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Palme d'Or winner: Claude Lelouch
When A Man And A Woman scooped the Palme d'Or in 1966, its French director Claude Lelouch had already been hailed at festivals for such works as In The Affirmative and To Be A Crook. But the romance, starring Anouk Aimee, catapulted him to international fame and landed him not ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Mike Leigh
When UK director Mike Leigh won the Palme d'Or in 1996 for Secrets And Lies, its star Brenda Blethyn also picked up the best actress prize. Leigh's first film in competition was 1993's Naked, which won the best actor and best director prizes. 'I had been making films for a ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Emir Kusturica
Born in Sarajevo in 1954, double Palme d'Or winner Emir Kusturica won the Palme d'Or with When Father Was Away On Business in 1985 and Underground in 1995. He returns to the Competition this year for the fifth time with Promise Me This and was also jury president in 2005. ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Abbas Kiarostami
When Abbas Kiarostami's Taste Of Cherry shared the Palme d'Or with Shohei Imamura's The Eel at the 50th Cannes Film Festival in 1997, the Iranian auteur was no stranger to Cannes. Life And Nothing More had won the Un Certain Regard award in 1992; Through The Olive Trees screened in ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Chen Kaige
Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine shared the 1993 Palm d'Or with Jane Campion's The Piano - and he is so far the only Chinese director to win the honour. He was in Competition twice before his win, and twice since. He is now preparing a biopic of Peking Opera master ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Costa-Gavras
Greek-born Costa-Gavras has been in Competition at Cannes three times: in 1969 with Z, which won the Jury Prize; in 1975 with Special Section, which won the best director prize; and in 1982 with Missing. The latter also picked up the best actor prize for Jack Lemmon. What did it ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Anselmo Duarte
The 87-year-old Anselmo Duarte is the only Brazilian who has picked up the top prize at Cannes with The Given Word in 1962, when the unknown director nabbed the prize from under the noses of Michelangelo Antonioni (The Eclipse), Robert Bresson (The Trial Of Joan Of Arc) and Luis Bunuel ...
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Palme d'Or winners: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are in the elite group of two-time Palme d'Or winners, with Rosetta in 1999 and The Child in 2005. They also appeared in Competition with The Son in 2002 (winning best actor for Olivier Gourmet) and agree that Cannes helped cement their reputations. What ...
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Palme d'Or Winner: Theo Angelopoulos
Theo Angelopoulos' long association with Cannes came to a climax in 1998 when Eternity And A Day won the Palme d'Or. The award marked a decisive point in the Greek auteur's career as he was embarking on an ambitious trilogy spanning the 20th century, starting with The Weeping Meadow in ...
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Barunson producer team to support foreign shoots in Korea
South Korean production house Barunson has announced it is launching a consortium of Korea's hottest producers and line producers to work on productions from overseas.Lewis Kim, head of international at Barunson, has drawn together a stellar group which includes Lee Sung-hoon (Taegukgi, Shiri), Han Jae-duk (Old Boy), Park Bong-soo (The ...
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El Deseo and Explora start production on Sipan tomb project
El Deseo, the Almodovar brothers' Madrid-based production company, and Explora Films have started production on a $1.34m (Euros 1m) docudrama about the discovery and excavation of the ancient tomb of the Lord de Sipán in northern Peru.A spokeswoman for El Deseo called the tomb, remarkably intact after 1,700 years, 'the ...
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The people who sum up the first 60 years of Cannes
When the stars had it to themselvesGrace Kelly made her first visit to Cannes in 1955. Paris Match persuaded Prince Rainier of Monaco to be photographed with her. Seven months later, they were married. It was the ultimate Riviera romance (and the end of Kelly's film career).This is the modern ...
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More cast lines up for Wrathall's Good shooting in Budapest
Jason Isaacs, Jodie Whittaker and Mark Strong have joined Viggo Mortensen in the cast of Good, John Wrathall's screen adaptation of the CP Taylor stage play, directed by Vicente Amorim.Principal photography has begun in Budapest on the film, in which Viggo Mortensen plays the lead role of John Halder, a ...
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Vinnie Jones brings weight to The Heavy
Making his directorial debut, Marcus Warren will commence principal photography on UK thriller The Heavy from May 20. Shooting in and around London for six weeks, utilising many of the Capital's major landmarks, The Heavy stars former champion boxer Gary Stretch (Dead Man's Shoes, Alexander) as a down on his ...
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Echo Bridge takes on The Cry and The King
Echo Bridge Entertainment has boarded Bernadine Santistevan's thriller The Cry and Riding With The King, an account of life on the road with Elvis Presley.The Cry takes place in New York City and is based on the Latino myth of La Llorona, which holds that men who cheat on their ...
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De Niro, Pacino back together again in Righteous Kill
Robert De Niro and Al Pacino will star together in the crime thriller Righteous Kill, a $60m production that signals Millennium Films and Emmett/Furla Films' most grandiose project to date.Jon Avnet will begin a two-month shoot in August in Connecticut on the story, which pairs the iconic stars as detectives ...
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Universal launches ambitious international production division
Universal Pictures has formally announced its international production plans, confirming the appointment of Christian Grass as president, production for Universal Pictures International (UPI) and signing a local production and distribution deal with Russian director Timur Bekmambetov and his Bazelevs Productions.In addition, the studio has announced the first Brazilian title in ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Alan Bridges
British director Alan Bridges turns 80 this year, but is still writing scripts. During his career he has worked with some of the biggest names in cinema history, including Ingmar Bergman and Laurence Olivier, but insists that his Palme d'Or win for The Hireling in 1973 was one of his ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Volker Schlondorff
The Tin Drum was the first German film to win the top award in Cannes when it shared the Palme d'Or with Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now in 1979. The following year, The Tin Drum became the first ever from Germany to garner the Oscar for best foreign-language film. What ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Jerry Schatzberg
Jerry Schatzberg had just directed Al Pacino's breakthrough performance in The Panic In Needle Park when he wrangled Pacino - and co-star Gene Hackman - for Scarecrow, a character study of two footloose drifters. The film went on to win the Palme d'Or in 1973: Schatzberg has since been back ...