The Daily 2006

Sarah Michelle Gellar and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

Bruce Willis and Avril Lavigne

Director Richard Kelly, actors Sarah Michelle Gellar and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, as well as producer Sean McKittrick, attended the press conference today to answer questions from the journalists about Southland Tales. Highlights. Richard Kelly on his political views of the United States: "The film is meant to be a...

Three years after Uzak, which walked away with the Grand Prix as well as a double Prize for Best Actor, Turkish helmer Nuri Bilge Ceylan is once again back in the Official Selection, in competition with Climates, a feature film coproduced by Fabienne Vonier from France. This time, we find the director both in front of and...

Presented out of competition in the section Cannes Classics today, Avida marks the first time at Cannes for directors Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern. Likewise assuming the roles of both screenwriters and actors, they deliver a surrealist fable whose cast benefits from the presence of Claude Chabrol and Albert...

With Southland Tales, presented in competition, the young American director Richard Kelly, noticed in 2001 with Donnie Darko, makes his Cannes baptism. This futuristic film evokes the city of Los Angeles, fallen victim to a nuclear attack in 2008, a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions which precipitates America into war....

Nazan Kesal, Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Ebru Ceylan

Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan fielded journalists' questions at the press conference for his film Climates, presented today in competition. He was accompanied by actresses Ebru Ceylan and Nazan Kesal, cinematographer GÂâ€khan Tiryaki, producers Zeynep ™zbatur and...

The press conference in honour of the film Over the Hedge was held today in the presence of directors Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick, actors Bruce Willis, William Shatner, Nick Nolte and Avril Lavigne, as well as producer Bonnie Arnold and CEO of DreamWorks Studios, Jeffrey Katzenberg. Highlights. The actors on...

This year, the much-debated activist American filmmaker Oliver Stone has reserved for the Festival de Cannes the sneak peek at the first 20 minutes of his forthcoming film, World Trade Center, headed by an all-star cast: Nicolas Cage, Michael Pena, Maria Bello and Maggie Gyllenhaal. This evening, at 10:15 pm, festival-goers...

For the 14th consecutive year, the Festival de Cannes welcomes at the Pavillon de l'Adami in the Village International-Pantiero, the operation "Talents Cannes", under the aegis of the renowned artists and performers rights management society. This new edition brings together the talents of 21 young actors and 4 seasoned...

Wong Kar Wai, first Chinese Jury President of the Festival de Cannes was raised at noon to the rank of Knight of the Legion of Honour by Culture and Communication Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres in the Café des Palmes. "Your genius illuminates the screens of the whole world with colours, perfumes and sounds of Hong...

Presented in the section Un Certain Regard, Serambi, a documentary directed by Garin Nugroho, Tonny Trimarsanto, Viva Westi and Lianto Luseno, follows three tales and the destinies of the inhabitants of Aceh, a province in Indonesia, after the deadly tsunami of December 2004. "Serambi," in the words of producer...

Israel is honoured on this second day of the programme All the Cinemas of the World, with the presentation by selected countries of a range of their cinematic creations. A way for the Festival de Cannes to recognise the talent and audacity of certain filmmakers, according to journalist Goel Pinto, who choose "political...

As a supplement to the screenings of Avida, Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern's new film, and the screening of Mystery of the Eiffel Tower by Julien Duvivier, Cannes Classics honours one of the living legends of Italian cinema at 5:00 pm, Marcello Mastroianni, with the programming of a documentary devoted to his...

After Shrek in 2001 and Shrek 2 in 2004, the studio DreamWorks comes to present a third animated feature film at Cannes. Over the Hedge, directed by Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick, is presented out of competition at the 59th Festival de Cannes, and portrays an adventure unlike any other with animals leaving their wood for...

For the first time in his career, Patrick Grandperret comes to present a film in the Official Selection of the Festival de Cannes. By shooting Murderers, screened in the section Un Certain Regard, he takes up the torch left by the late Maurice Pialat, director of Under the Sun of Satan, who had written twenty pages about a...

A piano, a painting and a white screen: such were the elements of the decoration set up in the Salle Buñuel to welcome the Music Masterclass of this 59th edition of the Festival de Cannes. This year, the composer being honoured, succeeding Christopher Doyle, is French and is called Alexandre Desplat. Over recent years,...

Expected this Sunday in Cannes are Claudine Auger, Daniel Auteuil, Fabienne Babe, Halle Berry, Michel Blanc, Cate Blanchett, Julien Boisselier, Margherita Buy, Guillaume Canet, Carmen Chaplin, François Cluzet, Clotilde Courau, Penélope Cruz, Tony Curran, Paul Dawson, Antoine De Caunes, Kate Dickie, Jean Dujardin,...