The Daily 2010

Michael Haneke, winner of the Palme d'Or in Cannes in 2009 for Le Ruban Blanc, was made a  Commandeur des Arts et Lettres by French Minister of Culture Frédéric Mitterrand  at noon today at the Café des Palmes. Juliette Binoche, the actress chosen by the Austrian film-maker for his films Code Unknown (2000) and Caché (2005),...

"I think one has to be a great dreamer to continue to make films in States that don't finance local productions and where cinemas are closing" Mahamet Saleh Haroun

To celebrate the presence of the President of the Jury of the 63rd Festival de Cannes, the Palais des Festivals has been bedecked in the colours of Tim Burton's world by presenting his drawings in the halls of the Grand Théâtre Lumière and the Salle Debussy.   © Tim Burton Scenography: Patrick...

The press conference of the film A Screaming Man by Mahamat Saleh-Haroun was held at midday. The director was accompanied by actors Emile Abossolo M’bo, Youssouf Djaoro, Diouc Koma and editor Marie-Hélène Dozo. Extraits.   The impact of conflicts on the film: Mahamat Saleh-Haroun: Last week, there were still confrontations....

French scriptwriter and director Gilles Marchand presents his second feature film in Cannes, in Midnight Screenings. his first film, Who Killed Bambi had been presented Out of Competition n 2003. Dans Black Heaven, he explores the world of video games, a theme he also looked into in RU There ? and Chatroom. An exclusive...

The entire crew of La Princesse de Montpensier, the new feature film by the director, Bertrand Tavernier, answered questions from journalists this morning. Here are some extracts from the press conference.   Bertrand Tavernier on the feminist edge to his film: This woman’s fate really moved me. I wanted to understand and defend...

The VIP guests expected to be in attendance today are: Emil ABOSSOLO M'BO, Pierre ARBILLOT, Aure ATIKA, Alberto BARBERA, Kate BECKINSALE, BEKHTI, Haley BENNETT, Juliette BINOCHE, Cate BLANCHETT, Sandrine BONNAIRE, Louise BOURGOIN, Stephane BRIZE, Jim BROADBENT, Josh BROLIN, Valeria BRUNI TEDESCHI, Tim BURTON, Guillaume CANET,...

In 2007, at the 60th Festival de Cannes, Martin Scorsese inaugurated the World Cinema Foundation to restore and distribute heritage films from around the world. This year, five of these films will be screened at Cannes Classics. Today, El Fallah al Fasih by Shadi Abdel Salem and Mest by Erlek Shinarbaev will be screened at 17:00...

Director Agnes Kocsis is in Cannes for the second time. She was there in 2006, both for a short film that was selected for the Cinéfondation (The Virus) and for her first feature film, Fresh Air, presented at the Critics’ Week. Pal Adrienn is her second feature film. Selected for Un Certain Regard, it is being screened at 11:15 in...

Cannes Classics is back today with two emblematic figures from the world of filmmaking: the French producer, Daniel Toscan du Plantier, and the British cameraman, Jack Cardiff. Toscan is Isabelle Partiot-Pieri´s first film to be presented at the Festival de Cannes. Using archive images, her documentary traces the life of Daniel...

  What could be better than a screening at the Cinéma de la plage for the documentary Hollywood don’t surf! by Gref MacGillivray and Sam George? This evening on the plage Macé at 9:30 p.m.   Hollywood don’t surf! takes an amusing look at the conflictual relationship between the American capital of film and the world of...

Between censorship and consecration, director Jia Zhang-Ke has cut a unique path for himself in the world of Chinese cinematography. His latest film, I Wish I Knew (Hai shang chuan qi ), is being screened today in Un Certain Regard in Salle Debussy at 16:30.   Director Jia Zhang-Ke is originally from the province du Shanxi, a...

The director, Sophie Fiennes, will present her documentary Over your cities grass will grow at 7:30 p.m. today in Séance Spéciale in the Salle du Soixantième. This is her first time in Selection at the Festival, following in the footsteps of several members of her family.   Indeed, born of parents who are painters and...

The actor Benicio Del Toro is at the Festival de Cannes for the fourth time, having presented The Usual Suspects in 1995, Sin City in 2005 and Che in 2008. But this time, he comes in a novel role, that of Jury Member. In 2008, you won the award for Best Actor for Che at the Festival. This year, you will be awarding the prices....

The dividing line between a virtual universe and the real world can be fuzzy at times, to the point where, when a champion video game player is witness to a serious accident, he doesn’t give any assistance. When he likes a girl, he approaches her on Second life. This disoriented gamer, lost between two spheres, is Jitze, the main...

Absent from the Competition since 1990, Bertrand Tavernier is back before the Feature Film Jury with a dramatic film set in the sixteenth century (Grand Théâtre Lumière, 8:30, 15:00, 19:00) that showcases some of the most promising French actors of the new generation.   It has been twenty years since the Festival de Cannes...

  Mahamet Saleh Haroun is in Competition for the first time at the Festival de Cannes. His fourth feature film, A Screaming Man, will be screened today at 12:00 and 22:15 in the Grand Théâtre Lumière.  The Chadian director, who took part in the Atelier de la Cinéfondation in Cannes in 2005 with his film Darrat, tackles themes...

  Having focused on American politics in Iraq in No End in Sight, the director and political analyst Charles Ferguson has now come to Cannes with Inside Job: a cinematographic inquiry into the world financial crisis. What with Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps by Oliver Stone and Inside Job today in Séance Spéciale, the economic...