The Daily 2007

Asia Argento, Fu'ad Ait Aattou, and Roxane Mesquida. Photo Copyright AFP

With European Day opening tomorrow, Viviane Reding, the European Commissioner in charge of the information society and media, as well as the Ministers of Culture from the EU member nations, were welcomed onto the red carpet for the official screening of Une Vieille Maîtresse by Catherine Breillat. Photo...

The Cannes Classics program continues tonight with the screening of Never Apologize: A Personal Visit with Lindsay Anderson by Mike Kaplan, which was initiated by Malcolm McDowell in homage to Lindsay Anderson. For this evening’s showing, president of the Jury, Stephen Frears – who was an assistant on the film If,...

Joaquin Phoenix, Eva Mendes, James Gray and Robert Duvall Photo Copyright AFP

The All the Cinemas of the World program, which provides a country-by-country presentation of a sample of the world's motion-picture industries, ends today with a day dedicated to Slovenia. Recently, a number of "point projects" have been produced and shot independently of the two government institutions, the National...

The third Cinéfondation Atelier, which opened May 18 and ended this Friday, was a great success. The purpose of this workshop, set up as part of the Cinéfondation's mission to promote artistic creation, is to strengthen ties between film co-producers. Film-world professionals did indeed show interest in artistic...

Presented in the Official Competition, We Own the Night by James Gray was put to journalist question in a daily exercise of press conferences. Present were the director James Gray, actors Joaquin Phoenix, Robert Duvall, and Eva Mendes, along with producers Mark Butan and Nick Wechsler. Excerpts follow. James Gray on...

Director Catherine Breillat, whose film Une Vieille Maîtresse was presented in Competition today, met the press this Friday morning. Actors Fu'ad Ait Aatou, Asia Argento, Roxane Mesquida, and Claude Sarraute appeared at her side, as well as producer Jean-François Lepetit. Highlights follow: Catherine...

Gilles Jacob and Pierre Viot created the Cinefondation in 1998 in order to discover the new generation of up and coming filmmakers. Since then, each year, a new selection of film school works have been presented to audiences during the Cannes Festival. This year there were 16 films from Asia, Europe, North America and South...

The artistry of director Mehdi Charef has already been noted by the Cannes Festival. In 1985, his Thé au Harem d'Archimède (Tea in the Harem) was selected by Un Certain Regard. He returned in 1992, for the presentation in Competition of Au Pays des Juliets (In the Country of Juliets). Today, as part of the...

With Night Train, Diao Yi Nan comes to Cannes a second time for the Un Certain Regard program (he was here in 2003 as actor in All Tomorrow’s Parties, from fellow countryman Yu Lik Wai). His first offering, entitled Uniform, went on to win the Dragon and Tiger award at the Vancouver Film Festival as well as the Doen...

The following actors are here in Cannes in person today: Fanny Ardant, Asia Argento, Harry Belafonte, Michèle Bernier, Bernard Blancan, Nick Cannon, Amira Casar, Marion Cotillard, Audrey Dana, Emma de Caunes, Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall, Song Fang, Jane Fonda, Maud Fontenoy, Sara Forestier, Raisa Gichaeva,...

Tonight's musical prelude at the outdoor theatre Cinéma de la Plage features a concert by Moriarty, five musicians and a singer named Rosemary Standley who bring their own special flavor to the acoustic western/blues genre. Following the concert, at 9:30pm, Festival audiences will be able to discover Made in Jamaica,...

Eleven years after the presentation in the parallel section of Perfect Love, French director Catherine Breillat is competing for the Palme d'Or for the first time with Une Vieille Maîtresse. Adapted from the novel of the same name by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, the action in this feature takes place in the mid-19th...

Presented in Un Certain Regard, Una Novia Errante (The Wandering Bride) is the second film from Ana Katz. The 32-year-old Argentinean director was bestowed a Special Jury Prize in 2002 at the San Sebastian Festival for her first feature El Juego de la Silla (Musical Chairs). She also had a role in Whisky (2004) by Juan Pablo...

Seven years after The Yards, presented in Competition, American director James Gray is back on the Croisette competing a third time for a chance at the Palme d’Or with We Own the Night. The action is set in NY in the 80s. NYPD officers and father & son (Robert Duvall and Mark Wahlberg) are caught up in a crime drama...