The Daily 2011

14 May

Quote of the day

the 14.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2011 at 5:47 PM

"You can’t divide people into two types, the native, with a job, a labour union, a little house… and another kind - unemployed, delinquent immigrants from bad neighbourhoods. Politics and cinema do have a role to play in unmasking that intellectual deception. I’ll never change my mind about that – that’s what’s most...
Did you know? Following day screenings.

the 14.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2011 at 5:48 PM

Did you miss one of the films in Official Selection? The following day screenings give you a second chance. Go to the Salle Bazin, Buñuel or the Salle du Soixantième with your badge for a catch up screening! > Go to the interactive guide > Go to the screening schedule
Spotlight on the Tribeca Film Festival

the 14.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2011 at 5:48 PM

Today, the Festival de Cannes pays tribute to the Tribeca FIlm Festival, an event that was cofounded in 2001 by the actor, director and producer Robert De Niro, with the screening of A Bronx Tale. This New York event has become one of the world's most prestigious independent film festivals. In 2001, the president of the Jury Robert De...
Emir Kusturica named Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur

the 14.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 17.05.2011 at 10:11 AM

Serbian film-maker Emir Kusturica was today invested with the insignia of Chevalier of the Order of the Légion d’honneur at the Café des Palmes. In a speech given for the occasion, Frédéric Mitterrand, the French Minister of Culture and Communication, saluted the admirer of Federico Fellini, Luis...
Peter Chan: "This is the first time I conceived a film for its style"

the 14.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 15.05.2011 at 9:28 AM

Chinese director Peter Chan has come to present his film Wu Xia, screened at midnight last night, with actors Donnie Yen, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Jimmy Wang Yu, Tang Wei, Wai Ying Hung and Li Xiaoran, and the producer Jojo Hui in attendance. Peter Chan on the film:"The Wu Xia is a Chinese martial arts film genre that we have known for a...
Johnny Depp "Jack Sparrow is a weird combination of Keith Richard and Pepe le Pew"

the 14.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 15.05.2011 at 2:32 PM

The press conference for the film Pirates of Caribbean: on stranger tides was held today, in attendance of the director Rob Marshall, actresses Astrid Berges-Frisbey and Penelope Cruz, actors Sam Claflin, Johnny Depp, Ian Mc Shane and Geoffrey Rush and the producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Johnny Deep, about his character Jack Sparrow :...
IN ATTENDANCE AT CANNES

the 14.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 14.05.2011 at 12:30 PM

The actors expected to be in attendance in Cannes today are: Helena ALBERGARIA, Lior Louis ASHKANAZI, Yvan ATTAL, Irene AZUELA, Antonio BANDERAS, Shlomo BAR ABA, Claude BAZ.MOUSSAWBAA, Berenice BEJO, Leïla BEKHTI, Frederique BEL, Emmanuelle BERCOT, Astrid BERGES-FRISBEY, Biyouna BIYOUNA, Jack BLACK, Rachel BLAKE, Olivia BONAMY,...
Cannes pays tribute to Euzhan Palcy

the 14.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 14.05.2011 at 6:45 PM

Rue Cases-Nègres (Sugar Cane Alley) directed by Euzhan Palcy (1983) will be screened in a restored version in the Cannes Classics. The screening will be preceded by a short film produced by the same director in 2011: Moly directed by Moly Kane. Adapted from the novel by Joseph Zobel, Rue Cases-Nègres (Sugar Cane Alley) is...
From the LIP factor to Larzac: imagination (still) in power

the 14.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 14.05.2011 at 4:20 PM

Presented in Special Screenings, Christian Rouaud's documentary Tous au Larzac tells the story of the ten-year combat to save the Larzac plateau in southwestern France. Ten years of delights and disputes, of twists and turns and tears. With victory as the outcome. One day in October 1971, the French Defence Ministry decided, without...
Michael Radford gets close up to Michel Petrucciani

the 14.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2011 at 9:36 AM

The director of the 1994 movie Il Postino (The Postman) is presenting a documentary about the renowned jazz pianist and composer Michel Petrucianni in Special Screenings. The film is the result of a project he embarked on four years ago."I had never heard of Michel previously. Yet when I started doing research for the film, I was...
Guédiguian goes back to his roots

the 14.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2011 at 9:36 AM

Two years after portraying Paris under the Occupation in L’Armée du Crime (The Army of Crime), the filmmaker returns to his cinematic roots and favourite actors with another one of the social commentaries that are his stock in trade. Les Neiges du Kilimanjaro was filmed in L’Estaque, the area of Marseille where he was born, and is...
Michael, Schleinzer gets inside the head of a criminal

the 14.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2011 at 9:37 AM

The Austrian director Markus Schleinzer has been better known until now for being Michael Haneke's casting director on several occasions. He now presents Michael, his first feature film. It focuses on the relationship between a paedophile and his young victim.Markus Schleinzer has gone for a sensitive theme for his first attempt...
An opera at sea

the 14.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 14.05.2011 at 6:34 PM

It took nearly 40 days to restore E la nave va (And the Ship Sails On) by Federico Fellini, which is being screened by the Mediterranean. The restored version allows the audience to discover the magic of cinema as created by the inventive Italian producer. It's the beginning of the 20th century, and the famous artists and politicians...
Hope to see you soon...

the 14.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 20.05.2011 at 6:10 PM

Bé Omid é Didar, which is being presented at Un Certain Regard, is the fifth feature-length film by Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, who is currently facing legal proceedings. Bé Omid é Didar tells the story of a young lawyer who is pregnant and wants to leave Iran. Bé Omid é Didar is the fifth feature film by Mohammad...
The World Cinema Foundation rediscovers Lüfti Akad

the 14.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 14.05.2011 at 4:22 PM

Fatih Akin follows in the footsteps of Martin Scorsese, Walter Salles and Bertrand Tavernier in presenting a restored film on behalf of the World Cinema Foundation. The Turkish director has chosen Hudultarin Kanunu (Border Law) by Lüfti Akad. This 1996 film is given a new lease of life with Cannes Classics in a version restored by...
Interview with Olivier Assayas

the 14.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 17.05.2011 at 10:08 AM

The French director, Olivier Assayas, a Cannes regular, whose film Carlos was Out of Competition in 2010, is making the most of some respite before shooting his next film, After May, to sit on the feature film Jury of the 64th Festival presided by Robert de Niro. Interview. This year you are on the Jury of the films In Competition...
Jack Sparrow – alias Johnny Depp – disembarks on the Croisette!

the 14.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 20.05.2011 at 6:08 PM

Rob Marshall’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, presented out of competition in 3D at Cannes, looks into different myths, including those surrounding Blackbeard and mermaids … Jack Sparrow is back, for the greatest joy of fans of the trilogy, who will be able to see the fourth opus wearing 3D glasses and a dinner...
Bollywood celebrates on the Croisette

the 14.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2011 at 3:55 PM

Bollywood - The Greatest Love Story Ever Told has been produced especially for the Festival de Cannes. A member of last year’s Jury, the great Indian film-maker Shekhar Kapur spoke to Thierry Frémaux about his surprise at finding so few Bollywood movies at Cannes. He set to work right away to produce this documentary and just one...
Footnote, a comedy in Competition

the 14.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2011 at 3:50 PM

The new wave of Israeli cinema has made it into the Competition with Footnote (Hearat Shulayim), Joseph Cedar’s fourth film. A comedy wins the director his first selection for the Festival de Cannes. The Talmud is the collection of texts that contain the Hebrew oral tradition. Generations of the Shkolnik family have studied it at...
Robert De Niro honoured as a director

the 14.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 14.05.2011 at 6:32 PM

The President of the 2011 Jury, Robert De Niro got behind the camera for the first time in 1993 for A Bronx Tale, a feature film screened in Cannes Classics as part of a tribute to the Tribeca Film Festival. A Bronx Tale was Robert De Niro’s debut as a movie director. This full length feature depicts the Italian-American community...
Bonsai, from the Cinéfondation to Un Certain Regard

the 14.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 17.05.2011 at 3:21 PM

For his second feature film, Bonsai, Cristián Jiménez enjoyed more than 5 special months in Residence at the Cinéfondation in Paris where he was able to work on his script. Today he is presenting his film in Un Certain Regard. In Residence at the Cinéfondation from the 1st March to the 15th July 2010, the Chilean director...