Cannes film festival

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7495651704814844522011-11-27T16:44:37.335-08:00Cannes film festivalLucy Hawtinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14488317005965578647noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749565170481484452.post-27022429009164771272007-05-26T12:35:00.000-07:002007-05-26T12:42:27.681-07:00Photos of 25 May 2007

Ocean's Thirteen - Red Steps© BBQOcean's Thirteen - Red Steps© BBQAlexandra, film's team© ALBGeorges Clooney - Ocean's Thirteen© DCAlexandra, film's team© ALBMartin Scorsese - Cinema Masterclass© DCOcean's Thirteen - Red Steps© BBQ

Lucy Hawtinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14488317005965578647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749565170481484452.post-36407292432333732302007-05-26T12:34:00.001-07:002007-05-26T12:35:24.006-07:00Promise Me This

Two-time Palme d’Or winner for When Father was Away on Business in 1985 and Underground in 1995, Emir Kusturica is once again showing a film in the Official Competition entitled Promise Me This. The action takes place in the Serbian countryside and centers on the promises made by Tsane (Uros Milovanovic) to his aging grandfather (Aleksandar Bercek): go over the three hills into the nearest town

Lucy Hawtinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14488317005965578647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749565170481484452.post-13095555519097003102007-05-26T12:32:00.000-07:002007-05-26T12:51:27.385-07:00Cannes Film Festival drawing to a close with offbeat comedy

The 22-film competition for the Cannes Film Festival's top honours drew to a close Saturday with an offbeat comedy by Belgrade-based director Emir Kusturica. Promise Me This tells the story of a young man, Tsane, from a small remote hilltop village being dispatched by his grandfather on a journey to sell their cow and to find a wife.Tsane embarks on his journey against the backdrop of a round of

Lucy Hawtinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14488317005965578647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749565170481484452.post-21555171245689560832007-05-26T12:31:00.000-07:002007-05-26T12:32:21.450-07:00PRESENTATION OF THE SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION

The official screening of the short films In Competition occurred on this eleventh day of the Cannes Festival. An international Jury, chaired by Chinese director Jia Zhangke and having as members the Iranian actress and filmmaker Niki Karimi, American film costume designer Nadoolman Landis, French writer J.M.G. Le Clézio and European director Dominik Moll, will be awarding a Short Film Palme d'Or

Lucy Hawtinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14488317005965578647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749565170481484452.post-54171620264227691222007-05-26T12:30:00.000-07:002007-05-26T12:31:40.460-07:00Canadian animated short wins two awards at Cannes film festival

The Canadian animated short "Madame Tutli-Putli" has won two awards at the Cannes film festival. The National Film Board of Canada short, from Montreal filmmakers Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, won the Canal Plus Award for best short film and the Petit Rail d'Or for best short film, announced during the festival's International Critics' Week. "Madame Tutli-Putli" is a stop-motion animated

Lucy Hawtinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14488317005965578647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749565170481484452.post-7289171632819689022007-05-26T12:29:00.000-07:002007-05-26T12:30:44.076-07:00Cannes Attracts Hedge Funds, Private-Equity Firms

May 25 - Cannes, the world's most prestigious film festival, is drawing investment by hedge funds and private- equity companies in motion-picture financing, production and distribution. Film production companies said the money is transforming the way some movies are being made and sold, with hedge-fund managers becoming piggy banks for the industry. Since 2005, funds and

Lucy Hawtinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14488317005965578647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749565170481484452.post-985243223177814262007-05-26T12:27:00.002-07:002007-05-26T12:28:50.942-07:0012 Angry Men

Jane Fonda is in Cannes to honor her father, Henry, at the homage screening of Sydney Lumet’s 1957 film, 12 Angry Men. She was given a standing ovation as she made her way to the stage on the arm of Gilles Jacob. She addressed the crowd in French extending her appreciation to the Festival for this evening and especially for having chosen this particular film in which Henry Fonda plays the member

Lucy Hawtinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14488317005965578647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749565170481484452.post-36836178215913741622007-05-26T12:27:00.001-07:002007-05-26T12:27:51.566-07:00Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case

This Saturday May 26, the documentary Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case will be presented to the public at 10:30pm. It is the documentary about the former Russian intelligence agent who died in a London hospital in November 2006, the world's first known victim of poisoning by polonium-210, a highly radioactive substance. A press briefing was organized at 1:30pm at the Suquet terrace. Alexander

Lucy Hawtinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14488317005965578647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749565170481484452.post-62632472071860096462007-05-26T12:24:00.000-07:002007-05-26T12:27:20.188-07:00The Mourning Forest

Japanese director Naomi Kawase, presenting The Mourning Forest in Competition today, fielded questions from journalists at the traditional press conference. At her side were actors Shigeki Uda, Makiko Watanabe, and Machiko Ono, along with producers Christian Baute and Shunji Dodo. Selected excerpts: Naomi Kawase on her personal experience: "My personal experience is based on my early childhood. I

Lucy Hawtinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14488317005965578647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749565170481484452.post-15666867856690601012007-05-26T12:18:00.000-07:002007-05-26T12:23:57.304-07:00Cannes Film Festival: 2007

Date: 16 May - 27 MayHost: Diane KrugerJury: Stephen Frears (UK) (president); Maggie Cheung (Hong Kong); Toni Collette (Australia); Maria de Medeiros (Portugal); Sarah Polley (Canada); Marco Bellocchio (Italy); Orhan Pamuk (Turkey); Michel Piccoli (France); Abderrahmane Sissako (Mauritania); Zhang Ke Jia (China) (president) (short films); Niki Karimi (Iran) (short films); Deborah Nadoolman (USA)

Lucy Hawtinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14488317005965578647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749565170481484452.post-54304440540403432442007-05-25T07:33:00.000-07:002007-05-25T07:50:04.787-07:0060th Cannes Film Festival

Michael MooreGeorge ClooneyGong Li, Andie MacDowellJavier Bardem, Josh BrolinJean Reno, Patrice LedouxAsia ArgentoBai LingCatherine Deneuve, Chiara MastroianniClaudia Schiffer© Reuters, AP, EFE© Eric Gaillard, Daniel Deme, Christophe Karaba, Yves Herman,Jean Baptiste Lacroix, Daniele Venturelli, Richard Lewis, Jeff Vespa, Tony Barson.

Lucy Hawtinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14488317005965578647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749565170481484452.post-74322331325401507622007-05-25T07:30:00.000-07:002007-05-25T07:49:14.589-07:0060th Cannes Film Festival

Eva MendesWim Wenders, Takeshi KitanoPamela AndersonRobert Rodriguez, Jim JarmuschRosario Dawson, Kurt Russell, Zoe Bell, Quentin TarantinoSamira MakhmalbafSharon StoneJeremy PivenJuliette BinocheMartin Scorsese© Reuters, AP, EFE© Eric Gaillard, Daniel Deme, Christophe Karaba, Yves Herman,Jean Baptiste Lacroix, Daniele Venturelli, Richard Lewis, Jeff Vespa, Tony Barson.

Lucy Hawtinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14488317005965578647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749565170481484452.post-41484355795113828862007-05-25T07:26:00.000-07:002007-05-25T07:52:50.993-07:0060th Cannes Film Festival

Jessica SimpsonJude LawKerry WashingtonChris Rock, Jerry SeinfeldDavid LynchDevon AokDoutzen KroesBilly Zane, Kelly BrookFrank Miller, Kimberley CoxBai LingBilly Zane, Kelly BrookBipasha BasuBonoChloe Sevigny, Jake Gyllenhaal, David FincherThe 60th Cannes Film Festival, which opened on Wednesday. But for the rest of the world, the festival is all about glam, glitz and photo opps. Yes, it's

Lucy Hawtinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14488317005965578647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749565170481484452.post-69390263576290100852007-05-25T07:23:00.000-07:002007-05-25T07:46:49.217-07:0060th Cannes Film Festival

Leo Di CaprioMaria MenounosMichael MoorePamela AndersonJean Claude Van DammeJerry Seinfeld© Reuters, AP, EFE © Eric Gaillard, Daniel Deme, Christophe Karaba, Yves Herman,Jean Baptiste Lacroix, Daniele Venturelli, Richard Lewis, Jeff Vespa, Tony Barson.

Lucy Hawtinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14488317005965578647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749565170481484452.post-20672939091426675142007-05-25T07:16:00.002-07:002007-05-25T07:23:40.171-07:0060th Cannes Film Festival

Roman PolanskiSharon StoneSophie MarceauVictoria SilvstedtKerry Washington, Gong Li, Andie MacDowel © AP, Reuters© Richard Lewis, John Shearer, Jean Baptiste Lacroix,George Pimentel, Tony Barson, Jeff Vespa

Lucy Hawtinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14488317005965578647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749565170481484452.post-70610676081158570582007-05-25T07:16:00.001-07:002007-05-25T07:16:37.428-07:00The Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival (French: le Festival international du film de Cannes or simply le Festival de Cannes), founded in 1939, is widely considered to be among the world's most prestigious film festivals. In May 2006, Hollywood Reporter acknowledged that Cannes is the "granddaddy of all film festivals" (although the oldest film festival in the World, beginning in 1932, is the Venice Film

Lucy Hawtinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14488317005965578647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749565170481484452.post-28636253424003559312007-05-25T06:47:00.001-07:002007-05-25T06:48:54.152-07:00Angelina and Bradd

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Diane Kruger, Master of Ceremonies© AFPNorah Jones, Jude Law - My Blueberry Nights© AFP Stephen Frears, Maggie Cheung, Sarah Polley, Maria de Medeiros, Tony Colette© AFP

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