Variety.com (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Film News: Dardennes take lifetime achievement award -- French Oscar hopeful "Entre les murs" (The Class) has taken top prize at the Film by the Sea festival in Vlissingen, Holland.
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 29/06/2008
As much as I love the Sundance Film Festival, it does only come once a year. As a perfect compliment to that fest, the Toronto International Film Festival takes place every September and is just as fun and exciting of a festival. This marks their 32nd year and promises to be one of the best [...]
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 02/06/2008
Film News: Other buys include 'Waltz,' 'Christmas Tale' -- Award-winning “Le Silence de Lorna,” helmed by the Dardenne brothers, was one of indie distrib Folkets Bio’s purchases in Cannes.
FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 27/05/2008
The European Commission on Monday hailed the performance of films funded by the European Union (EU) at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Four EU-funded films received honors at Sunday night's award giving ceremony. “Entre Les Murs” (The Class) directed by Laurent Cantet of France won the Palme d'Or, whilst “Gomorra” directed by Matteo [...]
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 26/05/2008
Director Laurence Cantet's Entre les Murs (The Class), a film about a year in the life of suburban Parisian students, was the surprise winner of the Palme d'Or at the ...
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 26/05/2008
Wrapping up our coverage of the Cannes Film Festival this year is the announcement of the big winners. This year's jury was lead by Sean Penn and also included actress Natalie Portman and director Alfonso Cuarón. Neither Steven Soderbergh's Che nor Clint Eastwood's Changeling managed to get any top nods, but each did win a [...]
DaveKehr.com (Free subscription) | 25/05/2008
A surprise, but for a change, a nice one: Laurent Cantet's “Entre les murs,” a pedagogical fiction based on a novel by a French schoolteacher (Francois Begaudeau, who plays himself), has won the Palme d'or of the 61st Cannes Film Festival, becoming the first French film to win in 21 years. (It was [...]
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 24/05/2008
I can never keep up with Cannes news, which seems to erupt bi-hourly as journalists and critics exit the theaters reporting away and as photogs snap the next batch of arrivals. It's like an action film that never stops with new setpieces. Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener representin' Charlie Kauffman's Synechdoche New York Sean Penn's jury will announce...
France24 (Free subscription) | 21/05/2008
The Dardenne brothers, two-time Golden Palm winners, are back at Cannes with "Lorna's Silence" in the official competition. Read Arnab Banerjee's review.
Just Jared (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
Natalie Portman is bold in blue at the screening of Belgian directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s film Le Silence de Lorna (Lorna’s Silence) at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival on Monday in Cannes, southern France. The May 14-25 festival winds up with the awards ceremony for the prestigious Palme d'Or, to be determined by a [...]
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
Glenn Kenny finds Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's Le Silence de Lorna "every bit as nuanced, surprising, and deeply moving" as their 2005 Palme d'Or-winning L'Enfant. "[T]heir approach to storytelling isn't as Bresson-inflectedly-idiosyncratic as some might tell you. Which is my...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 14/05/2008
It's indie movies versus Indy's movie at the Cannes Film Festival.
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 14/05/2008
The great and the good of the film industry are congregating on the French Riviera ahead of today's opening of the 61st Cannes film festival.Fifty-seven ...
O B L I Q U I T Y (Free subscription) | 13/05/2008
The curtain rises on the 61st edition of the Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2008. This year’s feature film jury members include: Sean Penn, President (American actor, director, screenwriter), Jeanne Balibar (French actress), Alexandra Maria Lara (German actress), Natalie Portman (Israeli-American actress), Marjane Satrapi (Iranian author, director), Rachid Bouchareb (French director), Sergio [...]...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 13/05/2008
At the Cannes Film Festival, where New Wave auteurs brought the May '68 festival to a halt, few new faces dominate the official selection.
