The Daily 2007

Marie-Josée Croze, Emmanuelle Seigner, Mathieu Amalric, Olatz Lopez Garmendia, Julian Schnabel, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais, Marina Hands, Agathe de la Fontaine and Emma de Caunes. Photo Copyright AFP

Omar Doom, Zoe Bell, Tracie Thoms, Quentin Tarantino, Rosario Dawson, Kurt Russell, Rose McGowan, Robert Rodriguez, and Eli Roth Photo Copyright AFP

Tonight, Cannes Classics, the festival program devoted to the discovery or rediscovery of heritage films of the past, gave the place of honor to Trances (1981), a film by Ahmed El Maanouni. It tells the story of how a group of musicians caused a social revolution in Morocco in the early 1970s. By choosing a form of expression...

Back by popular demand after the musical prelude of cult film compositions heard last night, DJ Eric Neveux is on the turntables with his own personal compositions of love songs. Directly after at 9:30 pm, The Tin Drum by Volker Schlöndorff, which tied in 1979 for the Golden Palm with Apocalypse Now, will be shown at the...

This evening at 7:45pm in the 60th Anniversary Theatre, the first segment of The War is being presented in a special Out-of-Competition screening. The complete film by Ken Burn and Lynn Novick is 14 ½ hours long, divided into seven segments. It takes an in-depth look at the Second World War as seen through the eyes of a...

For the presentation of Silent Light in Competition, director Carlos Reygadas, lead actress María Pankratz, male lead Cornelio Wall Fehr, and producers Jean Labadie and Jaime Romandia discussed the film with journalists. Excerpts follow: Carlos Reygadas, on what he owes to Carl Dreyer's Ordet: "Ordet is one of...

Officially launched at the press conference today, the World Cinema Foundation is a non-profit organization that is to contribute financial support to the restoration and distribution of films from all over the world. Joining Martin Scorsese on today’s panel of filmmakers were Souleymanne Cisse, Gianluca Farinelli,...

The whole crew of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly was on hand in the press room to speak about the film. With director Julian Schnabel were actors Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marina Hands, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, and Olatz Lopez Garmendia, as well as producers Kathleen Kennedy and Jon Kilik. They...

Cornelio Wall Fehr, Carlos Reygadas and María Pankratz Photo Copyright AFP

Past Palme d’Or winner Quentin Tarantino is back in the Cannes Competition limelight with his latest, Death Proof. At the press conference today he was flanked by actor Kurt Russell, and actresses Rosario Dawson, Rose McGowan, Tracie Thoms and Zoe Bell. And Harvey Weinstein standing off in the sidelines. Excertps...

With over 1,800 films from 75 countries, the Short Film Corner has become a central marketplace that film-world professionals - directors, producers, and distributors - can't afford to miss. This is where the talents of tomorrow are discovered. For the fourth consecutive year, this program aiming to promote the distribution of...

Presented in Competition at this 60th Cannes Festival, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is Julian Schnabel's third feature-length film, following Basquiat (1996) and Before Night Falls (2000). The film is an adaptation of the book by Jean-Dominique Bauby, whose life changed completely in 1995 when he had a massive stroke....

In the running for a Golden Camera award, Calle Santa Fe, programmed in the Un Certain Regard section, is Carmen Castillo's first feature-length film. Castillo, a member of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) in Chile, obtained political asylum in France in the 1970s after being deported. She wrote essays in French and...

For the first time in his career as a director, Harmony Korine has traveled to the Cannes Festival, with a film selected for Un Certain Regard. Mister Lonely, his third feature-length film, following Gummo (1999) and Julien Donkey-Boy (2003), tells the incredible story of a Michael Jackson lookalike who falls in love with a ...

The long and distinguished history of Polish motion-picture production was featured last night with the Special Screening of Kanal (1956) by Andrzej Wajda. Today, the Tous les Cinemas du Monde program will bring us up to date on what's being produced today. The purpose of this section of the Cannes Festival is to give exposure...

Mexican director Carlos Reygadas's career is an integral part of the history of the Cannes Festival. In 2002, his first film, Japon, was featured by Directors' Fortnight. Three years later, Battle in Heaven, his second feature-length film, was selected in Competition. This year, Reygadas is again competing for the Golden Palm,...

With the in-Competition presentation of Death Proof – A Grindhouse Film, the Cannes Festival is reunited with one of its most loyal directors, none other than Quentin Tarantino. After bursting onto the scene in 1992 with Reservoir Dogs, winning the Golden Palm for Pulp Fiction two years later, and then presenting his ...