The Daily 2009

19 May

Press Conference: Bellochio, Mezzogiorno, and Timi for "Vincere"

the 19.05.2009 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2009 at 8:37 PM

Director Marco Bellocchio, presenting his feature Vincere in Competition, and leading actors Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Filippo Timi, as well as producer Mario Gianani, fielded questions from the press. Highlights follow. Marco Bellocchio on what motivated him to make the film : "This woman's passion is something that is quite...
Pedro Almodóvar discusses his "Broken Embraces"

the 19.05.2009 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 20.05.2009 at 6:40 PM

Reporters from the international press were able to meet the entire crew of the feature Broken Embraces. Voluble as ever, director Pedro Almodóvar was accompanied by cast members Penélope Cruz, Blanca Portillo, José Luis Gómez, Lluis Homar, Tamar Novas, and Rubén Ochandiano, as well as producer Augustin Almodóvar. Excerpts...
Un Certain Regard: "Tales from the Golden Age"

the 19.05.2009 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2009 at 6:19 PM

Tales from the Golden Age, screening in Un Certain Regard, is a five-part film made by five Romanian directors, one of whom is Cristian Mungiu, winner of the Palme d’Or in 2007 for the universally acclaimed 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days. The "Golden Age" in these five wry tales is the final fifteen years Ceausescu regime. Get ready...
Actors in Cannes today

the 19.05.2009 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2009 at 11:14 AM

Spotted or expected in Cannes today: Anne Alvaro, Rosanna Arquette, Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Marc Barr, François Berléand, Stephanie Bishop, Eric Cantona, Penelope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Audrey Dana, Jean-Claude Darmon, Louis-Do De Lencquesaing, Franck Dubosc, André Dussollier, Vincent Elbaz, Ronit Elkabetz, Virginie...
The Cannes Film Market hosts 10,000 professionals

the 19.05.2009 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2009 at 2:26 PM

The Cannes Film Market, one of the biggest screening exhibitions on the festival circuit, is once again open for business, from May 13 to 23. Approximately 10,000 participants from the four corners of the planet will sort through the 4,500 films, both in-the-making and completed, in the huge 140,000-square-foot area of the Palais des...
Cannes Classics : "Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno" Revisited

the 19.05.2009 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 19.10.2009 at 4:15 PM

At 19:45pm in the Soixantième theater, attended by the film crew, festivalgoers are served another offering from the Cannes Classics program, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno, a reconstitution of the lost work, for which shooting began in 1964 and was never completed. After having found tests and some rushes, director Serge Bromberg,...
Un Certain Regard: "Tomorrow at Dawn"

the 19.05.2009 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2009 at 2:24 PM

Music-loving director Denis Dercourt is back in Cannes three years after The Page Turner, to compete in Un Certain Regard with Tomorrow at Dawn. It's the story of two brothers: the younger is so fascinated by reenacting historical battles that he is no longer dealing with reality. Their mother has asked the elder brother to try to...
Dardenne Brothers at the Cinema Masterclass

the 19.05.2009 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2009 at 6:20 PM

As is the tradition at each Cannes Film Festival, a renowned filmmaker is asked to share his craft in a Masterclass. Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Stephen Frears, Nanni Moretti, Wong Kar Wai and Sydney Pollack have participated in the past. Today it was not one, but two brothers, the Dardenne brothers, who are two-time winners...
Special Screening Out-of-Competition: "Manila" by Raya Martin and Adolfo Alix, Jr.

the 19.05.2009 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2009 at 2:33 PM

Filipino director Raya Martin, who screened Independencia yesterday in Un Certain Regard, is under the spotlight again for a Special Screening of Manila, a feature-length film he co-directed with countryman Adolfo Alix, Jr. It is a story of three characters with different paths: a drug addict desperately trying to re-connect with his...
Cinéma de la Plage: "Total Balalaika Show"

the 19.05.2009 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2009 at 7:01 PM

Tonight's Cinéma de la Plage free outdoor screening will be dedicated in full to Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki, Grand Prix laureate with The Man without a Past in 2002. Tonight, festivalgoers can enjoy his 1993 documentary Total Balalaika Show, about the Finnish rock band Leningrad Cowboys. Prior to the screening, at 8:30 pm,...
Marco Bellochio presents "Vincere" in Competition

the 19.05.2009 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2009 at 7:45 AM

Marco Bellocchio and the Cannes Festival have loved one another for years. Nine of his features have been selected here, the two most recent being My Mother's Smile in 2002 and The Wedding Director in 2006. In 2007, he served on the Jury. Now, the Italian filmmaker returns to the Competition to present Vincere, which sheds light on an...
Almodóvar competing for the Palme d'Or with "Broken Embraces"

the 19.05.2009 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2009 at 6:22 PM

The Cannes Festival Official Selection is glad to welcome Pedro Almodóvar to the Competition with Broken Embraces. After Volver (Best Screenplay, in 2006) and All About my Mother (Best Director, 1999), the filmmaking Spaniard is returning with a new homage to the seventh art. "I feel it's the first time I've made such...