The Daily 2012

18 May

A masterclass for secondary school students in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region

the 18.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2012 at 9:34 AM

Every year, classes of secondary school pupils come to the Festival de Cannes to gain insight into the event. A class from Lycée Fourcade de Vitrolles had the privilege of participating in a "masterclass" with French short film director, Hendrick Dussolier. Friday 18th May, 2012, it is 10:30 and about fifty students are seated in...
Press conference for the Haïti benefit event

the 18.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2012 at 10:47 AM

This evening, the Festival Agora will be hosting a benefit event for Haiti organised by Sean Penn, Petra Nemcova and Paul Haggis. All three came together to give a press conference to explain to journalists the course of this evening's festivities and their work in Haiti. If Sean Penn had a message for Barack ObamaIt's very...
Tom McGrath: "We wanted to create something that was both surreal and imaginative!"

the 18.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2012 at 10:46 AM

Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon and Eric Darnell presented their Out of Competition film, Madagascar 3, Europe's Most Wanted. Accompanied by the film team, they answered journalists' questions. Chris Rock and his fondness for children's films: "I love children's films. In these films there are jokes for adults that young people don't...
Ulrich Seidl: "Mass tourism is a way of talking about the world"

the 18.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 26.05.2012 at 11:36 AM

Ulrich Seidl held a press conference for Paradise: Love, surrounded by actors (Margarethe Tiesel, Peter Kazungu and Inge Sore), his co-writer (Veronika Franz) and his two cinematographers (Ed Lachman, Wolfgang Thaler) Ulrich Seidl on his pessimistic view of human beings, with the women (Sugar Mama) and men (beachboys) who...
Matteo Garrone: "The great challenge of Reality is to create a link between dreams and reality"

the 18.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 18.05.2012 at 8:14 PM

The entire film cast of Reality, the film by Matteo Garrone presented this Friday in Competition, answered questions from the journalists.Matteo Garrone, about the genesis of Reality:"After Gomorrah, I was looking for a subject which would live up to the mark, with at least the same force, and which would be as surprising and as...
In attendance at Cannes

the 18.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2012 at 10:13 AM

The actors and directors expected to be in attendance in Cannes today are:
Quote of the day

the 18.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2012 at 4:36 PM

"Cinema is a thought that takes shape and a shape that thinks" (Jean-Luc Godard)
Once upon a time in America in a version that is 25 minutes longer

the 18.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2012 at 9:37 AM

A new restored copy of the masterpiece by Sergio Leone, 4 hours 15 minutes long, is screened in Cannes Classics. Initiated by Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation, this version is very close to the Italian master's initial montage.Everything conspires to give Once upon a time in America its place in the ranks of film legends: the last...
Polluting Paradise, a documentary by Fatih Akin

the 18.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 18.05.2012 at 4:14 PM

With Polluting Paradise, German film-maker Fatih Akin takes up residence “on the other side of heaven”, in Turkey, the country his family originated from. Over a period of five years there he filmed the struggle of a village against the construction of a public garbage dump.Among the green hills beside the Black Sea in...
Did you know? Interactive day planner

the 18.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 18.05.2012 at 2:40 PM

Screenings, press conferences, events, organise your daily Festival schedule online thanks to our interactive day planner. Simple and fun to use, it gives you the timetable for all the highlights of the day.The interactive Festival day planner (with your "press" id)
Jackie Chan versus the Pirates

the 18.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2012 at 4:12 PM

Shiver me timbers! Project A (1983) comes ashore at the Cinéma de la Plage. Directed by Jackie Chan, the movie shows another side of the actor who has become a worldwide star thanks to US productions such as the Rush Hour trilogy and Shanghai Kid.Jackie Chan is known above all for his mastery of kung fu, his mischievous air and...
Madagascar 3, when the jungle comes to the red carpet

the 18.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 26.05.2012 at 11:38 AM

The Central Park Zoo has come to the Festival de Cannes. Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Gloria the Hippo and Melman the Giraffe present Madagascar 3, Europe’s Most Wanted in the Out of Competition selection. Madagascar 3 is the 5th DreamWorks film to be presented at Cannes following Shrek and Over the Hedge. The directors of the...
Documentary and fiction: interchangeable labels, says Ulrich Seidl

the 18.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 26.05.2012 at 11:38 AM

Following Import Export in 2007, Austrian Ulrich Seidl returns to the Festival de Cannes. Paradise: Love paints the portraits of 3 Austrian tourists looking for love. This fictional film plays with the codes of the many documentaries that the director has made. Upon finishing his studies at the Wiener Film Akademie, the most...
The Ballad of Narayama: a film inspired by Kabuki

the 18.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 26.05.2012 at 11:38 AM

The Cannes Classics selection pays tribute to Keisuke Kinoshita, the Japanese director who passed away in 1998. Inspired by the novel by Schichiro Fukazawa, The Ballad of Narayama, released in 1958, is based on the aesthetics and the codes of Kabuki theatre. Keisuke Kinoshita has more than twenty films in his filmography, but most...
Matteo Garrone, or when truth is stranger than fiction

the 18.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 18.05.2012 at 4:12 PM

In his six feature films, the director of Gomorra has developed a style reminiscent of the finest hour of Italian cinema. Rare are those cinema buffs who did not see in Gomorra, Jury Grand Prix in 2008, the beginnings of a modern version of Italian neo-realism. Popularised in post-war Italy by Rosselini, Visconti and De Sica, this...
Benh Zeitlin: "A fantasy journey into an alternative reality"

the 18.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 30.01.2013 at 3:15 PM

Benh Zeitlin has been selected at the Festival de Cannes for Un Certain Regard for his first feature film. Beasts of the southern wild, an award-winner at Sundance, is a headlong journey into a dreamlike and peculiar world.Benh Zeitlin makes films in order to recreate the world he would like to have lived in. "When I finally realised...
Un Certain Regard Q&A: Xavier Dolan for Laurence Anyways

the 18.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 30.01.2013 at 3:26 PM

At the age of 23 and two years after Heartbeats, a full-length feature film that ranked him firmly alongside the directors of the rising new wave of Quebec cinema, Xavier Dolan presents his second movie in the Official Selection. In Laurence Anyways, the young film-maker takes a look at the amortormented loves of a man who wants to...
Weerasethakul on the banks of the river of discord

the 18.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 18.05.2012 at 12:11 PM

His filmography is short but his name transcends borders. Six feature films were enough for Apichatpong Weerasethakul to establish his mystical cinema, that focuses on memory and reincarnation. Throughout his feature films, a critical view of Thai society emerges, as seen in Mekong Hotel, screened under Special Screenings.Mekong,...