Woody Allen's latest film: MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (2011), premiered this year at Cannes on May 11 in the Lumiere Theater. From Cannes Press Release summary: The romcom, which was shot last year in the French capital, brings together a broad international cast, including Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams and Marion Cotillard, as well as Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, Gad Elmaleh and Léa Seydoux.Following London (Match Point) and Barcelona (Vicky Cristina Barcelona), it’s the turn of Par...
POLISSE (France, 2011) by Actress/Director Maiwenn Le Besco screened in competition at 64th Cannes Film Festival CANNES PRESS SYNOPSIS:The daily grind for the cops of the Police Department's Juvenile Protection Unit - taking in child molesters, busting underage pickpockets and chewing over relationship issues at lunch; interrogating abusive parents, taking statements from children, confronting the excesses of teen sexuality, enjoying solidarity with colleagues and laughing uncontrollably at the...
POLISSE (France, 2011) by Actress/Director Maiwenn Le Besco screened in competition at 64th Cannes Film Festival CANNES PRESS SYNOPSIS:The daily grind for the cops of the Police Department's Juvenile Protection Unit - taking in child molesters, busting underage pickpockets and chewing over relationship issues at lunch; interrogating abusive parents, taking statements from children, confronting the excesses of teen sexuality, enjoying solidarity with colleagues and laughing uncontrollably at t...
POLISSE (France, 2011) by director MaiWenn opened at Cannes in Official Selection. Cast and crew attend press conference at Cannes.photo by Vanessa McMahon
POLISSE (France, 2011) by director MaiWenn opened at Cannes in Official Selection. Cast and crew attend press conference at Cannes.photo by Vanessa McMahon
POLISSE (France, 2011) by director MaiWenn opened at Cannes in Official Selection. Cast and crew attend press conference at Cannes.photo by Vanessa McMahon
POLISSE (France, 2011) by director MaiWenn opened at Cannes in Official Selection.photo by Vanessa McMahon
Woody Allen's latest film: MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (2011), premiered this year at Cannes on May 11 in the Lumiere Theater. From Cannes Press Release summary: The romcom, which was shot last year in the French capital, brings together a broad international cast, including Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams and Marion Cotillard, as well as Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, Gad Elmaleh and Léa Seydoux.Following London (Match Point) and Barcelona (Vicky Cristina Barcelona), it’s the turn of Pa...
The first two titles for the 64th edition’s Concorso internazionale have already been confirmed. Un amour de jeunesse by Mia Hansen-LøveThe Concorso internazionale will screen as international premiere the third feature film from French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve, Un amour de jeunesse. After starting out as an actress Mia Hansen-Løve made her directorial debut with a short film, Après mûre réflexion, screened at Locarno in 2004. Her first feature, Tout est pardonné (2007), was selected f...
The Zlin Film Festival, which is entering its final weekend, is most definitely a showcase for emerging directors. There is in fact a competition exclusively devoted to European filmmakers making their first films. However, strong early efforts are studded throughout the program, and none heralds as exciting new talent as French writer/director Céline Sciamma who is presenting her second feature film TOMBOY here in the Features Films For Youth competition.
Céline Sciamma, on...
Click to view the trailers of the winning films.
Palme d'Or
THE TREE OF LIFE by Terrence MALICK
The Tree of Life - Official Trailer [VO-HD] par Eklecty-City
Grand Prix
BIR ZAMANLAR ANADOLU'DA (Once Upon A Time In Anatolia) by Nuri Bilge CEYLAN
THE KID WITH A BIKE by Jean-Pierre & Luc DARDENNE
Award for the Best Director
Nicolas WINDING REFN for DRIVE
Jury Prize
POLISS by MAÏWENN
Best Performance for an Actor
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Click to view the trailers of the winning films.
Palme d'Or
THE TREE OF LIFE by Terrence MALICK
The Tree of Life - Official Trailer [VO-HD] par Eklecty-City
Grand Prix
BIR ZAMANLAR ANADOLU'DA (Once Upon A Time In Anatolia) by Nuri Bilge CEYLAN
THE KID WITH A BIKE by Jean-Pierre & Luc DARDENNE
Award for the Best Director
Nicolas WINDING REFN for DRIVE
Jury Prize
POLISS by MAÏWENN
Best Performance for an Actor
...
Romanian-born filmmaker Radu Mihaileanu offers up another certifiably crowd-pleasing slice of world cinema in The Source (La Source des Femmes), a modern-day fable exploring female empowerment in the Arab world. Never one for subtlety, the writer-director tosses everything he can into this two-hour-plus humanist couscous, stirring in a mix of songs, sentiments and socio-religious questions set beneath breathtaking North African landscapes, and carried by a strong central performance from...
French actor Jean Dujardin poses on the red carpet before the closing ceremony
and the screening of "Les Bien-Aimes" (Beloved) at the 64th Cannes Film Festival
on May 22, 2011 in Cannes
AFP/Anne-Christine Poujoulat
Romanian-born filmmaker Radu Mihaileanu offers up another certifiably crowd-pleasing slice of world cinema in The Source (La Source des Femmes), a modern-day fable exploring female empowerment in the Arab world. Never one for subtlety, the writer-director tosses everything he can into this two-hour-plus humanist couscous, stirring in a mix of songs, sentiments and socio-religious questions set beneath breathtaking North African landscapes, and carried by a strong central performa...
Last night the Festival de Cannes paid tribute to Jean-Paul Belmondo by dedicating a special evening to him whereby he was awarded a Palme d’or. The screening of a documentary, a meal and a party was the order of the evening to celebrate the actor.
"I am very moved by this Palme d’or which has touched my heart". Jean-Paul Belmondo, surrounded by his acting colleagues, including his "pals from the Conservatory" Jean Rochefort, Pierre Vernier and Jean-Pierre Mar...
POSTERS
The star of the poster for the 59th edition is a suitcase, an invitation to embark on the journey represented by a film festival
The new image for the 59th edition of San Sebastian Festival was presented at an event in San Sebastian's Kutxaespacio Science Museum. At this meeting, we announced the winner of the poster competition launched for the first time this year for the Official, Zabaltegi and Horizontes Latinos sections. Open to graphic designers across the wor...
By Robert MacPherson (AFP)
CANNES, France — A French director's clever silent movie about a
fallen Hollywood silent-movie star came out of nowhere on Sunday to
become a strong contender for the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
"The
Artist" by Michel Hazanavicius won strong applause -- and more than a
few laughs -- from festival goers who'd been wondering if Cannes this
year was ever going to be about more than dysfunctional families and
sexual deviancy.
Shot in H...
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Italian
director Bernardo Bertolucci (L), is awarded with the Honorary Palme
d'Or for his career from the president of the Cannes Film Festival
Gilles Jacob (C) as President of the Jury Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman,
Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Jude Law and Argentinian actress
and producer Martina Gusman applaud during the opening ceremony of the
64th Cannes Film Festival. - AFP PHOTO
CANNES:
The Cannes film festival got off to a glittering start on Wednesday,...
by Romain Raynaldy A classic early film known for its iconic black-and-white images has been "resurrected" from the dead -- and spruced up in full color -- to be screened at the Cannes film festival. "Le Voyage dans la Lune" ("A Trip to the Moon") by Georges Melies was to be presented at the start of the French riviera festival on Wednesday, thanks to state-of-the-art restoration technology from Hollywood (http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/mediaPlayer/11028.html). "We can refer to this not a...
Competition
The Artist, directed by Michel HAZANAVICIUS, is joining the Official Competition, now composed of 20 feature films.
It is "OSS 117" director Hazanavicius's latest film - a French production in English language - starring John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, Missi Pyle and James Cromwell. The film was previously announced as screening out of competition, but Cannes programmers made the switch today. The black and white silent film tells...
Director: Fernand Leger, Rene Clair, and Ladislaw Starewicz.
"The Guitarist of 1000 Ideas" (NY Times) Gary Lucas accompanies three silent surrealist classics with his original solo guitar scores live. Films include Rene Clair's "Entr'acte" (1924), Fernand Leger's "Ballet Mecanique" (1924), and Ladislaw Starewicz's "The Cameraman's Revenge" (1912). More details at http://garylucas.com/www/surr
Read one on one interview with Romain Gavras on his film here:
http://www.fest21.com/en/blog/vanessa_mcmahon/interview_with_romain_gavras
interview by Vanessa McMahon, December 2010
CPHPIX press:
About the film
"Romain Gavras turned YouTube upside down with his hard-boiled and
controversial music video for M.I.A.'s 'Born Free', where a fascist
government detains the red-haired in concentration camps, and thereby
ind...
From April 5 to May 30 2011, UniFrance films - an organization promoting French cinema worldwide - and the French Embassy in China, are presenting the eighth edition of the French Film Panorama in China in Beijing, Chengdu, Shenzhen and Hangzhou.
A selection composed of ten recently released feature films and ten short films, established in cooperation with SARFT (State Administration of Radio, Film, Television), will be broug...
