Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Next Cannes Film Festival: 13-24 May 2009
Brad Pitt's new movie "Inglourious Basterds" will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, according to reports by English newspaper the gardian and film trade magazine Variety.
Directed by Quentin Tarantino, who won the Cannes Festival's highest prize "The Golden Palm" for "Pulp Fiction", the controversial movie - also starring Mike Myers of "Austin Powers" fame as well as Diane Krueger - tells the story of a group of Jewish-American soldiers in France during the second world-war and has been described by Tarantino as a "spaghetti-western but with World War II iconography".
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Cannes Film Festival 2009
Screening
The essential film festival.
As Jean Cocteau put it so well : The Festival is an apolitical no-man's-land, a microcosm of what the world would be like if men could truly communicate and speak a common language.
The Cannes Film Festival is one of the essential events for the motion pictures industry, attended by prestigious directors and actors as well as up-and-coming artists who have yet to make their mark.
Memorable moments from the Festival archives include Roberto Benigni throwing his arms around the members of the jury in a rather exuberant display of joy after winning the Golden Palm for Life is Beautiful and Björk's rather unusual choice of gown after her memorable performance in Dancer in the Dark.
This year, the festival will again sweep us up in the wave of emotions transmited through the images of the year's most reputable directors.
From Wednesday 13 to Sunday 24 May 2009 : Everyday, from 10:00 to 23:00
From Wednesday 13 to Sunday 24 May 2009 : Everyday, from 10:00 to 23:00
The president Isabelle Hupert
More : http://www.cote.azur.fr/actualites/info_festivals_septieme-art_314112_lang_en.htm
