The Daily 2013

24 May

Interviews, reports, films, events, press conferences, photo calls, the red carpet... Hour by hour updates, bringing you exclusive and official coverage of the 12 days of the Festival in articles, videos, photos and sound clips.

AWARDS - Jane Campion and the Jury announced the winners of the 16th Cinéfondation Selection

the 24.05.2013 at 4:47 PM - Updated on 24.05.2013 at 8:57 PM

The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury headed by Jane Campion and including Maji-da Abdi, Nicoletta Braschi, Nandita Das and Semih Kaplanoğlu, has awarded the 2013 Cinéfondation Prizes during a ceremony held in the Buñuel Theatre, followed by the screening of the winning films.The Cinéfondation Selection consisted of 18 student...
PRESS CONFERENCE - Arnaud des Pallières: "I tried to come close to Kleist's revolutionary, torn mind"

the 24.05.2013 at 1:41 PM - Updated on 24.05.2013 at 4:21 PM

The director Arnaud des Pallières and the entire cast of Michael Kohlhaas, a feature film in Competition, attended a press conference. Chosen extracts.Arnaud des Pallières, on the character of Michael Kohlhaas and Kleist’s novel:I find it very difficult to judge this complex character. Mads’ intense, subtle interpretation leaves...
INTERVIEW - Ang Lee: “I would like my career to be forever a film school”

the 24.05.2013 at 1:00 PM - Updated on 24.05.2013 at 1:10 PM

From Pi's raft to the peaks of Alberta, the life of Ang Lee follows the thread of a cinematographic odyssey. Fourteen stages and a multitude of genres and themes: Ang Lee masters traditional wuxia in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and comedy in Taking Woodstock, just as he lets rage loose in Hulk or stirs the passion of cowboys...
CANNES CLASSICS - Jean-Paul Belmondo: a French James Bond

the 24.05.2013 at 12:51 PM - Updated on 24.05.2013 at 4:51 PM

That Man from Rio (L’homme de Rio) marked Philippe de Broca and Jean-Paul Belmondo's second collaboration, following the success of Cartouche in 1962. Thanks to the work of TF1 Droits audiovisuels, Cannes Classics is presenting a remastered version of this cult adventure film.While on leave, private Adrien Duforquet witnesses the...
PRESS CONFERENCE - James Gray: "Immigration enriches society and culture"

the 24.05.2013 at 12:22 PM - Updated on 24.05.2013 at 7:08 PM

James Gray gave the press conference about The Immigrant, accompanied by the actors Jeremy Renner and Marion Cotillard, the cinematographer Darius Khondji, the production designer Happy Massee and producers Anthony Katagas and Greg Shapiro. The actor, Joaquin Phenix, currently on location, was not able to be in Cannes.James Gray on...
CINEFONDATION - the Festival incubator

the 24.05.2013 at 11:10 AM - Updated on 24.05.2013 at 11:13 AM

With 15 to 20 student films in the Selection each year, a dozen film makers who are developing their first or second feature length film in the Résidence, and some fifteen projects that are looking for financing, to the Atelier, Cinéfondation is a veritable launching pad for young directors from around the world. The Directors of...
In attendance at Cannes

the 24.05.2013 at 10:12 AM - Updated on 24.05.2013 at 10:51 AM

The actors and directors expected to be in attendance in Cannes today are: Jason ABALOS Ahmad Tarzan ABOUNASSER Mohammed Arab ABOUNASSER Kev ADAMS Haifaa AL MANSOUR Adolfo ALIX JR Richard ANCONINA Korkman ARSLAN Ali ASGARI Adam BAKRI ...
CANNES CLASSICS - The Desert of the Tartars: restored at last

the 24.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 24.05.2013 at 7:52 PM

An adaptation Dino Buzzati's famous novel, The Desert of the Tartars, directed by Valerio Zurlini in 1976, had become impossible to watch on the big screen. 37 years later, it has undergone a true renaissance. The wait will have been longer than that of young lieutenant Drogo: 37 years to finally see Valerio Zurlini's The Desert of...
CANNES CLASSICS - Lucky Luciano: chronicle of an influential gangster

the 24.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 24.05.2013 at 9:11 AM

With a career spanning forty years and twenty-eight films to his name, 90-year-old Francesco Rosi will this Friday, as part of Cannes Classics, present the projection of a restored copy of one of his films that placed him among the most famous figures of socially engaged Italian cinema: Lucky Luciano (1973).History does not tell us how...
UN CERTAIN REGARD - Dast-Neveshtehaa Nemisoosand by Mohammad Rasoulof

the 24.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 24.05.2013 at 8:48 PM

An emblematic victim of artistic repression in Iran, Mohammad Rasoulof was arested at the same as Jafar Panahi. Dast-Neveshtehaa Nemisoosand, which has come to the Festival secretly, portrays a serial killer. Adast-Neveshtehaa Nemisoosand © RR Mohammad Rasoulof returns to Un Certain Regard, two years after Bé Mid 2 Didar...
CINEMA DE LA PLAGE - Jerry Lewis on all fronts

the 24.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 24.05.2013 at 5:10 PM

Jerry Lewis is being honoured at the sixty-sixth Festival de Cannes, with Max Rose by Daniel Noah in a Special Screening, but also with The Ladies Man, a feature film from 1961 where the actor outdid himself both on camera and behind it.Jerry Lewis is in Cannes. At 87 years of age, he is one of the last living burlesque comedians...
PLANTU - One day, one drawing

the 24.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 24.05.2013 at 2:25 PM
IN COMPETITION - James Gray at the crossroads of his origins

the 24.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 24.05.2013 at 8:45 PM

The director of The Yards has placed the storyline of his new film in the New York of the 1920s and on Ellis Island, a place full of history where his grandparents, like thousands of European immigrants, first walked upon American soil.The question of filiation is always deeply rooted in James Gray's films and can be found in a more...
COMPETITION - The experimental cinema of Arnaud des Pallières

the 24.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 24.05.2013 at 8:46 PM

Arnaud Des Pallières has just presented his fourth film at Cannes: Michael Kohlhaas, a historical fresco inspired by the short story by Heinrich Von Kleist, with Mads Mikkelsen in the title role. Michael Kohlhaas © RR Of the six French films to feature in Competition, the work by Arnaud des Pallières is something of an outsider....