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...
HOLY MOTORS (2012) premiered in competition at the 65th Cannes Film Festival.
HOLY MOTORS:
Is it gratuitous shock-value pomp or high surrealistic cinematic genius? You decide…
A swarthy dwarfish (though not a dwarf) Parisian, ‘Monsieur Oscar’ (played by Denis Lavant), lives for the night like some kind of vampire or ancient fiend feeding off humanity’s basest Chthonic nature. By day he is a loving father to his teenaged daughter, but by night a creature, mon...
Aki Kaurismäki is best known for his oeuvre of films including: ‘Leningrad Cowboys Go America’ (1989), ‘The Man Without A Past’ (2002), which ran in competition at Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar in 2002, and his most recent film ‘Le Havre' (2011), which ran in competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
Recently, I interviewed Aki in Thessaloniki, Greece over cigarettes and the smoke of passing ships as we discussed politics, ...
The international singsong hit ‘The Sapphires’ (2012) held its world premier last year at the 65th Cannes Film Festival and its North American premier at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
The film is about a native Australian all-female soul band that travels to Vietnam during the Vietnam War to uplift the morale of the soldiers fighting there, during which time these young talented soul-sisters find greater meaning to their own life and have the time of thei...
Cinando, the leading online platform for cinema professionals created by the Marché du Film - Festival de Cannes, is proud to present the Cinando Viewer App for iPad, available on the App Store starting from today.
The Cinando Viewer App connects to Cinando Screening Room, which is a secure and dedicated place for the industry to showcase their films. With 4000 available films and 11 700 unique viewers, it has become the most advanced B-to-B film platform. Allowing users to watch film...
It is on The Great Gatsby by Australian director Baz Luhrmann that the curtain will rise at the inauguration of the 66th Festival de Cannes, on Wednesday 15th May, in the Grand Théâtre Lumière of the Palais des Festivals, out of competition in the Official Selection.
Adapted from the famous novel by American author Francis Scott Fitzgerald and set against the roaring twenties on the East Coast of the United States, the film depicts the romantic and tragic figure of Jay Gat...
“My admiration for the steadfast mission of the Festival to champion the international language of movies is second to none. The most prestigious of its kind, the festival has always established the motion picture as a cross cultural and generational medium.”
Taking over the reins from the Italian Nanni Moretti, American director and producer Steven Spielberg agrees to head up the jury of the 66th Cannes Film Festival taking place May 15-26 this year.
“As th...
Over the past few months, we have been working hard to facilitate your access to the Official Selection screenings. Part of that effort involves the implementation of larger theaters, which will welcome you for the rerun of Official Selection films, taking place on Thursday, May 23 and Friday, May 24.
Enjoy the Doc Corner, where you can meet documentary filmmakers, festivals and financiers and watch documentaries ...
Jane Campion is to head up the Cinéfondation and Short Film Jury of the 66th Festival de Cannes, a position held previously held by Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Michel Gondry, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Martin Scorsese and John Boorman.
Originally from New Zealand, Jane Campion has attracted critical acclaim s...
Gosta Oelstrom - Anne Sophie Tremel - Sophia Rahmoun
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On May 21st, 2012 at the 65th Cannes Film Festival, docu-director Candida Brady and Academy Award-winning actor Jeremy Irons presented their film ‘TRASHED’ (2012) in the Salle Bunuel theater to press. The film is about the horrific state of plastic and garbage, the ever looming and impossible to ignore eco-crises of our planet, which is being consumed by its own waste.
Q and A with Jeremy Irons.
Q: Where does your desire to make this environmental ...
Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal at Cannes, 2012
CINETECA NACIONAL MEXICANO INSTITUTO MEXICANO DE CINEMATOGRAFIA at 65th Cannes Film Festival!
Official Press Release:
MEXICO’S NEW CINETECA NACIONAL UNVEILED FOR THE FIRST TIME TO THE INTERNATIONAL FILM INDUSTRY OFFERING
NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR FILMMAKERS AND AUDIENCES
CANNES – Sunday 20 May 2012. The restoration and redevelopment of Mexico’s Cineteca Nacional, the country’s state-owned archive and cinémath...
At the 65th Cannes Film Festival, the Abu Dhabi Film Commission announced its launch of a 30% cash rebate on production spend for any films or media to be shot in Abu Dhabi. This tax incentive will begin on September 1, 2012 and will be the first filming rebate of its kind in the Middle East region. Applications for the rebate must be made 20 days prior to filming and is valid for up to two months after the receipt of official rebate certificate. This includes almost all methods of media...
Thai Cinema Night took off on day three of the Cannes Film Festival. A special screening of Mekong Hotel, the latest film of the 2010 Palme d'Or recipient Apichatpong Weerasethakul preceded the event. In the audience of the Salle de Soixante was French veteran film director Agnes Varda. The film touches on the theme of reincarnation of his previous film LUNG BOONMEE RALUEK CHAT (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives). Another of his films featured at Cannes was Tropical Malady (2004).C...
Director ANDREI KONCHALOVSKY, director of the Golden Globe winning film ‘RUNAWAY TRAIN’ (1986), held a master class on May 21st in Cannes. Read below interview with the director during the 65th Cannes Film Festival.
Q: Was it easier to make your second film?
Andrei: Easy? Nothing is easy. To make films is difficult anyway, even to make bad films. As a matter of fact, to make bad films its as difficult to make as good. The difference is very little and it’s not money or...
On May 20th, the film ‘JAGTEN’ (‘THE HUNT’ 2012) premiered at the 65th Cannes Film Festival in Official Competition. A press conference was held with Danish director Thomas Vinterberg, screenwriter Tobias Lindholm and cast Mads Mikkelsen and Susse Wold.
Excerpt from ‘THE HUNT’ (2012) press conference at 65th Cannes Film Festival:
Q to Mads: First of all we loved seeing you as a brute in ‘Valhalla Rising’ (2009) but also are thrilled when you do a ...
India’s alternative film MISS LOVELY (2012) screened at the 65th Cannes Film Festival in the ‘Un Certain Regard’ official selection. The film’s director Ashim Ahluwalia with actors Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Anil George and Niharika Singh attended screenings and held interviews.
Read interview below with MISS LOVELY cast members Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Anil George:
ME: Was it difficult to land this role or had the director written it for you?
Nawazuddin: I did a movie...
'Thai Night'
On Friday, May 18th, 2012, her Royal Highness Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya Sirivadhana Barnavadi spoke to press and invited guests at the prestigious ‘Thai Night’ event during the 65th Cannes Film Festival. The event took place at the Grand Salon of the Intercontinental Carlton and was held to honor and promote filmmaking in Thailand. New Thai Cinema has recently put itself on the map with a burgeoning of national Thai cinema which became most famous with the 2010 ...
DDA held a tournament in the HP lounge in the Majestic on the 335.3 cm (132”) HP VantagePoint
an immersive multi-touch wall for the chance to win an HP SpectreXT and
tickets to one of the evening premieres.
The pair doubled up to take on the highly addictive Tap Game and following an enduring
45 minutes of non-stop gaming managed to triple the highest score - achieving an incredibly impressive 15,010,859.
CONGRATULATIONS
Guys!
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Asian film ‘Painted Skin II’ takes Cannes by storm.
Saturday May, 19th ‘PAINTED SKIN II’ (2012) held a press conference to debut this ambitious new Chinese epic.
DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER OF ‘THE PAINTED SKIN II’ SPEAK:
“We wanted the have the best actors possible and the best kind of digital effects possible which took four years and after doing this we really wanted to come here to Cannes to present our work for the past four years.
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Sarah Neal is a jury member at Queer Palme Cannes 65th.
Sarah is the Head of Programming at Brisbane Powerhouse, a major producing and presenting contemporary arts centre in Australia. Sarah is also the Festival Director of the Brisbane Queer Film Festival, which enters its 13th year in 2012. Sarah has written and direc...
NISI MASA – European Network of Young Cinema, proudly presents Nisimazine Cannes 2012,
the result of our Film Journalism Workshop during the 65th edition of
Cannes International Film Festival, where 8 participants learnt how
to work as a journalist in a film festival and did the coverage of the Caméra
d’Or competition (first directors features) and the short films.
Click on the image to read the e-book.
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After the presentation of the awards at the the closing ceremony, the award winners met for a press conference. One by one, they answered questions from journalists. Excerpts.
Michael Haneke, winner of the Palme d'or for Love (Amour)
The story I tell is based on the promise my wife and I made to each other: not to separate in a situation like the one in the film. We see that all the time and it is a widespread problem. I experienced it in my own family and that is what pushed me to mak...
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