Cannes 2012: 'After The Battle' Gets Inside Egypt's Facebook Revolution
May, 16, 2012 2:38 pm | Comments On #after the battle, Cannes, Cannes 2012, egypt, Movies, RevolutionIt’s rare for a film to tell a story about a revolution right on the heels of that historic event, but "After the Battle" demonstrates that in the age of modern media we even get retrospective at warp speed.
Debuting on the opening day of the Cannes Film Festival, ”After the Battle” offers an intimate look at the 2011 revolution via a relationship between a woman and a man from the upper and lower class of Egypt.
It’s not a love story, really. It is more about two worlds colliding on the backdrop of a crumbling political state. The film tells us much about modern-day Egypt and why it will be so difficult to rescue a democracy from the fervent ideals of the Facebook revolution.
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Read MoreCannes 2012: The Stars Hit the Red Carpet - and the High Seas (Slideshow)
May, 16, 2012 2:23 pm | Comments On #Alec Baldwin, Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Cannes, Chris Pine, Diane Kruger, Edward Norton, Elisabetta Canalis, Eva Longoria, Ewan McGregor, Harvey Weinstein, Isla Fisher, Jane Fonda, Jason Schwartzman, Jean-Paul Gautier, Jessica Chastain, Moonrise Kingdom, Movies, Nanni Moretti, Sacha Baron Cohen, the dictator, The Rise of the Guardians, Wes AndersonFrom Sacha Baron Cohen to Sean Penn, the biggest names mix work and play in the South of France
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Cannes Review: 'Moonrise Kingdom' Is Wes Anderson's Ode to Arrested Development
May, 16, 2012 2:03 pm | Comments On #Bill Murray, Cannes, cannes film festival, Edward Norton, film festivals, Frances McDormand, Moonrise Kingdom, Movies, roman coppola, Wes AndersonWes Anderson’s "Moonrise Kingdom," which opened the 65th Cannes fest Wednesday, is not really a film aimed toward the generation whose story it’s trying to tell. It is more for those who have passed the tender age of 12 and now have a longing to revisit the purity of it all, the "firstness" of it all, before the truth of what life really is ruined everything.
If you’re not inclined to dwell in that realm of arrested development, you might find your feet twitching a little bit to break free from that world you left behind so long ago. Then again, perhaps it is our nature to always want to look back and romanticize who we were then. It is certainly the inclination of many storytellers now. Once you wade through the bounce-house of box office champs and the Muppet movies and the Pixar movies, you wonder where all the stories about adults have...
Read MoreSacha Baron Cohen Brings His 'Dictator' Schtick to Cannes
May, 16, 2012 9:27 am | Comments On #Cannes, cannes film festival, film festivals, Movies, Sacha Baron Cohen, the dictatorSacha Baron Cohen brought his "Dictator" roadshow to the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday, proving that the law of diminishing returns is just as applicable in Wadiya and in the South of France as it is in the United States.
First, Baron Cohen's character from "The Dictator," General Aladeen, was "sighted" on a yacht in the harbor cavorting with a bikini-clad woman while some "armed guards" stood by.
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Read MoreSony Pictures Classics Nabs Rights to Susanne Bier’s 'Love Is All You Need'
May, 16, 2012 8:06 am | Comments On #Cannes, independent film, indies, Love is all you Need, Movies, Pierce Brosnan, Sony Pictures Classics, Susanne BierSony Pictures Classics has acquired all North American rights to Susanne Bier’s "Love is All You Need" from Scandinavian sales company, TrustNordisk.
The latest film from the Oscar-winning Danish director stars Pierce Brosnan, far removed from his James Bond alter-ego.
Set in Sorrento, Italy, "Love is All You Need" focuses on a group of people all seeking love, passion and happiness, with varying degrees of success.
Bier’s most recent effort, "In a Better World," was also released by Sony Pictures Classics and picked up an Academy Award for Best...
Read MoreFortissimo Films Acquires Terence Davies' 'Sunset Song'
May, 16, 2012 7:39 am | Comments On #Cannes, Movies, Sunset Song, Terence Davies, The Deep Blue SeaFortissimo Films has acquired the international rights to "Sunset Song," from British filmmaker Terence Davies.
Davies recently scored a critical triumph with his moody re-imagining of Terence Rattigan's play "The Deep Blue Sea." He has also received acclaim for prior films like "The House of Mirth" and "Of Time in the City."
"Sunset Song" is an adaptation of the 1932 novel of the same name by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Like "The Deep Blue Sea," it indirectly addresses World War II. However, while the Rattigan play derived much of its visual...
Read MoreCannes 2012: Is It Harvey Weinstein's Kingdom This Year?
May, 16, 2012 6:30 am | Comments On #Cannes, cannes film festival, film festivals, Harvey Weinstein, Moonrise Kingdom, Movies, Wes AndersonThis is the first of TheWrap's daily roundups of news 'n' notes from the 2012 Cannes Film Festival …
The 65th installment of Cannes kicked off on Wednesday – and if there's little chance of equaling the widespread acclaim directed at the 64th festival, hope springs eternal on the Croisette from filmmakers and distributors hoping for a launch like the one "The Artist" got last year, or at least a couple of good reviews and a small bidding war.
The opening-night film, though, doesn't need a buyer: Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom" is set to be released by Focus Features, which is also screening it for stateside critics on the same day...
Cannes 2012: It's a Man's World (But at Least That Man Isn't Lars von Trier)
May, 15, 2012 6:43 pm | Comments On #Cannes, cannes film festival, david cronenberg, film festivals, Lars von Trier, MoviesThis year's Cannes Film Festival probably won't debut three Oscar Best Picture nominees the way last year's Cannes did, but it will also be mercifully free of the one person who threatened to turn the 2011 festival into a sideshow.
That would be Lars von Trier, the Danish director and provocateur who essentially hijacked last year's festival with a press conference in which he called himself a Nazi because of his partial German heritage.
On the other hand, it'll also be free of any women directors in the main competition, which could supply some controversy in the absence of von Trier.
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Read MoreThe Weinstein Company Acquires 'The Sapphires' with Chris O'Dowd
May, 15, 2012 9:32 am | Comments On #Cannes, Chris O'Dowd, Deal Central, Movies, The Sapphires, The Weinstein CompanyThe Weinstein Company has acquired rights from Goalpost Film to the Australian film "The Sapphires," the studio said Tuesday.
The deal includes most worldwide rights, with the exception of the U.K, and Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, France, Canada, Israel, Portugal and airlines.
The movie is directed by acclaimed Aboriginal actor and theater director Wayne Blair, and stars Chris O'Dowd (pictured left), who is best known for playing the traffic cop love interest of Kristen Wiig in last summer's "Bridesmaids."
Inspired by a true story, the film follows four young and talented...
Read MoreCannes Classics: Steven Spielberg, Alfred Hitchcock, Agnes Varda, Roman Polanski Headline
April, 26, 2012 10:12 am | Comments On #Agnes Varda, Alfred Hitchcock, Cannes Classics, Movies, Roman Polanski, Steven SpielbergSteven Spielberg, Roman Polanski, Agnes Varda and Sergio Leone are just a few of the directors whose films Cannes has chosen to show as part of its "Cannes Classics" program for this year’s festival.
Since 2004, Cannes has selected a group of restored, iconic films to showcase, and this year’s crop includes 13 features, two shorts, a mini-concert and four documentaries.
This year's festival runs from May 16-27.
The classics include an even longer cut of “Once Upon a Time in America,” directed by Leone and restored by Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation. The epic depicts the criminal underbelly of...
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All the latest doings from the South of France.
