The Daily 2009

21 May

Producers Network from May 14 – 20

the 21.05.2009 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2009 at 2:16 PM

The 6th edition of the Producers Network’s seven-day program has just come to a close. “We registered, like previous years, about 600 producers from around the world,” announced Julie Bergeron, head of the Network. Held in the Palais’s Ambassadeur Salon, the Network “welcomed about 200 people every...
Press Conference: "Drag Me to Hell"

the 21.05.2009 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2009 at 7:32 AM

The Drag Me to Hell crew fielded questions from the international press. Director Sam Raimi appeared with the actors Alison Lohman, Lorna Raver, Justin Long, and Dileep Rao. Producer Grant Curtis and screenwriter Ivan Raimi were also on hand. Sam Raimi on being back in Cannes: "I’m so excited to be back here at the Cannes...
Press Conference: Michael Haneke unknots his "White Ribbon"

the 21.05.2009 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2009 at 7:30 AM

The whole cast of the film White Ribbon gathered in the press conference room to answer questions from reporters. Director Michael Haneke was flanked by actors Ulrich Tukur, Burghart Klaussner, Reiner Bock, Christian Friedel, and Léonie Benesch. Highlights follow. Michael Haneke on the themes of White Ribbon: "I've had this...
Press Conference: "In the Beginning"

the 21.05.2009 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2009 at 6:29 PM

Flanked by actors François Cluzet, Soko, Emmanuelle Devos and Vincent Rottiers, cinematographer Glynn Speeckaert, and producers Pierre-Ange Le Pogam and Edouard Weil, French director Xavier Giannoli took questions from the international press about his new feature In the Beginning, screening in Competition. Selected excerpts: Xavier...
Un Certain Regard: "The Wind Journeys" by Ciro Guerra

the 21.05.2009 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2009 at 8:16 PM

Screening in Un Certain Regard, Wind Journeys is the second feature-length film by Ciro Guerra. Born in Rio de Oro in 1981, he studied cinematography at the National University of Colombia. At the age of 20, after having directed multi-award-winning shorts, he wrote, produced, and directed his first feature, The Wandering Shadows,...
Xavier Giannoli returns to the Competition with "In The Beginning"

the 21.05.2009 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2009 at 5:33 PM

The third French film in the running for the Palme d’Or, In the Beginning, is the occastion for Xavier Giannoli to return to Cannes, three years after the in-Competition screening of The Singer and eleven years after his 15-minute L’Interview was awarded the Short Film Palme d'Or. Giannoli's latest feature is a drama set in...
"The White Ribbon" competing for the Palme d'Or

the 21.05.2009 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2009 at 8:14 PM

For the fifth time in his career, Austrian director Michael Haneke is presenting a Competition feature at the Cannes Festival. The White Ribbon is set in a small Protestant village in Northern Germany on the eve of World War I. In these austere surroundings, a series of strange accidents is noticed. They gradually take on the character...
Un Certain Regard for "Adrift" by Heitor Dhalia

the 21.05.2009 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2009 at 8:17 PM

Presented in Un Certain Regard, Adrift by Heitor Dhalia tells the coming of age story of Filipa, 14, who is faced with the conjugal problems of her parents. Vacationing in Rio de Janeiro, the family begins to fall apart; the father is having a love affair and the mother slips into depression, while Filipa is initiated into her first...
"Tale in the Darkness" in Un Certain Regard

the 21.05.2009 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2009 at 4:28 PM

In Cannes for the Un Certain Regard presentation of Tale in the Darkness, Nikolay Khomeriki of Russian origin is not an unknown at the Festival, having won a runner-up prize in the Cinefondation Selection in 2005 for his short film Vdvoyom. The following year he was back in Cannes and in the running for a Camera d’Or for his debut...
Cinéfondation : the nine short films of the day

the 21.05.2009 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2009 at 2:49 PM

More about the Cinefondation PROGRAM 2 Segal Directed by Yuval Shani El Boxeador Directed by Juan Ignacio Pollio #1 Directed by Noamir Castéra Malkonkowie (Significant Others) Directed by Dara Van Dusen Goodbye Directed by Song Fang Screening starting at 11:00 am Salle Bunuel PROGRAM...
"A Town Called Panic" in a Midnight Screening

the 21.05.2009 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2009 at 8:51 AM

In Belgium, "Cowboy" and "Indian" are the names, in English in the text, if you please, of two cartoon heroes beloved by all. As soon as these Calamity Johns cook up a scheme, chaos ensues. This time, they want to celebrate Horse's birthday, and they're wondering what to give him. A homemade barbecue, by golly! Well, it was a great...
Special Screening, Out of Competition: "Tell Me Who You Are (Min Ye)"

the 21.05.2009 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2009 at 8:55 AM

Malian director Souleymane Cissé, Jury Prize laureate in 1987 for Yeelen (The Light) and member of the 1983 Official Selection and 2006 Cinéfondation and Short Film Juries, unveils his new feature, Min Ye… Tell Me Who You Are in a Special Screening today. It is the story of a well-to-do Bamako couple with a marriage on the rocks....
Cannes Classics: From the Spaghetti Western to the New Wave

the 21.05.2009 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2009 at 11:41 AM

Cannes Classics, the Festival program of landmark films of the past, will be closing today with the 3pm screening of a print of the spaghetti western Once Upon a Time... The Revolution (1971), by Sergio Leone. The Cineteca di Bologna and the lab Immagine Ritrovata can take credit for the restoration. At 7pm, festivalgoers are...
"Tengri, Blue Heavens," tonight's Cinéma de la Plage offering

the 21.05.2009 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2009 at 11:24 AM

At 9:30pm, the free outdoor movie theater, Cinéma de la Plage, offers festivalgoers an opportunity to see Tengri, Blue Heavens by Marie Jaoul de Poncheville. Set in Central Asia, this is a nomadic love story which roams the rubble of the Soviet system, during the nationalist renaissance. Prior to the film, there will be a live...
Actors in Cannes

the 21.05.2009 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2009 at 6:10 PM

Spotted or expected in Cannes today: Joaquim De Almeida, Anne Alvaro, Natacha Amal, Ariane Ascaride, Sabine Azéma, Jeanne Balibar, Jean-Marc Barr, Elodie Bouchez, Beyoncé, Patrick Braoudé, Nathaniel Brown, Vincent Cassel, François Cluzet, Grégoire Colin, Anne Consigny, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Emma de Caunes, Hélène de...