The Daily 2012

23 May

Jacopo Olmo Antonieri: "Among young people especially, there's the desire to assert one's own identity"

the 23.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 23.05.2012 at 4:48 PM

The duo of actors Jacopo Olmo Antinori and Tea Falco accompanied Bernardo Bertolucci for the press conference of Me and You. The co-screenwriters and Niccolo Ammaniti, author of the eponymous novel that the director adapted for the film, were also present to answer journalists' questions. Bernardo Bertolucci on the film's...
Leos Carax: Cinema is like an island, a beautiful island, with a large cemetery

the 23.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 23.05.2012 at 4:03 PM

At the press conference for Holy Motors, French filmmaker Leos Carax was accompanied by his actors: Denis Lavant, Edith Scob and Kylie Minogue, as well as his chief cinematographer Carolina Champetier and his producer Martine Marignac. A man of few words, Carax readily engaged with journalists, responding in a concentrated and ...
In attendance at Cannes

the 23.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 23.05.2012 at 1:50 PM

The actors and directors expected to be in attendance in Cannes today are:
Walter Salles : "We tried to work in a spirit of permanent improvisation."

the 23.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 23.05.2012 at 3:57 PM

The entire team of On The Road, by Brazilian director Walter Salles in Competition, attended this morning's press conference:Walter Salles, on the birth of his film :"It took us eight years to make this film. We even thought of making a documentary which would serve as a foundation. The story is really more about the period leading up...
Journey to Italy: a film symbolic of modernity

the 23.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 23.05.2012 at 1:36 PM

Journey to Italy is one of Roberto Rossellini's most famous films. A precursor of the Nouvelle Vague, the film portrays a love story between the master of Italian Neorealism and Ingrid Bergman. Upon its release in 1955, Journey to Italy was described by Jacques Rivette as "the first modern film". This is because the focus is not...
Did you know? Un Certain Regard in Paris

the 23.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 23.05.2012 at 9:21 AM

Parisian art house cinema Le Reflet Médicis will be screening the films from the 2012 Official Selection for Un Certain Regard from Wednesday 30th May until Tuesday 5th June 2012.The programme will be available this weekend.
Quote of the Day

the 23.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 23.05.2012 at 1:46 PM

"As a director, you have complete freedom in Haiti. Nobody can stop you from doing something. Haitians won their freedom of speech and that's irreversible." (Raoul Peck)
Cleo from 5 to 7: a life lesson

the 23.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 23.05.2012 at 10:25 AM

Iconic film of the Nouvelle Vague, Cleo from 5 to 7 is director Agnès Varda's second feature film. 50 years since its release, the film has retained its full force.Cleo from 5 to 7 immerses us into a lively Paris of the early 60s. Agnès Varda films with great freedom streets, people, and her actress Corinne Marchand. The latter...
Last secret mission at the Cinéma de la Plage

the 23.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 23.05.2012 at 8:56 AM

James Bond is back in action at the Cinéma de la Plage in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Before filming, the press and the film world were waiting to hear who would take over from Sean Connery, the first actor to play 007. After some hesitation, the production team made their choice: his name is Lazenby, George Lazenby. ...
Bertolucci goes back to his homeland

the 23.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 23.05.2012 at 4:20 PM

It's back to Italy for the maker of The Conformist (1970) and 1900 (1976). Me and You has given Bernardo Bertolucci a new opportunity to study a subject that is dear to him: our quest for identity.Bernardo Bertolucci knows how to uncover talent better than anyone else. Everyone remembers Liv Tyler's electrifying performance in...
Holy Motors: the return of Leos Carax

the 23.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 23.05.2012 at 6:27 PM

“Without a doubt the nuttiest film in the selection”, according to Thierry Frémaux… Holy Motors is announced as an experience, a visual poem, a film à clef. And also, with Edith Scob, an escapee from Georges Franju’s Eyes Without a Face in the cast, a homage to cinema. The image is immediately reminiscent of Tokyo!, the...
Un Certain Regard Q&A: Elia Suleiman on 7 Days in Havana

the 23.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 23.05.2012 at 4:32 PM

On the streets of Havana, seven directors take turns to describe a way in which a visitor could spend a day in the Cuban capital. Benicio Del Toro, Pablo Trapero, Laurent Cantet, Gaspard Noé, Elia Suleiman, Julio Medem and Juan Carlos Tabio offer their visions of this mythical city through seven short films set in the moods and to the...
Un Certain Regard Q&A: Juan Andrés Arango on La Playa DC

the 23.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 30.01.2013 at 3:23 PM

For his first appearance at Cannes, Colombian director Juan Andrés Arango explores a recent phenomenon that is changing the face of the city of Bogota: the mass migration of Afro-Colombians from the Pacific coast. La Playa DC retraces the initiatory journey of Tomás, a young Afro-Colombian looking for his brother in a white-dominated...
On the road with Walter Salles, an initiatory voyage in the footsteps of the Beat Generation

the 23.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 23.05.2012 at 1:01 PM

Brazilian director Walter Salles presents On the road in Competition, a road movie adapted from one of Jack Kerouac's most famous novels, and a founding document for the Beat Generation. It's now been 8 years since Walter Salles began this work, because he began by shooting the highly original documentary Looking for On the Road. "The...
Andrea Arnold: "My head has always been full of ideas for films"

the 23.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 23.05.2012 at 9:59 AM

Andrea Arnold , a firm representative of British social cinema, chose to set her first two films in the heart of the suburbs to depict the distress. Red Road and Fish Tank won the Jury Prize at the Festival de Cannes in 2006 and 2009 respectively. The film-maker talks about her relation with cinema.What is your first memory of...