Cannes – Day 1 (cont.)

The mob descends on Cannes, here on the Croisette just in front the red stairs of the Palais, where “Robin Hood” blew into town as the opening night film. Later that night, the rains came, and my Cineaste magazine colleague Richard Porton and I were stuck...

Cannes – Day 1 Palais poster

Cannes’ poster gal, Juliette Binoche, in the festival’s official image on the marquee of the Palais. Binoche stars in Kiarostami’s competition film, his first feature to be entirely shot in Europe. For all intents and purposes, Kiarostami has become...

Cannes – Day 2 Ticketing

Cannes is about seeing new films before everyone else, before the press release their first impressions and before there is a body of public opinion in favor or against a film and this is no less true among festival programmers from around the world who search through...