Watch Us Explode! (Free subscription) | 06/16/2009
Puh-leaze! And to think this was an Un Certain Regard selection in this year’s Cannes Film Festival… Sam C. Mac of The Playlist writes: Jean VD Velde’s “The Silent Army” joins Ed Zwick’s “Blood Diamond” and Fernando Meirelles’ “The Constant Gardener” in the putrid genre of white-man-saves-Africa thrillers. And like those other two films,...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 06/02/2009
International News: Event to run until June 28 -- The 31st Moscow Film Festival will open June 19 with helmer Pavel Lungin's Un Certain Regard player "Tsar."
Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal (Free subscription) | 05/28/2009
Nearly a week in the aftermath of the Cannes Film Festival , word is continuing to trickle back from France about Pen-ek Ratanaruang's Nymph ( Nang Mai ) -- the only Thai film in the festival's "Official Selection". The story of an urban couple ("Gybzy" Wanida Termthanaporn and "Peter" Nopachai Jayanama) who go to the jungle in an effort to sort out their troubled marriage,...
Mission & Justice (Free subscription) | 05/26/2009
Michael Bodey; 26/5/09; (2 Items) Warwick Thornton was a little deflated heading into the gala awards ceremony that closes the Cannes Film Festival. The night before, the Australian director’s film Samson and Delilah missed out on the three awards in the Un Certain Regard section of the French festival. “I did have a little downer from [...]
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 05/24/2009
The 62nd annual Cannes Film Festival has ended, and while the main competition prizes won't be given out until later today, the sidebars have already announced their winners. They are as follows. Un Certain Regard Prix Un Certain Regard : Dogtooth [ Kynodontas ] - d. Yorgos Lanthimos - Greece Prix du jury : Police, adjective [ Intermediar ] - d. Corneliu Porumboiu - Romania Prix special Un Certain...
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 05/24/2009
The 62nd annual Cannes Film Festival has ended, and while the main competition prizes won't be given out until later today, the sidebars have already announced their winners. They are as follows Un...
The Screening Log (Free subscription) | 05/24/2009
Here's your dose of film news for May 23, 2009: • Lyndsy Fonseca is the latest to join John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson and Lizzy Caplan in Steve Pink's upcoming comedy "Hot Tub Time Machine," about a group of adults who visit a hot tub they once used and realize it can transport them back in time, to their younger selves. Fonseca is known for her roles on "Desperate Housewives"...
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 05/24/2009
It's the final day of the Cannes Film Festival today, and following yesterday's announcement of the Director's Fortnight awards, now we have word from Critics Week and FIPRESCI ahead of tonight's official competition ceremony. Meanwhile, the festival's official sidebar, Un Certain Regard (UCR), has also announced its results. UCR, which presented 20 films from 20 different countries, has given its...
Reporters sans frontières (Free subscription) | 05/23/2009
Reporters Without Borders hails the special jury prize which the Iranian film “No One Knows About Persian Cats” was awarded today in the “Un Certain Regard” section of the Cannes Film Festival. Co-scripted by the recently released Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi , it opened this section of the festival on 14 May.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 05/23/2009
CANNES, France — A film co-scripted by U.S.-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi won a prize in one of the Cannes Film Festival competitions on Saturday. "No One Knows About Persian Cats" won a special jury prize in the festival's Un Certain Regard competition. The film is a lively look at Tehran's underground music scene and the risk of censorship and jail faced by Iranian musicians. Saberi...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 05/23/2009
Film News: Lanthimos’ drama nabs honors at Cannes -- In a rare triumph for Greek cinema at Cannes, Yorgos Lanthimos’ unsettling repression drama "Dogtooth" took the top Un Certain Regard Prize Saturday at Cannes.
The Bourne Cinema Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 05/22/2009
(All synopses from the official Cannes site .) The Wind Journeys (Los viajes del viento) (Ciro Guerra) Ignacio Carrillo travelled all his life throughout the villages and regions of northern Colombia, carrying music and traditional songs on his accordion, a legendary instrument that is said to be cursed, because it once belonged to the devil. As he became older, he got married and settled with his...
The Bourne Cinema Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 05/21/2009
(All synopses from the official Cannes site .) Adrift (À Deriva) (Heitor Dhalia) Spending summer vacation with her family in Buzios, Filipa, a fourteen-year old girl, suffers through the rite of passage into adulthood while discovering love for the first time. A rite filled with anguish when she learns that her father, a famous author, is betraying her mother with a foreign woman who lives in...
KillerMovies (Free subscription) | 05/21/2009
Sean Penn is in talks to star in “This Must Be the Place,” a film that will mark the English-language feature debut of Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino, who is Un Certain Regard jury prexy at Cannes..
FJ Girls Female Celebrity News (Free subscription) | 05/20/2009
Nymph a 2009 Thai drama film directed by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang is the only Thai Film at the Cannes Film Festival and it looks to be one of the most exciting offerings from this country in years and is competing at the Un Certain Regard Section of the Cannes film competition and stars the highly smouldering [...]
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