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...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 15/05/2008
"In his breakthrough film Crane World (1999), Pablo Trapero displayed his mastery at depicting wide open urban spaces and liberating patches of sky in his native Buenos Aires," writes Howard Feinstein for Screen Daily. "Then, in Born and Bred (2006),...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 15/05/2008
Film Reviews: Situated somewhere between neo-realist study and standard women in prison pic, "Lion's Den" too frequently wanders into common territories to make the material its own.
TO411 Daily (Free subscription) | 14/05/2008
The world's biggest film festival kicks off in Cannes today, bringing Hollywood A-listers, obscure art-house directors, international media and fans together for 12 party-packed days on the French Riviera. Posters are up around the resort town in southern France, marquees line the seafront, yachts are gleaming despite unseasonal drizzle and hotels await their famous guests. It only remains for the...
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 [...]...
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
Hollywood legends and obscure arthouse directors descend on Cannes from Wednesday for the world's biggest film festival that combines edgy cinema with A-list celebrities, glitzy parties and frenetic deal-making.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Buenos Aires - Martina Gusman is very excited about the Cannes debut of Argentinian director Pablo Trapero's film Leonera, in which she plays a woman who goes to jail while she is pregnant and tries to bring up her young child behind bars. It is the...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 25/04/2008
Following is a list of films in the main competition for the coveted Palme d'Or award this year. Hundreds of other films will also be showing out of competition.
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 23/04/2008
refresh your screen... this post is still in progress -links to be added, etc... World cinema fans can start salivating. The world's most famous film festival -- the Olympics of film? Only without those human rights squabbles and torch marathons -- kicks off next month. The question you're undoubtedly asking is this: W.W.T.W ? What Will Tilda Wear? I kid. I kid. It wouldn't be Cannes without her but...
Towleroad (Free subscription) | 23/04/2008
Gilles Jacob (left), president of the 61st Cannes Film Festival, and Thierry Fremaux (right), revealed hot tranny mess Amanda Lepore (warning: site NSFW) to be the new face of the Cannes Film Festival yesterday. Actually, it's not Amanda, but it...
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 23/04/2008
Looks like Vicky Cristina Barcelona will in fact play at Cannes, though Out of Competition. And, by the way, who the fuck gave Jennifer Chambers Lynch money to make another movie? Anyway, here's the official line-up. - Three Monkeys - dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan ( Climates , Distant ) - Le Silence de Lorna - dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne - Un conte de Noël - dir. Arnaud Desplechin ( Kings & Queen...
Twitch (Free subscription) | 23/04/2008
The first official film announcement from Cannes is a juicy one. The Good, The Bad, and The Weird is there screening out of competition (although Fernando Meirelles Blindness is curiously absent at this point), as well as new films from Atom Egoyan , Nuri Bilge Ceylan and wkw ‘s Ashes of Time Redux ! Also, a very big event would be Steven Soderbergh ‘s work-in-progress on Che Guevara which combines...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 23/04/2008
Paris - Former Golden Palm winner Steven Soderbergh's monumental four-hour film about Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara looks to be one of the highlights of the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, according to the festival programme presented in Paris on Wednes...
