The 67th edition of the Cannes Film Festival will be held May 14 to 25, 2014.
Cannes Film Festival
The international Festival de Cannes is one of the world’s most widely publicized events and certainly the most important film festival in terms of worldwide impact. “In order to achieve this level of longevity, the Festival de Cannes has remained faithful to its founding purpose: to draw attention to and raise the profile of films, with the aim of contributing towards the development of cinema, boosting the film industry worldwide and celebrating cinema at an international level. And to this day, this profession of faith constitutes the first article of the Festival regulations.
” -Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate
Cannes Film Festival (Festival de Cannes) started in 1946 and takes place in Cannes, France, Europe
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FRUITVALE STATION by Ryan Coogler Wins Un Certain Regard AVENIR PRIZE at Cannes Film Festival
FRUITVALE STATION by Ryan Coogler won the AVENIR PRIZE in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. FRUITVALE STATION originally named FRUITVALE won the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award earlier this year at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. The film will be released July 26 by The Weinstein Company.
FRUITVALE STATION, is the true story of Oscar (Michael B. Jordan) , a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air. Not sure what it is, he takes it as a sign to get a head start on his resolutions: being a better son to his mother, whose birthday falls on New Year’s Eve, being a better partner to his girlfriend, who he hasn’t been completely honest with as of late, and being a better father to T, their beautiful 4 year old daughter. He starts out well, but as the day goes on, he realizes that change is not going to come easy. He crosses paths with friends, family, and strangers, each exchange showing us that there is much more to Oscar than meets the eye. But it would be his final encounter of the day, with police officers at the Fruitvale BART station that would shake the Bay Area to its very core, and cause the entire nation to be witnesses to the story of Oscar Grant.
Trailer below…
http://youtu.be/CxUG-FjefDk
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Coen Brothers “INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS” Wins the Grand Prix Award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival
The Coen brothers – Ethan COEN and Joel COEN newest film, INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS won the Grand Prix Award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles-some of them of his own making.
Trailer below.
http://youtu.be/R4GGOXkY5CI
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BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR Wins the Palme d’or of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival
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BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR[/caption]BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR (La Vie d’Adèle – Chapitre 1 & 2) by Abdellatif Kechiche won the biggest prize – Palme d’or of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
After receiving his award from American actress Uma Thurman, Abdellatif Kechiche, accompanied by his two actresses, declared: “I want to remind everyone of a man who helped me find my way, who I love and who I miss: Claude Berri. I want to dedicate this prize and this film to the wonderful young people of France who I met while making this film and who taught me so much about the hope for freedom and of living in harmony together. And to the young people who, not so long ago, lived through the Tunisian revolution, so as to inspire them to live in freedom, express themselves in freedom and love in freedom.”
BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR tells the story of Adele (Adèle EXARCHOPOULOS) who at 15, doesn’t question it: a girl goes out with boys. Her life is turned upside down the night she meets Emma (Léa SEYDOUX), a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.
The complete list of winners include
Palme d’Or
LA VIE D’ADÈLE – CHAPITRE 1 & 2 (Blue Is The Warmest Color) by Abdellatif KECHICHE with Adèle EXARCHOPOULOS & Léa SEYDOUXGrand Prix
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS by Ethan COEN and Joel COENAward for Best Director
Amat ESCALANTE for HELIJury Prize
SOSHITE CHICHI NI NARU (Like Father, Like Son / Tel Père, Tel Fils) by KORE-EDA HirokazuAward for Best Screenplay
JIA Zhangke for TIAN ZHU DING (A Touch Of Sin)Award for Best Actress
Bérénice BEJO in LE PASSÉ (The Past) by Asghar FARHADIAward for Best Actor
Bruce DERN in NEBRASKA by Alexander PAYNESHORT FILMS
Palme d’Or
SAFE by MOON Byoung-gonSpecial Mention – tie
HVALFJORDUR (Whale Valley / Le Fjord des Baleines) by Gudmundur Arnar GUDMUNDSSON
37°4 S by Adriano VALERIOCAMERA D’OR
ILO ILO by Anthony CHEN presented in the Directors’ Fortnight
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Cambodian Film THE MISSING PICTURE by Rithy Panh Wins UN CERTAIN REGARD Prize at Cannes Film Festival
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(L’IMAGE MANQUANTE) The Missing Picture[/caption]THE MISSING PICTURE (L’IMAGE MANQUANTE) by Rithy Panh won the top prize, PRIZE OF UN CERTAIN REGARD, in the Un Certain Regard section at 2013 Cannes Film Festival. The auto-biographical film is set during the Khmer Rouge dictatorial rule of Cambodia in the late 1970’s and Panh’s failure to find “missing pictures” to document the proof of mass murders and other atrocities against his family. Since there is no proof, hence the “missing pictures,” the director tells the story using using hundreds of artfully carved clay figures to represent his family.
Complete list of winners:
PRIZE OF UN CERTAIN REGARD
THE MISSING PICTURE by Rithy PANH
JURY PRIZE
OMAR by Hany ABU-ASSAD
DIRECTING PRIZE
Alain GUIRAUDIE for STRANGER BY THE LAKE
A CERTAIN TALENT PRIZE
For the ensemble cast of LA JAULA DE ORO by Diego QUEMADA-DIEZ
AVENIR PRIZE
FRUITVALE STATION by Ryan COOGLER
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Chicago Student Anahita Ghazvinizadeh’s NEEDLE Wins Cannes Film Festival Cinefondation Selection
NEEDLE directed by Anahita Ghazvinizadeh, from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA, won First Prize of The Cinéfondation Selection at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. The Cinéfondation Selection consisted of 18 student films, chosen out of nearly 1 550 entries coming from 277 film schools around the world. As part of the winning prizes, the First Prize winner, Anahita Ghazvinizadeh, is also guaranteed that his first feature film will be presented at the Cannes Film Festival.
In NEEDLE, Young Lilly played by Florence Winners is going to get her ears pierced. A quarrel between her parents overwhelms the situation and directs it differently.
The complete list of winners of The Cinéfondation Selection at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival:
First Prize:
NEEDLE directed by Anahita Ghazvinizadeh
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Second Prize:
WAITING FOR THE THAW (En attendant le dégel) directed by Sarah Hirtt
INSAS, Belgium
Third Prize ex-aequo:
ÎN ACVARIU (In the Fishbowl) directed by Tudor Cristian JURGIU
UNATC, Romania
Joint Third Prize:
PANDY (Pandas) directed by Matúš VIZÁR
FAMU, Czech RepublicNeedle – Trailer from Anahita Ghazvinizadeh on Vimeo.
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Vampire Flick “ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE” Starring Tilda Swinton and Premiering at Cannes Film Festival to Get U.S. Release
Jim Jarmusch’s “ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE,” which had its world premiere at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival in the In Competition section is headed to U.S. theaters, via Sony Pictures Classics.
Starring Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt, Anton Yelchin and Jeffrey Wright, “ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE” takes place against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangier and follows an underground musician, deeply depressed by the direction of human activities, who reunites with his resilient and enigmatic lover. Their love story has already endured several centuries at least, but their debauched idyll is soon disrupted by her wild and uncontrollable younger sister.
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“THE SELFISH GIANT” from 2013 Cannes Film Festival to Get U.S. Release
Clio Barnard’s THE SELFISH GIANT which made its world premiere in Directors’ Fortnight at this year’s 2013 Cannes Film Festival will be released in the US by Sundance Selects.
THE SELFISH GIANT, written and directed by Barnard (THE ARBOR), stars Conner Chapman, Shaun Thomas and Sean Gilder, and is described as a contemporary fable about a thirteen-year-old boy named Arbor (Chapman) and his best friend Swifty (Thomas). Excluded from school and outsiders in their own neighborhood, the two boys meet Kitten (Gilder), a local scrapdealer. They begin collecting scrap metal for him using a horse and cart. Swifty has a natural gift with horses while Arbor emulates Kitten – keen to impress him and make some money. However, Kitten begins to favor Swifty, leaving Arbor feeling hurt and excluded, driving a wedge between the boys. Tensions build, leading to a tragic event, which transforms them all.
This marks the third film from Cannes Film Festival that Sundance Selects will release in the U.S., including writer-director François Ozon’s Competition title YOUNG & BEAUTIFUL with a star-making turn from actress Marine Vacth and Abdellatif Kechiche’s BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR, also playing in the Competition section
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“REVOLUTION” Director Rob Stewart at Cannes Film Festival
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.
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“SEDUCED AND ABANDONED” Director James Toback and Actor Alec Baldwin at 66th Cannes Film Festival
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.
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YOUNG & BEAUTIFUL from Cannes Film Festival to be Released in the US by Sundance Selects
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.”
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Gay Erotic Thriller STRANGER BY THE LAKE from Cannes Film Festival to Get US Release
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.