouche En présence du réalisateur, de Jean-Pierre Bacri et de Dominique Reymond 17h30 ...
Cannes, le 17 mai 2009 Créée en 1998 par Gilles Jacob, président du Festival de Cannes, la Cinéfondation aborde une nouvelle étape de son déploiement artistique avec une représentation très significative des anciens réalisateurs résidents, primés ou invités de l’Atelier dans les différentes sélections de Cannes 2009.La cohérence du dispositif CINEFONDATION tel qu’il a été pensé – la Sélection de films d’étudiants présentée au Jury, la Résidence et l’Atelier d...
In competition:
SpringFever by Lou Ye
Fish Tank by Andrea Arnold
Bright Star by Jane Campion-- Trailer Bright Star
Thirst by Park Chan Wook -- Trailer Thirst
A prophet by Jaques Audiard
Taking Woodstock by Ang Lee
Vengeance by Johnny To -- Trailer Vengeance
Kinatay by Brillante Mendoza
Looking for Eric by Ken Loach -- Trailer Looking for Eric
Antechrist by Lars Von Trier
Broken Embraces by Almodóvar
Vincere by Marco Bellochio -- Trailer Vincere
Inglourious Basterds by Quent...
PROGRAMME FOR SUNDAY MAY 17th 2009
COMPÉTITION - Grand Théâtre Lumière
8:30am and 7:30pm: VENGEANCE by Johnnie To – 1h48
4:30pm: KINATAY by Brillante Mendoza – 1h40
OUT OF COMPETITION - Grand Théâtre Lumière
7:45pm: L’ARMEE DU CRIME (The Army of crime) by Robert Guédiguian – 2h19 (Salle du soixantième)
11:30am and 10:30pm: AGORA by Alejandro Amenabar – 2h21
UN CERTAIN REGARD - Salle De...
In 2008, Bong Joon-Ho was a member of the trio directing Tokyo! which screened in Certain Regard, his co-filmmakers being Leos Carax and Michel Gondry. This year, Certain Regard has selected the Korean director's latest film, the suspenseful Mother. A widow, determined to prove that her son is innocent of the murder accusation leveled against him, single-mindedly pursues the real killer herself. Bong, whose monster movie The Host, which screened at Directors Fortnight in 2006, ...
Selected to screen in the Certain Regard section today, Samson and Delilah by Warwick Thornton is the first feature from the Australian filmmaker, and thus in competition for a Camera D’or. The title is taken directly from the Old Testament, which, in the film, refers to two adolescents growing up in an Aborigine community who find out how cruel the outside world can be. The two promising young actors, Rowan McNamara and Marissa Gibson drive this road movie through the outbac...
