Tilda Swinton at Black Pearl Awards, ADFF 2011 -photo by Vanessa McMahon
ADFF PRESS ANNOUNCES WINNER OF THE BLACK PEARL AWARDS FOR ADFF 2011
ADFF Announces 2011 Black Pearl Awards for Feature Films Jim Poe
On Friday night, the Abu Dhabi Film Festival announced the winners of the 2011 Black Pearl Awards for feature-length films. Chicken with Plums, the acclaimed romantic fantasia set in pre-revolutionary Iran from French artists and filmmakers Marjane Satrapi and Vince...
Tilda Swinton at Black Pearl Awards, ADFF 2011 -photo by Vanessa McMahon
ADFF PRESS ANNOUNCES WINNER OF THE BLACK PEARL AWARDS FOR ADFF 2011
ADFF Announces 2011 Black Pearl Awards for Feature FilmsJim Poe
21.10.2011 - On Friday night, the Abu Dhabi Film Festival announced the winners of the 2011 Black Pearl Awards for feature-length films. Chicken with Plums, the acclaimed romantic fantasia set in pre-revolutionary Iran from French artists and filmmakers Marjane Satrapi a...
By Robert MacPherson (AFP)
CANNES, France — A French director's clever silent movie about a
fallen Hollywood silent-movie star came out of nowhere on Sunday to
become a strong contender for the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
"The
Artist" by Michel Hazanavicius won strong applause -- and more than a
few laughs -- from festival goers who'd been wondering if Cannes this
year was ever going to be about more than dysfunctional families and
sexual deviancy.
Shot in H...
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Tilda Swinton in We Need to Talk About Kevin. Courtesy of IMDb.
It's never too early to begin handicapping the Palme d'Or race. The
film-festival world's most prestigious prize captures the attention of
attendees in Cannes the way the New Hampshire primary mesmerizes
political pundits -- it's hashed out and obsessed over for every
possible shade of meaning -- and provides a film festival with a certain
level of suspense.
With the competition now one-third underwa...
64th Cannes Film Festival - day 2
CANNES,
FRANCE - MAY 12: Actress Diane
Kruger arrives at the 'Sleeping Beauty' premiere during the
64th Annual Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals. Diane is wearing
a Jaeger-LeCoultre 101 (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)
CANNES,
FRANCE - MAY 12: Actor John
C. Reilly attends the 'We Need To Talk About Kevin'
photocall during the 64th Annual Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des
Festivals....
British director Lynne Ramsay and British actor John C.
Reilly pose during the photocall of "We Need to Talk About Kevin" presented in
competition at the 64th Cannes Film Festival on May 12, 2011 in Cannes.
AFP/GUILLAUME BAPTISTE
The race for the Palme d'Or began Thursday with Scottish director
Lynne Ramsey's powerful "We Need to Talk About Kevin" -- the first of a record
four films from women in competition at Cannes.
Adapted from Lionel Shriv...
The Croisette boulevard on May 10, 2011 in Cannes, on the eve
of the opening ceremony of the 64th International Cannes Film
Festival
AFP/Fred Dufour
by Robert MacPherson
The 64th edition of the Cannes film festival gets underway on
Wednesday with up-and-coming directors and Hollywood A-listers rubbing shoulders
at the world's biggest cinema gathering.
Woody Allen's latest romantic comedy "Midnight in Paris" opens the 11-day
event on the French R...
