Roman Polanski Petition

Veteran filmmakers Marco Bellocchio, Wim Wenders, and Claude Lelouch; Oscar winners Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and Pedro Almodóvar; the French Film Academy; the Cannes Film Festival; and hundreds of other individuals and organizations have signed a petition demanding the release of Roman Polanski, who was arrested by Swiss police — at the behest of the American Justice Department — following his arrival at the Zurich airport on Sept. 26. Polanski was headed to the Zurich Film Festival, where he was to have received a Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 1978, Polanski pleaded guilty to having unlawful intercourse with a minor (13-year-old Samantha Gailey, now Geimer) at a Los Angeles court, but fled to France before he could be sentenced. His court [...]

by Andre Soares | September 29, 2009   
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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)
 

by Deborah Arthur | May 25, 2009   
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Cannes 2009: Isabelle Huppert, Robin Wright, Jean-Marc Barr, Monica Bellucci

Sharmila Tagore, Isabelle Huppert, Robin Wright (Photo by Dominique Charriau/WireImage)

Jean-Marc Barr at Montblanc Party

Sophie Marceau, Monica Bellucci (Photo by Daniele Venturelli/WireImage)

Rachel Weisz (Photo by Tony Barson/WireImage)
 

by Deborah Arthur | May 25, 2009   
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Cannes 2009: Juliette Binoche, Monica Bellucci, Rachel Weisz, Robin Wright

Juliette Binoche (Photo by Jean Baptiste Lacroix/FilmMagic)

Monica Bellucci (Photo by Daniele Venturelli/WireImage)

Rachel Weisz (Photo by Tony Barson/WireImage)

Robin Wright Penn (Photo by John Shearer/WireImage)
 

by Deborah Arthur | May 25, 2009   
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Cannes 2009: Out of Competition Films, Special Screenings

Cannes 2009: Out of Competition Films / Special Screenings
Below is a sample of out-of-competition films, special screenings, and midnight screenings at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
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Pete DOCTER, UP (Opening Night Film)

Anne AGHION, MY NEIGHBOR, MY KILLER

Alejandro AMENABAR, AGORA

Terry GILLIAM, THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS

Robert GUÉDIGUIAN, L’ARMÉE DU CRIME (The Army of crime)

Sam RAIMI, DRAG ME TO HELL

Marina de VAN, NE TE RETOURNE PAS (Don’t look back)

Jan KOUNEN, COCO CHANEL & IGOR STRAVINSKY (Closing Night Film)
 
Photos: Courtesy Festival de Cannes

 

by Massimo David | May 21, 2009   
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THE BIG QUESTION d: Francesco Cabras and Alberto Molinari

The Big Question (2004)
Direction: Francesco Cabras, Alberto Molinari
Screenplay: Francesco Cabras
Cast: Greg, the Dog
Interviewees: Mel Gibson, Monica Bellucci, James Caviezel, Rosalinda Celentano, Maia Morgenstern

 
It is unfortunate that The Big Question, an intelligent and thought-provoking documentary about faith, was made before the December 2004 tsunami that killed more than 200,000 people around the Indian Ocean. Filmmakers Francesco Cabras and Alberto Molinari could then have asked one more pertinent question to their dozens of subjects on the set of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ: if there is a God (or Goddess, or gods, or goddesses), how could such a horrific, unimaginably destructive tragedy take place? Answers would surely have been as thoughtful, stupid, funny, mean-spirited, wacky, and/or illuminating as those provided [...]

by Andre Soares | November 24, 2004   
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