The Daily 2010

 The Résidence of the Cinéfondation celebrates its 10th birthday. To mark the occasion, on Wednesday 19th May, a number of comedians read out extracts from the new project of six of its former residents.This initiative may well be repeated next year.Over the past 10 years, the Résidence has received more than...

In Competition with his feature film Route Irish about the conflict in Iraq, British director Ken Loach talked to journalists this afternoon. Selected comments.   Ken Loach, explaining the basic premise of Route Irish: The war in Iraq is a theme that I have always wanted to develop in one of my films. The question was how to do...

24 ... is the number of steps to the top of the red carpet. Once you get there, the door opens onto the Grand Auditorium Louis Lumière: 2,281 seats to preview the 19 films showing in Competition before the award of the Palme d'Or on May 23.  

The press conference for Olivier Assayas’s movie Carlos took place at lunchtime. The director took questions from journalists accompanied by screenwriter Dan Franck, producers Jens Meurer and Daniel Leconte and cast members Edgar Ramirez, Christoph Bach, Nora von Waldstätten, Alexander Scheer and Ahmad Khaabour. Selected...

The Cannes adventure continued today for thirty students from the Lycée Victor Hugo in Marseilles. After treading the Red Carpet last night for the screening of My Joy  (video available soon), this morning they had a date at the Short Film Corner where Algerian director Yanis Koussim was waiting for them. Cue lively...

Italian director Daniele Luchetti and the cast from La Nostra Vita (Our Life), a feature length movie being presented in Competition this Thursday, answered questions from journalists at their press conference. Some excerpts.   Daniele Luchetti talks about the characters in his film: I wanted to have these characters develop by...

Doug Liman held a press conference for Fair Game this morning. The director was accompanied by the producer-scriptwriter Jez Butterworth, the producers Janet Zucker, Jerry Zucker and Bill Pohlad, and the actress Naomi Watts. Chosen extracts. Naomi Watts about preparing for her role: It was important for me to understand who...

  Cinéma de la Plage offers a world avant-première this evening of the brand new reel of The Girl Hunters by Roy Rowland (1963). It’s a model film noir with Mike Hammer as macho and bluff as ever, interpreted by his own creator, the writer Mickey Spillane. In The Girl Hunters, Mike Hammer investigates his own secretary and...

  The French film composer, Alexandre Desplat, is a member of the feature film Jury for the 63rd Festival de Cannes. Today he accords us a ‘musical’ interview. You’ve been to the festival several times, what sticks in your memory? The strange thing is that sometimes going up the steps can be very different. Sometimes...

Today the Cinéfondation presents two programmes of short and medium length films by young directors from all over the globe. The first screenings start at 11.00 in the Salle Buñuel with Ja Vec jesam sve on sto zelim da imam (I Already am Everything I Want to Have), a solitary journey through the streets of Belgrade. The 23 year...

  Screened today in Un Certain Regard. Simon Werner a disparu (Lights Out) is a first french film about adolescence, with a few heavy hitters in the credits:  the producers of Persepolis, Agnès Godard as DOP, Sonic Youth for the original soundtrack. The director, Fabrice Gobert, who is competing for the Caméra d’Or, gives his...

The VIP guests expected to be in attendance today are: Emil ABOSSOLO M'BO, Alberto BARBERA, Melanie BARNIER, Kate BECKINSALE, Juliette BINOCHE, Dominique BLANC, Cate BLANCHETT, Sami BOUAJILA, Raoul BOVA, Stephane BRIZE, Tim BURTON, Emmanuel CARRERE, Monia CHOKRI, Dominic COOPER, Marion COTILLARD, Russell CROWE, Emma DE CAUNES, Jamel...

The first film presented by American director Doug Liman in Competition at Festival de Cannes, the backdrop for Fair Game is the Plame-Wilson scandal of 2005.Valerie Plame (played by Naomi Watts), a CIA agent in the nuclear non-proliferation department, sees her reports on uranium trafficking between Niger and Iraq ignored by the Bush...

Roberto Rosselini, Stig Björkman, Alfred Hitchcock, and Ritwik Ghatak. To close its 2010 programme, Cannes Classics proposes a prestigious mix of genres.   This ultimate day of screenings devoted to restored copies, homages to great directors, and documentaries about cinema, will open with Le Ruisseau de Ripasottile, by Roberto...

The new yorker, Lodge Kerrigan, who maintains a discrete profile in American independent cinema, will be featured in Un Certain Regard this Thursday with Return To The Dogs, in the Salle Debussy (14.00, 22.00). This is the fourth feature film by this filmmaker who remains insufficiently known. The general public isn’t overly...

The actress Dinara Droukarova, who lives between France and her native Russia, is at this year’s Festival de Cannes as a member of Short Film and Cinéfondation Jury. You’ve been to Cannes several times, what do you remember? The first time I came here, I was 17 years old, and everything appeared huge and magnificent to...

Route Irish by Ken Loach, who joined the Competition late, is the 11th feature film by the British director to be presented at the Festival de Cannes, 10 of which have been selected in Competition. He was awarded the prix du jury  twice: in 1990 for Hidden Agenda and in 1993 for Raining Stones. In 2006, he won the Palme d’or for The...

The only native of Italy in Competition, Daniele Luchetti presents on Thursday La Nostra vita, a spotlight on the pain of a man worn down by grief. The film is screened at the Grand Théâtre Lumière (11:15 am, 10:30 pm).   It is in Cannes, in 1988, that the world of cinema met Daniele Luchetti for the first time. The director had...