The Daily 2002

With Tati's financial difficulties and the poor state of the original negative, watching Playtime today seemed like mission impossible... Saving the original negative from deterioration seemed urgent. In 1978, due to financial pressure, Tati cuts the film's length down to a 120 mn. The Cannes film festival are screening today...

Liu Bingjian first made his mark with a film tackling homosexuality, and shot in one week, Le protégé de madame Qing (1999), awarded with the prix du Jury de la Fipresci à Locarno. Ku Qi Du Ren is Binjian's third feature film.

Starring Robert Donat, The Magic Box' (1951) restored version directed by Roy Boulting is a British classic shown at the Salle Buñuel, Palais des Festivals, at 5.00 pm.

Gangster movie, Pépé Le Moko's restored version (1937) features French legend, Jean Gabin, caught in The Casbah. It's one of Julien Duvivier's important films.

With the most universal of subjects: time, Ten minutes older - the trumpet offers the visions of seven majors directors (Aki Kaurism„ki, Victor Erice, Werner Herzog, Jim Jarmusch, Wim Wenders, Spike Lee, Chen Kaige) on the subject. One of the producers of the film, (Nicolas McClintock),...

The 55th Cannes film festival pay tribute to genius filmmaker mister Jacques Tati on May 19, salle Lumière, with a retrospective covering some of his most important work: Playtime (1967), Jour de fête (1949), and Les Vacances de M. Hulot (1953). Tati's visual and sound design has made his films timeless,...

After 1997's oscar-nominated Boogie Nights and 1999's 3 hour long oscar-nominated, Magnolia, writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson is in Cannes this year to present his highly anticipated new motion picture, Punch-Drunk Love. Starring famous American comedian, Adam Sandler, and Emily Watson (Breaking the waves), Punch-Drunk...

With a 63 year delay and the entire's jury approval (the 6 members), Union Pacific (Pacific Express) won the 1939 Golden Palm, the film stars Barbara Stanwyck, Joëm McCrea and a young Anthony Quinn in a secondary role, who gets killed prematurely. The jury believes a great career awaits: notably Judy Garland, for her...

President of this year's 55th Cannes film festival, David Lynch was honored, yesterday, by the French minister of culture and communication, Jean-Jacques Aillagon, with the Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor.

French director, Olivier Assayas started off his career as a critic at cult French magazine, Les Cahiers du Cinéma, like respected French filmakers before him: Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, François Truffaut and others. Having explored new territory with his previous historical drama, Les Destinées...

The latest American 2-D animation film, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, started the day. The adventures of the mustang stallion narrated by Matt Damon might well encounter the same success as Dreamworks previous animation blockbuster, Shrek. The producer, Jerry Katzenberg, seemed very excited about having Damon for this...