The Daily 2013

20 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.

CINÉMA DE LA PLAGE - A slice of burlesque at the beach

the 20.05.2013 at 5:00 PM - Updated on 20.05.2013 at 5:03 PM

Cinéma de la Plage presents an opportunity to rediscover a restored copy of a masterpiece of silent film and burlesque: The General, by Buster Keaton. The film was based on a true story that took place during the American Civil War. Photo from the film © RR Johnnie Gray is an ordinary mechanic who spends his days between his job as...
QUOTE OF THE DAY

the 20.05.2013 at 4:26 PM - Updated on 20.05.2013 at 5:28 PM

“If I’d known that I would be sentenced to death, I’d have killed more people.” A character from the film Wara No Tate
CANNES CLASSICS - Hiroshima mon amour or Resnais' first venture into fiction

the 20.05.2013 at 4:00 PM - Updated on 20.05.2013 at 7:29 PM

He won a special award for his whole career in Cannes in 2009. She was awarded an Oscar for her role in Amour last year. Him, her: a story has bound them together for fifty four years. The story of Hiroshima mon amour, created by Alain Resnais, with Emmanuelle Riva in the leading role. This timeless classic returns to Cannes - the...
PRESS CONFERENCE - Guillaume Canet : "Blood Ties immersed me in the type of cinema that really inspires me"

the 20.05.2013 at 3:15 PM - Updated on 20.05.2013 at 7:24 PM

Guillaume Canet, Clive Owen, Marion Cotillard, and the rest of the team of Blood Ties, presented Out of Competition, answered the journalists' questions. Selected extracts.Guillaume Canet talking about how his film came about:When Tell No One came out, I received various offers to make a film in English. I was tempted, but it just...
EUROPEAN RENDEZ-VOUS: 2 Days in Cannes

the 20.05.2013 at 3:09 PM

The world of European cinema converges at Cannes, with an EU prize for Thomas Vinterberg, two conferences, an award of state honours and an international agreement between France and Croatia. This year's winner of the European Union's Prix MEDIA is Thomas Vinterberg's project Kollectivet (The Commune), which tells the story of a...
PRESS CONFERENCE - Johnnie To "I hope the public will understand the romantic and symbolic beauty of violence in my films"

the 20.05.2013 at 2:21 PM - Updated on 20.05.2013 at 4:54 PM

Johnnie To, Sammi Cheng, Andy Lau, and Ka Fai Wai were at Cannes for the press conference of Blind Detective. Selected highlights.Johnnie To, on food:Basically, I love eating and my characters are just like me. Those who watch my films are well aware of this. In my features films, there are numerous dining scenes. Action and food is...
PRESS CONFERENCE- Takashi Miike : "When you make films with what you've got, the originality comes through naturally"

the 20.05.2013 at 12:38 PM - Updated on 20.05.2013 at 3:39 PM

In Competition with the "survival" film, Wara No Tate, the Japanese filmmaker gave his press conference in the company of his starring actors, Nanako Matsushima and Takao Osawa.Takashi Miike on the "giri", a Japanese term that suggests duty and moral and social obligation:When you describe human beings, you show them in all their...
DID YOU KNOW? The Poster

the 20.05.2013 at 12:05 PM - Updated on 20.05.2013 at 12:40 PM

A couple who perfectly encapsulated the spirit of cinema: Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, photographed on the set of Melville Shavelson's A New Kind of Love (1963). For the Festival, this is a chance to pay tribute to the memory of Paul Newman, who died in 2008 and to Joanne Woodward, his wife and actress of choice. The image of this...
In attendance

the 20.05.2013 at 10:55 AM

The actors and directors expected to be in attendance in Cannes today are: Jason ABALOS Hany ABU-ASSAD Zoya AKHTAR Adolfo ALIX JR Mathieu AMALRIC Santiago AMIGORENA Aure ATIKA Jacques AUDIARD Adam BAKRI Alec BALDWIN Dibakar BANERJEE Olias...
In attendance

the 20.05.2013 at 10:35 AM - Updated on 20.05.2013 at 6:53 PM

The actors and directors expected to be in attendance in Cannes today are: Hany ABU-ASSAD Zoya AKHTAR Adolfo ALIX JR Alexandre ARCADY Dibakar BANERJEE Olias BARCO Elzbieta BENKOWSKA Ferid BOUGHEDIR Valéria BRUNI TEDESCHI Christian...
BEHIND THE LENS - Eleven days, eleven images

the 20.05.2013 at 10:00 AM - Updated on 20.05.2013 at 5:36 PM

The Festival de Cannes is delighted to offer its followers a different take on the daily action in its "Behind the Lens", section, created last year. In contrast to the more formal approach of the photocalls, press conferences and red carpet, discover special Cannes moments, atmospheres, fleeting glances, asides and, above all, the...
IN COMPETITION - Takashi Miike adds survival to his list

the 20.05.2013 at 9:30 AM - Updated on 20.05.2013 at 10:45 PM

After AI to Makoto, a musical and bloody romance projected in a Midnight Screening in 2012, Takashi Miike, the prolific and iconoclastic filmmaker delivers a "survival" thriller with Wara no Tate (Shield of Straw), presented in Competition. Inspired by Kazuhiro Kiuchi's novel, Wara no Tate recounts the spectacular misfortunes of...
INTERVIEW - Vidya Balan: “My work is an extension of the person I am and of my beliefs”

the 20.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 20.05.2013 at 7:33 PM

This year, the Festival de Cannes has invited India, its cinema and its great figures. Vidya Balan is a member of the Feature Film Jury and is the embodiment of the charm, work and perseverance of cinema in South Asia. Interview with this actress who has won many prizes and is adored in her country. Vidya Balan © FDC / GT If Vidya...
PLANTU - One day, one drawing

the 20.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 20.05.2013 at 9:13 AM
COMPETITION - The autobiographical wire of Valéria Bruni-Tedeschi

the 20.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 20.05.2013 at 7:07 PM

From camels to castles, the actress-director continues to mine the intimate, family-based, autobiographical vein for her films. After Actrices (Actresses - Dreams of the Night Before), presented in Un Certain Regard in 2007, she is competing now for the Palme d’or with A Castle in Italy (Un Château en Italie). It is about a family...
OUT OF COMPETITION - Guillaume Canet, the American escapade

the 20.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 20.05.2013 at 10:07 PM

For his first film in English, the French actor and director has tackled a remake, on American soil, of a feature film by Jacques Maillot that came out in 2008 and in which he was one of the two leading actors: Blood Ties. Photo from the film © RRFor a long time, Guillaume Canet felt like the making of Blood Ties would never end....
CANNES CLASSICS - Conversation Piece: Luchino Visconti focuses on family

the 20.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 20.05.2013 at 10:52 AM

In Conversation Piece (Gruppo di famiglia in un interno), Luchino Visconti joins forces again with Burt Lancaster, the actor who helped bring him success ten years earlier in The Leopard, which garnered him the Palme d’or in 1963. Two other Visconti films have been presented at the Festival: Boccaccio 70 (1962) and Death in Venice...
UN CERTAIN REGARD RENDEZ-VOUS - Omar de Hany Abu-Assad

the 20.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 20.05.2013 at 10:06 PM

The Palestinian filmmaker, Hany Abu-Assad, who most notably directed the film, Paradise Now (2005), features among the line-up of the Cannes Official Selection for the first time. A tale of three childhood friends and a young woman in the occupied territories, Omar is one the first productions to come out of the nascent Palestinian...
UN CERTAIN REGARD RENDEZ-VOUS - James Franco: man of many talents

the 20.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 20.05.2013 at 10:31 PM

As I Lay Dying is the first major film and first Selection at Cannes by actor, producer and scriptwriter James Franco, who first made a name for himself in the role of Harry Osborn, Spider-Man’s nemesis in the Sam Raimi trilogy. Tell us how your film came about. My father recommended As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, when I was...
SPECIAL SCREENING - James Toback films the underside of Cannes

the 20.05.2013 at 8:17 AM - Updated on 20.05.2013 at 5:01 PM

The Festival de Cannes is a character in its own right in the new film by James Toback: Seduced and Abandoned, a documentary on the underside of the film industry. The guest stars include the pick of directors, such as Martin Scorsese.When James Toback filmed during the 2012 Festival de Cannes, he surely wasn't counting on being...