The Daily 2004

The Cannes International Film Festival is officially open. It was Pedro Almod¢var and his film crew representing Bad Education (La Mala educaci¢n) who had the pleasure of being the first film honoured on the red carpet for this 57th Festival, in a festive spirit despite the...

Five years after receiving Best Director kudos for All About My Mother, Pedro Almod¢var is back on the Croisette kicking off the 57th edition of the Cannes Festival with his latest offering, Bad Education (La Mala educaci¢n), presented out of competition. This drama...

Spanish director Pedro Almod¢var, accompanied by his two stars, Gael Garc¡a Bernal and Fele Mart¡nez, answered journalists at the press conference for his latest film, La Mala educaci¢n (Bad Education). The film,...

The traditional jury press conference, attended by President Quentin Tarantino and members Emmanuelle Béart, Edwidge Danticat, Tilda Swinton, Kathleen Turner, Benoît Poelvoorde, Jerry Shatzberg, Tsui Hark and Peter Von Bagh, showed the international press a group looking forward to watching the work of others. ...

"When I first heard of Cannes, I was eight or nine years old. I must have read an article in the newspaper about the winner. As a cinephile, for me Cannes is heaven [...] alright. If you love cinema, Cannes is heaven and three times I have gone to heaven here. I dreamed about coming to Cannes with my first film, Reservoir...

This year, dance music has found a place at the Festival. Before each open-air projection at the Cinéma de la Plage (Cinema on the Beach), an international DJ will be on hand to mix music from films. Based on the principle of "cine-mix," a collection of CDs begun in 1999 by MK2 Music, artists such as Fred Elalouf, the...

The in-competition film line-up has added an extra film bringing the total to 19 as the competition gets ready to begin. Originally programmed to screen out of competition, Jonathan Nossiter's Mondovino has been pushed into the competition by Festival artistic director Thierry Frémeau, just hours before the Festival...

The Cinéma de la Plage (Cinema on the Beach) is back by popular demand (between 600-1,000 spectators each night) for its third edition. Inaugurated in 2001, the Cannes public now has its own film niche: an opportunity to view classic masterpieces with their feet in the sand. To open this year's open-air season,...