Rob Stewart, director of the documentary “REVOLUTION” in the the Cannes Movie Stars lounge at the 66th Cannes Film Festival.
“Revolution” is described as a true-life documentary, showing the Rob Stewart adventure over four years and 15 countries.
Climate changes, environmental degradation, species loss, ocean acidification, pollution, and food/water scarcity are reducing the earth’s ability. A film about changing the world, and fighting to preserve the world where to live in.
Director James Toback and actor Alec Baldwin “SEDUCED AND ABANDONED” in the Cannes Movie Stars Lounge at the 66th Cannes Film Festival. “SEDUCED AND ABANDONED” is an official selection at the festival playing in the Special Screenings section.
“SEDUCED AND ABANDONED” is described by the festival as a cinematic exploration guided by Alec Baldwin and James Toback of several interconnected subjects: The Cannes Film Festival and cinema art, money, glamour and death. Photographed in ravishing colors during the 65th Anniversary Festival(2012), “Seduced and Abandoned” features fascinating portraits of Bertolucci, Coppola, Polanski, Scorsese, Ryan Gosling, Jessica Chastain, Berenice Bejo, Diane Kruger and James Caan.
Writer-director François Ozon’s YOUNG & BEAUTIFUL which made its world premiere this week in Competition at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival will be released in the US by Sundance Selects, a sister label to IFC Films.
The film, with a star-making turn by Marine Vacth in the lead role, also stars Geraldine Pailhas, Frederic Pierrot, Fantin Ravat, Johan Leysen, Charlotte Rampling, Nathalie Richard, Djedje Apali, Lucas Prisor, Laurent Delbecque, Jeanne Ruff, and Serge Hefez.
Ozon’s YOUNG & BEAUTIFUL is described as “a provocative drama about a young woman coming of age from her sexual awakening to the loss of her virginity, and from her exploration of love to her search for her identity.”
Alain Guiraudie’s erotic gay thriller “STRANGER BY THE LAKE (L’INCONNU DU LAC),” which premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival in Un Certain Regard section will be released in the US by Strand Releasing.
Written and directed by Guiraudie, STRANGER BY THE LAKE is set against the backdrop of a cruising spot for men, and centers on Franck (Pierre de Ladonchamps), who finds himself drawn to Michel (Christophe Paou), who may be a killer.
Carlo Verdone and Sabrina Ferilli, stars of “LA GRANDE BELLAZZA,” directed by Paolo Sorrentino, and the only Italian film in competition at the 2013 Festival de Cannes. The cast which also includes Sabrina Ferilli, Isabella Ferrari as well as Roberto Herlitzka, Iaia Forte, Pamela Villoresi, Galatea Ranzi, Anna Della Rosa and Giusy Merli, Kravos, visited the lounge of Cannes Movie Star at 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
LA GRANDE BELLAZZA is described by the festival as “Aristocratic ladies, social climbers, politicians, high-flying criminals, journalists, actors, decadent nobles, prelates, artists and intellectuals – whether authentic or presumed – form the tissue of these flaky relationships, all engulfed in a desperate Babylon which plays out in the antique palaces, immense villas and most beautiful terraces in the city? They are all there, and they are not seen in a good light? Jep Gambardella, 65, indolent and disenchanted, his eyes permanently imbued with gin and tonic, watches this parade of hollow, doomed, powerful yet depressed humanity. A moral lifelessness enough to make one’s head spin? And in the background, Rome in summer. Splendid and indifferent, like a dead diva?”
“MIELE”, director Valeria Golino and lead actress Jasmine Trinca in the Cannes Movie Stars Lounge at the 66th Cannes Film Festival. “MIELE” is an official selection in the Un Certain Regard section of the festival.
MIELE is described as the story of Irene a 30 years old girl who helps suffering people.Terminal patients who want to make shorter the struggle with death, people whose suffering injure the dignity of an human being. One day a 70 years old man in good health, who simply thinks to have lived enough, asks her to help him. The meeting will put to the test Irene’s convictions. It will open a stringent debate between the two. Their relation becomes more and more full of implications and emotional ambiguities.
Mark Cousins, director of documentary, “A STORY OF CHILDREN AND FILM” – official selection at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Classics – in The Cannes Movie Stars Lounge.
“A STORY OF CHILDREN AND FILM” is described by the festival as a personal and poetic essay by Mark Cousins which explores what cinema tells us about childhood, and what childhood tells us about cinema, by reference to movies from all around the world. The
is also described as the world’s first movie about kids in global cinema … as seen through 53 great films from 25 countries.
Bernardo Bertolucci, the 9-time Oscar winning Italian director and screenwriter of “The Last Emperor”, whose movies include “Last Tango in Paris” (1972), “The Sheltering Sky” (1990), and “The Dreamers” (2003) in The Cannes Movie Stars Lounge at the 66th annual Cannes Film Festival. During the opening ceremony of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, Mr. Bertolucci was awarded the “Palme d’Honneur” for his life’s work in film.
The director is in Cannes to present his movie, “The Last Emperor”, which is in the 66th Festival de Cannes Classics Selection. Mr. Bertolucci met with the press in the Cannes Movie Stars Lounge for afternoon TV and print interviews.
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Only Lovers Left Alive[/caption]
The Cannes Film Festival added 5 films to the lineup to complete the Official Selection for the upcoming 2013 festival. The 5 films are ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE by Jim Jarmusch (pictured above) was added to Competition; LE DERNIER DES INJUSTES by Claude Lanzmann was added to Out of Competition; and MY SWEET PEPPERLAND by Hiner Saleem, TORE TANZT by Katrin Gebbe and WAKOLDA by Lucia Puenzo was added to Un Certain Regard.
Only Lovers Left Alive (pictured above), which was added to Competition, is a romance drama vampire film starring Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt and Anton Yelchin.
The Last Of The Unjust (Le Dernier Des Injustes) by Claude Lanzmann – director of the Holocaust documentary Shoah – is another Holocaust documentary, this time based on the concentration camp, Theresienstadt, where more than 150,000 Jews were held before being sent to death camps. It focuses on Benjamin Murmelstein, last president of Theresienstadt’s Jewish Council, and his relationship with the notorious German Nazi Adolf Eichmann.
The 2013 Cannes Film Festival will run May 15th to May 26th, 2013.
Director, producer Steven Spielberg will preside this year over ‘jury of his peers’ at the 66th Festival de Cannes aka Cannes Film Festival. Vidya Balan (Indian actress), Naomi Kawase (Japanese director), Nicole Kidman (Australian actress/producer), Lynne Ramsay (British scriptwriter/director/producer), Daniel Auteuil (French actor/director), Ang Lee (Taiwanese director/producer/scriptwriter), Cristian Mungiu (Romanian scriptwriter/director/producer), and Christoph Waltz (Austrian Actor) will help decide the winning films in competition at the festival. The winning films and awards including the biggest award – the Palme d’Or, will be announced during the Closing Ceremony on May 26th, 2013.
Images: clockwise from top left – Steven Spielberg; Vidya Balan; Christoph Waltz; Lynne Ramsay; Cristian Mungiu; Naomi Kawase; Ang Lee; Nicole Kidman; Daniel Auteuil | image via Cannes Film Festival
The Short Films and Cinéfondation Jury were revealed for the 66th Festival de Cannes (Cannes Film Festival), taking place May 15 – 26, 2013. The members of the jury include Jane CAMPION, President – Film director/New Zealand; Maji-da ABDI Actress, director, producer/Ethiopia; Nicoletta BRASCHI Actress, producer/Italy; Nandita DAS Actress, director/India; and Semih KAPLANOĞLU Director, writer, producer/Turkey.
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The Official Selections were revealed for the 66th Festival de Cannes (Cannes Film Festival), taking place May 15 – 26, 2013. The Festival also announced that Thomas Vinterberg, Danish director, scriptwriter and producer, will be this year’s President of the Jury for Un Certain Regard, Festival de Cannes Official Selection; and The Bling Ring by Sofia Coppola, with Emma Watson in the title role, Taïssa Farmiga, Leslie Mann and Kirsten Dunst, will open Un Certain Regard on Thursday 16 May.
IN COMPETITION
Opening Film
Baz LUHRMANN; THE GREAT GATSBY (H.C.)
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Valeria BRUNI-TEDESCHIUN; CHÂTEAU EN ITALIE
Ethan COEN, Joel COEN; INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
Arnaud des PALLIÈRES; MICHAEL KOHLHAAS
Arnaud DESPLECHIN; JIMMY P. (PSYCHOTHERAPY OF A PLAINS INDIAN)
Amat ESCALANTE; HELI
Asghar FARHADILE; PASSÉ (THE PAST)
James GRAY; THE IMMIGRANT
Mahamat-Saleh HAROUN; GRIGRIS
JIA Zhangke; TIAN ZHU DING (A TOUCH OF SIN)
KORE-EDA Hirokazu; SOSHITE CHICHI NI NARU (LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON)
Abdellatif KECHICHE; LA VIE D’ADЀLE
Takashi MIIKE; WARA NO TATE (SHIELD OF STRAW)
François OZON; JEUNE ET JOLIE
Alexander PAYNE; NEBRASKA
Roman POLANSKI; LA VÉNUS À LA FOURRURE
Steven SODERBERGH; BEHIND THE CANDELABRA
Paolo SORRENTINO; LA GRANDE BELLEZZA (THE GREAT BEAUTY)
Alex VAN WARMERDAM; BORGMAN
Nicolas WINDING REFN; ONLY GOD FORGIVES
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Closing Film
Jérôme SALLE; ZULU (H.C.)
UN CERTAIN REGARD
Opening Film
Sofia COPPOLA; THE BLING RING
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Hany ABU-ASSAD; OMAR
Adolfo ALIX JR.; DEATH MARCH
Ryan COOGLER; FRUITVALE STATION 1st film
Claire DENIS; LES SALAUDS
Lav DIAZ; NORTE, HANGGANAN NG KASAYSAYAN (NORTE, THE END OF HISTORY)
James FRANCO; AS I LAY DYING
Valeria GOLINO; MIELE 1st film
Alain GUIRAUDIE; L’INCONNU DU LAC
Flora LAU; BENDS 1st film
Rithy PANH; L’IMAGE MANQUANTE
Diego QUEMADA-DIEZ; LA JAULA DE ORO 1st film
ANONYMOUS
Chloé ROBICHAUD; SARAH PRÉFÈRE LA COURSE (SARAH WOULD RATHER RUN) 1st film
Rebecca ZLOTOWSKI; GRAND CENTRAL
OUT OF COMPETITION
J.C CHANDOR; ALL IS LOST
Guillaume CANET; BLOOD TIES
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
Amit KUMAR; MONSOON SHOOTOUT 1st film
Johnnie TO; BLIND DETECTIVE
JERRY LEWIS TRIBUTE
Daniel NOAH; MAX ROSE
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Stephen FREARS; MUHAMMAD ALI’S GREATEST FIGHT
Roberto MINERVINI; STOP THE POUNDING HEART
Roman POLANSKI; WEEK END OF A CHAMPION
James TOBACK; SEDUCED AND ABANDONED
Cinéfondation :
Taisia IGUMENTSEVA; OTDAT KONCI (BITE THE DUST) 1st film
GALA SCREENING, TRIBUTE TO INDIA
Anurag KASHYAP, Dibakar BANERJEE, Zoya AKHTAR, Karan JOHAR; BOMBAY TALKIES