Cannes 2009: Asia Argento, Claudia Schiffer, Isabelle Huppert, Monica Bellucci

Claudia Schiffer (Photo by Dave Hogan/Getty Images)

Asia Argento (Photo by Eric Ryan/Getty Images)

Isabelle Huppert (Photo by Kristian Dowling/Getty Images)

Quentin Tarantino, Mélanie Laurent, Mike Myers (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Monica Bellucci (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
 

Cannes 2009: INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

Brad Pitt in Inglourious Basterds

Richard Corliss/Mary Corliss in Time:
"… Inglourious Basterds — first word as in "glower," second as in "turds" — is an alternative history of World War II from the writer-director of Pulp Fiction, the Palme d’Or winner 15 years ago. As with all of his recent work — the two Kill Bill movies and Death Proof — Basterds draws portraits of strong women facing down evil men; and in Shoshanna (Mélanie Laurent) and Third Reich screen star Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) he’s created two of his fullest female portraits. But Basterds is long and, for the hypercharged auteur, surprisingly wan. It has to be declared a misfire."
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J. Hoberman in The Village Voice:
"So what is [...]

César 2007

2007 César Awards
French Academy of Arts and Sciences’ 2007 César du Cinéma nominations: January 26, 2007
2007 César du Cinéma winners: Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, on February 24, 2007. Valérie Lemercier was the hostess.
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Marina Hands, Jean-Louis Coulloc’h in Lady Chatterley
 

Best French Film / Meilleur film français
Indigènes / Days of Glory Rachid Bouchareb
Je vais bien, ne t’en fais pas / Don’t Worry, I’m Fine Philippe Lioret
* Lady Chatterley Pascale Ferran
Ne le dis à personne / Tell No One Guillaume Canet
Quand j’étais chanteur / The Singer Xavier Giannoli
Best Foreign Film / Meilleur film étranger
Babel Alejandro González Iñárritu
* Little Miss Sunshine Jonathan Dayton, Valérie Faris
Brokeback Mountain Ang Lee
The Queen Stephen Frears
Volver Pedro Almodóvar
Best First Film [...]

César 2007 Nominations

Lambert Wilson, Laura Morante in Private Fears in Public Places (top); Marina Hands in Lady Chatterley (middle); Samy Naceri in Days of Glory (bottom)

The best thing about the 2007 César nominations is the fact that Alain Resnais‘ beautiful, haunting, magical Coeurs / Private Fears in Public Places received a total of 8 nominations, including a best director nod for Resnais himself, and a best screenplay nod for Jean-Michel Ribes‘ adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn’s play.
The worst thing about the 2007 César nominations is the fact that Alain Resnais‘ beautiful, haunting, magical Coeurs / Private Fears in Public Places failed to receive a nomination in the best film category. Adding insult to injury, none of the film’s [...]