AFI Festival: I Killed My Mother: PHOTO
Enjoying it's US premiere at the AFI Fest, fresh from acclaim at Cannes and adulation in Toronto, J'ai tué ma mère is the debut feature from 20 year-old

Help wanted: how can we commit a grisly murder?
Every horror fan has a favourite celluloid murder scene, be it Hitchcock's slasher shower from Psycho or the gore-fest in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre when teenage hitchhikers are hung on meat hooks. But a filmmaker is now enlisting those who feel they have better ways to screen a killing. Tom Atkinson has sent out a brief to film fans to create a death scene which is as inventive as it is abominable in the hope of selecting one or more for a film in the pipeline. Atkinson, a Cannes...

cinemadaily | AFI Fest Launches…Free!: PHOTO
AFI Fest kicked off its totally free, 23rd edition on Friday in Los Angeles. “Unlike many other leading film festivals, AFI Fest, now in its 23rd year, is not interested in an onslaught of glitzy, star-filled premieres,” writes the LA Times’ John Horn . “Film distributors and sales agents do not converge on the festival to strike rich deals as they do at Sundance, Toronto and Cannes. And while AFI Fest (which is co-sponsored by The Times) has a handful of gala...

cinemadaily | AFI Fest Launches…Free!: PHOTO
AFI Fest kicked off its totally free, 23rd edition on Friday in Los Angeles. “Unlike many other leading film festivals, AFI Fest, now in its 23rd year, is not interested in an onslaught of glitzy, star-filled premieres,” writes the LA Times’ John Horn . “Film distributors and sales agents do not converge on the festival to strike rich deals as they do at Sundance, Toronto and Cannes. And while AFI Fest (which is co-sponsored by The Times) has a handful of gala...

Robert Pattinson Gets A Leading Lady For 'Bel Ami': Nicole Kidman
During this year's Cannes Film Festival News broke that "New Moon" star Robert Pattinson would take on a very different "amoral character" in the film "Bel Ami," an adaption of Guy de Maupassant's 1885 short story. Today we learn the identity of Rob's leading lady: Nicole Kidman . According to Screen Daily.com , the film centers on journalist Georges Duroy (played by Rob) and his "rise to the top of Parisian high society in the 1890s, via the beds of the city's most glamorous and influential...

Thandie Newton - Newton Shunned Cannes For Cambridge: PHOTO
Thandie Newton refused to join in boozy celebrations to toast the success of her 1995 movie JEFFERSON IN Paris - because she was busy revising for her university exams. The actress studied Archaeology and Anthropology at the U.K.'s prestigious Cambridge University when one of her early films debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in France. Newton shunned the bar with her castmates at the annual movie event - choosing instead to revise for her degree. She says, "I was studying for my finals at...

A Minute With: Michael Fassbender and his "Fish Tank"
Cast members Michael Fassbender attends a news conference for the film "Fish Tank" by Director Andrea Arnold at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival May 14, 2009. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau Reuters

Inglourious Basterds Editor Sally Menke Talks Tarantino, Cannes Cuts, and Kill Bill 3: PHOTO
There's one woman in the world who understands Quentin Tarantino better than anybody, and that's Sally Menke. Since her work on Reservoir Dogs, Menke has cut every single one of Tarantino's films, and for the last decade, she's eschewed almost...

Problems With 'Precious'
Anne Marie Fox/Lionsgate Lee Daniels's new film may be called 'Precious,' but the story the director brings to life is anything but. The movie's heroine is poor, black, HIV-positive, abused by her mother, twice pregnant by her father, and morbidly obese. At the Cannes Film Festival, 'Precious' was met with critical acclaim, and actress Gabourey Sidibe's performance as the ill-fated Precious received particular praise. Yet movie critics are broadly uneasy about the film, with many suggesting it...

The End of Poverty?: Film Review
ue to its timely subject, Philippe Diaz's The End of Poverty? –a 35mm indictment of the colonialism that led to the free market system, that led to our current global economic catastrophe, that led to the onslaught of documentaries rushed into the marketplace to blame it all on the system that funds them–was invited to premiere at Critics' Week at Cannes before it was even finished. Which is an odd choice given that the financial meltdown in itself has already personally and viscerally brought.

MDA funding -Neon Sign'
The Media Development Authority of Singapore said Korean director Pil Gam-Sung's "Neon Sign" will be the first film out of the gate from its film fund launched in Cannes this year. Posted November 5th, 2009 Filed Entertainment Comments Off Comments are closed. Recent Posts Tags Apple Auto Barack Obama Brad Pitt Brett Favre California Cat Christmas dead Disney England Facebook Gaming Gaza George Bush GM Google Hillary Clinton Illinois India iPhone J.J. Abrams Lost Marvel Mexico Microsoft MLB NBA...

France Oscar Entry A Prophet Wins London Prize, Audiard Talks: VIDEO
On my recent jaunt to London, I finally saw Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet ,  which won the first ever best film award at the 53rd London Fest, after having won the Grand Jury prize at Cannes and scoring raves at Telluride. “-A Prophet' has the ambition, purity of vision and clarity of purpose to make it an instant classic,” said LFF Jury president Anjelica Huston at the closing ceremony. “With seamless and imaginative story-telling, superb performances and universal themes,...

Twilight's Robert Pattinson: Undead sexy: PHOTO
With the Twilight sequel just a few moons away, its tousled star dishes on over-the-top fandom, muddled morals, and how not to act like a vampire CANNES,

Myriad to release 'Cry of the Owl'
More AFM news Myriad Pictures, which first offered the Psychological Thriller "Cry of the Owl" for presale at the 2007 Cannes Film Market, plans to release the film itself in U.S. theaters this fall. Written and directed by Jamie Thraves and based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith, "Owl" stars Julia Stiles as a woman being stalked by a man, played by Paddy Considine. Paramount Home Entertainment will release "Owl" on DVD, VOD and PPV, and Myriad will handle the pay TV and other markets in the...

Myriad to release -Cry of the Owl'
Myriad Pictures, which first offered the Psychological Thriller "Cry of the Owl" for presale at the 2007 Cannes Film Market, plans to release the film itself in U.S. theaters this fall. Posted November 5th, 2009 Filed Entertainment Comments Off Comments are closed. Recent Posts Tags Apple Auto Barack Obama Brad Pitt Brett Favre California Cat Christmas dead Disney England Facebook Gaming Gaza George Bush GM Google Hillary Clinton Illinois India iPhone J.J. Abrams Lost Marvel Mexico Microsoft MLB...

Michael Haneke: Bleak house
For a film director who demands quite so much of his audience, and even more uncompromisingly of himself, it has taken the Austrian director Michael Haneke a long time (20 years to be precise) to gain the Palme d'Or at Cannes, that quintessential approbation of the art-house auteur. But then maybe, like Martin Scorsese's long wait for an Oscar, it isn't so surprising. Haneke is a director who challenges but he does not satisfy; his ever so precisely organised films grip you with their...

Valentino pins right balance with new line: CEO
MILAN (Reuters Life!) - Italy's Valentino has pinned down the right balance for the Fashion brand whose founder retired last year with its latest womenswear collection receiving "great response" from press and buyers, its CEO said. Valentino's founder, Valentino Garavani, retired last year after heading the house for nearly half a century and making its trademark red evening gowns regulars on the red carpets at the Oscars, Cannes Film Festival and elsewhere. His successor Alexandra Facchinetti...

Robert Pattinson Says Twilight is Sexy!
This is an interview from Cannes, but some new things we learn about Rob! CANNES, France

Precious achieves critical mass: PHOTO
Mariah Carey, Lee Daniels, Gabourey Sidibe & Paula Patton – Cannes Film Festival, May 15 “Nothing quite prepares you for the rough-cut diamond that is Precious. A rare blend of pure Entertainment and dark social commentary, this shockingly raw, surprisingly irreverent and absolutely unforgettable story.” — LA Times, Betsy Sharkey Climbing 21 points from yesterday’s low, currently looking very strong with a metascore of 78. 100 – Entertainment Weekly,...

Robert Pattinson in The Star
The Star’s Peter Howell sat down with Robert Pattinson at the Cannes Festival earlier this year and has now written a short article entitled Twilight’s Robert Pattinson: Unded Sexy . The article is well written and makes for a wonderful read although very little information is actually brand new. CANNES, France

You'd better not pout: PHOTO
Christmas crank Scrooge is played with withering humbug by Jim Carrey. When Jim Carrey arrived in his horse-drawn carriage at the Cannes Film Festival to promote a new 3-D version of A Christmas Carol amid a snowy winter wonderland, he not only had cast members Colin Firth and Robin Wright Penn with him but a buxom blonde with a very low cleavage who had the comic star grinning from ear to ear. Did Carrey find her in his Christmas stocking? As it turned out, the woman was Carrey's real-life...

Miley Cyrus: “You're Gay”: VIDEO
Miley Cyrus, who wrote in her Autobiography that she was bullied endlessly in school, seems to be a bit of a bully herself . And a little homophobic, too.

Miley Cyrus: “You're Gay”: VIDEO
Miley Cyrus, who wrote in her Autobiography that she was bullied endlessly in school, seems to be a bit of a bully herself . And a little homophobic, too. During a recent show, Miley changed the lyrics to “7 Things” from “You’re vain, your games” to “You’re vain, your gay”. Yikes. The audience noticed, and you can hear one girl in the clip above whisper to her friend “You’re gay?!” Considering the song is said to be about her...