Cannes Film Festival

Just another post full of all the stars, glitz and glamour from another week at Festival De Cannes. Enjoy the images!

Cannes Film Festival - Coverage

Been loving the coverage coming from the Cannes Film Festival this past week and have collated some of my favourite pictures from some of the events. There looks to be some amazing films premiering this year so keep it locked for discussion on some of the buzz films that reviewers are getting excited about!

 

In Competition (Jury chair: Steven Spielberg)

 

Only God Forgives, dir Nicolas Winding Refn

Borgman, dir Alex Can Warmerdam

La Grande Bellezza, dir Paulo Sorrentino 

Behind the Candelabra, dir Steven Soderbergh

La Venus a la Fourrure, dir Roman Polanski

Nebraska, dir Alexander Payne

Jeune et Jolie, dir François Ozon

La Vie d'Adele, dir Abdellatif Kechiche

Wara No Tate, dir Takashi Miike

Soshite Chichi Ni Naru, dir Kore-Eda Hirokazu

Tian Zhu Ding, dir Jia Zhangke

Grisgris, dir Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

The Immigrant, dir James Gray

Heli, dir Amat Escalante 

Le Passe, dir Asghar Farhadi

Michael Kohlhaas, dir Arnaud Despallieres

Inside Llewyn Davis, dir Ethan and Joel Coen

Un Chateau en Italie, dir Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

 

Un Certain Regard (Jury chair: Thomas Vinterberg)

 

The Bling Ring, dir Sofia Coppola

L'Inconnu Du La, dir Alain Guiraudie

Bends, dir Flora Lau

L'Image Manquante, dir Rithy Panh

La Jaula De Oro, dir Diego Quemada-Diez

Anonymous, dir Mohammad Rasoulof

Sarah Préfère La Course, dir Chloé Robichaud

Grand Central, dir Rebecca Zlotowski

Fruitvale Statio, dir Ryan Coogler

Les Salauds, dir Claire Denis

Norte, Hangganan Ng Kasaysayan, dir Lav Diaz

As I Lay Dying, dir James Franco

Miele, dir Valeria Golino

Omar, dir Hany Abu-Assad

Death March, dir Adolfo Alix Jr

 

Cinefondation (Jury chair: Jane Campion)

 

Special Screenings

 

Weekend Of A Champion, dir Roman Polanski 

Seduced And Abandoned, dir James Toback

Otdat Konci, dir Taisia Igumentseva

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight, dir Stephen Frears

Stop The Pounding Heart, dir Robero Minervini

 

Midnight Screenings

 

Monsoon Shootout, dir Amit Kumar

Blind Detective, dir Johnnie To

 

Homage To Jerry Lewis

 

Max Rose, dir Daniel Noah

 

Out Of Competiton 

 

All Is Lost by J.C Chandor

Blood Ties by Guillaume Canet

Oscar Predictions: Amour

It's never too early to start speculating about the Academy Awards! Especially after it was announced that Seth MacFarlene is on presenting duties.

If you read our post in the summer on the Cannes Film Festival, you'll know that this movie was awarded the Palme d'Or for best film, so it was probably an Oscar prediction back then. Nonetheless, it's now set for a November 16th release nationwide in the UK so in a few weeks opinions will be formulated!

The movie is being shopped as "a film about the extraordinary strength of love." It's directed by Michael Haneke and stars Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert.

Keep an eye out for this at a cinema near you so you can get a head start for Awards Season. Don't know about you, but we're starting to get very excited!

Have your say: Any more obvious predictions or is it too early to say? You know where to comment!

Cannes 2012 - The Red Carpet

Along with our previous post about some of the notable films from the Festival, we thought we'd also post on some of the notable stars who turned out on the Red Carpet! Now this is a long post but we didn't want to leave anyone out...



Camila Alves in Marchesa





Jessica Chastain in Armani




Berenice Bejo in Prada




The cast of Mud




Tom Hardy, looking dapper! Even with the beard...




Stars of Lawless




Full cast shot of Lawless




Dane DeHaan at the Lawless showing




Bruce Willis, Ed Norton and Bill Murray




Diane Kruger looking stunning in Nina Ricci




Slightly obsessed with Diane Kruger, loved her in this Versus number




Doutzen Kroes in Versace at the amfAR's Gala




Garrett Hedlund, a true movie star!




We did try to find one of her smiling... The Reem Acra gown is lovely though!




Kristen Stewart, sporting the nearest thing to a smile we could find...




Marion Cotillard looking chic in peach




Natasha Poly looking smoking in the Roberto Cavalli dress




We think the Ralph Lauren gown looks amazing on Nicole Kidman




Vigo Mortensen and Kristen Stewart who both star in On The Road



Favourite outfit of the festival, Diane in Vivienne Westwood



Jean DuJardin and Alexandra Lamy




Zac Efron

Props if you've managed to get through all the Hollywood dazzle and made it to the bottom of the post! Who were you most excited to see?



Cannes Film Festival 2012

Oh how we wished we could be in Cannes for the film festival this week, and I’m sure we’re not alone! So we decided to give you all the heads up on the big films selected this year.

Moonrise Kingdom was Wes Anderson’s opening film. The American film stars Bruce Willis and Bill Murray in an ensemble cast and is about a pair of young lovers who run away in the 60s and a local search party is sent out to catch them.

Rust and Bone is an incredible French film directed by Jacques Audiard and starring the beautiful Marion Cotillard. The movie is based on Craig Davidson’s story of the same name.

Lawless formerly The Wettest County is a western drama about bootlegging in the American South. The film stars a stunning cast consisting of Shia Labeouf, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Jessica Chastain and Dane DeHaan. John Hillcoat’s offering is definitely one we’re looking forward to seeing at the cinema.

The Paperboy has been getting mixed reviews, but with a cast including Zac Efron and Nicole Kidman, it seems like it could be worth a watch. The story follows two brothers as the investigate the events surrounding a murder to exonerate a man on death row.

The winner of the Palme d’Or was French-language film Amour directed by Michael Haneke and starring Isabelle Huppert. The narrative is about an elderly couple who are retired music teachers and the film deals with how the couple cope when Anne suffers stroke which paralyses one side of her body.

And the one we are most excited to see is On The Road. The film is an adaptation of classic novel by Jack Kerouac of the same name. The story is based on the years Jack spent travelling the US in the 40s with several figures who would go on to become Beat Generation poets including Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs. This particular adaptation stars Sam Riley, Garett Hedlund and Kristen Stewart. It seems film makers are enamoured by the stories of these poets as we have already seen James Franco’s portrayal of Allen Ginsberg in Howl, and are eagerly awaiting Kill Your Darlings later next year!