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The Cannes Film Festival - le Festival international du film de Cannes

Dates for your diary: May 14 to 25, 2024 77th Festival de Cannes

Final Cannes Film Fesitval report from Riviera Radio News Monday 27 May

The film " Anora " by American Sean Baker has received the Palme d'Or during the closing ceremony of the 77th Cannes Film Festival. This is not the first time that the American has been selected at Cannes. But this time the festival tasted the vitality of the thriller which moves from the underworld of New York to the luxury villas of Russian oligarchs More information Here

Cannes Film Fesitval report from Riviera Radio News Wednesday 15 May

After 47 years in the film industry, the actress behind "The Devil Wears Prada" and "Mamma Mia!" Meryl Steep has been honoured at Cannes for her exceptional career. With over 300 film credits, Streep is known for her roles in critically acclaimed movies like "Kramer vs. Kramer," "Out of Africa," and "The Devil Wears Prada," for which she won three Oscars and received 21 nominations, more than any other actor in history. During the opening ceremony on Tuesday evening French actress Juliette Binoche praised Streep, stating, "You've changed the way we view women in cinema."

Cannes Film Fesitval report from Riviera Radio News Tuesday 14 May

The Cannes Film Festival kicks off today with some reports saying that it could be the most disruptive edition in decades, due to freelance festival employees threatening strike action which could derail the opening night ceremony and the entire French industry on tenterhooks ahead of an expected new wave of #MeToo allegations against some of the country's biggest stars. However, others report that the market looks promising judging by the number and quality of projects pitching at this year's film market and all is yet to come.

The day before the opening saw many gather at Nice International Airport to spot the stars arriving and 28 year old Anya Taylor-Joy was one of them. She touched down in Nice on Monday. Her much-anticipated upcoming movie Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is set to premiere at the 77th Film Festival on Wednesday. More information Here

Cannes Film Fesitval report from Riviera Radio News Monday 13 May

Cannes is beginning to buzz with excitement as the 77th edition of the Film Festival prepares to open tomorrow Tuesday May 14th. On Sunday morning the poster for the Cannes Film Festival was displayed on the front of the Palais des Festivals. A ritual always immortalized by the flashlights of photographers. Since the 1950s, the principle has remained almost unchanged. The Festival sees around twenty films screened over ten days in front of film professionals.

A jury made up of around ten people from the cinema industry (directors, actors, screenwriters, etc.) must then decide to which film it will award the most prestigious prize of the festival: the Palme d'Or. This year, the jury is chaired by Greta Gerwig. The 8 members of the jury are: the American actress Lily Gladstone, present last year for Killers of the Flower Moon, the Franco-British actress Eva Green, the French actor and producer Omar Sy, the Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino , Japanese director Kore-Eda Hirokazu, Lebanese director and screenwriter Nadine Labaki, Spanish director, producer and screenwriter Juan Antonio Bayona, and Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan.

The Cannes Film Festival is reserved for cinema professionals. This includes the people who make the films, distribute them, produce them, but also journalists. However, it is possible for certain people who do not do these jobs to access a few showings. For example, Cannes residents can participate in a draw to win places for screenings during the festival. Stayed tuned to hear daily bulletins from Cannes on the Full English Breakfast Show from Reviewed and Cleared's CEO, Alex Wade. More information Here

According to Riviera Radio News on Wednesday 11 April 2024

Cannes Film Festival -The iconic director of "Star Wars" George Lucus is to be awarded an honorary Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival. The 79-year-old American is the man behind several legendary franchises: "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" and has attended Cannes numerous times as screenwriter, director and producer. On hearing the news Lucas said he was "truly honoured by this special recognition". The 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival will be held from May 14th to 25th. More information Here

Dates for your diary: May 16 to 27, 2023 76th Festival de Cannes

According to Riviera Radio Daily News on Monday 22 May 2023

Cannes Film Festival - There was plenty of red-carpet glamour on Sunday as actress Alicia Vikander celebrate the launch of Firebrand at the 76th Cannes Film Festival. The actress was joined on the famous Croisette by fellow models Irina Shayk, Gigi Hadid and Naomi Campbell ahead of the film's first official screening. Former first lady of France Carla Bruni who is married to former president Nicolas Sarkozy was also present.

According to Riviera Radio Daily News on Tuesday 6 July 2021 " Cannes 2021 - The Cannes Film Festival opens at the Palais des Festivals this evening having been delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic. Spike Lee is the President of the Jury this year and the opening movie will be "Annette", a musical from the director Leos Carax. Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard star with music by Sparks duo Ron and Russell Mael. More than 2,500 films were submitted for consideration this year after last year's event had to be cancelled.

There are 24 films in the official competition including "Flag Day" by Sean Penn and Wes Anderson's "French Dispatch". Sadly there will be no British presence this year owing to coronavirus restrictions."

According to Riviera Radio News on Wednesday 27 February 2019 - It's been announced that Mexican film director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu will preside over the jury of the 72nd Cannes Film Festival. The multi-Oscar-winning director is known for films such as The Revenant and Birdman. The festival runs from May 14th to the 25th.

71st Cannes Film Festival - Festival de Cannes is scheduled for Tuesday 8 - Saturday 19 May 2018 - It starts one day earlier than previous years Find out more here

69th Cannes Film Festival - Festival de Cannes 2016 - took place Wednesday, May 11 - Sunday May 22, 2016

According to a report on Riviera Radio Daily News Tuesday 26 April - Actresses Kirsten Dunst and Vanessa Paradis will sit on this year's Cannes jury making it one of the most feminine in the film festival's 69-year history. The jury will be presided over by George Miller, the Australian creator of the "Mad Max" films. Woody Allen's new film "Cafe Society" will open the festival on the French Riviera on May 11th. The festival runs until May 22nd.

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68th Cannes Film Festival - Festival de Cannes 2015 - took place 13 - 24 May 2015

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67th Cannes Film Festival - Festival de Cannes: 14 to 25 May 2014

66th Cannes Film Festival - Festival de Cannes: 15 to 26 May 2013

65th Cannes Film Festival - Festival de Cannes: 16 to 27 May 2012

64th Cannes Film Festival - Festival de Cannes: 11 to 22 May 2011

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67th Cannes Film Festival - Festival de Cannes 2014: 14th to 25th May 2014

step ladders waiting for the stars of Cannes

New Zealander Jane Campion, Oscar-winning director of The Piano and first woman to have ever won the Palme d’Or, will lead te 2014 jury at the Cannes Film Festival

According to The Riviera Times 18th April 2014 "US stars Meryl Streep, Hilary Swank, Channing Tatum, Robert Pattinson, John Cusack, and Ryan Reynolds are likely to hit the red carpet for this year’s Cannes Film Festival – notably less Hollywood A-listers than previous events. The festival has now announced its lineup for 2014, a year that will see a smaller number of U.S. filmmakers travel to the Croisette, and a controversial opening film of Princess Grace. " More Here

According to Riviera Radio News 20th May 2014 - "Robert Pattinson and Channing Tatum went head to head in Cannes last night and were out on the red carpet to meet their fans. Both were in competition on the two big screenings of the evening in the Théatre Lumière with Pattinson's Maps to the Stars following Tatum's Foxcatcher"

Riviera Radio News reported in the 26th May 2014 -"Winter sleep was the winner of the Palme d'Or in Cannes and a good bit of controversy to close the festival , with the president Gilles Jacob criticising what he called the parasitic approach of producers of the DSK-inspired film Welcome to New York. The film failed to get in to competition and was screened on the fringes of the festival."

and finally - "Quentin Tarantino has said that screening films in digital is like forcing audiences to watch television in public, adding that traditional celluloid he grew up with is "dead". Speaking at the Cannes film festival where he won the Palme d'Or prize in 1994, the cult director said: "The fact that most films aren't presented in 35mm means that the world is lost. Digital projection is just television in public. "And apparently the whole world is OK with television in public, but what I knew as cinema is dead." Source Riviera Radio News

63rd Cannes Film Festival - Festival de Cannes: May 12th to 23rd 2010

The actress Kristin Scott Thomas will open the 63rd edition of the Festival on May 12th by inviting the President Tim Burton and his Jury on stage at the Palais des Festivals. She will equally animate the closing ceremony when the Awards will be announced, Sunday May 23rd. Kristin Scott Thomas is re-cast in the role she played in 1999, succeeding Edouard Baer who held the position for two years running in 2008 and 2009.

The President of the Feature Film Jury will be Tim Burton and on the jury:

Kate Beckinsale – Actress / United Kingdom Giovanna Mezzogiorno – Actress / Italy Alberto Barbera – Director of the National Museum of Cinema / Italy Emmanuel Carrere – Author – Screenwriter – Director / France Benicio Del Toro – Actor / Porto Rico Victor Erice - Director/ Spain Shekhar Kapur - Director – Actor – Producer / India

Robin Hood, the epic blockbuster by British director Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett (and Max Von Sydow, Lea Seydoux, William Hurt), is to be screened at the Opening of the 63rd Festival de Cannes on Wednesday May 12th 2010. The film will be presented out of competition. Produced by Universal Studios, the screenplay was penned by Brian Helgeland (L.A Confidential, Mystic River) and portrays the birth of the Robin Hood legend.

To star, Ridley Scott chose Russell Crowe for a role previously brought to the screen by Errol Flynn, Sean Connery and Kevin Costner. Ridley Scott was in the Official selection at the Festival de Cannes with The Duellists, a prize winner in 1977, then with Thelma and Louise, presented out of competition in 1991. Robin Hood will be released in theatres in France the day of its presentation at Cannes, and released worldwide on May 14th.

Italy's culture minister will boycott the 2010 Cannes Film Festival to protest an Italian documentary that criticizes Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's relief efforts for survivors of the L'Aquila earthquake in central Italy last year. Sandro Bondi declined an invitation to attend the festival on the French Riviera. On Saturday, just days before its opening, the minister issued a statement saying he was shocked that the film, Draquila: Italy Trembles, was included in the event.

The Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or for 2010 was won by the Thai film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. It was the first time that an Asian movie won the award since 1997.

Other winners from the 2010 Festival: Grand Prix - Of Gods and Men directed by Xavier Beauvois | Jury Prize - A Screaming Man directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | Best director - Mathieu Amalric for On Tour | Best actress - Juliette Binoche for Certified Copy | Best actor- Javier Bardem for Biutiful and Elio Germano for Our Life (shared) | Best screenplay - Lee Chang-Dong for Poetry

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62nd Cannes Film Festival - Festival de Cannes: May 13th to 24th 2009

French actress Isabelle Huppert was the President of the Jury of the 62nd Festival de Cannes. Three British films were vying for the 2009 Cannes Film Festival's PalmeD'Or award. They were Ken Loach's fim Looking for Eric a film about an obsessive football fan staring Manchester United's Eric Cantonna. [The 59th Festival de Cannes that was held on the 17th to 28th May 2006 had Ken Loach winning the 2006 Palme D'Or at Cannes for his film The Wind That Shakes The Barley.(Le Vent se lève) ], Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank and Jane Campiion's Bright Star.

It was not a double British win in Cannes for Plalme D'Or and Monaco Grand Prix. Jensen Button wpn the 2009 Monaco Grand Prix. Austrian Michael Haneke won his first Palme d'Or with his parable of fascism, "The White Ribbon" and Charlotte Gainsbourg takes best actress award for her role in Lars von Trier's Antichrist.The best actor award went to Christoph Waltz who plays a linguistically brilliant Nazi – the "Jew Hunter". There was a British winner for the Cannes Jury prize Andrea Arnold who won her second Jury Prize for Fish Tank about a a fearless, troubled 15-year-old whose life changes when her terrible mother finally goes out with someone nice.

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61st Cannes Film Festival - Festival de Cannes: from 14th to 25th May 2008

The Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or was won by the French production Entre les murs (The Class) on the 25th May 2008. The film, directed by Laurent Cantet, used teachers and students to chronicle a year in the life of an inner-city school. This is the first time a French film has won the Palme d'Or since Sous le Soleil de Satan by Maurice Pialat in 1987

Grand Prix GOMORRA de / by Matteo Garrone

Prize of the 61st Festival de Cannes ex-aequo Catherine Deneuve dans / for UN CONTE DE NOËL de / by Arnaud DESPLECHIN Clint Eastwood pour / for L’ÉCHANGE (The Exchange)

Award for the Best Director ÜÇ MAYMUN (Three Monkeys / Les Trois Singes) de / by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Jury Prize IL DIVO de / by Paolo Sorrentino Prix d'interprétation masculine Benicio Del Toro dans / for CHE de / by Steven SODERBERGH

Best Performance for an Actress Sandra Corveloni dans / for LINHA DE PASSE de / by Walter SALLES, Daniela THOMAS

Award for the Best Screenplay LE SILENCE DE LORNA de / by Jean-Pierre et Luc DARDENNE

Benicio del Toro won the prize for best actor for his lead role in Guerrilla, Steven Soderbergh's biopic of Che Guevara

The President of the 2008 jury was the American actor Sean Penn

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60th Cannes Film Festival - Festival de Cannes: from 16th to 27th May 2007

Romania wins major prizes at 2007 Cannes Film Festival

The Palme d'Or, went to Cristian Mungiu for "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," described as an unsparing yet humane look at life during the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu. It follows the ordeal of two female university students as one tries to help the other obtain an illegal abortion. Cristian Mungiu's film had critical support from the start and the The audience in the Palais des Festivals was audibly delighted by Mungiu's victory. The jury for Un Certain Regard, gave its highest honour to "California Dreamin,' " a first feature by Cristian Nemescu set in Romania during the Kosovo war of 1999. Cristian Nemescu died in a car accident in 2006 at the age of 27.

Diane Kruger was the Master of Ceremonies for the 60th Festival de Cannes. She welcomed the President Stephen Frears and his Jury onto the stage of the Palais des Festivals on May 16th 2007. She also hosted the Closing Ceremony, on Sunday May 27th, during which the Awards will be announced.

Meanwhile early in 2007, the town of cannes and the Palais des Festivals has launched an exciting programme to mark the 60th anniversary of the creation of the Cannes film festival. In 2007 a series of screenings of old films tracing the history of cinema on the Croisette will be shown several times a month at various venues. Entrance to these films will be free from 6pm and open to all, subject to availability.

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