UP, the new animation film from the Disney•Pixar studios, produced under John Lasseter's supervision, will be the Opening Ceremony film of the 62nd Festival de Cannes, a World Premiere in Disney Digital 3-D on Wednesday May 13th, 2009.
UP, a comedy adventure in which 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen fulfils his dream of a great adventure when he ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to the wilds of South America, only to discover that he has brought with him his biggest nig...
I am a Communications major and French minor at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT, USADuring the festival I worked with fest21.com and CFC to organize 5 events throughout the festival on The Future of Cinema. I helped with setting up the events, welcoming guests, and promoting the events. I also blogged for the website on topics such as Indiana Jones, Cursed for Gold, Une Conte de Noel, and the Cinema de la Plage. During the festival, I was able to attend the premiere's of Kung Fu Panda, Two L...
English major and Film studies minor at The College of William and Mary in Virginia, USADuring the Festival I worked mainly with representatives of the Canadian Film Center to coordinate the Future of Cinema Salon Series that Fest21 was hosting in conjunction with CFC and the Canadian Film Board. We put on two MingleTalk/networking events on the Future of Distribution and Finance, a Future of Blockbuster Panel and a demo screening of Late Fragment. I worked a lot on publicizing the events around...
As the Official Partner of the Cannes Film Festival, XDC is providing all of the necessary equipment and expertise to support over 100 digital screenings including the parallel sections during the May competition, to more than 18 Cannes theatre rooms - including the famous Louis Lumière auditorium.A focus on XDC during the 61st Cannes Film Festival. XDC Booth #206 is installed in the “Village International Pantiero” along the Cannes harbour. We are sharing the booth with Wallimage, the Wall...
Award winners
Grand Prix du Festival International du Film (1939-54)
Year
Film
Director
Nationality of Director
(at time of film's release)
1939
Union Pacific[4]
Cecil B. DeMille
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"The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" is certainly entertaining in typical Indiana Jones style. The film is likely to feed the minds of skeptics where crystal skulls are concerned because of the strong extraterrestrial theme, but people who are into ET's and UFO's will be thrilled. On the www.CrystalSkulls.com website and its related links, you will find more intriguing information about the legends, theories, secrets and mysteries regarding actual crystal skulls. Some of the real stories...
At long last The Palm d'Or goes to a local film Betweens the wall: a French Palm much awaited for the past 21 years (The last helmer to receive some gold in the Palais was Maurice Pialat in 1987 for "Under the Sun of Satan" - Sous le soleil de Satan.)The official Jury of this 61st Fesival de Cannes, présided over by Sean Penn, revealed this evening the Prize winners during the closing Ceremony. Édouard Baer hosted Robert de Niro on the stage of the...
Monday, May 26--------With major U.S. distribution companies, for the most part, sitting out this year’s Cannes Film Festival, there was some last minute activity as the Festival came to a close this past weekend. Among the winners announced on Sunday (a European clean sweep), only Three Monkeys, the latest film from Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan (who won the Best Director prize), has a U.S. distributor in place. New Yorker Films, a specialty outfit, picked up the rights prior to the ...
Aside from the official Festival de Cannes awards, other organizations award prizes to films presented at the Festival. Here are the winners: Eldorado by Bouli Lanners, selected for Directors' Fortnight, received both the "Label Europa Cinémas" Prize, awarded to the best European film in Directors' Fortnight, and the "Regards Jeunes" Prize, given to a director's first or second feature. God's Offices by Claire Simon is the laureate of the SACD Prize awarded by the Société ...
The film: Wim Wenders continues his love story with the Festival de Cannes, presenting today in Competition, Palermo Shooting. The German director won the Palme d’Or for Paris, Texas in 1984, Best Director for Wings of Desire in 1987 and the Grand Jury Prize for Faraway, So Close! in 1993. He also served as President of the Caméra d’Or Jury in 2003 and President of the Official Selection in 1989. “Films are first and foremost supposed to tell stories, explained the director. Sure. In...
Laurent Cantet Entre les Murs - The classThe film:The Class, the third French film to be presented in Competition for the Palme d’Or, marks director Laurent Cantet's first journey to Cannes. Cantet, director of such socially aware films as Human Resources and Time Out, pursues similar issues with his adaptation of the autobiographical novel by François Bégaudeau, a young French teacher in a tough junior high school. Determined to instruct without breaking his students' spirits, he refuses to...
The film:My Magic, screening in Competition, is a second occasion for the Festival de Cannes to welcome Eric Khoo, after Twelve Storeys, which was selected by Un Certain Regard in 1997. My Magic speaks of love, filial bonds, redemption, and... magic. "It's certainly my most personal film," explains the Singaporean director. "I am a dad myself and for the longest time, I’ve wanted to do a movie about a father and son, the obstacles in their relationship and how they get together ...
The film:Il Divo is the second Italian film in the running for a Palme d'Or, following upon Gomorra, and the third by director Paolo Sorrentino to be premiered at the Festival de Cannes, after Consequences of Love in 2004 and The Family Friend in 2006. Il Divo is a feature-length portrait of Giulio Andreotti, an emblematic figure in the past four decades of Italian politics. In the early 1990s, this sly, shrewd, and impenetrable Christian Democrat was heading for his seventh term as Prime Minist...
The film: For his first feature as director, Synecdoche, New York, Charlie Kaufman was selected for the Festival de Cannes Competition in the running for the Palme d'Or, but he is also eligible for the Caméra d’Or. He came to the Croisette once before, with Michel Gondry's film Human Nature (2001), on which he was the screenwriter. Synecdoche, New York is another example of his eccentric and playful vision, a systematic mise en abîme of the life of theater director Caden, anti-hero and...
May 14 - 25th, live coverage of the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.In English at cannes.fest21.com.In French at croisette.fest21.com.Photo Gallery from CannesVideo Gallery from Cannes : trailers, conferences, red carpet and ambience Events, panels on Future of Cinema at futureofcinema.fest21.com. ...
Video coverage of the FestivalOur teams were capturing some magical moments of history from the red carpet and brought back glimpses from behind the scenes at the official press conferences. Do not miss the exhaustive coverage from two of Cannes' hottest panels focusing on some burning issues related to the Future of CinemaThe Blockbuster panel and VOD which rights for which territories.If you missed Cannes do not miss those.Panels The Blockbuster Panel Future of CinemaVOD P...
© Abbot GENSER This morning I woke bright and early to attend the 8:30 screening of Charlie Kaufman's Synedoche, New York. Being familiar with Kaufman's resume gave me some expectations of the film, and I wasn't far off with my predictions; like in his previous screenplays, Kaufman explores the boundary separating reality and imagination within the creative mind of Philip Seymour Hoffman's character, Caden.Caden is a theater dire...
Friday, May 23------The whooshing sound that you hear is the rapid departure of film professionals leaving in droves as the Cannes Film Festival enters its final weekend. In fact, professionals have been leaving en masse since Wednesday, with film sales offices at the Marche du Film and the local hotels virtual ghost towns. The American distribution contingent, which were on the Croisette in great numbers, have left Cannes without many major acquisitions. The tepid Cannes market continued what...
As the end of the week approaches, the Cannes Film Festival is beginning to die down. Although there are still a few competition films that have yet to be shown, it seems that the premiere of Indiana Jones was the climax of the festival. After the premiere of Jones and Changeling, company's and fans have slowly made there way back home. The French Transporation strike and the closing of the festival's market also give festival attendees a reason to rush out of Cannes. Many companies chose to lea...
Each year, a selected group of young actors and actresses are chosen to take part in a very selective acting program and shoot a short 25 minute film. They then have the privilage of joining thousands of filmmakes and distributors in Cannes during the film festival to screen and promote their film. They have recently been holding many photocalls, press conferences, and interviews to notify the public and those in the film business of their short film. This is the 16th year that this progra...
Wednesday, March 21------Despite soggy weather and a rather unenthusiastic response to most films at the Cannes Film Festival, there are a number of deals to announce for European films that have found homes with U.S. distributors. The films, all screening in either the official sections of the Festival or in the Cannes Film Market, will all be released theatrically in the United States in the next few months.IFC Films has been among the busiest companies on the Croisette. The company has acqu...
The film: Premiering in Competition, Two Lovers by James Gray is the third film the American director has brought to Cannes, eight years after The Yards and one year after We Own the Night. Set in Brooklyn, it stars Joaquin Phoenix, a frequent presence in Gray's films, playing a man named Leonard Kraditor who has returned to live with his family after a traumatic romantic disappointment. There, he meets two women: Michelle, the new neighbor, played by Gwyneth Paltrow, and Sandra, the daughte...
The film:Although this is Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó's first selection in Competition, it is the third time he has participated in the Festival de Cannes. The Cinéfondation showcased Kis Apokrif n°2 in 2004, and Johanna was a 2005 Un Certain Regard choice. Delta is the story of the return of a taciturn young man to the countrified delta region which is his family's home. There, he finds and falls in love with a sister he never knew he had. However, their relationship is rejected as ...
The film: Five years after premiering Mystic River at the Festival de Cannes, Clint Eastwood returns to Competition with Changeling, a thriller which takes place in the late 1920s in a working-class suburb of Los Angeles. Angelina Jolie stars as Christine Collins, a mother whose son Walter mysteriously disappears one day. After an intensive search effort lasting several months, a nine-year-old boy who says he is Walter is returned to her. Unfortunately, the boy is not her son. Christine, acc...
The film: Palme d'Or laureates for Rosetta in 1999 and L’Enfant (The Child) in 2005, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne return to Festival Competition with Lorna's Silence. The filmmaking brothers have also served as Presidents of the Cinéfondation and Short Films Juries (in 2000) and of the Caméra d'Or Jury in 2006. In their latest feature, they take another plunge into their hometown, Liège, Belgium, to explore the character of Lorna, a young Albanian woman drawn by love into a sordid...
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