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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Cannes Film Festival</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/cannes-film-festival/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:31:06 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>Walter Salles/Garrett Hedlund/Kristen Stewart/ON THE ROAD: Cannes 2012 Entry?</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kristen-stewart-on-the-road-walter-salles-garrett-hedlund-cannes-2012/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kristen-stewart-on-the-road-walter-salles-garrett-hedlund-cannes-2012/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:16:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36457</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kristen Stewart as Mary Lou, On the Road Producer Charle Gillibert has announced the following, via Twitter: &#34;Am happy to share with you : OTR french release the 23rd of may, more to come.&#34; OTR? That's On the Road, directed by Walter Salles, and starring Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley, and Garrett Hedlund. As for the May 23 released date in France, does that mean On [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kristen-stewart-on-the-road-walter-salles-garrett-hedlund-cannes-2012/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Lars von Trier: Nazi Remarks Lead to Trouble with French Judicial System</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lars-von-trier-nazi-remarks-french-police/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lars-von-trier-nazi-remarks-french-police/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:03:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35374</guid> <description><![CDATA[France is on financial brink. In fact, so is much of Europe. Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Iceland have all gone Third World. Racism and xenophobia are not only a fact of life throughout the continent, but they're frequently official government policy as well. How to deal with those humongous problems? Well, just go after a notorious filmmaker who made a stupid joke while [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lars-von-trier-nazi-remarks-french-police/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Robert De Niro&#039;s &#039;Mushrooms&#039; and Other Palme d&#039;Or Highlights: Cannes 2011</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/robert-de-niro-palme-dor-cannes-2011/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/robert-de-niro-palme-dor-cannes-2011/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 01:04:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27124</guid> <description><![CDATA[Maïwenn, Mélanie Laurent, Kirsten Dunst, Edgar Ramirez, Marisa Paredes, Dede Gardner, Pablo Giorgelli, Bill Pohlad, Jean Dujardin, Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Nicole Garcia, Jane Fonda, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Nicolas Winding Refn, Robert De Niro, Maryna Vroda There were several worthwhile quotes at the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or ceremony held earlier today at the Grand Théâtre Lumière. Perhaps most memorable among those was [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/robert-de-niro-palme-dor-cannes-2011/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Cannes 2011 Winners: THE TREE OF LIFE, Jean Dujardin, Kirsten Dunst</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/cannes-2011-winners/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/cannes-2011-winners/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 17:29:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27119</guid> <description><![CDATA[Brad Pitt, The Tree of Life Palme d'Or: The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick Grand Prix (tie): The Kid with a Bike, Luc and Jean Dardenne, and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Nuri Bilge Ceylan Jury Prize: Polisse, Maiwenn Best Director: Nicolas Winding Refn, Drive Best Actor: Jean Dujardin, The Artist Best Actress: Kirsten Dunst, Melancholia Best Screenplay: Joseph Cedar, Footnote Best Short Film: [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/cannes-2011-winners/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Cannes Award Predictions: Jean Dujardin, Tilda Swinton, ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jean-dujardin-tilda-swinton-once-upon-a-time-in-anatolia/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jean-dujardin-tilda-swinton-once-upon-a-time-in-anatolia/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 07:54:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27117</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, The Artist Palme d'Or Predictions: LE HAVRE, Terrence Malick, THE SOURCE Palme d'Or: Le Havre Runner up: See Grand Prix Grand Prix: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Runner up: See Jury Prize Jury Prize: The Source Runner-up: The Kid with a Bike Best Director: Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life Runner up: Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist Best Actor: Jean Dujardin, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jean-dujardin-tilda-swinton-once-upon-a-time-in-anatolia/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Palme d&#039;Or Predictions: LE HAVRE, Terrence Malick, THE SOURCE</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/cannes-winners-predictions-le-havre-terrence-malick/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/cannes-winners-predictions-le-havre-terrence-malick/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 07:32:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27115</guid> <description><![CDATA[Brad Pitt, The Tree of Life Who'll take home the 2011 Palme d'Or? I wonder if Little Fockers star and Official Competition jury president Robert De Niro, and fellow jury members Martina Gusman, Olivier Assayas, Johnnie To, Jude Law, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Uma Thurman, Linn Ullmann, and Nansun Shi have any idea themselves. [My Cannes 2011 awards predictions.] Strong Palme d'Or possibilities include Terrence Malick's The [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/cannes-winners-predictions-le-havre-terrence-malick/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oliver Hermanus&#039; SKOONHEID / BEAUTY Wins Queer Palm: Cannes Awards</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/skoonheid-beauty-queer-palm-cannes-oliver-hermanus/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/skoonheid-beauty-queer-palm-cannes-oliver-hermanus/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 05:52:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27114</guid> <description><![CDATA[Deon Lotz, Charlie Keegan, Skoonheid / Beauty Oliver Hermanus' South African drama Skoonheid / Beauty, reportedly the first Afrikaans-language film to be screened at the Cannes Film Festival, won the Queer Palm, given to the best Cannes film dealing with what some like to call "queer" &#8212; i.e., gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender &#8212; issues. Skoonheid was presented in the Un Certain Regard sidebar. In [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/skoonheid-beauty-queer-palm-cannes-oliver-hermanus/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Aki Kaurismäki&#039;s LE HAVRE, TAKE SHELTER, Mohammed Rasoulof: Early Cannes Winners</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/le-havre-take-shelter-mohammed-rasoulof-cannes-winners/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/le-havre-take-shelter-mohammed-rasoulof-cannes-winners/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 05:07:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27113</guid> <description><![CDATA[Aki Kaurismäki's Le Havre Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre, about an author-turned-shoeshiner (André Wilms) who tries to assist a young African immigrant pursued by France's immigration police, has won the International Federation of Film Critics' FIPRESCI Prize for Best Film in the Official Competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Other FIPRESCI winners were Pierre Schoeller’s L’exercice de l’Etat / The Minister in the Un Certain [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/le-havre-take-shelter-mohammed-rasoulof-cannes-winners/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Cinéfondation Awards: Cannes 2011</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/cinefondation-awards-cannes-2011-der-brief/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/cinefondation-awards-cannes-2011-der-brief/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 03:10:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27111</guid> <description><![CDATA[Doroteya Droumeva's The Letter Doroteya Droumeva's Der Brief / The Letter (Germany), about a pregnant woman's mysterious letter, was chosen as the winner at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival's Cinéfondation Awards during a ceremony held at the Buñuel Theatre. The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury &#8212; Julie Gayet, Jessica Hausner, Corneliu Porumboiu, João Pedro Rodrigues and President Michel Gondry &#8212; awarded the runner-up prize to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/cinefondation-awards-cannes-2011-der-brief/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Lars von Trier: &#039;I&#039;m absolutely no Mel Gibson&#039;</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lars-von-trier-mel-gibson-nazi-cannes/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lars-von-trier-mel-gibson-nazi-cannes/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 18:40:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27101</guid> <description><![CDATA[This probably isn't the last of Lars von Trier &#8212; according to him, his project with Martin Scorsese is still a go &#8212; but the 'persona non grata' filmmaker has found the need to explain himself once again, this time to The Hollywood Reporter. Von Trier apparently wants to make sure people understand he's &#34;absolutely no Mel Gibson,&#34; whose The Beaver, I should add, received [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lars-von-trier-mel-gibson-nazi-cannes/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Lars von Trier: &#039;Persona Non Grata&#039; at Cannes</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lars-von-trier-persona-non-grata-cannes/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lars-von-trier-persona-non-grata-cannes/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 17:47:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27098</guid> <description><![CDATA[Lars von Trier, whose Dancer in the Dark won the Palme d'Or in 2000, is no stranger to controversy, though he probably wasn't expecting to become &#34;persona non grata&#34; at this year's edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Yesterday, while at a press conference for his latest effort, the doomsday family drama Melancholia starring Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg, von Trier talked about his German [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lars-von-trier-persona-non-grata-cannes/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Lars von Trier Apology: &#039;I am not antisemitic &#8230; nor am I a nazi&#039;</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lars-von-trier-apology-nazi-antisemitic/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lars-von-trier-apology-nazi-antisemitic/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 21:08:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27090</guid> <description><![CDATA[Lars von Trier, Antichrist Whether or not you think Lars von Trier's series of Nazi/Jew tirades at the Cannes Film Festival's Melancholia press conference sounds just like something out of Mel Brooks' The Producers, von Trier has been forced to apologize for his remarks in a terse press release made public by the festival itself: The Festival de Cannes was disturbed about the statements made [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lars-von-trier-apology-nazi-antisemitic/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Lars von Trier (and Uncomfortable Kirsten Dunst) Clips: &#039;I understand Hitler&#039;</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lars-von-trier-nazi-hitler-jew/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lars-von-trier-nazi-hitler-jew/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 21:08:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27089</guid> <description><![CDATA[Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lars von Trier, Kirsten Dunst At the Cannes Film Festival press conference for Melancholia &#8212; which features Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland, and Udo Kier &#8212; while answering a journalist's question about his origins, Lars von Trier said he believed he was a Jew for quite some time. Von Trier, who met his biological father only [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lars-von-trier-nazi-hitler-jew/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE TREE OF LIFE Reviews</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-tree-of-life-reviews-brad-pitt/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-tree-of-life-reviews-brad-pitt/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 11:19:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27075</guid> <description><![CDATA[Brad Pitt in Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life Below are a snippets from a few The Tree of Life reviews. Terrence Malick's first film since The New World (2005), The Tree of Life stars Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, and Jessica Chastain. Malick's latest was screened at the Cannes Film Festival, where it's in competition for the Palme d'Or. Brandishing an ambition it’s likely no [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-tree-of-life-reviews-brad-pitt/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Terrence Malick&#039;s THE TREE OF LIFE: Boos, Applause at Cannes</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/terrence-malick-the-tree-of-life-boos-applause-cannes/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/terrence-malick-the-tree-of-life-boos-applause-cannes/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 10:07:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27074</guid> <description><![CDATA[Brad Pitt, The Tree of Life Terrence Malick's 1950s-set family drama The Tree of Life, which stars Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, and Jessica Chastain, was perhaps the most eagerly anticipated film at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. It would be inaccurate to say that the enormous amount of interest from cinema aficionados had to do solely with the fact that Malick hasn't made a movie [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/terrence-malick-the-tree-of-life-boos-applause-cannes/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Princess Diana Death/Conspiracy Documentary UNLAWFUL KILLING: Cannes 2011 Controversy</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/princess-diana-death-unlawful-killing-keith-allen/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/princess-diana-death-unlawful-killing-keith-allen/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 18:23:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27057</guid> <description><![CDATA[Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed, Unlawful Killing Screened at Cannes on Friday, Keith Allen's documentary about the British royal family, Unlawful Killing, will likely fail to find the popular reception accorded to The Queen, The King's Speech, and Will and Kate's wedding. After all, the self-proclaimed &#34;antidote to The King's Speech,&#34; is a documentary that, as per The Associated Press, &#34;claims Britain's royals are racist 'gangsters [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/princess-diana-death-unlawful-killing-keith-allen/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Tilda Swinton Gets Praise for WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN: Cannes 2011</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/tilda-swinton-we-need-to-talk-about-kevin-cannes/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/tilda-swinton-we-need-to-talk-about-kevin-cannes/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 01:19:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27052</guid> <description><![CDATA[Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin In Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin, a middle-aged woman (Tilda Swinton) has a difficult, distant relationship with her son (City Island's Ezra Miller), who, it turns out went on a killing spree at his high school. Dealing with her grief, she tries to contact her estranged husband (John C. Reilly). Based on Lionel Shriver’s [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/tilda-swinton-we-need-to-talk-about-kevin-cannes/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Julia Leigh&#039;s Sexually Charged SLEEPING BEAUTY Creates Controversy: Cannes 2011</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/julia-leigh-sleeping-beauty-controversy-cannes/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/julia-leigh-sleeping-beauty-controversy-cannes/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 01:18:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27051</guid> <description><![CDATA[Emily Browning, Sleeping Beauty Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty divided critics at the Cannes Film Festival &#8212; while reminding some of Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. Presented by Jane Campion, Sleeping Beauty is the story of a young woman (Sucker Punch's and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events' Emily Browning) whose sex-escort job entails taking drugs, passing out, and having wealthy older men do &#34;things&#34; [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/julia-leigh-sleeping-beauty-controversy-cannes/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Gus Van Sant&#039;s RESTLESS Gets Unenthusiastic Reviews: Cannes 2011</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gus-van-sant-restless-reviews-cannes-henry-hopper/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gus-van-sant-restless-reviews-cannes-henry-hopper/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 01:16:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27050</guid> <description><![CDATA[Henry Hopper, Mia Wasikowska, Restless Gus Van Sant's Restless, about the love affair between an orphaned teenager (Dennis Hopper's son, Henry Hopper) and a cancer-stricken young woman (Mia Wasikowska), has received a number of unenthusiastic reviews. Some, in fact, have been downright negative. Van Sant won the Palme d'Or at Cannes for Elephant back in 2003. Bryce Dallas Howard (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse) is one [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gus-van-sant-restless-reviews-cannes-henry-hopper/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Cheesy 3D Quotes: Cannes 2011</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/antonio-banderas-salma-hayek-puss-in-boots-cannes-2011/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/antonio-banderas-salma-hayek-puss-in-boots-cannes-2011/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 19:05:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27037</guid> <description><![CDATA[Antonio Banderas, Puss in Boots According to The Associated Press' David Germain, Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Jude Law, Angelina Jolie, Jack Black, Woody Allen, Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Dustin Hoffman, Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, and Adrien Brody were spotted talking to the media at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where apparently there is no one of interest apart from Hollywood stars. Well, at least [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/antonio-banderas-salma-hayek-puss-in-boots-cannes-2011/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Woody Allen&#039;s MIDNIGHT IN PARIS Reviews</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/midnight-in-paris-reviews-woody-allen/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/midnight-in-paris-reviews-woody-allen/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 16:37:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27031</guid> <description><![CDATA[Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Midnight in Paris Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, the director's 41st film, opened the Cannes Film Festival today. Starring unlikely Allen hero Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Michael Sheen, Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody, Léa Seydoux, Alison Pill, and Gad Elmaleh, and featuring Carla Bruni in a cameo as a museum tour guide, Midnight in Paris has been greeted by mostly [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/midnight-in-paris-reviews-woody-allen/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Christophe Honoré-Catherine Deneuve&#039;s THE BELOVED: Cannes 2011 Closing Night Film</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/catherine-deneuve-the-beloved-cannes-2011-closing-night-film/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/catherine-deneuve-the-beloved-cannes-2011-closing-night-film/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:58:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26937</guid> <description><![CDATA[Christophe Honoré's Les bien-aimés / The Beloved will close the 2011 Cannes Film Festival on May 22. The out-of-competition screening will take place after Robert De Niro and his Official Competition jury hand out the Palme d'Or and other awards. The Beloved follows a couple of love stories in 1960s Prague and 1980s London, in addition to Paris in the early 21st century. The Beloved [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/catherine-deneuve-the-beloved-cannes-2011-closing-night-film/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Johnny Depp, Mel Gibson: Cannes 2011 High Star Wattage</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/marion-cotillard-penelope-cruz-mel-gibson-cannes-2011/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/marion-cotillard-penelope-cruz-mel-gibson-cannes-2011/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:11:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26850</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jodie Foster, Mel Gibson, The Beaver &#34;More Stars Than There Are in Heaven&#34; used to be MGM's tagline. Now that the old home of Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Elizabeth Taylor, et al. has been reduced to less than a shadow of its former itself &#8212; the latest announcement has Sony Pictures releasing the troubled studio's upcoming James Bond flick &#8212; the Cannes Film [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/marion-cotillard-penelope-cruz-mel-gibson-cannes-2011/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Non-European Productions Bypassed at Cannes 2011: Malick, Kawase, Miike, Leigh, Cedar Exceptions</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/cannes-2011-malick-kawase-leigh-cedar-miike/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/cannes-2011-malick-kawase-leigh-cedar-miike/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 23:13:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26849</guid> <description><![CDATA[Brad Pitt in Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life (top); Naomi Kawase's Hanazu no tsuki (bottom) As usual, the Cannes Film Festival's Official Competition film line-up is overwhelmingly centered on European (co)productions: British, French, Austrian, Italian, Spanish, Danish. The five &#34;outsiders&#34; hail from Israel, Australia, the United States, and Japan. In other words, barring one American entry, the Americas were completely ignored this year, and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/cannes-2011-malick-kawase-leigh-cedar-miike/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Cannes 2011 Selects Veterans: von Trier, Almodóvar, Dardenne Brothers, Kaurismäki, Sorrentino</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/cannes-2011-von-trier-almodovar-kaurismaki-sorrentino/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/cannes-2011-von-trier-almodovar-kaurismaki-sorrentino/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:22:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26848</guid> <description><![CDATA[Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya in Pedro Almodóvar's La piel que habito / The Skin I Live In The list of 19 films in competition for the 2011 Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or was announced earlier today. According to festival artistic director Thierry Fremaux and festival president Gilles Jacob, 1,715 entries were considered for Cannes 2011. But instead of opting for something new and risky, Fremaux [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/cannes-2011-von-trier-almodovar-kaurismaki-sorrentino/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Pedro Almodóvar, Terrence  Malick, Lars von Trier: Cannes 2011 Palme d&#039;Or Competition</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/pedro-almodovar-terrence-malick-cannes-2011-palme-dor-competition/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/pedro-almodovar-terrence-malick-cannes-2011-palme-dor-competition/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:43:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26847</guid> <description><![CDATA[Brad Pitt, Cole Cockburn in Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life Opening Film Woody ALLEN, MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (Out of Competition) &#160; Competition Pedro ALMODÓVAR, LA PIEL QUE HABITO Bertrand BONELLO, L'APOLLONIDE &#8211; SOUVENIRS DE LA MAISON CLOSE Alain CAVALIER, PATER Joseph CEDAR, HEARAT SHULAYIM (Footnote) Nuri Bilge CEYLAN, BIR ZAMANLAR ANADOLU'DA (Once upon a time in Anatolia) Jean-Pierre and Luc DARDENNE, LE GAMIN AU [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/pedro-almodovar-terrence-malick-cannes-2011-palme-dor-competition/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Faye Dunaway-Jerry Schatzberg Photo: Classy Cannes 2011 Poster</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/faye-dunaway-jerry-schatzberg-photo-cannes-2011-poster/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/faye-dunaway-jerry-schatzberg-photo-cannes-2011-poster/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 06:04:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26804</guid> <description><![CDATA[Faye Dunaway, Cannes 2011 poster A photograph of Faye Dunaway taken by Jerry Schatzberg in 1970 has been transformed into the poster for the 64th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, which runs May 11-22. On the Cannes Film Festival site, the image is described as a &#34;model of sophistication and timeless elegance &#8230; [and] an embodiment of the cinematic dream that the Festival de [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/faye-dunaway-jerry-schatzberg-photo-cannes-2011-poster/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Cannes 2010 Video Clip: Kirsten Dunst, Tim Burton, Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Kate Beckinsale</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/cannes-2010-video-clip-kirsten-dunst-javier-bardem/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/cannes-2010-video-clip-kirsten-dunst-javier-bardem/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 13:38:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Zac Gille</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24316</guid> <description><![CDATA[[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7krU00NXnWM[/youtube] The clip above, from Agence France Presse, features Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul, the director of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. Among the Thai filmmaker's other efforts are Syndromes and a Century, considered by many one of the best &#8212; if not the best &#8212; movie released during the first decade of the 21st century. Among others seen [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/cannes-2010-video-clip-kirsten-dunst-javier-bardem/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Cannes 2010 Winner UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES Trailer</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/uncle-boonmee-who-can-recall-his-past-lives-trailer/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/uncle-boonmee-who-can-recall-his-past-lives-trailer/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 12:38:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Zac Gille</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24315</guid> <description><![CDATA[[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk-EoUb0nvg[/youtube] Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, a dreamlike Thai comedy-drama about a man dying of kidney failure who is taken care of by his wife's ghost, was given the Palme d'Or at the 2010 edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Above is the film's trailer. Among Uncle Boonmee's competitors were Rachid Bouchareb's Hors-la-loi / Outside the Law, Xavier Beauvois' Of [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/uncle-boonmee-who-can-recall-his-past-lives-trailer/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Gregg Araki&#039;s KABOOM Wins Cannes&#039; First Queer Palm</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gregg-araki-kaboom-wins-cannes-queer-palm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gregg-araki-kaboom-wins-cannes-queer-palm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 01:02:16 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24310</guid> <description><![CDATA[Thomas Dekker, who should pick better-quality hallucinogenic cookies, in Gregg Araki's Kaboom On Saturday, Gregg Araki's Kaboom took home the Cannes Film Festival's first (unfortunately named) Queer Palm, awarded to &#8212; what? queers? Actually, it's given to a film's &#34;contribution to lesbian, gay, bi or trans&#34; issues. About a dozen movies were &#34;eligible&#34; for the award; in other words, films screened at Cannes featuring non-heterosexual [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gregg-araki-kaboom-wins-cannes-queer-palm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Mathieu Amalric, LEAP YEAR, POETRY, BARKING ISLAND: More Cannes 2010 Winners</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/mathieu-amalric-leap-year-poetry-barking-island-cannes-winners/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/mathieu-amalric-leap-year-poetry-barking-island-cannes-winners/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 23:38:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24308</guid> <description><![CDATA[Mathieu Amalric's On Tour (top); Yun Junghee in Lee Chang-dong's Poetry (middle); Monica del Carmen, Gustavo Sanchez Parra in Michael Rowe's Leap Year (lower middle); Serge Avedikian's Barking Island (bottom) Juliette Binoche, Javier Bardem, Elio Germano Win Acting Awards: Cannes 2010 Mathieu Amalric, best known for his work as an actor in films such as The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and A Christmas Tale, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/mathieu-amalric-leap-year-poetry-barking-island-cannes-winners/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Juliette Binoche, Javier Bardem, Elio Germano Win Acting Awards: Cannes 2010</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/juliette-binoche-javier-bardem-elio-germano-cannes-2010/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/juliette-binoche-javier-bardem-elio-germano-cannes-2010/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 23:35:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24307</guid> <description><![CDATA[Juliette Binoche, William Shimell in Abbas Kiarostami's Certified Copy (top); Javier Bardem in Alejandro González-Inarritu's Biutiful (middle); Elio Germano in Daniele Luchetti's Our Life (bottom) UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES Wins Palme d'Or Juliette Binoche and Javier Bardem, both of whom have already received Academy Awards in the past, took home the acting awards for their performances in, respectively, Abbas Kiarostami's Certified [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/juliette-binoche-javier-bardem-elio-germano-cannes-2010/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Cannes 2010: UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES Wins Palme d&#039;Or</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/uncle-boonmee-who-can-recall-his-past-lives-wins-palme-dor-cannes/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/uncle-boonmee-who-can-recall-his-past-lives-wins-palme-dor-cannes/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 23:32:51 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24306</guid> <description><![CDATA[Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (top); Xavier Beauvois' Of Gods and Men (middle); Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's A Screaming Man (bottom) Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, a dreamlike Thai drama about a man dying of kidney failure that left many puzzling over its meaning, won the Palme d'Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. &#34;I would like [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/uncle-boonmee-who-can-recall-his-past-lives-wins-palme-dor-cannes/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Cannes 2010 Awards: OF GODS AND MEN Wins Ecumenical Prize</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/of-gods-and-men-ecumenical-prize-cannes/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/of-gods-and-men-ecumenical-prize-cannes/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 00:40:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24301</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Ecumenical Jury at the 2010 edition of the Cannes Film Festival &#8212; as to be expected &#8212; awarded its top prize to Xavier Beauvois' Des hommes et des Dieux / Of Gods and Men (above). Starring Lambert Wilson and Michael Lonsdale, Of Gods and Men recounts the events that led to the horrific massacre of a group of Trappist monks in civil war-torn Algeria [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/of-gods-and-men-ecumenical-prize-cannes/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Cannes 2010 Awards: Mathieu Amalric&#039;s ON TOUR Wins Critics&#039; Prize</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/fipresci-awards-mathieu-amalric-on-tour/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/fipresci-awards-mathieu-amalric-on-tour/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 00:29:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24300</guid> <description><![CDATA[Surprisingly, Mathieu Amalric's Tournée / On Tour, the tale of a French manager and his American burlesque performers touring France and one of the least liked films at this year's Official Competition for the Palme d'Or, bagged the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) Prize for best film in the official line-up. According to a statement made by FIPRESCI jury president Alin Tasciyan, this year [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/fipresci-awards-mathieu-amalric-on-tour/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Cannes 2010 Awards: THE PAINTING SELLERS &#8211; Cinéfondation Winner</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-painting-sellers-cinefondation-winner-cannes-awards/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-painting-sellers-cinefondation-winner-cannes-awards/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 00:05:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24298</guid> <description><![CDATA[Finnish filmmaker Juho Kuosmanen's Taulukauppiaat / The Painting Sellers (above) topped the Cinéfondation Awards at the 2010 edition of the Cannes Film Festival. The Painting Sellers follows a trio of salespeople on the road and out of luck even though it's Christmastime. Worse yet, they have to come to terms with their budding friendship. Runners-up were Vincent Cardona's Coucou-les-nuages / Anywhere Out of the World, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-painting-sellers-cinefondation-winner-cannes-awards/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Cannes 2010 Awards: HAHAHA, OCTOBER &#8211; Un Certain Regard Winners</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/hahaha-october-un-certain-regard-winners/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/hahaha-october-un-certain-regard-winners/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 23:49:39 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24297</guid> <description><![CDATA[HaHaHa (top); October (middle); The Lips (bottom) Hong Sangsoo's HaHaHa, winner of the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard sidebar, revolves around a conversation between a Korean movie director and his good friend, a movie critic, who had both spent a summer night among the same group people &#8212; without knowing they were there at the same time. The Un Certain [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/hahaha-october-un-certain-regard-winners/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Cannes 2010: Rachid Bouchareb&#039;s OUTSIDE THE LAW Screened Under Tight Security</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rachid-bouchareb-outside-the-law-screened-cannes-2010/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rachid-bouchareb-outside-the-law-screened-cannes-2010/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 23:57:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24289</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, the stars of Rachid Bouchareb's Days of Glory, join forces once again in Bouchareb's Outside the Law First, Cannes Film Festival organizers pissed off Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing government by showing Sabina Guzzanti's documentary Draquila: Italy Trembles, which delves into the corruption and decay found in Berlusconi's Italy. Today came Rachid Bouchareb's Outside the Law, which seriously pissed off members [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rachid-bouchareb-outside-the-law-screened-cannes-2010/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Jennifer Lopez, Mark Anthony Photo: Cannes 2010</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jennifer-lopez-mark-anthony-photo-cannes-2010/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jennifer-lopez-mark-anthony-photo-cannes-2010/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 13:26:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>D. Zhea</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24284</guid> <description><![CDATA[Singer/actress Jennifer Lopez (Monster-in-Law, Maid in Manhattan, Out of Sight) and husband Mark Anthony at the Vanity Fair and Gucci Party Honoring US filmmaker Martin Scorsese (his latest was Shutter Island with Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo) at the 2010 edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Scorsese's party was held at the Hotel Du Cap Eden Roc on May 15 in the south of France. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jennifer-lopez-mark-anthony-photo-cannes-2010/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Juliette Binoche, Frida Giannini Photo: Cannes 2010</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/juliette-binoche-frida-giannini-photo-cannes-2010/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/juliette-binoche-frida-giannini-photo-cannes-2010/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 13:23:58 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>D. Zhea</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24283</guid> <description><![CDATA[Actress Juliette Binoche, Cannes 2010 poster girl, and Gucci Creative Director Frida Giannini attend the Vanity Fair and Gucci Party Honoring American director Martin Scorsese during the 63rd Annual Cannes Film Festival. The party was held at the Hotel Du Cap Eden Roc on May 15. (Photo By Daniele Venturelli/WireImage for Gucci.) Juliette Binoche is the star of Abbas Kiarostami's Certified Copy, co-starring William Shimell, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/juliette-binoche-frida-giannini-photo-cannes-2010/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Claudia Cardinale, Martin Scorsese Photo: Cannes 2010</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/claudia-cardinale-martin-scorsese-photo-cannes-2010/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/claudia-cardinale-martin-scorsese-photo-cannes-2010/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 13:13:50 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>D. Zhea</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24281</guid> <description><![CDATA[Director Martin Scorsese and veteran international superstar Claudia Cardinale attend the Vanity Fair and Gucci Party honoring Scorsese during the 63rd Cannes Film Festival at the Hotel Du Cap Eden Roc on May 15, 2010 in Cannes, France. (Photo By Daniele Venturelli/WireImage for Gucci.) Both Scorsese and Cardinale were also present at the premiere of the restored version of Luchino Visconti's The Leopard (1963), which [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/claudia-cardinale-martin-scorsese-photo-cannes-2010/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Cannes 2010: Apichatpong Weerasethakul&#039;s UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/apichatpong-weerasethakul-uncle-boonmee-who-can-recall-his-past-lives-cannes/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/apichatpong-weerasethakul-uncle-boonmee-who-can-recall-his-past-lives-cannes/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 12:33:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Arthur Leander</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24276</guid> <description><![CDATA[Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is one of the films in competition for the 2010 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Uncle Boonmee tells the story of a dying man who decides to spend his last days the countryside. Once there, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, while his long lost son returns home [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/apichatpong-weerasethakul-uncle-boonmee-who-can-recall-his-past-lives-cannes/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Doug Liman&#039;s FAIR GAME Reviews</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/fair-game-reviews-naomi-watts-sean-penn/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/fair-game-reviews-naomi-watts-sean-penn/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 21:30:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Arthur Leander</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24273</guid> <description><![CDATA[Naomi Watts as Valerie Plame, Sean Penn as Joseph Wilson, Fair Game Doug Liman's Fair Game is the only film directed by an American filmmaker in competition for the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Fair Game, which Summit Entertainment will release in the United States, stars Naomi Watts and Sean Penn as, respectively, covert CIA agent Valerie Plame and her husband, former [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/fair-game-reviews-naomi-watts-sean-penn/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Cannes 2010: Xavier Dolan&#039;s Bisexual Romantic Triangle HEARTBEATS</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/xavier-dolan-bisexual-heartbeats/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/xavier-dolan-bisexual-heartbeats/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 01:53:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Alessandro Moretti</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24264</guid> <description><![CDATA[[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gCPIof4kNQ[/youtube] With his debut feature I Killed My Mother, Quebecois filmmaker Xavier Dolan won three awards at the 2009 edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Dolan, 21, was less lucky at home, where he was all but ignored by the Genie Awards, Canada's Oscars. Anyhow, he's back at the Cannes festival with Les amours imaginaires / Heartbeats, about a romantic triangle involving two friends (Dolan, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/xavier-dolan-bisexual-heartbeats/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Cannes 2010: Rachid Bouchareb&#039;s OUTSIDE THE LAW Sparks Controversy</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rachid-bouchareb-outside-the-law-controversy-french-algerian-war/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rachid-bouchareb-outside-the-law-controversy-french-algerian-war/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 01:08:54 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Zac Gille</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24263</guid> <description><![CDATA[Rachid Bouchareb's Hors-la-loi / Outside the Law hasn't even had its Cannes Official Competition screening, yet &#8212; that will be on May 21 &#8212; and it's already being reviled by right-wing politicians and French war veterans. Directed and written by Bouchareb, Outside the Law is a drama-thriller about Algeria's struggle for independence from France following World War II &#8212; an issue that remains an ugly, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rachid-bouchareb-outside-the-law-controversy-french-algerian-war/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Cannes 2010: Javier Bardem&#039;s BIUTIFUL, Mike Leigh&#039;s ANOTHER YEAR the Few Lucky Ones?</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/javier-bardem-biutiful-mike-leigh-another-year/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/javier-bardem-biutiful-mike-leigh-another-year/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 22:55:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Arthur Leander</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24243</guid> <description><![CDATA[Javier Bardem in Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu's Biutiful &#34;About halfway through the Cannes Film Festival, there are, amazingly, still no sales of films playing in any of the festival sections. Such is the frozen tundra of (a certain part of) the indie business these days. (The market, where many mainstream films are sold and where much of the business takes place, isn't faring much better, at [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/javier-bardem-biutiful-mike-leigh-another-year/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Cannes 2010: Juliette Binoche, Abbas Kiarostami, CERTIFIED COPY and Jailed Filmmaker Jafar Panahi</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/juliette-binoche-abbas-kiarostami-certified-copy-jafar-panahi/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/juliette-binoche-abbas-kiarostami-certified-copy-jafar-panahi/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 22:54:39 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Arthur Leander</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24242</guid> <description><![CDATA[Juliette Binoche, William Shimell in Abbas Kiarostami's Certified Copy &#34;The fact that a filmmaker has been imprisoned is itself intolerable. If the Iranian government continues to refuse to release Jafar, then we need explanations. Jafar Panahi was inclined to make his films under clandestine, illegal circumstances, but that's not his responsibility alone. The responsibility is that of the authorities who prevent him from carrying out [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/juliette-binoche-abbas-kiarostami-certified-copy-jafar-panahi/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Cannes 2010: Jean-Luc Godard&#039;s FILM SOCIALISM Enthralls, Puzzles, Bores</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jean-luc-godard-film-socialism-cannes/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jean-luc-godard-film-socialism-cannes/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 22:46:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Arthur Leander</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24241</guid> <description><![CDATA[Mathias Domahidy in Jean-Luc Godard's Film Socialisme &#34;Film Socialisme is indeed like an uncertainly remembered dream. Its first section appears to take place on a cruise ship: various disjointed sequences follow one another; then we shift to a family-owned petrol station somewhere in France. A confrontation between French and German passengers appears to resonate with disputes and tensions within the family; archive film shows searing [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jean-luc-godard-film-socialism-cannes/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Cannes 2010: Xavier Beauvois&#039; OF GODS AND MEN with Lambert Wilson</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/xavier-beauvois-of-gods-and-men-lambert-wilson/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/xavier-beauvois-of-gods-and-men-lambert-wilson/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 20:55:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24240</guid> <description><![CDATA[Screened at the Cannes Film Festival, Xavier Beauvois' Des hommes et des dieux / Of Gods and Men, starring Lambert Wilson (above, left) and Michael Lonsdale, tackles the gruesome, real-life horror story set in 1996 Algeria, when seven French monks were beheaded by Islamic militants. Or were they? In 1992, when it became clear that Algerian voters were going to elect Islamic candidates, the army [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/xavier-beauvois-of-gods-and-men-lambert-wilson/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon, Gilles Jacob Photo: Cannes 2010</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/claudia-cardinale-alain-delon-gilles-jacob-photo/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/claudia-cardinale-alain-delon-gilles-jacob-photo/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 16:00:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24237</guid> <description><![CDATA[Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon, and Cannes Film Festival President Gilles Jacob (mostly hidden behind Delon's outstretched arms) at the Il Gattopardo / The Leopard premiere held at the Palais des Festivals during the 63rd Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2010 on the French Riviera. (Photo by Venturelli/WireImage) Directed by Luchino Visconti, and adapted by Visconti, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Enrico Medioli, and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/claudia-cardinale-alain-delon-gilles-jacob-photo/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
