Cannes Film Festival
‘Blindness’ - Mixed Reviews
”Blindness may well be the bleakest curtain raiser in the history of the festival, a nightmarish parable of the apocalypse, directed by the Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Meirelles and just as impressive in its way as his career-making City of God.”
“Blindness is a drum-tight drama, with superb, hallucinatory images of urban collapse. It has a real […]
Cannes 05/16 - Arnaud Desplechin’s ‘A Christmas Tale’ and Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s ‘Three Monkeys’
Arnaud Desplechin’s ‘A Christmas Tale’
In the first US sale of a Competition title at Cannes, Wild Bunch has sold Arnaud Desplechin’ s A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noël) to IFC.
The family drama, which screens here on Friday, stars an ensemble cast including Catherine Deneuve, Mathieu Amalric, Chiara Mastroianni, Emmanuelle Devos, Anne Consigny and Melvil […]
41 Kung Fu Pandas - Jack Black at Cannes
The animated movie Kung Fu Panda with voices of Jack Black, Jackie Chan, Dustin Hoffman, Lucy Liu, Angelina Jolie had its premiere yesterday at Cannes Film Festival, out of competition, of course.
Jack Black and 40 Kung Fu Pandas kicked off the Cannes Film Festival yesterday, and here’s some photos:
‘Hunger’ - Steve McQueen - Cannes 2008
‘Hunger‘ is showing at the Cannes Film Festival 2008, opening the ‘Un Certain Regard‘ category, from British director Steve McQueen, the artist who hit the headlines recently with his design for a postage stamp that replaced the Queen’s head with the faces of soldiers killed in Iraq.
Turner Prize-winnng British artist Steve McQueen makes his big-screen […]
Cannes 2008 - Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir
Playing in the Official Selection, Israeli director Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir, a documentary about the Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of 1982, is a major revelation.
Waltz with Bashir documents the struggle of the filmmaker, Ari Folman, to come to terms with the gaps in his memory surrounding the part he played […]
Cannes: Arnaud Desplechin’s ‘A Christmas Tale’ is first competition sale to US
In the first US sale of a Competition title at Cannes, Wild Bunch has sold Arnaud Desplechin’s A Christmas Tale to IFC.
The family drama, which screens here on Friday, stars an ensemble cast including Catherine Deneuve, Mathieu Amalric, Chiara Mastroianni, Emmanuelle Devos, Anne Consigny and Melvil Poupaud.
Produced by Why Not, it will be released by […]
‘Blindness’ Premiere - Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes film festival opens tonight with ‘Blindness‘, an apocalyptic nightmare adapted from the 1995 novel by Nobel laureate José Saramago and directed by Fernando Meirelles. The film is superbly photographed by Cesar Charlone.
In an unnamed city of the near future, a terrifying epidemic of “white blindness” - the sufferers seeing only milky white light […]
‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’ First Trailer!
Photos from Woody Allen’s ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona‘ were very popular and we hunted them from the start.
I suppose that the first trailer, which we have today, is something much better.
Enjoy!
Benicio del Toro as Ernesto “Che” Guevara - First Official Photos
A pair of films by Steven Soderbergh about the life of Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara is likely to prove an early favourite to win the Palme d’Or at next month’s Cannes film festival.
Amid a line-up notably light on British filmmakers and actors, the Soderbergh diptych stars Benicio del Toro as Ernesto “Che” Guevara de la […]
‘Blindness’ - New Clip
‘Blindness’ is Fernando Meirelles’ third film, after his heralded 2002 thriller “City of God” and 2005’s “The Constant Gardener,” landed the coveted opening night slot at the 61st Cannes Film Festival starting Wednesday.
‘Blindness’ Clip
‘Blindness,’ based on the bestselling 1998 novel by Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese writer José Saramago is an allegory about the fragile state of civil society and the human spirit.
“Blindness” is narrated by Danny Glover, a late addition to the film, Fernando Meirelles said, because the director wanted to weave Saramago’s actual prose and reflections into the […]
Cannes 2008 - Screenings Guide On Line!
Competition:
Cannes Film Festival will pay its own tribute to Warner Bros.
The Cannes Film Festival announced plans on Wednesday to pay tribute to Warner Bros. on the studio’s 85th anniversary by screening a classic movie from the studio’s archives.
Cannes’ Cinema de la Plage will screen a Warner pic every night, including a one-off “Looney Tunes” event, as part of the Cannes Classic section.
The tribute begins with […]
Cannes 2008 - Un Certain Regard Jury Complete
Fatih Akin will preside the Un Certain Regard Jury at the Festival de Cannes from May 14-25, 2008.
German director, scriptwriter and producer, Fatih Akin was awarded the Best Screenplay Prize at the 60th Festival de Cannes with The Edge of Heaven.
To grant the Un Certain Regard Prize, he will be surround with the Indian journalist […]
Cannes 2008 - ‘Synecdoche, New York’
Many of you will recognize Charlie Kaufman’s name from his unique screenwriting credits: Being John Malkovich, Human Nature, Adaptation, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind.
The movie stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Michelle Williams and Samantha Morton.
Theater director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is mounting a new play. Fresh […]
