The Daily 2013

25 May

Interviews, reports, films, events, press conferences, photo calls, the red carpet... Hour by hour updates, bringing you exclusive and official coverage of the 12 days of the Festival in articles, videos, photos and sound clips.

PRIZES - Un Certain Regard 2013

the 25.05.2013 at 6:16 PM - Updated on 25.05.2013 at 9:34 PM

Un Certain Regard 2013 presented in his competition 17 films hailing from 15 different countries. 6 of the works were first films.The Bling Ring directed by Sofia Coppola opened the program out of competition. Under the presidency of Thomas VINTERBERG (director - Denmark), the Jury was comprised of ZHANG Ziyi (actress - China),...
PRESS CONFERENCE - Jim Jarmusch: "There is something very British about vampire stories"

the 25.05.2013 at 2:18 PM - Updated on 25.05.2013 at 4:21 PM

American director Jim Jarmusch, the producers of Only Lovers Left Alive and the film's actors, including Tilda Swinton and John Middleston took questions from the press.Jim Jarmusch, on the inspiration behind his film:I have wanted to direct a vampire love story for the past seven years. It was difficult to finance, but Tilda, with...
INTERVIEW - Nicole Kidman: "In my heart I'm independent, a bit of a rebel, a non-conformist"

the 25.05.2013 at 1:00 PM - Updated on 25.05.2013 at 9:31 PM

A sultry courtisan in Moulin Rouge, the committed writer of The Hours or a tormented wife and mother in The Others, Nicole Kidman has played all manner of roles in her thirty year career. From Baz Lhurmann to Stanley Kubrick, the world's greatest film directors have sought to have the Australian beauty add her lustre to their...
PRESS CONFERENCE - Roman Polanski : "Here is something for Emmanuelle"

the 25.05.2013 at 12:37 PM - Updated on 25.05.2013 at 3:00 PM

The room was packed for the press conference for Roman Polanski's Venus in Fur. The director was accompanied by Emmanuelle Seigner and Mathieu Amalric, by David Ives, the author of the original play, Alexandre Desplat, composer, Pawel Edelman, director of photography, and the producers Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde and Mariusz Lukomski....
DID YOU KNOW? Rerun of the Competition

the 25.05.2013 at 10:29 AM - Updated on 25.05.2013 at 3:16 PM

Missed the latest James Gray, Polanski or Jarmusch? Don't panic! All the films In Competition will be screened throughout the day on Sunday 26th May. Head for the Soixantième, Debussy, Bazin and Buñuel Theatres. ► Detailed programme
In attendance at Cannes

the 25.05.2013 at 9:43 AM - Updated on 25.05.2013 at 10:07 AM

The actors and directors expected to be in attendance in Cannes today are: Jason ABALOS Ahmad Tarzan ABOUNASSER Mohammed Arab ABOUNASSER Haifaa AL MANSOUR Mathieu AMALRIC ...
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION - Make way for shorts

the 25.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 25.05.2013 at 8:14 PM

The Festival de Cannes is making way for short films. This year, ten directors from eight nationalities have been selected for nine short films in Competition. After the deliberations of the Jury presided over by Jane Campion, the Palme d'or for Short Film will be awarded at the closing ceremony on Sunday, 26 May. Conversations...
CANNES CLASSICS - Exceptional projection of Blazing Sun (Plein Soleil) with Alain Delon

the 25.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 25.05.2013 at 10:25 PM

The Cinémathèque française and Studio Canal have restored Blazing Sun (Plein Soleil) by René Clément, with the assistance of the Franco-American Cultural Fund. This work, led by the desire to preserve the film's particularly unsettling dimension, will be presented by Alain Delon, guest of honour at the Festival de Cannes. In...
CINEMA DE LA PLAGE - The Birds, the master of suspense at the beach

the 25.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 25.05.2013 at 5:05 PM

Run for cover! The Birds descends on the Cinéma de la Plage and Hitchcock sends shivers through Cannes once again, as he did fifty years ago when the film opened the Festival de Cannes, leaving audiences horror stricken.It was 1963, and everyone was anticipating Alfred Hitchcock's new film, three years after Psycho. The master of...
CANNES CLASSICS - Vertigo: Kim Novak - an extraordinary Hitchcock heroine

the 25.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 25.05.2013 at 8:15 PM

Kim Novak is guest of honour at the Festival de Cannes. As such, she will present a new restored version of Vertigo. The actress, originally from Chicago, will also present one of the Festival's awards this Sunday, 26th May 2013. Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock's 45th film, directed in 1958, is an adaptation of the French novel The...
COMPETITION - Jarmusch, face to face with humanity

the 25.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 25.05.2013 at 10:28 PM

This unique figure in American independent film offers up a reflection on human existence in Only Lovers Left Alive, the love story between two vampires. As is his wont, he liberates himself from traditional narrative codes. If there is one characteristic that critics agree on with regard to the films of Jim Jarmusch, it is the fact...
COMPETITION - A Venus revised and revisited by Polanski

the 25.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 25.05.2013 at 7:33 PM

It was in Cannes that Roman Polanski discovered Venus In Furs. Last year, while he was presenting a restored print of Tess in Cannes Classics, his agent suggested he should read Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's celebrated novel. A year later, the director who won the Palme d’Or for The Pianist (2002) is back to present his new movie...
PLANTU - One day, one drawing

the 25.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 25.05.2013 at 9:10 AM