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In competition : Swimming Pool
the 18.05.2003 at 10:49 PM - Updated on 20.08.2003 at 5:59 PM
After François Ozon's acclaimed 8 Women, starring a host of French divas, the prolific Gallic helmer, tackles his first English-language film and sixth feature - Swimming Pool. Interpreted by his two favourite actresses, Charlotte Rampling (Sous le Sable) and new French darling Ludivine Sagnier, (Water Drops on Burning... -
Swimming Pool: Press Conference Highlights
the 18.05.2003 at 10:30 PM - Updated on 20.08.2003 at 6:31 PM
Provocative French director François Ozon returns with his latest film, the much awaited and mysterious Swimming Pool, competing in the Official Selection of the 56th annual Cannes Film Festival. Journalists got to test the water during a press conference this morning at 11 am. Ozon was accompanied by his fetish... -
La Boum in Cannes!
the 18.05.2003 at 10:00 PM - Updated on 12.06.2003 at 1:05 PM
An entire generation of French spectators will forever remember Sophie Marceau's onscreen debut as lovesick teenager Vic Beretton, in the 1980 cult film, La Boum. On Sunday May 18, the entire cast (director Claude Pinoteau, screenwriter Danièle Thompson, actors Brigitte Fossey, Claude Brasseur, Lambert Wilson, Sheila... -
In competition : Elephant
the 18.05.2003 at 9:30 PM - Updated on 20.08.2003 at 6:00 PM
Who ever said high school was easy? Gus Van Sant sends shivers down our spines with his raw Elephant, presented In Competition. Audiences are without a doubt in for a shock - perhaps not as controversial as last year's Cannes contender, Irréversible, but definitely disturbing enough to get you thinking. This film draws... -
Elephant: Press Conference Highlights
the 18.05.2003 at 9:20 PM - Updated on 20.08.2003 at 6:07 PM
For the presentation of Elephant, director Gus Van Sant, actors Elias McConnell, Alex Frost and John Robinson, director of photography Harris Savides, producers Dany Wolf and Bill Robinson, and Colin Calender, president of HBO Films, made it to Cannes to tell the tale. Highlights: - Filmmaker Gus Van Sant, on the birth... -
In competition : Les Triplettes de Belleville
the 18.05.2003 at 9:15 PM - Updated on 20.08.2003 at 6:26 PM
Cannes and animated movies are now becoming a permanent fixture. After Shrek was selected for the main competition in 2001 and Spirit had a special screening last year, this time round the Festival takes a break from animated features "made in the USA" and opts for French comicbook artist and animator Sylvain Chomet's... -
Les Triplettes de Belleville: Press Conference Highlights
the 18.05.2003 at 9:00 PM - Updated on 20.08.2003 at 6:03 PM
During the press conference on the Out of Competition presentation of Les Triplettes de Belleville, Sylvain Chomet shared some secrets on his animated feature. Highlights: Regarding the work of Latvian Rija Films animation studios, the director explained that all the intervals ("...intermediate drawings between two... -
Out of competition : Ghosts of the Abyss
the 18.05.2003 at 8:40 PM - Updated on 20.08.2003 at 6:29 PM
More than five years after James Cameron's mega blockbuster The Titanic, the Canadian film director takes us back down into the depths of the ocean to the vessel that made him the king of the world. Ghosts of the Abyss is his latest opus filmed with the larger format 3-D cameras of Imax. While technically a documentary Ghost... -
Cameron's Ghostly Fathoms
the 18.05.2003 at 8:35 PM - Updated on 20.08.2003 at 6:05 PM
"The idea for Ghosts of the Abyss emerged when we had finished Titanic in 1998. I went on vacation to do some scuba diving. We were sitting around on the dive boat, after a day of diving - this is myself, my brother and some other people. We started talking about what kind of vehicle would be required to be able to explore... -
Un Certain Regard : Mille Mois
the 18.05.2003 at 8:22 PM - Updated on 20.08.2003 at 6:01 PM
A Moroccan tale Representing Morocco in the section un Certain Regard, is A Thousand Months a first film by director Faouzi Bensaidi contending for the Camera d'Or. He has already shot two short films, The Wall which won an award in Cannes two years ago and Trajets, awarded a prize at the Venice Film Festival in the... -
Un Certain Regard : Arimpara
the 18.05.2003 at 8:15 PM - Updated on 20.08.2003 at 6:06 PM
Mountain Out of a Molehill Welcome to India. Unlike many current movies, Arimpara - presented in the Un Certain Regard category - doesn't tackle difficult social or political issues that plague the world today. It is the singular story of Krishnanunni and his... incredible growing mole! Based on the short story of... -
DVD Revolution Hits Cannes
the 18.05.2003 at 7:30 PM - Updated on 19.05.2003 at 2:00 AM
DVD lovers, don't leave the Festival this year without swinging by the Cannes Film Market! Launched last year, a special "Espace DVD" section on the 1st floor of the Palais des Festivals has been set up to promote the next generation of home video. Visitors can come browse through a wide selection of over 250 DVDs, and relax... -
Shades of Red
the 18.05.2003 at 7:15 PM - Updated on 20.08.2003 at 5:15 PM
Shades of Red. -
Out to the Market
the 18.05.2003 at 6:00 PM - Updated on 19.05.2003 at 9:22 AM
Inside the Palais des Festivals, festivalgoers and film professionals will find a unique yet inevitable place: the Cannes Film Market. Spread out on two floors, it is a veritable smorgasbord of garish posters and explosive trailers from the four corners of the world, including Japan, China, Taiwan, Poland, Israel, the United... -
Danis Tanovic receives France's cross of Officer of Arts and Letters
the 18.05.2003 at 4:41 PM - Updated on 21.05.2003 at 4:43 PM
Danis Tanovic one of this year's jury members and Oscar winner in 2001, received on Sunday France's cross of Officer of Arts and Letters, from Jean Jacques Aillagon, Minister of Culture and Communication. Fellow jury members and Festival heads were present at the ceremony. Minister Aillagon took advantage of the occasion to... -
Algeria - Cannes' Guest of Honour
the 18.05.2003 at 4:07 PM - Updated on 21.05.2003 at 4:42 PM
Algeria guest of honour at the Buñuel Theatre. The 56th Cannes Film Festival pays tribute to Algerian cinema tonight with a screening of Chronique des années de Braise, by 1975 Palme d'Or winner, film director Mohammad Lakhdar-Hamina. Before tonight's presentation gets under way an official Algerian delegation... -
Bambi Goes to the Beach
the 18.05.2003 at 3:30 PM - Updated on 18.05.2003 at 6:08 PM
Playing tonight at the Cinéma de la Plage: Who Killed Bambi?. Presented Out of Competition, Gilles Marchand's thriller-love-story follows the life of a student-nurse (Sophie Quinton) who finds herself confronted with the eerie Dr. Philipp (Laurent Lucas). Persuaded that he is hiding something, she starts to investigate.... -
Restored Copies: Curtiz' Mildred Pierce
the 18.05.2003 at 3:00 PM - Updated on 20.05.2003 at 1:39 PM
After The Adventures of Robin Hood, Cannes welcomes a much darker piece of master filmmaker, Michael Curtiz. The restored print of his 1945 film noir, Mildred Pierce, starring Joan Crawford and Jack Carson, will be projected digitally in Salle Buñuel. This drama tells the story of a widow, suspected in the mysterious... -
Jenny Holzer's Quote of the Day
the 18.05.2003 at 1:34 PM - Updated on 20.05.2003 at 1:38 PM
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Workshop in Tribute to Maurice Pialat
the 18.05.2003 at 12:00 PM - Updated on 18.05.2003 at 5:15 PM
On May 18th, during a special evening, a glittering array of stars came to honor the late Maurice Pialat. The tribute continues today with a workshop, headed by the director of the Cinémathèque Française, Serge Toubiana. He evoked the director's genuine "communist empathy for the world" - to be understood... -
Flashback 17th May 2003
the 18.05.2003 at 8:28 AM - Updated on 19.05.2003 at 12:22 PM
The main attraction on Saturday night was without doubt the cast of Pupi Avati's in competition, Il Cuore Altrove, which touched the hearts of festivalgoers with a bitter sweet, romantic comedy set against the backdrop of Bologna in the 1920s. It stars newcomer Vanessa Incontrada and some of the biggest names in Italy's...
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