All Cannes articles – Page 361

  • News

    Cannes Film Festival: 60th may be a dignified affair

    2007-04-26T00:00:00Z

    Emir Kusturica returns but Francis Ford Coppola's comeback is nowhere to be seen. The British have not received an invitation to the party but Stephen Frears will still sit at the top table. The French presence does not display an unseemly bias towards the home team but the Italians are ...

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    Cannes announces three additions to Un Certain Regard

    2007-04-25T18:00:00Z

    A week after unveiling its official line up, the Cannes Film Festival has added three films to the Un Certain Regard sidebar, organizers announced today.Hou Hsiao Hsien's Looking For The Red Balloon will open the section on May 17. The film stars Juliette Binoche and is being handled by Films ...

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    Corbijn's Control to open Cannes Directors Fortnight

    2007-04-25T06:00:00Z

    Anton Corbijn's debut feature Control has been selected as the opening night film of Directors Fortnight in Cannes next month.The film is a biopic of the late Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis, whom Corbijn knew personally, and follows his rise to fame, his relationships with both wife and girlfriend, his ...

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    Cannes 2007: the line-up

    2007-04-25T00:00:00Z

    Screen International profiles this year's Cannes contenders - click on sales company name to be taken to relevant websiteIN COMPETITIONAlexandraDir: Alexander SokurovIn Competition for three consecutive years with Telets, Russian Ark and Father And Son, Sokurov returns to Cannes with Alexandra, about an elderly woman who visits Chechnya where her ...

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    H20 picks up two in advance of Cannes

    2007-04-23T05:00:00Z

    H2O Motion Pictures has picked up international rights to Ashley Baron Cohen's black comedy Poor Things starring Shirley MacLaine and Olympia Dukakis.The Los Angeles-based company has further bolstered its Cannes slate with the drama Feel, which is being directed by music video director Matt Mahurin.Poor Things, which is currently shooting ...

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    amFar sets Cannes event for May 23 with Stone, Weinstein

    2007-04-20T23:10:00Z

    Sharon Stone, Harvey Weinstein, and M·A·C AIDS Fund chairman John Demsey are among chairs of amfAR's Cinema Against AIDS event that will run during the Cannes International Film festival on May 23.Elizabeth Taylor, AIDS research and advocacy organisation amfAR's founding international chairman, and founding chairman Dr Mathilde Krim will serve ...

  • Reviews

    My Brother Is An Only Child (Mio Fratello E' Figlio Unico)

    2007-04-20T05:01:00Z

    Dir: Daniele Luchetti. It-Fr. 2007. 108mins. The signature of screenwriting duo Rulli and Petraglia has become a sort of appelation controllee quality mark for recent Italian cinema products. They've even invented a sub-genre of films, which we might define 'retro-modern': period studies that repackage the tribes and the traumas of ...

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    'A rich year' for Cannes 60th anniversary. promise organisers

    2007-04-19T12:52:00Z

    The Cannes Film Festival announced this year's line-up at a press conference in Par with, as expected, Wong Kar-wai's My Blueberry Nights set to open the 60th edition. The film will screen in competition alongside 21 other films from confirmed talents, as well as some new faces and one debut ...

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    Polley, Bellocchio, Sissako recruited for main Cannes jury

    2007-04-19T11:52:00Z

    Cannes 2007 Main jury Stephen Frears (president) Maggie Cheung Toni Collette Maria De Medeiros Sarah Polley Marco Bellocchio Orhan Pamuk Michel Piccoli Abderrahmane Sissako Cannes 2007 Cinefondation and Shorts jury Jia Zhang-ke (president) Niki Karimi Deborah Nadoolman Landis J.M.G. Le Clezio Dominik Moll Un Certain Regard juryPascale Ferran (president)Jasmine TrincaCristi ...

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    Cannes: midnight, special screenings, tributes, classics, cinefondation

    2007-04-19T11:44:00Z

    Cannes 2007 line-ups Midnight Screenings, out of competition Go Go Tales by Abel Ferrara U2 3D by Catherine Owens and Mark Pellington Boarding Gate by Olivier Assayas Special Screenings, out of competition 11th Hour by Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners The War by Lynn Novick and Ken Burns He ...

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    Cannes: Un Certain Regard programme

    2007-04-19T11:31:00Z

    Films selected for Un Certain Regard:Calle Santa Fe by Carmen CastilloMunyurangabo by Lee Isaac Chung Night Train by Diao Yinan El Bano Del Papa by Enrique Fernandez and Cesar CharloneBikur Hatizmoret by Eran KolirinMister Lonely by Harmony Korine Magnus by Kadri Kousaar Mang Shan by Li YangMio Fratello E Figlio ...

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    Cannes to open with Wong Kar-wai's My Blueberry Nights

    2007-04-19T09:26:00Z

    The 60th Cannes Film Festival will open May 16 with Wong Kar-wai's first English-language project, My Blueberry Nights, which will play in competition. Singer Norah Jones makes her big-screen debut as a lovelorn woman on a soul-searching journey across America.The other films selected for competition areCatherine Breillat's An Old Mistress ...

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    The Works takes on sales for Oudney's romantic comedy French Film

    2007-04-18T15:38:00Z

    Ahead of the Cannes Film Festival, London-based The Works International has come on board for romantic comedy French Film.Shorts and commercials director Jackie Oudney makes her feature directorial debut with the bittersweet story starring Hugh Bonneville, Anne-Marie Duff, Douglas Henshall, Victoria Hamilton and Eric Cantona. Producers are Arvind Ethan David ...

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    Films Distribution takes on Lamorisse's Crin Blanc and Ballon Rouge

    2007-04-18T12:22:00Z

    France 's Films Distribution has acquired world rights to Albert Lamorisse's Crin Blanc and its heralded companion piece Ballon Rouge. The first film won the short film grand prize in 1952 at Cannes and was followed by Ballon Rouge which won the short film Palme d'Or in 1956 and the ...

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    Directors Fortnight to include Morel's Apres Lui

    2007-04-17T16:35:00Z

    Although the official selection will not be unveiled for a few days, Cannes Directors Fortnight has announced that Gael Morel's Apres Lui has secured a berth. The film will be a world premiere on May 21 and stars Catherine Deneuve, Thomas Dumerchez, Guy Marchand, Elodie Bouchez, Elli Medeiros and Luis ...

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    Bruno Merle film to open Cannes Critics Week

    2007-04-17T06:26:00Z

    Bruno Merle's Heros will be the opening film for this year's Critics Week.The French film stars Michael Youn, Patrick Chesnais, Elodie Bouchez and Jackie Berroyer.The film sees Youn, best known for his comedic work, as the warm-up guy for a TV show who loses the plot and kidnaps the show's ...

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    Gael Garcia Bernal to serve as Cannes Critics Week ambassador

    2007-04-13T10:17:00Z

    Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal will act as ambassador to Critics Week in Cannes this year. Organizers announced the news on Thursday and said that the Babel star will unveil his first directorial effort, Deficit, during the fortnight. Bernal is well-known in Cannes having come to the festival several times ...

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    Withoutabox partners with Cannes Market on Short Film Corner

    2007-04-10T00:07:00Z

    Independent film online resource Withoutabox will serve as the exclusive partner on Cannes Film Festival's Fourth Annual Short Film Corner.Withoutabox will manage the event's film registration process, including solicitation, management and promotion of films. Film-makers registering films with the Short Film Corner will either use their existing Withoutabox control panel, ...

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    Martin Scorsese to give May 24 masterclass at Cannes

    2007-04-04T16:54:00Z

    Martin Scorsese, who just took home his first Oscar for The Departed, will be continuing his banner year as a guest of honor at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Festival organizers announced the news today saying that on May 24th, Scorsese will give a masterclass and will use the ...