It’s been about two years now since Robert Pattinson slipped his fangs back in and ended his career as a gentleman-vampire. Two years, therefore, since we haven’t heard about him on the cover of magazines, leaving the popular press with a 90% space shortfall to fill with other things between 2008 and 2012. Fans (and they are legion) who’ve been mourning him are now breathing a collective ... more >
FESTIVALS | CANNES
Map to the Stars trailer RELEASED
This is Robert Pattinson's second time being cast in a David Cronenberg movie
In competition
CANNES FESTIVAL – selection announced
Some great movies, a little controversy
Fest takes place during May 14-25
Lock #SCannes2014 on Twitter
PARIS - A kind of good-humored anticipation is manifest inside UGC’s Normandie movie theater on the Champs Elysées: today we find out who the Cannes nominees are. I plop into a chair next to a friend, who, punctual as always, already found his seat. We come out of the theater about an hour later, our marching orders in hand. Eighteen films in the competition series, and eighteen other ones in ... more >
The look in Cannes this year
Fest unveils 2014 poster
French designer Hervé Chigioni and collaborator Gilles Frappier based this year's poster design on a photograph taken from Federico Fellini’s "8½," which was presented in the Official Selection in 1963. According to the festival's press release, "in Marcello Mastroianni and Federico Fellini, we celebrate a cinema that is free and open to the world, acknowledging once again the artistic ... more >
CANNES, PLAYING THE GUESSING GAME
Which films will be headlining this year's fest?
Fest takes place from May 14th to 25th
The Cannes Festival's Thierry Frémaux and Gilles Jacob will be holding their annual press conference this Thursday here in Paris. The full list of films competing for the Palme D'Or and those in the Un Certain Regard program (the non-competitive section) will be revealed then. Already confirmed for the May 14-25 festival is opener "Grace of Monaco" starring Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly. Here's ... more >
Adèle Exarchopoulos
France's newest rising star
Adèle Exarchopoulos seems to have unlimited amounts of energy and charm. Will she follow Mélanie Laurent ("Inglourious Basterds") and Léa Seydoux ("Mission Impossible") to Hollywood, too? Considering the fabulous triumph she experienced in May in Cannes, a career in the movies is hers, if she wants it. She appears in Abdellatif Kechiche's "La Vie D'Adele" ("Life of Adele") alongside with Léa ... more >
“Desert of the Tartars,” in full restored glory
This year's Cannes Classics revival
About the restored “Desert of the Tartars” (“Tartar Steppe” in the English title) screened at the last Cannes Film Festival as part of Cannes Classics, Beatrice de Mondenard quotes in the “Cannes Festival Daily” Angelo Cosimano of Digimage Classics, the company that carried out the restoration: "From the first tests, the richness of the content on the negatives deeply astonished us, ... more >
LA GRANDE BELLEZZA
When Rome burns, where will you be?
Toni Servillo and Carlo Verdone
Directed by Paolo Sorrentino
Forty years ago, Jep Gambardella (Toni Servillo ) wrote a book that became an instant best-seller and is still read and more or less remembered—by some as a frothy and irrelevant intellectual joke, by others as a life-changing and profound work of literature. What Gambardella himself is reminded of when people mention the book is that he hasn’t written another one since, not for lack of ... more >
