The 22-film competition for the Cannes Film Festival’s top honours drew to a close Saturday with an offbeat comedy by Belgrade-based director Emir Kusturica. Promise Me This tells the story of a young man, Tsane, from a small remote hilltop village being dispatched by his grandfather on a journey to sell their cow and to [...]
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The official screening of the short films In Competition occurred on this eleventh day of the Cannes Festival. An international Jury, chaired by Chinese director Jia Zhangke and having as members the Iranian actress and filmmaker Niki Karimi, American film costume designer Nadoolman Landis, French writer J.M.G. Le Clézio and European director Dominik Moll, will [...]
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The Canadian animated short “Madame Tutli-Putli” has won two awards at the Cannes film festival.
The National Film Board of Canada short, from Montreal filmmakers Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, won the Canal Plus Award for best short film and the Petit Rail d’Or for best short film, announced during the festival’s International Critics’ Week. “Madame [...]
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May 25 – Cannes, the world’s most prestigious film festival, is drawing investment by hedge funds and private- equity companies in motion-picture financing, production and distribution.
Film production companies said the money is transforming the way some movies are being made and sold, with hedge-fund managers becoming piggy banks for the industry. Since 2005, funds [...]
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Jane Fonda is in Cannes to honor her father, Henry, at the homage screening of Sydney Lumet’s 1957 film, 12 Angry Men. She was given a standing ovation as she made her way to the stage on the arm of Gilles Jacob. She addressed the crowd in French extending her appreciation to the Festival for [...]
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This Saturday May 26, the documentary Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case will be presented to the public at 10:30pm. It is the documentary about the former Russian intelligence agent who died in a London hospital in November 2006, the world’s first known victim of poisoning by polonium-210, a highly radioactive substance. A press briefing was organized [...]
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Japanese director Naomi Kawase, presenting The Mourning Forest in Competition today, fielded questions from journalists at the traditional press conference. At her side were actors Shigeki Uda, Makiko Watanabe, and Machiko Ono, along with producers Christian Baute and Shunji Dodo. Selected excerpts:
Naomi Kawase on her personal experience: “My personal experience is based on my early [...]
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Date: 16 May – 27 MayHost: Diane KrugerJury: Stephen Frears (UK) (president); Maggie Cheung (Hong Kong); Toni Collette (Australia); Maria de Medeiros (Portugal); Sarah Polley (Canada); Marco Bellocchio (Italy); Orhan Pamuk (Turkey); Michel Piccoli (France); Abderrahmane Sissako (Mauritania); Zhang Ke Jia (China) (president) (short films); Niki Karimi (Iran) (short films); Deborah Nadoolman (USA) (short films); [...]
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Michael Moore
George Clooney
Gong Li, Andie MacDowell
Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin
Jean Reno, Patrice Ledoux
Asia Argento
Bai Ling
Catherine Deneuve, Chiara Mastroianni
Claudia Schiffer
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Eva Mendes
Wim Wenders, Takeshi Kitano
Pamela Anderson
Robert Rodriguez, Jim Jarmusch
Rosario Dawson, Kurt Russell, Zoe Bell, Quentin Tarantino
Samira Makhmalbaf
Sharon Stone
Jeremy Piven
Juliette Binoche
Martin Scorsese
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