All Cannes articles – Page 320
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Alexandra (Vishnevskaya)
Dir: Alexander Sokurov. Russia, 2007. 92 minutes.This new effort by Russian auteur Sokurov, an anti-war minimalist 'situation' - calling it a 'tale' would imply more attention to narrative than the film warrants - set and actually shot in the ruins of Grozny, in Chechnya, is very much in the humanist-formalist ...
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Romanian drama wins Palme d'Or
Cristian Mungiu's difficult-to-swallow but critically-acclaimed Romanian drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks, And 2 Days has won Cannes 60th anniversary Palme d'Or.But Stephen Frears' jury threw some curveballs in their prize-giving. There was no mention of the Coen brothers' lauded No Country For Old Men and another favourite, the heavily-praised The ...
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The Mourning Forest (Mogari no Mori)
Dir: Naomi Kawase. Japan/France 2007. 98 mins.Naomi Kawase is one of those directors who usethe medium of film to work through their obssessions. In her case,these include fractured families, the aftermath of a loved one's deathor disappearance, rural Japanese traditions, the spiritual luminosityof the elderly and infirm. Luckily for audiences ...
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Days Of Darkness
Dir. Denys Arcand.Can-Fr. 2007. 115mins.Also called at various stages Age Of Ignorance, Denys Arcand's new movie could also be called The Decline Of The Canadian Empire or alternately The Decline Of The Canadian Male.And Michael Moore should be made to sit through it for as many times as it will ...
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Wide Management sells Shelter to US
Wide Management has announced sales at the just-wrapped Cannes Market on Shelter from director Marco Puccione and starring jury member Maria de Medeiros. The film went to Wolfe for the US and Canada, France's Epicentre, Pride Films in Spain and Portugal and ex-Yugoslavia's MGF. MGF also picked ...
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California Dreamin' (Nesfarsit)
Dir. Cristian Nemescu. Romania, 2007. 155 min. Awarded the Un Certain Regard prize more for its intentions than the actual outcome, this unfinished picture by talented young Romanian director Nemescu, as shown in Cannes, is the rough cut of a film that might have looked entirely different once completed. ...
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XXY takes Critics Week Grand Jury prize
Lucia Puenzo's XXY has won the Grand Jury prize in Critics Week, the sidebar announced Friday. The film is an Argentine, Spanish, French co-production. The SACD award went to Les Meduses , a French-Israeli co-production from directors Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen. Both films, handled by Pyramide ...
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California Dreamin' (Endless) wins Un Certain Regard
The Un Certain Regard sidebar has awarded its top honour to Cristian Nemescu's California Dreamin' (Endless).The Romanian title stars Armand Assante and Jamie Elman and is handled by Mediapro Distribution. The Jury Prize went to Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi's second feature, Actresses, starring Mathieu Amalric, Jean-Hughes Anglade and the director. The film ...
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Gonzalo Tobal takes top prize in Cannes Cinefondation
The Cannes Cinefondation, which promotes the discovery of new filmmakers, has awarded prizes for this year's edition to Now Everybody Seems To Be Happy from Argentina's Gonzalo Tobal (first prize), Way Out from Chen Tao of China (second prize) and a joint third prize ...
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H20 closes Cannes sales on Poor Things and Opium
H20 Motion Pictures has closed multiple territories on the dark comedy Poor Things and the psychological drama Opium. Poor Things has sold to South America (IDC), Portugal (Castello Lopes), Israel (Forum Films), Poland (Monolith), the Middle East (Front Row), Romania and Bulgaria (New Films), and Hungary and the Czech ...
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IM Global celebrates 'exceptional' debut Cannes
IM Global president Stuart Ford has reported an 'exceptional' market debut for the company on the back of roaring sales on Stopping Power and Untitled Larry Charles Project. A major US distributor has picked up North America and all English-speaking territories to Jan de Bont's upcoming action title in ...
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Control wins Europa Cinemas Label honour at Cannes
Control, Anton Corbijn's biopic of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, was named the Europa Cinemas Label best European film in the Cannes' Directors' Fortnight section. Control will now receive the invaluable support of extended theatrical exposure and additional promotion from the Europa Cinemas network. The Directors' Fortnight Europa ...
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Artificial Eye picks up three Cannes Competition titles
UK arthouse distributor Artificial Eye has acquired three Competition titles at Cannes.The company has picked up Cristian Mungiu's Romanian drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days from Wild Bunch, Catherine Breillat's Cannes Competition debut An Old Mistress from Pyramide International and Christophe Honore's Love Songs (Les Chansons d'Amour) from ...
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Persepolis to have English-language makeover from SPC
Sony Pictures Classics is set to record an English-language version of Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's warmly received Cannes competition title Persepolis, an animated project based on Satrapi's bestselling graphic novels.Catherine Deneuve, who plays the role of the mother in the French version, is re-recording her part this summer, joined ...
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De Lorenzo plans new June festival in Caserta, Italy
Italian Organisers have announced plans for a new film festival to be held in Caserta at the Royal Palace Vanvitelliana and Royal Site Belvedere of St Leucio.Francesco De Lorenzo of Darkness Production has started the Drake International Film Festival, which will run June 23-30, with 'the aim of promoting the ...
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Black Book's Carice Van Houten to play South African writer
Dutch actress Carice van Houten will play the lead role in the biopic Smoke and Ochre about revolutionary South-African writer Ingrid Jonker. Dutch company Riba Film is developing the project, which will shoot in 2008.Dutch director Paula van der Oest is directing the project, which will be her first English-language ...
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Arthouse strikes distribution deal with Australia's Madman
New York-based Arthouse Films has signed an exclusive output and distribution deals with Melbourne-based Madman Entertainment for Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.Madman will distribute 10-15 Arthouse titles per year in the territories. The deal was negotiated by David Koh, Head of Acquisitions & Production for Arthouse Films along with ...
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Nordisk pre-buys three hot titles including Pompeii
Nordisk Film has struck Cannes deals for a number of films, including Roman Polanski's forthcoming $130m Pompeii. Nordisk also bought Der Baader-Meinhof Komplex, based on the true story of German terrorists. Stefan Aust, author of the book of the same name, will write the script with producer Bernd Eichinger. Uli ...
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Miramax dives deep for Schnabel's competition title Diving Bell
Miramax films has struck a deal for all North American rights to Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell And The Butterfly (Le Scaphandre Et Le Papillon), the well-received Cannes competitor sold by Pathe Pictures International.Sources put the value of the deal at about $3m. The film has been the subject of ...
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Momentum takes UK and Spain for Zwick's Defiance
In Cannes, Momentum Pictures has taken UK and Spanish rights to Defiance, the WWII action drama being planned by Ed Zwick.Bedford Falls and Grosvenor Park are producing and financing. As previously reported, Daniel Craig will star in the film, based on the true story of four brothers who built an ...