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The first Tahiti Film Festival is launched by our friend Pascale above. It will be held this October 21-29 in... Tahiti off course.
In Cannes, the Tahiti beach already gives us a first idea of the coming event and ambiance.
Enjoy the music and dance with this video.
Who would not want to come to such paradise...
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An action packed scene where the tension has finally released but in a tragic scene. Not a clip for kids, this shows the consequences of social tensions.
Directed by
Ken Loach
Writing credits
Paul Laverty
Synopsis: A sympathetic look at Republicans in early 20th century Ireland.
Credited cast:
Cillian Murphy .... Damien
Padraic Delaney .... Teddy
Liam Cunningham .... Dan
Gerard Kearney .... Dunica
William Ruane .... Gogan
Country: France / Ireland / UK
Language: English
Everyone knows about the fa,ous Red Carpet of the Fil, Festival. What a lot of people don' know is that not only is there a red carpet, but also a blue carpet, for films still entered into the festival but just in a smaller theater, as well as the theater for the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs. Lets take a look at what all of these carpets are about...
Red carpet, stars, croisette, cocktail dress, limo... this is Cannes. The magic of the festival. But only the magic of it. Most of the professional here are part of the market. Buy and sell, looking at the next success, this is the fist of the International Festival of Cannes. There are not only movies. You can find everything about cinema. Some people sell chairs for theaters, video cameras, posters, everything can be found around here. This unknown part of Cannes looks more like a village market on a Sunday morning than like the perfect shiny dream we see on TV.
Of course, all you thought about Cannes is real too but it's not the main part of it. The inflow of money is amazing and conduces to two opposite milieu. You can meet the first one during the night. Those crazy night birds spend millions euros in champagne, cars, suites, fake breast, drugs and so on. This is the shiny part. From the middle of the afternoon till the sunrise, in this happy-go-lucky wave of parties, rich people come to can to give a chance to the proletarian to have fun with them for the luckiest, or just to look at them for real for once for the most of us. The second milieu is everywhere; it's even part of the previous one. This is the hard-working milieu. 24/7 they meet as many people as they can, spread professional cards all around Cannes, go to the parties, conferences, theaters, everywhere there is someone with something to sell or to buy. Those people who literally make the festival own there headquarter. It's not hiding anywhere; this is here, right in the Palais des Festival. Its location is pretty relevant. Level -1. The only one underground, the one you're not supposed to see but as close to the main entrance as theaters and medias.
Well, if one needed further proof of how far apart most film critics are from the cinematic tastes of the general public, you need look no further than THE DA VINCI CODE. The film, which famously opened this year’s Cannes Film Festival, was practically laughed at by assembled critics on the Croisette, who had come to bury the film, not praise it.
When the film opened internationally this past weekend, more film critics joined the chorus of nay-sayers, calling the film everything from “borin...
Courtesy of Pathe, Columbia Pictures Corporation, American Zoetrope and the Cannes Film Festival.
Courtesy of the production: Recorded Picture Company and the Cannes Film Festival.
During my current experiment of trying to "do" Cannes while not actually being there (in others words, virtually if not physically), it is quite astonishing to me that so little actual coverage is available to the average American consumer. Yes, we did catch a glimpse of Tom Hanks on the red carpet, and read much speculation about the fate of THE DA VINCI CODE, but it seems that anything that is not part of the tyranny of celebrity gossip finds scant space in American newspapers or television s...
Mohammad Majdzadeh, attending this year's festival, has 2 films this year in the Short Film Corner. One is :
'BORN IN WHAT CENTURY ?'
a true story about a woman who killed her husband.
- With an eye for an eye, the whole world would go blind.
See clips and details on www.majdfilms.com
With the worldwide simultaneous release today of THE DA VINCI CODE across the globe, a question lingers in the air: Did Cannes kill The Code? Or more specificially, did the buildup and hype surrounding the Cannes opening create such a high expectation that the film will suffer from disappointed critics and viewers?
While the mass hysteria over THE DA VINCI CODE has passed into memory in Cannes with all the subtlety of a hangover after too much champagne, the industry waits with bated breath th...
Everything is getting ready from the Red Carpet, well, not yet red, too the Variety pavillion.
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For the first time, Cannes Classics will feature an animator, and the honour goes to Norman McLaren, who won the Short Film Palme d’or in 1955 with Blinkity Blank. A selection of 13 McLaren films has been put together in homage to the great filmmaker and to celebrate 65 years of animation at the National Film Board of Canada.
Jacques Bensimon, Government Film Commissioner and Chairperson of the NFB, said, “McLaren’s genius continues to amaze us. Every film in this program underscores the ...
For the second consecutive year, the Fondation LibanCinéma (FLC) is taking part in the Cannes Film Festival by participating in the Film Market, thus providing Lebanese cinema with a bridge towards the international market.
Three screenings illustrating the diversity of Lebanese film production are organized as follows:
May 23rd at 4 pm, Palais F, 115 mn: Bosta by Philippe Aractingi, best box-office of the year.
May 23rd at 8:30 pm, Palais G, 88m:A perfect day by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil...
In complement to and inseparable from the Festival de Cannes, the Marché du Film is home to the international motion-picture trade. Each and every year, it welcomes producers, international sales agents, distributors and financiers alike hailing from more than 80 different countries. In 2006, the Film Market should top the bar of 10,000 attendees. This steady increase has made the Film Market the world's number-one meeting-place for motion-picture industry professionals.
With over 1,400 scree...
For its second edition "Tous les Cinémas du Monde" welcomes seven new countries: Russia, Israel, Singapore, Switzerland, Venezuela, Tunisia and Chile.
The goal of this programme of the Festival de Cannes is to illustrate the cultural diversity of world cinema. It was created and continues to develop thanks to financing from the Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
Russia, not so long ago, suffered an absence of great films and a void in the number of motion-picture theatres. Today, the volum...
From the Udine Far East Film Festival comes the list of Asian films that will be at Cannes! Plus Jury President Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai is the brilliant signature of this festival.
Asian Cannes
Competition:
Summer Palace, Lou Ye
Quinzaine des realizateurs:
The Host, Bong Joon-ho
Yureru, Nishikawa Miwa
Sepohon Rambutan Indah Kepunyaanku Di Tanjung Rambutan, U-Wei bin HajiSaari
Un Certain regard:
Re-cycle, Oxide Pang Chun & Danny Pang Gwai Wik
Luxury Car, Wang Chao
The Unforgiven,...
The Jury of Un Certain Regard will be presided by Monte Hellman.
The Jury of the Golden Camera will be presided by Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne.
The Actor's MasterClass will be given on Friday, May 19th by Gena Rowlands.
The Music MasterClass by Alexandre Desplat, in dialogue with Jacques Audiard, will take place on Sunday, May 21st.
The Cinema MasterClass will be hosted by Sydney Pollack on Thursday, May 25th. On this occasion he will present his documentary SKETCHES OF FRANK GEHRY.
A brand-ne...
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