Italian Filmmaker Nanni Moretti Named Cannes' Jury President
January, 20, 2012 10:10 am | Comments On #Cannes, Movies, Nanni MorettiNanni Moretti will be the jury president for this year's Cannes Film Festival, organizers announced Friday. The 65th edition of the festival will be held in Paris from May 16 to 27.
The Italian actor/director takes the reins from Robert De Niro, who presided over the jury at last year's festival. Moretti's most recent film, "Habemus Papum (We Have a Pope)," was screened at the 2011 festival.
“This is a real joy, an honour and a tremendous responsibility to preside over the jury of the most prestigious festival of cinematography in the world, a festival that is held in a country where film has always been treated with...
Read MoreCannes' President, Director Renew Contracts; Fremeaux Gets More Power
December, 21, 2011 10:05 am | Comments On #Awards, CannesCannes President Gilles Jacob and Director-General Thierry Fremaux have earned new contracts that will keep them in their posts through 2014.
The festival's board of directors voted to approve the new tenures on Tuesday, as well as to give Fremaux more power, according to several reports.
Also read: Iran Blasts Cannes' von Trier Banishment; Director Defends Festival
Fremaux has served as the festival's director-general since 2007. He was appointed artistic director in 2001.
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Read MoreIran Blasts Cannes' von Trier Banishment; Director Defends Festival
May, 24, 2011 8:54 am | Comments On #Cannes, cannes film festival, indies, iran, Jafar Panahi, Lars von Trier, Melancholia, Mohammad Rasoulof, MoviesNow the Lars von Trier mess has become an international incident.
Javad Shamaqdari, the deputy culture minister in Iran, has written a letter to Cannes president Gilles Jacob charging that the festival "left a dark stain on its history" by banning von Trier and declaring him persona non grata for his press-conference remarks about Hitler and Nazis.
"Surely you remember that the Cannes festival was established with the aim of struggling against fascists," reads the Tehran Times' English translation of the letter published in Iranian media on Monday.
"After 64 years, it is sad to see the traces of...
Read MoreOscilloscope Picks Up Tilda Swinton Showcase 'We Need to Talk About Kevin'
May, 23, 2011 10:48 am | Comments On #Cannes, cannes film festival, indies, Lynne Ramsay, Movies, Oscilloscope, Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin"We Need to Talk About Kevin," the Cannes competition title directed by Lynne Ramsay and featuring a widely-acclaimed performance by Tilda Swinton, has been picked up for North American distribution by Oscilloscope Laboratories.
The company plans to release the film late in the year, and to launch an awards campaign for the film, in which Swinton plays the mother of a son who commits a horrific act at his school.
"We are honored to be working with Lynne, Tilda, John, and Ezra to release this masterpiece – the most intense thriller I've seen since Polanski's 'Rosemary's Baby,'" said Oscilloscope head Adam Yauch in a press release announcing the...
Read MoreLars von Trier is an Idiot, and Other Lessons We Learned at Cannes
May, 22, 2011 2:56 pm | Comments On #Cannes, cannes film festival, indies, Lars von Trier, Melancholia, Movies, Terrence Malick, The Tree of LifeIt started out as a festival dominated by the return of Terrence Malick, turned into a festival hijacked by the mouth of Lars von Trier, and ended up celebrating Malick.
It screened about 50 movies in various official capacities, while buyers hawked 4,000 more in an adjacent marketplace devoted as much to schlock than art.
And it proved to be a fertile ground for deals, even though the commercial chances for most of the films that screened at the festival are minimal.
(Photo of jury president Robert De Niro flanked by acting winners Kirsten Dunst and Jean Dujardin by Paschal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
The 64th Cannes Film Festival, which ended Sunday...
Read MoreCannes: 'Tree of Life' Wins Palme d'Or
May, 22, 2011 10:56 am | Comments On #Cannes, cannes film festival, indies, Jean Dujardins, Kirsten Dunst, Lars von Trier, Melancholia, Movies, Terrence Malick, The Artist, The Tree of LifeAfter a wide-open and strong Cannes Film Festival that was thrown into disarray by Lars von Trier's controversial comments, Robert De Niro's jury has awarded the festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or, to Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life."
The reclusive Malick did not show up at the ceremony to accept the award.
Also read: Cannes Review: 'The Tree of Life' Is Saturated With Beauty
The long-awaited, much-delayed epic dominated festival talk for the first week, receiving scattered boos but mostly rapturous reviews after its...
Cannes, Day 12: Terrence Malick, Lars von Trier and Other MIA VIPs
May, 22, 2011 1:16 am | Comments On #Cannes, cannes film festival, Lars von Trier, Mel Gibson, Melancholia, Movies, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Terrence Malick, The Beaver, The Tree of LifeCould the final movie to be screened in the Cannes competition be a real Palme d'Or contender? It doesn’t usually happen that way, but Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia" stirred up some talk to that effect when it was unveiled on Saturday, the last day of the competition.
Eric Kohn, for instance, called the film "mesmerizing" and said it "plays like 'Zodiac' meets 'Police, Adjective,'" while Jon...
Cannes: Korean, German Films Win Top Un Certain Regard Honors
May, 21, 2011 2:27 pm | Comments On #Andreas Dresen, Arirang, Cannes, cannes film festival, indies, Kim Ki-Duk, Le Havre, Movies, Stopped on Track, Take Shelter, The MinisterKorean filmmaker Kim Ki-Duk's "Arirang" and German director Andreas Dresen's "Stopped on Track" ("Halt Auf Freier") were named co-recipients of the top prize in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes on Saturday.
The jury, which was headed by Serbian director Emir Kusturica, gave a Special Jury Prize to Andrey Zvyagintsev's "Elena," and honored imprisoned Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof as best director for "Au Revoir" (Good Bye"). Rasoulof''s award was accepted by his wife.
"Arirang" (left) is a minimalist self-portrait of sorts from a filmmaker who has averaged one feature per year over the last 15 years, while "...
Cannes, Day 11: Eyes on the Prize
May, 21, 2011 12:59 am | Comments On #Cannes, cannes film festival, Cinema Against AIDS, Harvey Weinstein, Jane Fonda, Lars von Trier, Melancholia, Movies, Robert De Niro amFARThe Palme d'Or and other main competition prizes won't be announced until Sunday evening, but Cannes has begun to give out awards. In addition to "Take Shelter" winning the top prize in the Critics Week competition and "Atmen" ("Breathing") and "The Giants" winning awards in the independent Directors' Fortnight section, the Cinefondation section of student films has handed out its awards.
Doroteya Droumeva's German student film "The Letter" has been awarded First Prize in the section, which consisted of 16 films. Kamal Lazraq's "Drari" and Son Tae-gyum's "Fly By Night" were chosen as the second and...
Read MoreCannes: After all the Controversy, Who'll Win the Palme d'Or?
May, 20, 2011 11:57 am | Comments On #Cannes, cannes film festival, Dardenne brothers, Footnote, indies, Kirsten Dunst, Lars von Trier, Le Havre, Melancholia, Movies, Palme d'Or, Pedro Almodovar, Terrence Malick, The Kid with a Bike, The Skin I Live In, The Tree of LifeThe movie that was booed at its first screening might win the Palme d'Or.
Or the black-and-white silent comedy.
Or even the film whose director was banned from the festival after saying he was a Nazi.
It's always hard to predict what film will win the Cannes Film Festival's top prize, and this year may be particularly tricky. There's little consensus about a standout – and the movies that seem positioned to take the prize all have reasons why they might not do so.
And looming over all attempts to handicap the race is the usually Cannes unknown: the jury.
Will jury president Robert De Niro push hard for his own favorites, the way past president Roman Polanski was said to have done? Or will he sit back and simply be one of nine voices?
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