The Daily 2007

The President of the Cannes Festival, Gilles Jacob, bestowed a special Golden Palm on American actress Jane Fonda during a dinner at the Carlton Hotel, paying tribute to her career and her commitment. This makes the fourth career achievement Palme d’Or awarded to an actor or filmmaker in the history of the Festival. The...

Makiko Watanabe, Machiko Ono, Shigeki Uda and Naomi Kawase Photo Copyright AFP

Aleksandar Bercek, Uros Milovanovic, Marija Petronijevic, Emir Kusturica, Maja Kusturica, Miki Manojlovic and Ljiljana Blagojevic Photo Copyright AFP

Jane Fonda is in Cannes to honor her father, Henry, at the homage screening of Sydney Lumet’s 1957 film, 12 Angry Men. She was given a standing ovation as she made her way to the stage on the arm of Gilles Jacob. She addressed the crowd in French, extending her appreciation to the Festival for this evening and especially...

At the closing ceremonies, California Dreamin’ by Romanian director Cristian Nemescu, who was recently killed in an automobile accident, was awarded the Un Certain Regard prize by the Jury presided by filmmaker Pascale Ferran. As the first feature-length film made by 27-year-old Nemescu, California Dreamin' is also in...

This Saturday May 26, the documentary Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case will be presented to the public at 10:30pm. It is a memorial to the former Russian intelligence agent who died in a London hospital in November 2006, the world's first known victim of poisoning by polonium-210, a highly radioactive substance. A press briefing was...

Japanese director Naomi Kawase, presenting The Mourning Forest in Competition today, fielded questions from journalists at the traditional press conference. At her side were actors Shigeki Uda, Makiko Watanabe, and Machiko Ono, along with producers Christian Baute and Shunji Dodo. Selected excerpts: Naomi Kawase...

Today, the Festival press room hosted the crew of The Age of Ignorance, who fielded questions from journalists. Director Denys Arcand was accompanied by actors Marc Labrèche, Emma de Caunes, and Diane Kruger, as well as producers Denise Robert and Dominique Besnehard. Highlights follow:. Denys Arcand on the...

Within the framework of the 5th edition of Europe Day, a meeting between the representatives of the European distributors network – which is made up of close to 50 distributors from 18 countries - and Viviane Reding with other ministers was organized. The association, Europa Distribution, created in March 2006 at the...

On November 23, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian intelligence agent, died in a London hospital, the victim of poisoning with the highly radioactive chemical polonium-210. The documentary Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case, directed by Andrei Nekrasov and Olga Konskaya, examines the mysterious event. The film was added...

Director Emir Kusturica addressed the press, answering questions from the journalists about his latest film Promise Me This. He was flanked by producers Olivier Delbosc and Marc Missonnier and actors Miki Manojlovic, Marija Petronijevic, Uros Milovanovic, Ljiljana Blagojevic and Aleksandar Bercek. Emir Kusturica on...

With Mogari No Mori (The Mourning Forest), the Japanese director Naomi Kawase is in Cannes once again, 10 year after her Camera d’Or for Moe No Suzaku, and four years after Shara was presented in Competition. In this new feature film, the young filmmaker focuses on an old man and his relationship with one of the...

On May 24, the European Commission adopted a new law on broadcasting which will extend the advantages of the "Television without Borders" directive to video on demand. In connection with that, the Cannes Festival is welcoming EU Ministers of Culture for the fifth annual Europe Day. Invited by Viviane Reding, European...

Four years after winning the Best Screenplay Award here in Cannes for The Barbarian Invasions, Denys Arcand is presenting the final film of the Official Selection, the Out-of-Competition entry The Age of Ignorance. In this satire of society, the Canadian director from Quebec focuses on Jean-Marc, a simple man, a good civil...

At 8:45pm this evening, the last musical prelude of this festival features DJ Roudoudou spinning his personal mix of 70s film sound tracks. Kagemusha by Akira Kurosawa, Palme d’Or in 1980, will follow in a 9:30 pm showing at the outdoor theatre Cinema de la Plage.

The Cannes Classics program comes to an end this evening at 10:30pm with the screening of a restored copy of The Adventures of Prince Ahmed by Lotte Reiniger, dating from 1926 and thus one of the first-ever animated features in the history of cinema. The paper cutouts of princesses and their universe, reenacting impossible...

The following actors are here in Cannes in person today: 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, Esther...

Two-time Palme d’Or winner for When Father was Away on Business in 1985 and Underground in 1995, Emir Kusturica is once again showing a film in the Official Competition, a feature entitled Promise Me This. The action takes place in the Serbian countryside and centers on the promises made by Tsane (Uros Milovanovic) to...