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In Competition : Purple Butterfly
the 22.05.2003 at 9:50 PM - Updated on 27.06.2003 at 1:54 PM
Chinese Tales Presented in the official competition lineup, Purple Butterfly is Chinese director, Lou Ye's third feature. Discovered in 2000 with Suzhou River, this is his first film to be selected in Cannes. Set against the backdrop of Manchuria, "unofficially" under Japanese occupation in the 1930s, it tells the... -
Purple Butterfly: Press Conference Highlights
the 22.05.2003 at 9:45 PM - Updated on 23.05.2003 at 11:59 AM
Lou Ye: "I'd been wanting to make a film about Shanghai for a very long time. I started writing the screenplay in 1993. During the long writing process, I tried to do as much research as possible on the city's history and on how people lived back then. The more I researched, the more I accumulated information, the less I... -
In competition : La petite Lili
the 22.05.2003 at 9:15 PM - Updated on 27.06.2003 at 1:57 PM
The World of Chekhov According to Claude Miller Five years after receiving the Grand Jury Prize in 1998 for his adaptation of Emmanuel Carrère's novel School Trip, this time round Cannes veteran Claude Miller presents Lili, a contemporary version of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull. After François Ozon's... -
La Petite Lili: Press Conference Highlights
the 22.05.2003 at 9:00 PM - Updated on 27.06.2003 at 1:59 PM
During a press conference today, accompanied by actors Ludivine Sagnier, Robinson Stévenin, Bernard Giraudeau and Jean-Pierre Marielle, and by producers Anne Miller and Denise Robert, French director Claude Miller answered the journalists' questions regarding his new film, La Petite Lili, competing in the Official... -
Out of competition : Mansion by the Lake
the 22.05.2003 at 8:10 PM - Updated on 27.06.2003 at 1:56 PM
At the age of 84, Sri Lanka's leading director Lester James Peries returns to the international stage after an absence of almost 20 years, with his latest feature Mansion by the Lake, presented out of competition. Member of the jury in 1982, this is Peries' fourth film presented in Cannes. With eighteen features to date this... -
Un Certain Regard : Hoy y Mañana
the 22.05.2003 at 8:09 PM - Updated on 27.06.2003 at 2:02 PM
Hard Times in Argentina Newcomer Alejandro Chomski's directional debut is turning heads, as his first film, Hoy y Mañana, is projected in Un Certain Regard. Working towards the revival of Argentinean cinema, he presents an emotional chronicle on the disillusions of Paula, an aspiring young actress, who, like so... -
Un Certain Regard : Robinson's Crusoe
the 22.05.2003 at 8:09 PM - Updated on 27.06.2003 at 2:03 PM
Looking for Robinson Crusoe Invited for the fourth time to the Croisette, the Taiwanese director Lin Cheng-Sheng, discovered in 1996 with A Drifting Life (presented in Critics' week), returns with a modern day adaptation of the tale of Robinson Crusoe. Selected in the section un Certain Regard, it is a typical... -
The Cinéma de la Plage: For the Fans
the 22.05.2003 at 8:00 PM - Updated on 27.06.2003 at 2:13 PM
Between 600 and 1,000 spectators a night, culminating at 15,000 for the screening of Fanfan la Tulipe: it's safe to say the Cinéma de la Plage is an overwhelming success. Created last year on Macé beach, within the Jacques Tati Retrospective, this outdoor movie theater offers a rich and diverse program, including... -
The "Father" of DVDs
the 22.05.2003 at 7:07 PM - Updated on 22.05.2003 at 7:48 PM
Head of Warner Home Video for the last 20 years and instigator of the numerical revolution, Warreb Lieberfarb, nicknamed the "Father" of DVDs by the American press was honoured this Thursday in Cannes. Gilles Jacob the President of the film festival awarded him with the official "Festival Medal". The morning's ceremony was... -
Money and Cinema
the 22.05.2003 at 5:12 PM - Updated on 12.06.2003 at 1:11 PM
The world of money and cinema, this is the theme chosen by the IFCIC (France's Cinematographic Financial Institute) for a photographic exhibition to celebrate the organization's 20th anniversary. Entitled Argentique Images photo-sensibles, this event takes place at the Director's fortnight headquarters on the Noga Hilton... -
Cannes' Village of the World
the 22.05.2003 at 4:15 PM - Updated on 12.06.2003 at 1:01 PM
Just two steps away from the Palais des Festivals, the Cannes crowd can come visit the Village International - a sea of white tents on the beach, one for each country represented in the Festival. Created in 2000, the village is home to cinema from around the world, where each country can present and promote its cinematographic... -
Luncheon in Honor of the Press and the Jury
the 22.05.2003 at 3:00 PM - Updated on 23.06.2003 at 9:54 AM
Patrice Chéreau, Aishwarya Rai, Meg Ryan, Steven Soderbergh, Jean Rochefort, Erri de Lucca, Karin Viard, Danis Tanovic and Wen Jiang, all the members of the Jury of the Official Cannes Competition met up for lunch at the Aïoli restaurant today for a Provençal luncheon in honor of the press. In a charming... -
Regard
the 22.05.2003 at 2:31 PM - Updated on 27.06.2003 at 2:00 PM
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Restored Prints: I Am Cuba
the 22.05.2003 at 1:00 PM - Updated on 27.06.2003 at 1:59 PM
Today's restored print is Mikhail Kalatozishvili's I Am Cuba, which spectacularly showcases its fervent political ideology through a series of four fascinating vignettes set all around the nation. Made shortly after the collapse of the Batista regime, the picture takes up a fervently pro-Castro stance, painting the leader as a... -
The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
the 22.05.2003 at 11:14 AM - Updated on 27.06.2003 at 2:14 PM
Three days before the screening, out of competition of a restored copy of Chaplin's Modern Times, festivalgoers have the opportunity of rediscovering the life and art of Charlie Chaplin with a feature length documentary by Richard Schickel. A medium which this director/historian is familiar with, seeing as he already directed... -
Jenny Holzer's quote of the day
the 22.05.2003 at 10:16 AM - Updated on 22.05.2003 at 10:20 AM
Sound Films invented silence. Robert Bresson -
Flashback 21st May
the 22.05.2003 at 8:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2003 at 10:28 PM
Wednesday was marked by tears, as festivalgoers came out of the screening of Denys Arcand's The Barbarian Invaders sniffling into their handkerchiefs. This witty, intelligent and tender portrayal of a dying man managed to shake off the Croisette's hangover and suddenly became a serious contender for the Palme d'Or. Second time...
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