by Robert Koehler | May 23, 2010 | Film Festival News
Less than an hour before the announcement of the Palme and other prizes, rumors are swirling over possible winners based on sightings of who’s in Cannes….and who’s not. In the latter category, count Mike Leigh, which makes “Another Year”...
by Robert Koehler | May 23, 2010 | Film Festival News
Jean-Luc Godard (and his Les Inrocks interview) marked the starting point for this year’s Cannes blogging, partly because I anticipated that his “Film Socialisme” would certainly be one of the major films at the festival. It is that, and more, since...
by Robert Koehler | May 15, 2010 | Film Festival News
Before I check out of the Grand Hotel, I look out the northern view from my room’s veranda balcony. The rain has faded away. As a further reminder to us all in the Debussy, Tim Burton is Cannes jury president. The press waits in line for Im Sang-soo’s...
by editor | May 14, 2010 | Film Festival News
Rachid Bouchareb’s HORS LA LOI generated a lot of political heat in France even before it screened for distributors today. Algeria news described the film as, “an Algerian-French co-production portraying the participation of soldiers of former French...
by Robert Koehler | May 14, 2010 | Film Festival News
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...
by Robert Koehler | May 14, 2010 | Film Festival News
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...
