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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...
Tuesday, May 20---------At a special reception held yesterday in Cannes at the Plages des Palmes Cafe, the Hamptons International Film Festival and indieWIRE announced the recipient of their annual Industry Toast Honoree, to be presented during thed 16th edition of the Festival, from October 15 to 19, 2008.This year's recipient is Wouter Barendrecht, founder and co-chairman of Fortissimo Films, one of the world's leading international film, television and video sales organizations specializing ...
American director James Gray’s “Two Lovers” premiered in Cannes Monday evening.Gray, and the film’s actors Gwyneth Paltrow and Vanessa Shaw walked the Red Carpet together. Actor Joaquin Phoenix also starred in the film, but was not present.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...
Which film is winning the race for the coveted Palm d’Or? It remains a question of opinion, but here are a few of the contenders being talked about around Cannes:Film title:“Linah de Passe” Director : Walter SallesCountry: BrazilSummary: Sao Paulo. 20 million inhabitants, 200 kilometers of traffic, 300,000 messengers on motorcycles.At the heart of one of the toughest, most chaotic cities in the world, four brothers try to reinvent themselves in different ways.With the backdrop of Brazi...
List of panelist/MingleTalk Distribution and Blockbuster panel: May 20, 3pm and May 21st 10-12 amEsteemed panelists includeColleen Nystedt: founder of movieset http://www.movieset.com/MovieSetTM founder, Colleen Nystedt, has an extensive background in film production, finance, business affairs and creative development. Nystedt has produced or supervised production on numerous feature films and TV movies for Universal Pictures, Paramount, MGM, CBS, NBC, ABC, USA, Showtime and Lifetime Networ...
6° ISCHIA GLOBAL FILM & MUSIC FEST: OSCAR-WINNER BOBBY MORESCO with MARINA CICOGNA and MARIA GRAZIA CUCINOTTA on THURSDAY 22nd, (1 pm) at ESPACE ITALIE-PALAIS STEPHANIE (CANNES)The highly acclaimed Italo-American screenplayer Bobby Moresco (winner of an Academy Award for the feature film "Crash" directed by Paul Haggis) will join the producers Marina Cicogna and Pascal Vicedomini, and the Italian actress Maria Grazia Cucinotta, at the international press conference of the Ischia...
Glamour is the “exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness” but an alternate definition is the small city on the French Rivera that becomes a satellite of Hollywood annually for two weeks in May. By legend and experiences of many who flock here, the Festival de Cannes is the most elegant film festival in the world. The tradition of lavish everything- film stars, cars, food, shops, nightlife and hotels, brings individuals from all walks of life here annually...
There are many great things about the Cannes Film Festival: the movies, the premieres, the celebrities, the parties etc. However there's one part of the festival that doesn't get as much attention as it should (even though that's most likely a good thing). It's called Cinema de la Plage, meaning Cinema of the Beach. On the Croisette, amongst Cannes' busy nightlife, is a spot where those who would like to get away from the bustling crowds can relax and watch a movie on the beach. The set up co...
Ever since the disastrous premiere of "The Davinci Code" at the Cannes Festival two years ago Hollywood has been afraid to let any of their other films be ripped apart by Cannes critics. Fortunately, last night, Steven Spielberg's "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" broke that fear, making a more successful premiere than expected.Reviews are saying that the film should be a summer hit fulfilling the expectations of Indiana Jones fans all over. Shia Leboeuf, C...
The film:
Organized crime casts its shadow on the day, with Gomorrah, adapted from Roberto Saviano's bestseller about the Camorra, competing in the official Selection. This audacious dive into the heart of the Neapolitan underworld is directed by Matteo Garrone, who was at the Cannes Festival in 2002 with The Embalmer, selected by the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs.
"The raw material I had to work with when shooting Gomorrah," Garrone remarked, "was so visually powerful tha...
The film Directed by Brillante Mendoza, Serbis is the first Filipino film to compete in the Official Selection since Bayan Ko by Lino Brocka in 1984. Serbis takes place in an old movie house in Angeles City, in the Philippines, which shows 1970s skin flicks. As the members of the Pineda family, who own the theater, go about their daily activities, we slowly discover their personalities and the difficulties they are grappling with. Tormented by inner demons, they willfully ignore the prostitu...
The film Chinese director Jia Zhangke, President of the Cinéfondation and short films Jury in 2007, is at the Festival with 24 City, a feature screening in Competition. The title refers to a luxury condominium community in Chengdu, built on the site of an old factory and the workers' housing which used to surround it. Jia Zhangke, who was in Official Selection in 2002 for Unknown Pleasures, and awarded the Golden Lion at the 63rd Venice Film Festival in 2006 for Still Life, had this to say...
The filmLinha De Passe, the second film by Walter Salles to compete for a Palme d’Or, after 2004's Motorcycle Diaries, is about four brothers and their mother attempting to reinvent their lives in São Paulo. One is seeking his father; the second is an aspiring pro soccer player; the third embraces the priesthood; and the fourth is trying as well as he can to provide for the child he fathered. Meanwhile, their mother is awaiting a new baby. The Brazilian director, who was a member of the Short...
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