Tag: Cannes Film Festival

Studio Ghibli to receive honorary Palme d’Or at Cannes

Legendary Japanese animators Studio Ghibli will receive an honorary Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in May, organisers announced Wednesday. The Oscar-winning studio, co-founded by Hayao Miyazaki 40 years ago, is beloved worldwide for its masterpieces like “Spirited Away”, “My Neighbour Totoro” and “Howl’s Moving Castle”. It will mark the first that that Cannes gives an award to a collective, rather than an individual. Miyazaki makes few public appearances and his long-time collaborator Isao […]

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Who’s who in the Cannes film festival jury

  In a year rocked by the #MeToo movement, the jury of the Cannes film festival is both majority female and led by a woman. Here are the nine members: – Cate Blanchett – The two-time Oscar winner from Australia is the 12th woman to head the panel of judges. The 48-year-old has emerged as a key figure in Hollywood’s fight against sexual harassment. One of the first women to call out Harvey Weinstein, Blanchett […]

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French actress Danielle Darrieux dies at age 100

CANNES, France (Reuters) — French actress Danielle Darrieux has died aged 100, French media reported on Thursday (October 19), ending a film career which spanned eight decades. Starring in her first film Le Bal at the age of only 14, she went on to make over a hundred big screen appearances including as an elderly woman into her 90s. Reuters archive footage shows her appearing at the Cannes Film Festival in the late 50s and early […]

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Hollywood and French film royalty walk the Cannes red carpet

CANNES, France (Reuters) — The cream of the crop in French and Hollywood cinema walked the red carpet at the 70th Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday (May 17). The opening film was the out-of-competition ‘Ismael’s Ghosts,’ directed by Arnaud Desplechin and stars Marion Cotillard and Charlotte Gainsbourg. There are 19 films in competition for the Palme d’Or this year, including Sofia Coppola’s remake of the 1971 classic Clint Eastwood movie of the same name, and […]

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Cannes film festival announces full jury line-up

LOS ANGELES, United States (Reuters) — The Cannes film festival announced on Tuesday (April 25) its full line-up for the jury which presides over the main competition at France’s most famous cinema event. Although Spanish director Pedro Almodovar was announced as President of the Jury at the end of January, the additional eight were formally unveiled as four women and four men from the international film industry. From Hollywood, actors Will Smith and Jessica Chastain […]

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Filipino shortfilm na ‘Nakaw’ pasok sa Cannes Film Festival

QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Muli na namang nagpamalas ng talento ang mga Pilipino sa larangan ng paggawa ng short film matapos mapabilang ang obra nilang “Nakaw” (steal) sa prestihiyosong Festival de Cannes ngayong taon. Ang pelikulang ito ay isang crime-drama-thriller na tumatalakay sa kwento ng isang lalaki na nagbago ang ikot ng buhay matapos niyang pagnakawan ng pitaka ang isang matandang babae. Ang pelikula ay pinagbibidahan nina King, Frank Ferguson, Angelo Gammad, Duke […]

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Director at Cannes urges Duterte to ‘change’ Philippines

CANNES, France (AFP) — Philippine president-elect Rodrigo Duterte was challenged Wednesday to stick to his promises to tackle corruption as a powerful movie exposing police graft there premiered at the Cannes film festival. “Ma’ Rosa” — by the country’s most renowned director Brillante Mendoza — tells how police extort money from a sweetshop owner in a Manila slum after they bust her for dealing drugs, forcing her family to sell everything they have to buy […]

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Bomb sweeps, bag checks as terror threat looms over Cannes

CANNES, France (AFP) — Bomb experts will carry out daily sweeps at the Cannes film festival, opening this week under maximum security as France faces its highest ever terror threat, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Monday. The glitterati, set to descend on the resort town as the festival opens Wednesday, will also have to tip open expensive handbags for inspection after climbing the red carpet into the main venue, the Palais des Festivals, which is to be […]

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Emily Blunt, Natalie Portman and Cate Blanchett dazzle on the ‘Sicario’ red carpet

MAY 20 (Reuters) — A film that Canadian director Denis Villeneuve says is meant to break “a cover of silence” about the brutality of the Mexican drug trade and the complicity of users in the violence that feeds their habits blasted its way into Cannes on Tuesday (May 19). The stars of “Sicario” joined director Villeneuve for the film’s premiere as part of the Cannes film festival; following a raft of positive reviews after the […]

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Cannes set to open, with fans, stars and tight security

(Reuters) – With huge yachts bobbing in the Mediterranean and luxury boutiques along the famous La Croisette boulevard making finishing touches to their displays, the 12-day pageant that is the international film world’s answer to Hollywood’s Oscars kicks off with the world premiere of “Grace of Monaco”. “I think the selection has so many talents now that it’s like (being) a kid in a candy store,” Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn said as he arrived […]

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