The First Post (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Matteo Garrone, director of the prize-winning Italian film Gomorra, which as The First Post reported last month has attracted big audiences in Italy for its depiction of gang life in…
Ansa (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Venice, Rome and Turin threatened unless tax breaks restored
http://www.cinemarealm.com/feed/ (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
The 61st annual Cannes Film Festival closed on Sunday, when the jury, with Sean Penn presiding, announced the winners. Here they are: PALME D'OR FOR BEST FILM The Class (Entre les murs), directed by Laurent Cantet In The Class, Cantet portrays a Paris junior high school teacher and his students over the period of one year. Starring François [...]
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
Benicio Del Toro revealed his delight after being named best actor at the Cannes Film Festival.
FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
The European Commission on Monday hailed the performance of films funded by the European Union (EU) at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Four EU-funded films received honors at Sunday night's award giving ceremony. “Entre Les Murs” (The Class) directed by Laurent Cantet of France won the Palme d'Or, whilst “Gomorra” directed by Matteo [...]
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Mellart (Free subscription) | 05/26/2008
Palme d'Or ENTRE LES MURS by Laurent Cantet Grand Prix GOMORRA by Matteo Garrone Prize of the 61st Festival by Cannes ex-aequo Catherine Deneuve for UN CONTE by NOËL by Arnaud DESPLECHIN Clint Eastwood pour / for L'ÉCHANGE (The Exchange) Award for the Best Director ÜÇ MAYMUN (Three Monkeys / Les Trois Singes) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan Jury Prize IL DIVO by Paolo Sorrentino Prix d'interprétation masculine...
Salon.com (Free subscription) | 05/26/2008
Laurent Cantet's joyful, tragic "The Class" is the first French Palme d'Or winner in 21 years; Benicio del Toro named best actor for "Che."
DaveKehr.com (Free subscription) | 05/25/2008
A surprise, but for a change, a nice one: Laurent Cantet's “Entre les murs,” a pedagogical fiction based on a novel by a French schoolteacher (Francois Begaudeau, who plays himself), has won the Palme d'or of the 61st Cannes Film Festival, becoming the first French film to win in 21 years. (It was [...]
Filmmaker Magazine: Blog (Free subscription) | 05/25/2008
Indiewire has the winners of the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, and there are surprises all around. First, the Stateside scuttlebutt that Soderbergh's Che would be awarded the Palme d'Or was wrong. Benicio del Toro won the Best Actor award for the film, but the festival's top honor went to Laurent Cantet's Entre Les Murs ("The Class"), the latest from the director of Human Resources and Vers le Sud
France24 (Free subscription) | 05/25/2008
Check out an interview with the director of “Palermo Shooting” which brought the Cannes festival to a close Saturday. Learn more about the latest wave of Italian cinema and the Bollywood film industry.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
With all of his Academy Awards and other Hollywood honors, Clint Eastwood is not necessarily in the market for more prizes. He'll never shy away from a contest, though, including the one at the world's most prestigious film showcase.
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
Were he Phillip Seymour Hoffman, the one-two punch-packed Toni Servillo (pictured) in Gomorra and Il Divo would be the talk of American journalists at Cannes, with murmurs of Oscar attached. In Gomorra by Matteo Garrone, Servillo (an acclaimed actor and...
The blog Film (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
I talk to Matteo Garrone about his brilliant Gomorra, Bruce Weber, Turner winner and director Steve McQueen, and Spike Lee
VoIP (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
Gomorra, the novel of Roberto Saviano is now a major film by Matteo Garrone. The film is the unpious mirror of Napoli, a city degraded in body and spirit, where the law is the Mafia, the State is the Mafia and the people mostly belong to the Mafia. Nothing new. A film without hope and future, just like Napoli. If you cannot fight the Bad and you cannot show a way out, the movie doesn't have a purpose...
Movies (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
by Glenn Kenny (May 22, 2008) The one overwhelming message coming from the competition films at the 61st Cannes Film Festival is: shit's messed up. " Waltz With Bashir " digs into the never-fully-healed wounds of war. In Matteo Garrone 's " Gomorra ," organized crime isn't an aberration; it's just the shadow army of an irredeemably venal free-market system. The Dardenne Brothers ' " The Silence of...
