All Cannes articles – Page 341
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Gael Garcia Bernal to serve as Cannes Critics Week ambassador
Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal will act as ambassador to Critics Week in Cannes this year. Organizers announced the news on Thursday and said that the Babel star will unveil his first directorial effort, Deficit, during the fortnight. Bernal is well-known in Cannes having come to the festival several times ...
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Withoutabox partners with Cannes Market on Short Film Corner
Independent film online resource Withoutabox will serve as the exclusive partner on Cannes Film Festival's Fourth Annual Short Film Corner.Withoutabox will manage the event's film registration process, including solicitation, management and promotion of films. Film-makers registering films with the Short Film Corner will either use their existing Withoutabox control panel, ...
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Martin Scorsese to give May 24 masterclass at Cannes
Martin Scorsese, who just took home his first Oscar for The Departed, will be continuing his banner year as a guest of honor at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Festival organizers announced the news today saying that on May 24th, Scorsese will give a masterclass and will use the ...
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Industry has mixed reactions to HanWay-Celluloid merger
The announcement yesterday of the merger between HanWay Films and Celluloid Dreams to create a new combined company, dreamachine, has provoked a mixed response from the European film industry. Some have welcomed the consolidation of the two companies. For example, Tartan Films founder Hamish McAlpine applauded the move. 'Hanway and ...
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One Hundred Nails (Centochiodi)
Dir/scr: Ermanno Olmi. It. 2007. 92mins. Veteran Italian filmmaker Ermanno Olmi is a devout Catholic, and his work has long had a spiritual agenda. But even in such obvious parables as The Legend Of The Holy Drinker (which won a Golden Lion in Venice in 1988), the message is generally ...
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Pascale Ferran to head jury for Cannes Un Certain Regard
The Cannes Film Festival has announced that director Pascale Ferran will head up the jury for the Un Certain Regard sidebar at this year's event, which runs May 16-27. Ferran has been to the festival before, having been selected with her 1990 short film Le Baiser followed by La Sentinelle ...
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AAM to offer digital VOD service to Cannes Market
Cannes' Marche du Film and Arts Alliance Media have announced a new partnership that will enable international buyers and sellers to watch films and projects for sale via the Internet from anywhere in the world. The new business-to-business video-on-demand service, Vizumi Pro, can replace the traditional posting of screeners. 'It's ...
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First Look International will continue as normal, says Nu management
First Look Studios (FLS) interim chief executive officer Trevor Short and First Look International (FLI) president Stuart Ford have moved quickly to confirm that FLI will continue to operate as normal heading into Cannes following Nu Image's acquisition of a controlling interest in FLS. Ford said last night [March 22] ...
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Cannes' Asian selections set to be strongest in years
With the Cannes Film Festival pulling out all the stops for a glittering 60th edition, the Asian selection promises to be the strongest in years.New titles from Jiang Wen, Lee Chang-dong, Kim Ki-duk, Im Kwon-taek, Takeshi Kitano and Wang Xiaoshuai could line up next to Hou Hsiao-Hsien's first French-language film ...
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Cannes reveals Atelier programme
The Cannes Film Festival has announced its selection for this year's Atelier de la Cinefondation. The programme, created in 2005, aims to help young film-makers bring their projects to fruition.This third edition of the Atelier has chosen 15 directorial projects from 15 different countries. During this year's Cannes Festival, the ...
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Zodiac
Dir: David Fincher. US. 2007. 158mins. In the shadows of this year's Oscar ceremony comes the first legitimate contender for next year's honours in the form of David Fincher's Zodiac, a dense but hypnotic and starkly involving account of the unsolved murders in California that spanned the late 1960s and ...
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Directors sign up for Cannes' 60th-anniversary shorts
The Cannes Film Festival has officially announced the names of the directors taking part in Chacun Son Cinema, a feature which will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the event this May. International filmmakers will shoot a three-minute short which will then be compiled to make up the feature to be ...
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Kruger named MC at 60th Cannes
Diane Kruger will act as Mistress of Ceremonies for the 60th Cannes Film Festival.Kruger, who has made France her adopted home, will oversee the opening and closing ceremonies this coming May. The actress is best known to international audiences for her roles in Troy, National Treasure and 2005's Cannes selection ...
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Expired
Dir/scr: Cecilia Miniucchi. US. 2007. 110mins. 'I'm the most hated person in the world,' Samantha Morton's shy, emotionally withdrawn parking meter enforcer says at the opening of Expired, a title that proves unfortunately apt. The movie proves exhausting, obliterating patience, understanding or emotional conviction in its portrait of female desire, ...
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Zoo
Dir: Robinson Devor. US. 2007. 80mins.The much-awaited Zoo will draw enviable publicity (already evident at Sundance, where it premiered) because of the salacious nature of the story that inspired the film: the death from a perforated colon of a man who had sex with a horse in 2005 at a ...
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Cannes Residence selects participants for 14th edition
The Cannes Film Festival has announced the names of the latest group of participants for the 14th session of the Cannes Residence.Director Laurent Cantet presided over a jury which chose six directors from 140 submissions. The next session will run from March 1 to July 15, 2007 and will see ...