The Daily 2012

19 May

Quote of the Day

the 19.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 20.05.2012 at 11:04 AM

"It’s a weird thing about films; it’s almost like alchemy. You’re playing around with all these ingredients and sometimes there’s this combination that finally comes together that’s the perfect one." (John Hillcoat)
Cristian Mungiu: "I try to make a different kind of cinema"

the 19.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 26.05.2012 at 11:34 AM

After his Palme d'Or for 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, the Romanian director Cristian Mungiu returns to Cannes for Beyond the Hills. Selected In Competition, its main themes are religion, superstition and love. The film crew answered questions from journalists. Cristian Mungiu on his view of cinema:"I try to make a different kind...
John Hillcoat: I wanted to really understand the world at this time, in this part of the United States.

the 19.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2012 at 3:27 PM

Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy and the other actors from Lawless joined John Hillcoat for the press conference for the In Competition film presented today. Nick Cave, screenwriter and friend of the director, was also with them to answer questions from journalists. What it was in the novel by Matt Bondurant that inspired the screenplay by...
In attendance at Cannes

the 19.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2012 at 11:00 AM

The actors and directors expected to be in attendance in Cannes today are:
Did you know? Next Day Screenings

the 19.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2012 at 5:19 PM

Were you unable to get to a movie in the Official Selection? Don’t worry, our Next Day Screenings give you a second chance. Pop into the Bazin Theatre, the Buñuel Theatre or the Salle du Soixantième with your badge to catch up on what you missed.
Music lesson by Alexandre Desplat

the 19.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2012 at 3:31 PM

In 2006, he gave a first lesson on his work and his collaboration with Jacques Audiard, for whom he has composed the music to the complete oeuvre of films. Alexandre Desplat returns this year to evoke the great scores that have been an inspiration to him, with extracts: The Misfits (Alex North), Witness (Maurice Jarre), The Soft Skin...
Lawrence of Arabia, a film turned legend

the 19.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2012 at 11:25 AM

Cannes Classics will be presenting David Lean's masterpiece in restored print by Sony Pictures Entertainment, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the film. The Director's Cut of Lawrence of Arabia was presented Out of Competition at Cannes in 1989 and at the Cinéma de la Plage in 2009.Lawrence of Arabia is quite simply David...
Un Certain Regard Q&A: Nabil Ayouch on "God's Horses"

the 19.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2012 at 9:33 AM

Moroccan film-maker Nabil Ayouch, author of acclaimed movies like Mektoub, Ali Zaoua, and Whatever Lola Wants, is present for the first time in the Official Selection at Cannes. God's Horses is freely inspired by the terrorist attacks that took place in Casablanca on May 13 2003. Ayouch was shocked by these attacks committed by a...
The singing Sapphires

the 19.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 20.05.2012 at 9:17 AM

Before they became a movie, The Sapphires were four soul singers in an Australian girl group. Four committed Aborigine women who were the heroines of a play in which Wayne Blair was an actor in 2005. Seven years later he relived the experience, in the cinema this time, and completed his first full-length feature. They sang for...
The Ring: the original Hitchcock

the 19.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2012 at 5:32 PM

Cannes Classics will screen a restored version of The Ring, one of the first full-length movies directed by the master of suspense: a silent film where a love triangle tears itself apart against a background of boxing and the fairground. Two mewho are in love with same woman, the beautiful Nellie, face off during a boxing match to...
Brandon Cronenberg, a medical vision of relationships with fame

the 19.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 30.01.2013 at 3:13 PM

Brandon Cronenberg focuses on deviation linked to fame in his first feature film, which is presented in the Un Certain Regard selection and competing for the Caméra d’or.Inspiration sometimes appears when you're least expecting it. This is at least what happened to Brandon Cronenberg. The young director recently said this on the...
Cristian Mungiu, committed cinema

the 19.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 26.05.2012 at 11:37 AM

Romanian Cristian Mungiu is back in competition at Cannes for the 4th time. After winning the Palme d’Or for 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days in 2007, this year he presents Beyond the Hills, his second film in the Official Selection. Educated at the University of Film in Bucharest, he started his career working as assistant director to...
The Dracula myth by the master of "Giallo"

the 19.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 20.05.2012 at 9:09 AM

The director of Suspiria (1977), presented in Cannes Classics in 2007, interprets the tale of the infamous Count in 3D.Since Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau’s inspirational first movie, Nosferatu eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922), a host of horror movie directors have devoted at least part of their filmography to Dracula. Nor have...
Lawless: a western between friends

the 19.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2012 at 6:57 PM

Between John Hillcoat and Nick Cave there is a love story: a love for the cinema and a love for rock music. Over the past thirty years, Nick has composed for John’s movies and John has produced Nick’s clips. Lawless is the fourth collaboration between the director and the singer, who are both Australian.One of them learnt his...
Nanni Moretti: "I still have a connection with the auteur cinema of the Sixties"

the 19.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2012 at 5:20 PM

The day before the opening of the Festival, we asked the President of the Jury of the 65th edition some questions. The Italian film-maker, who won the Palme d'or in 2001 for The Son's Room, shares his vision of cinema, both as a spectator and a film-maker, with us.You said that you hoped to see films that wouldn't give you the ...