CAMERA D’OR 2013 : PRESIDENTE AGNES VARDA
La Caméra d’or consacre chaque année le meilleur premier film issu de la Sélection officielle, de la Semaine de la Critique et de la Quinzaine des Réalisateurs. En 2013, ils sont 23 à concourir (dont 6 femmes réalisatrices toutes issues de la Sélection officielle) pour cette récompense qui sera remise lors de la soirée de clôture le dimanche 26 mai. La Préside...
Tokyo, Japan — A special screening in cutting-edge 8K SUPER Hi-VISION format will be held by Japanese public broadcaster NHK at the 66th Cannes Film Festival (May 15-26). The film industry, press, and public are invited to experience the unprecedented audio and visualclarity of 8K at the Hôtel Majestic Barrière on May 16 and 17. A special gala event is to be held on the evening of the 17th.
A highlight will be the world premiere of t...
For its Closing Night, La Semaine de la Critique, always eager to discover new cinematic expressions, will explore 3D and question its evolution in the world of cinema. Filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway and Edgar Pêra, after experimenting and researching the topic in the two thousand year old city of Guimarães, will present a surprising triptych, made up of 3 short films. With 3X3D, the collective tackles the creative process. How does 3D affect the audience and its perc...
Jean Cocteau, 20th Century Fox, Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, the World Cinema Foundation, a 1964 Palme d’or, Ted Kotcheff and Duddy Kravitz, anniversaries, birthdays and celebrations, Yasujirō Ozu, the return of Lino Brocka and Sembène Ousmane to Cannes, the Munich Olympic Games, a meet up with Alain Resnais, a Grande Bouffe and a bit of Saké will be the ingredients for Cannes Classics 2013.
As cinema’s link to its own history was about to be turne...
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The 66th Festival de Cannes will close on 26th May with a screening of the thriller Zulu, shot entirely on location in South Africa by Jérôme Salle and adapted from the novel of the same name by Caryl Férey.
The action takes place in Cape Town, in a South Africa still overshadowed by apartheid, where destitute townships rubs shoulders with affluent neighbourhoods. Two cops on the beat, Orlando Bloom (Pirates of the Caribbean by Gore Verbinski, Lord of the Rings by Peter Jack...
Cannes Film Festival Red Carpet Lounge at the Majestic Hotel Cannes by FashionTV will for the first time be the meeting place of the Stars, Celebrities and guests who can watch the Red Carpet live from the Balcony of the Majestic Hotel in the comfort of champagne, food, drinks, models and show. Red Carpet Lounge promises to be the iconic party at the Cannes Film festival offering special invitations for guests to attend the events. Before every event top movie stars will be invited to the Red ...
Cannes 2013: UPDATED SELECTION LINE-UP
As announced at the press conference held on 18th April, the Festival de Cannes has completed its Official Selection with the inclusion of the following films:
Competition
ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE by Jim JARMUSCH
Out of Competition
LE DERNIER DES INJUSTES by Claude LANZMANN
Un Certain Regard
MY SWEET PEPPERLAND by Hiner SALEEM
TORE TANZT by Katrin GEBBE 1st Film
WAKOLDA by Lucia PUENZO
The Cannes Classics 2013 selection will be an...
All good things come in threes: after two successful editions, German Films and the German Federal Film Board (FFA) are continuing the cooperation they initiated in 2011 and will be jointly presenting the short film program NEXT GENERATION SHORT TIGER for the third time this year during the film festival in Cannes. The international professional audience consequently gets an opportunity to discover both the NEXT GENERATION films of the German film academies as well as the five winners ...
Workshop on 3D movie making at the "Festival de Cannes" on 16 May!
3D Stereo MEDIA and XpanD are joining forces to sponsor and organize a workshop entitled "3D movie making: from script to business", under the auspices of the International 3D Society (I3DS): its President, Jim Chabin, will be the host.
The workshop is designed to provide straight-to-the-point information on how to get started in stereoscopic 3D (S-3D), win awards, and, for those interest...
To mark the restoration of one of the masterpieces of world cinema, Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, the Festival de Cannes has invited its heroine, Kim Novak, to grace the event with her presence.
Novak will attend the screening of Vertigo, filmed in 1958, which will be shown in its restored form as part of Cannes Classics. She will also take part in the closing ceremony for the 66th Festival de Cannes where she will award one of the Prizes on Sunday 26 May 2013. Novak first attende...
Italian Producer on the Move, Viola Prestieri, sees THE GREAT BEAUTY in Competition at Cannes
They are the ones who set the ball rolling on projects, forge coalitions and conjure up a film out of an idea. Film producers are increasingly looking past their national borders. In order to facilitate an exchange with similarly ambitious colleagues from other European countries and showcase their range of achievements, European Film Prom...
American director and producer Steven Spielberg will preside this year over a star-studded Jury. Eight top-flight international film celebrities, active in a variety of creative fields, will help him select the winners.
Vidya Balan (Indian actress)
Naomi Kawase (Japanese director)
Nicole Kidman (Australian actress/producer)
Lynne Ramsay (British scriptwriter/director/producer)
Daniel Auteuil (French actor/director)
Ang Lee (Taiwanes...
LONGS METRAGES / FEATURE FILMS
A Strange Course of Events de / by Raphaël Nadjari
Première mondiale / World première
Les Apaches* de / by Thierry de Peretti
Première mondiale / World première
Ate ver a luz / Après la nuit* de / by Basil Da Cunha
Première mondiale / World première
Blue Ruin de / by Jeremy Saulnier
Première mondiale / World première
The Congress / Le Congrès de / by Ari...
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The Official Selection and the Short Films and Cinéfondation Jury of the 66th Festival de Cannes were announced this Thursday, 18 April during the press conference held by Gilles Jacob and Thierry Frémaux at the UGC Normandie in Paris.
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Opening Film
Baz LUHRMANN
THE GREAT GATSBY...
The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury, presided by Jane Campion, will nominate the prize-winners for the Short Film Competition and the Cinéfondation Selection.
THE SHORT FILMS COMPETITION
This year, the Selection Committee received 3,500 short films, representing productions from no fewer than 132 countries.
Nine films will compete in 2013 for the Short Film Palme d’or, to be awarded by Jane Campion, President of the Jury, at the Closing Ceremony of th...
Thomas Vinterberg, Danish director, scriptwriter and producer, will be this year’s President of the Jury for Un Certain Regard, Festival de Cannes Official Selection.
Born in Copenhagen in May 1969, Thomas Vinterberg received his training at the National Film School of Denmark, graduating in 1993 as the school’s youngest student.
His first short films Last Round (Sidste Omgang, 1993) and The Boy Who Walked Backwards (Drengen der gik baglæns) (Le gar&cc...
The screening of The Bling Ring by Sofia Coppola, with Emma Watson in the title role, Taissa Farmiga, Leslie Mann and Kirsten Dunst, will open Un Certain Regard on Thursday 16 May.
Inspired by a true story, The Bling Ring recounts a group of adolescents who are fascinated by “beautiful people” and the world of brands, tracking the whereabouts and activities of celebrities online so that they can rob their homes. They steal over three million dollars of luxury items: jewellery, clo...
Shortcut Romeo is an new Romantic thriller from India Produced written and directed, by southerner Susi Ganeshan under his own banner, Susi Ganesh Productions. This will be the directors first Hindi film and is a remake of his own 2006 Tamil box office hit "Thirittu Paysale". Films which have been successful in the south are often picked up in Bombay and remade in Hindi with a new cast. Ganeshan has already helm...
Warner Music Group and The Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat To Host LIFE Gala Dinner featuring Live Performance for Leaders of Renowned Brands Including Lionsgate, Maiyet, Net-A-Porter, GiftLab, Electus, and Beachmint
The inaugural LIFE Summit and Gala will take place on May 14th at the Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat, just prior to the kick-off of the Cannes Film Festival. Warner Music Group (WMG) and the Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat will host the celebrity gala dinner, concluding...
Jérôme Salle © Melanie Cleary
The 66th Festival de Cannes will close on 26th May with a screening of the thriller Zulu, shot entirely on location in South Africa by Jérôme Salle and adapted from the novel of the same name by Caryl Férey.
The action takes place in Cape Town, in a South Africa still overshadowed by apartheid, where destitute townships rubs shoulders with affluent neighbourhoods. Two cops on the beat, Orlan...
‘Sex, Lies, and Videotape’ (1989) put director Steven Soderbergh on the map when he won the Palme d’Or at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. Starring James Spader, Andie Mac Dowell, Peter Gallagher and Laura San Giacomo, the film centers on a married couple- ‘Ann’ (Mac Dowell) and 'John' (Gallagher)- at the near end of their relationship. While John screws around behind Ann’s back with her sister Cynthia (Giacomo), Ann finds solace and friendship...
To grace the poster for its 66th edition, the Festival de Cannes has chosen a couple who embody the spirit of cinema like no other: Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, photographed during the shooting of the aptly named A New Kind of Love, by Melville Shavelson (1963).
For the Festival it is a chance both to pay tribute to the memory of Paul Newman, who passed away in 2008, and to mark its undying admiration for Joanne Woodward, his wife and most favoured co-star.
They wer...
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Interview with director Cristian Mungiu
Romanian director Cristian Mungiu is a prolific filmmaker with each of his feature films having held premiers at the Cannes Film Festival. His first feature ‘Occident’ (2002) screened in the Directors Fortnight at Cannes. He later won the Palme d’Or for his film ‘Four Months, Three Weeks and Two Days’ (2007). His most recent film ‘Beyond the Hills’ (2012) was nominated for the Palme d’Or and won aw...
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