The Daily 2006

Greg Kinnear, Ana Claudia Talanc¢n, Ethan Hawke, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Richard Linklater and Wilmer Valderrama

Penélope Cruz, Pedro Almod¢var and Carmen Maura

The third day of this 59th edition of the Festival de Cannes is marked by the return to the Official Selection - seven years after All About My Mother which won the Prize to the Best Director, and two years after Bad Education - of Pedro Almod¢var presenting in competition Volver. In this film, the...

As a supplement to the tribute paid to Russian filmmaker Sergei M. Eisenstein yesterday with the screening of two of his films - Bezhin Meadow and October - within the framework of the section Cannes Classics - the Festival inaugurates at 2:30 pm, in the presence of President Gilles Jacob, director of the Russian State...

After Catherine Deneuve last year, it's actress Gena Rowlands to host the Acting Masterclass. Just after the Opening Night screening, the American actress was presented by Thierry Frémaux, "as belonging to the intimate story of each filmgoer as much as the history of cinema." She spent more than an hour sharing...

With Fast Food Nation, presented in the Official Selection in competition, young American director Richard Linklater makes his first appearance at the Festival de Cannes - he will return on Thursday, May 25th to present A Scanner Darkly in the section Un Certain Regard. Adapted from Eric Schlosser's eponymous best-seller, Fast...

The entire Volver team gathered together today in a press conference room to answer journalists' questions. Actresses Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Yohana Coba, Blanca Portillo, as well as the director's producer and brother Agustin Almod¢var were present around Pedro...

The International Village offers an opportunity to all film-producing territories to promote their works, their culture, their institutions through exchanges. The Village has added eleven new countries to its rosters this year. These new pavilions belong to Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Hon Kong, India, Morocco, Rumania,...

One of the competition offerings of the day is Fast Food Nation by Richard Linklater. In addition to the American director, the press conference was represented by the film's stars: Ashley Johnson, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Ana Claudia Talacon, Bobby Cannavale, Ethan Hawke, Greg Kinnear, Lou Taylor Pucci and Wilmer Valderramma....

Presented in the section Cannes Classics to mark the 100th anniversary of the entertainment trade daily Variety, Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs & Blockbusters analyses the successes and commercial failures of the motion-picture production when no rules or guarantees were pre-established. This HBO documentary was inspired by the...

The meetings of the Atelier du Festival begin today, after an opening lunch. Launched last year and crowned with success - Hamaca Paraguaya by the young Paraguayan director La Paz Encina was developed within the framework of the Atelier and was selected this year for the section Un Certain Regard - this initiative is intended...

Hungarian director GyÂâ€rgy P lfi today presents, in the section Un Certain Regard, his second feature film entitled Taxidermia. "I just hope," he explains, "I succeeded in making an instinctive film about the perfection and imperfection of man." Taxidermia is the story of a...

From May 19-27, an international DJ has been invited to mix the original soundtracks of films as a prelude to the Beach Cinema's projection. Artists from the electro scene, such as Fred Elalouf, Nicolas Saada, the Traffic Quintet and the Didier Riey Group will follow one another on the decks to pay tribute in their own way to...

The selection of Ten Canoes in the section Un Certain Regard marks Rolf de Heer's third time at the Festival de Cannes, ten years after The Quiet Room and eight years after Dance Me to My Song, both presented in competition. With this eleventh feature film, the Dutch director explores an ancestral period of the Australian...

Expected to grace the Croisette today are: Claudine Auger, Edouard Baer, Richard Berry, Dominique Blanc, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Marie-Josée Croze, Penélope Cruz, Alfonso Cuaron, Tony Curran, Paul Dawson/Pjdeboy, Kate Dickie, Christopher Doyle, Mélanie Doutey, Mehmet Eryilmaz, Sarah...