FilmFestivals.com and Cineuropa's "Wine and Shine" cocktail party was a great success! Yesterday evening, Filmfestivals.com and Cineuropa held a fabulous wine tasting for all festival organizers present at the Cannes Film Festival.It was held on the joint booth of :- Film France,- Ile de France Film Commission - Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Film Commission Thanks specially to the team of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Film Commission who wer...
This morning I decided to look out the drapes and check my watch when I woke up. It was 5:30am and already getting light. Any further north and I suspect it would be the gloaming, when the darkest part of night remains twilight.
Breakfast was again superb, this time with an added sausage. Chris need to run an errand, so he dropped me off at Sorbie Tower to wander around. It was quiet except for the birds; it smelled of fresh rain and wild garlic (or onions - they both look the same to me)...
The drapes in my room were thick tapestries. I awoke in the morning, but couldn't tell the time, so I dozed off back to sleep. Around 8:30am I finally got up. Almost instantly, Chris, my host, had a hot breakfast prepared. An egg, potatoes, bacon (of course, they raise pigs), tomatoes, and toast, all served with Brown Sauce (like A1) and homemade rhubarb/ginger jam.
I checked my email and showered; then Chris was extra-kind enough to take me into town. We drove by Sorbie Tower (built by my a...
COMPETITION - Grand Théâtre Lumière
11:30 am et 10:30 pm : THE TIME THAT REMAINS by Elia Suleiman – 1h49
2:30 pm : ENTER THE VOID by Gaspar Noé – 2h30
UN CERTAIN REGARD - Salle Debussy
11:00 am et 5:00 pm: THE SILENT ARMY by Jean Van de Velde – 1h32
2:00 pm et 10:00 pm : MORRER COMO UM HOMEN (To die like a man) by João Pedro Rodrigues – 2h13
SPECIAL SCREENING
5:15 pm : PETITION by Zhao Liang – 2h04 (Salle du Soixantième)
8:30 pm: PORTRAIT DE GROUP...
The 6th edition of the Producers Network’s seven-day program has just come to a close. “We registered, like previous years, about 600 producers from around the world,” announced Julie Bergeron, head of the Network.
Held in the Palais’s Ambassadeur Salon, the Network “welcomed about 200 people every morning at the breakfast meetings - 16 different tables including special guests and a moderator at each,” continued Bergeron.“This year we had a different ...
About the film:
The third French film in the running for the Palme d’Or, In the Beginning, is the occastion for Xavier Giannoli to return to Cannes, three years after the in-Competition screening of The Singer and eleven years after his 15-minute L’Interview was awarded the Short Film Palme d'Or. Giannoli's latest feature is a drama set in Northern France, and it is based on a real-life event. A small-time swindler defrauds an entire region into thinking he is a sta...
About the film:
For the fifth time in his career, Austrian director Michael Haneke is presenting a Competition feature at the Cannes Festival. The White Ribbon is set in a small Protestant village in Northern Germany on the eve of World War I. In these austere surroundings, a series of strange accidents is noticed. They gradually take on the character of a ritual punishment. Who is behind it all?
"The story of the children and teenagers in a choir run by the vil...
Screening in Un Certain Regard, Wind Journeys is the second feature-length film by Ciro Guerra. Born in Rio de Oro in 1981, he studied cinematography at the National University of Colombia. At the age of 20, after having directed multi-award-winning shorts, he wrote, produced, and directed his first feature, The Wandering Shadows, acclaimed at festivals all over the world.
"This is the story of a journey," Guerra begins. "A journey towards the beginni...
Presented in Un Certain Regard, Adrift by Heitor Dhalia tells the coming of age story of Filipa, 14, who is faced with the conjugal problems of her parents. Vacationing in Rio de Janeiro, the family begins to fall apart; the father is having a love affair and the mother slips into depression, while Filipa is initiated into her first encounters with love…
"As it is a film about becoming an adult, I began to remember my own childhood and my teenage years,"...
In Cannes for the Un Certain Regard presentation of Tale in the Darkness, Nikolay Khomeriki of Russian origin is not an unknown at the Festival, having won a runner-up prize in the Cinefondation Selection in 2005 for his short film Vdvoyom. The following year he was back in Cannes and in the running for a Camera d’Or for his debut feature film 977, also presented in Un Certain Regard.
In Tale in the Darkness, the Russian director brings to the screen Angelina, a r...
Cannes Classics, the Festival program of landmark films of the past, will be closing today with the 3pm screening of a print of the spaghetti western Once Upon a Time... The Revolution (1971), by Sergio Leone. The Cineteca di Bologna and the lab Immagine Ritrovata can take credit for the restoration. At 7pm, festivalgoers are invited to discover Two of the New Wave, to be presented by the director of the documentary, Emmanuel Laurent. Celebrating the fifty-year anniver...
COMPÉTITION - Grand Théâtre Lumière
8:30am et 6:30pm: A L’ ORIGINE (In the beginning) by Xavier Giannoli– 2h30
12:00 noon and 10:00 pm: DAS WEISSE BAND (The white ribbon) by Michael Haneke – 2h24
UN CERTAIN REGARD - Salle Debussy
11:30am and 4:30pm: LOS VIAJES DEL VIENTO (The Wind Journeys) by Ciro Guerra – 1h57
2:00pm: SKAZKA PRO TEMNOTU (Tale in the Darkness) by Nikolay Khomeriki– 1h12
10:30pm: À DERIVA (Adrift) by Heitor Dhalia - 1h43
CANNES CLASS...
About the film:
It has been 19 long years since director Alain Resnais presented one of his films in Competition. However, with today's screening of Wild Grass, his latest feature, served by a prestigious cast: André Dussollier, Sabine Azéma, Mathieu Amalric, and Emmanuelle Devos, Resnais, laureate of the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury in 1980 with Mon Oncle d’Amérique puts an end to his long absence from the Official Selection. In this "film choral" based...
Selected to participate in the Cinéfondation program in 2003 and 2004 with short films Free Loaders and The Poet’s Home, Haim Tabakman is presenting his first feature film in Un Certain Regard, Eyes Wide Open, which is also in the running for the Caméra d’Or award. The Israeli director delved into the religious world and touched upon the taboo of homosexuality. Aaron, a respectable butcher in Jerusalem’s community, is married to Rivka and is a dedicated father ...
For the first time in his career, young Thai filmmaker Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, selected by Directors Fortnight on two occasions, in 2002 for Monrak Transistor and in 2007 for Ploy, is presenting one of his films at Un Certain Regard. Nymph is a supernatural love story which takes us to a place in the jungle where, once upon a time, a maiden was ravished by two men. Some days later, the men's bodies were found in the waters of a nearby river, drifting with the current, but ...
About the film:
Quentin Tarantino, President of the Jury in 2004 and Palme d’Or winner in 1994 with Pulp Fiction, has returned to the Croisette to show his latest work in Competition: Inglourious Basterds. Tarantino worked feverishly to finish the film in time for this 62nd Cannes Film Festival. Known for his tributes to film noir (Reservoir Dogs), Blaxploitation (Jackie Brown), Shaw Brothers kung-fu movies (Kill Bill), and slasher movies (Death Proof), he has now mad...
AmfAR, the American foundation for AIDS Research, will hold its 15th annual 'Cinema Against AIDS' fundraising gala on May 21, 2009. For the first time, the black-tie dinner and auction will be held at the Eden Roc Hotel du Cap and will feature remarks by Bill Clinton and Annie Lennox. Tickets are pricey but it all goes to a good cause; over the years the event has raised over $19 million dollars for AIDS research. The auction this year is set to include Clinton's ...
Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt):
we re in the killing nazi business and, cousin, business is booming!
Lt. Aldo Raine :
Frankly watchin Donny bezat Nazi's to death is the closest we ever get to goin to the movies
Lt. Aldo Raine:
got a german here wants to die for country. Oblige him
Gen. Ed Fenech (Mike Myers) drinking!
Down with Hitler
Lt. Archie Hicox (Michael Fassbender)
All the way down sir
Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt): "My name is Lt. Aldo Raine, and I'm p...
Do not miss the final chapter 12 of Rex Weiner's "A Festival Wife" which has just been published on fest21.com it will also be launched may 21st at 5.30 from Film France Pavillon in the International Village in Cannes...up in the air, with 12 balloons off croisette to a luck reader who will get to read the full version of the novel.
Filmfestivals.com, the leading online source for global film festival news and resources, is posting the final chapter of "A Festival Wife...
Éva Vezér takes over Presidency - Claudia Landsberger stays on as Vice-President
The members of European Film Promotion (EFP) today elected a new Board of Directors, including President and Vice-President at its General Assembly meeting at the Cannes International Film Festival. After 12 years, Claudia Landsberger, Managing Director of Holland Film, hands over the Presidency to Éva Vezér, General Manager at Magyar Filmunió, Hungary, and will stay on a...
Having taken eight years to write, yet only eight months to edit, Quintin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds has finally hit Cannes with a very big bang. After the screening of the most anticipated movie of the festival, press and photographers frantically dashed out doors and up the stairs to wait in line for the arrival of the cast including Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Melanie Laurent, Til Schweiger, Eii Roth, and the notorious "Bastereds" director h...
Sketches of Tarantino, Brad Pitt and the actresses (Mélanie Laurent and Diane Kruger) of Inglourious Basterds by Nesta Morgan.
Nesta managed to get Tarantino to sign her sketch. Brad said nice AND signed it too!
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COMPETITION - Grand Théâtre Lumière
8:30 am, 12:15 noon and 7:00 am : INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS by Quentin Tarantino – 2h40
4:00 am : LES HERBES FOLLES ( Wild Grass) by Alain Resnais– 1h44
UN CERTAIN REGARD - Salle Debussy
11:30 am and 5:00 pm: EINAYM PKUHOT (Eyes Wide Open) by Haim Tabakman – 1h31
2:00 am and 10:30 pm: NANG MAI by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang - 1h49
CANNES CLASSICS - Salle Buñuel
4:30 am: PRINCE YEONSAN* by Sang-Ok Shin – 2h13
7:15 am: L’AVVENTURA...
The Cannes Film Market, one of the biggest screening exhibitions on the festival circuit, is once again open for business, from May 13 to 23. Approximately 10,000 participants from the four corners of the planet will sort through the 4,500 films, both in-the-making and completed, in the huge 140,000-square-foot area of the Palais des Festivals.
Film Market director Jérôme Paillard deemed this year’s edition “par” despite the economic slump. "Attendance at ...
Music-loving director Denis Dercourt is back in Cannes three years after The Page Turner, to compete in Un Certain Regard with Tomorrow at Dawn. It's the story of two brothers: the younger is so fascinated by reenacting historical battles that he is no longer dealing with reality. Their mother has asked the elder brother to try to cure the younger of this addiction...
In this film, which explores the world of role-playing games, the two brothers are played by Vincen...
