Premiers
Selon Charlie and Red Road are to premier tonight at the PAlais.
Red Road is the only film up for not only the Palme d'Or but for the Camera d'Or as well.
Spain is Back!!
In this years Festival Spain is making its biggest presence in years. With such films as Volver, Pan's Labyrinth, Salvador, Honor of the Night, and Azur and Asmar, Spain's entries havent been this high is a decade. Spain's film making tradiotionaly combines artistic ambition with genre grounding. In the pasr Spain has discovered no leaps and bounds but we will see how this years entries hold up at the awards ceremony.
"Princess" is for adults
Director's Fortnight Opener "Princess" is a Japanimation film that attacks the porn industry. The film is directed by Anders Morganthaler and is a contender for the Camera d'Or. The film is most definately for adults due to its explicit content. Morganthaler is unapologentic for his blunt images and strong point of view. The film is a mix of Japenese animation and live action footage. Leave your kids at home for this one, this cartoon is strictly for adults.
The Da Vinci Code Banned in Greece
The nation's movie regulators have banned "Code" from people under the age of 17 because of the highly religous content that children under that age would not understand. The cinematographic commission says the movie references to religious groups with questionable principalsand undermines faith. The film is considered blasphelous and teenagers weres denied tickets on the opening day of the film.
Who's in Cannes
Claudine Auger, Edouard Baer, Maurice Barthélémy, Richard Berry, Dominique Blanc, Dany Boon, Guillaume Canet, Carmen Chaplin, François Cluzet, Marie-Josée Croze, Penélope Cruz, Alfonso Cuaron, Tony Curran, Paul Dawson, Antoine De Caunes, Kate Dickie, Mélanie Doutey, Jean Dujardin, Gad Elmaleh, Mehmet Eryilmaz, Sarah Forestier, Catherine Frot, José Garcia, Marie Gillain, Hippolyte Girardot, Judith Godrèche, Olivier Gourmet, Xiadong Guo, Hao Lei, Philippe Harel, Ethan Hawke, Gérard Jugnot, Nazan Kesal, Greg Kinnear, Olga Kurylenko, Alexandra Lamy, Carole Laure, Virginie Ledoyen, Philippe Lefèvre, Sook-Yin Lee, Gilles Lellouche, Vincent Lindon, Michael Madsen, Benoît Magimel, Sophie Marceau, Tonie Marshall, Andy McDowell, Eugény Mironov, Yolande Moreau, Cillian Murphy, Camille Natta, Claire Nebout, Pamela Racine, Aishwarya Ray, Natacha Régnier, Jean Rochefort, Jean-Paul Rouve, Gena Rowlands, Catalina Sandino-Moreno, Barbet Schroeder, Patrick Timsit, Christopher Thompson, Régis Warnier, Kerry Washington, Elijah Wood and Michelle Yeoh.
20.05.2006 | lori's blog
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