The Daily 2006

Giacomo Rizzo, Laura Chiatti, Paolo Sorrentino and Fabrizio Bentivoglio

The second film, after The Caiman by Nanni Moretti, to represent Italy in competition, The Family Friend enables Neapolitan filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino (who appears moreover in the cast of The Caiman) to make his return on the Croisette, two years having competed for the Palme d'Or with The Consequences of Love. In this new...

For two days (Thursday May 25th and Friday May 26th), 17 shorts with a running-time between 5 minutes (Elastinen Parturi by Milla Nybondas) and 51 minutes (Ha'chavera Shell Emile by Nadav Lapid), selected by the Cinéfondation among 1,000 film school works, will be presented in four programmes at the Salle...

The Cinefondation and Short Film Jury presided by Russian director Andreï Konchalovsky, and the 17 film directors will climb the red-carpeted steps at 6:30pm marking the opening of the selection.

This sixth day of the programme All the Cinemas of the World is dedicated to Tunisia, whose film industry "is recognised as one of the freest and the most creative in the world" (according to director Férid Boughedir). Upon this occasion, ten young Tunisian short filmmakers will screen their works within the framework...

As a supplement to the screening of the documentary Once Upon a Time... Rome, Open City, focusing on the shoot of Roberto Rossellini's masterpiece and directed by Marie Genin and Serge July, the Salle Buñuel will be the venue for the programming of shorts presented out of competition this year. As of 7:45 pm,...

For three consecutive evenings, as of 8:45 pm and as a prelude to the screening at the Beach Cinema, DJ Nicolas Saada will headline the Cannes Mix programme. Every day, this electro scene artist will mix live soundtracks of films from different continents during 45 minutes. On Thursday, May 25th, Hollywood motion pictures will...

Present on the Croisette: David Basche, Emmanuelle Béart, Bernard Blancan, Julien Boisselier, Dany Boon, Elodie Bouchez, Claude Brasseur, Eric Caravaca, Amira Casar, Alain Chabat, Chen Chang, Carmen Chaplin, Patrick Chesnais, Laura Chiatti, Christian Clemenson, François Cluzet, Clotilde Courau, Danièle...

Robert Downey Jr., Richard Linklater and Keanu Reeves

"I just have to say that anything I am presenting that has the name "Masterclass" is enough to ring every alarm bell in my brain," began Sydney Pollack at the onset of his Film Masterclass for this 59th edition of the Festival. After 40 years in filmmaking and 20 films later, he spoke to the audience about his start as an...

For the press conference held today in honour of the Un Certain Regard feature A Scanner Darkly, the journalists were able to ask questions to director Richard Linklater as well as actors Robert Downey Jr. and Keanu Reeves, and producer Tommy Pallotta. A few highlights follow. Richard Linklater on why he chose this...

Yesterday evening, in the Grand Salon of the Carlton Hotel, a dinner was held in honour of Un Certain Regard. Invited were all the crews of the films presented in this section as well as the Jury presided by the filmmaker Monte Hellman and composed of author Marjane Satrapi and journalists Laura Winters, Jean-Pierre Lavoignat...

Presented in the section Un Certain Regard, Retrieval is Slawomir Fabicki's debut feature film. Having already garnered numerous international prizes for his shorts, this young Polish director of thirty-six today competes for the Camera d'Or with the story of Wojtek, a 19-year-old young man flirting with illegality to provide...

The presentation of You am I in the section Un Certain Regard marks Lithuanian director Kristijonas Vildziunas' first time at the Festival de Cannes. One-time singer in a popular rock band in his country, Kristijonas Vildziunas homes in on the incapacity of man to adjust to exterior reality, and the intrinsic conflict between...

WWII veterans in the company of Samy Naceri, Bernard Blancan, Sami Bouajila, Rachid Bouchareb, Assaad Bouab, Jamel Debbouze and Roschdy Zem

The fourth French feature film presented in competition and the third to portray a situation of conflict - after The Wind that Shakes the Barley by Ken Loach on the War of Independence in Ireland and Flanders by Bruno Dumont, Days of Glory depicts the key role that tens of thousands of Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian...

The press conference held today in honour of the competition feature Days of Glory took place in the presence of director Rachid Bouchareb, actors Sami Bouajila, Roschdy Zem, Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri and Bernard Blancan, producer Jean Bréhat as well as composers Armand Amar and Khaled. Highlights. The actors...

Surrounded by his stars Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Giacomo Rizzo and Laura Chiatti, and producers Fabio Conversi, Nicola Giuliano and Domenico Procacci, director Paolo Sorrentino answered journalists' questions concerning his film The Family Friend at the press conference held this Thursday. Highlights. Paolo Sorrentino on...

After Fast Food Nation in the running for the Palme d'Or, American director Richard Linklater presents this time a second feature film, A Scanner Darkly, in the section Un Certain Regard. Adapted from Philip K. Dick's eponymous futuristic novel, the film uses a technique combining live takes and CGI imagery, thus conferring on...