The Daily 2006

Orla Fitzgerald, P draic Delaney, Cillan Murphy, Ken Loach and Liam Cunningham

Lei Hao, Lou Ye and Xiaodong Guo

Chinese filmmaker Lou Ye, whose film Summer Palace was presented today in the Official Selection in competition, fielded questions from journalists at a press conference, accompanied by the film's stars Hao Lei, Guo Xiadong, Hu Lingling and Song Khoon Lim, as well as cinematographer Hua Qing, composer Peyman Yazdanian and...

Ludivine Sagnier, Juliette Binoche and Aïssa Maïga

The Film Market opens its doors today, and should establish a new record by welcoming more than 10,000 attendees until Saturday, May 27th. Complementary to and inseparable from the Festival de Cannes itself, this event is the cornerstone of international film business. Each and every year, producers, distributors and...

The brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, twice winners of the Palme d'Or - in 1999 with Rosetta and in 2005 with The Child - and equally Presidents of the Golden Camera Jury, will be the sponsors of Europe Day on Tuesday, May 23rd. A day in the course of which the Culture and Audiovisual Ministers of the European Union will...

Upon the occasion of the presentation of the collective film Paris, Je t'aime, opening the section Un Certain Regard, part of the film crew gathered together to lend themselves to the game of questions and answers with journalists at a press conference. Present were: filmmakers Alfonso Cuaron, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet,...

Spotted on the Croisette today: Fanny Ardant, Juliette Binoche, Claudine Auger, Dany Boon, Dominique Blanc, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Vincent Cassel, Marie-Josée Croze, Penélope Cruz, Christopher Doyle, Catherine Frot, Alfonso Cuaron, Hippolyte Girardot, Xiadong Guo, Lei Hao, Gérard Jugnot,...

As each year since 2004, the Festival de Cannes pays homage with Cannes Classics to the motion-picture works of the past, presented with new prints. Today, festival-goers have been able to discover or rediscover in a fully restored version The Last Adventure (1967) by Robert Enrico. Upon this occasion, actress Joanna...

The press conference for the Official Selection The Wind that Shakes the Barley from British film director Ken Loach and his long-time screenwriter Paul Laverty was also represented by producer Rebecca O'Brien, actors Cillian Murphy, P draic Delaney, Liam Cunningham and Orla Fitzgerald who fielded...

Remarked by film buffs thanks to his second feature film Suzhou River in 2000, Chinese director Lou Ye came to the Festival de Cannes three years later for the presentation in the Official Section of his third opus Purple Butterfly, focusing on the Sino-Japanese conflict in the 30's. He is back again this year on this first...

The section Un Certain Regard opens this Thursday with the collective work Paris, je t'aime. Made up of 18 shorts inspired by 18 Paris arrondissements [districts], the film speaks of romantic encounters taking place in various spots of the capital. Each short, running five minutes, bears the hallmark of great international...

The Minister of Culture and Communication Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres handed over this morning the insignias of Commander of Arts and Letters to the American actor/director Sidney Poitier for the whole of his career. This is the most prestigious French artistic distinction after the ranks of Knight and Officer. The...

A frequent name on the Croisette with a mere dozen films having been presented, in competition (Hidden Agenda, Raining Stones, both of which received the Jury Prize), in the Un Certain Regard section (The Gamekeeper) or other sidebar sections (Kes, Black Jack), Ken Loach is back once more with The Wind that Shakes the Barley,...