Cannes 2016 – The First Saturday
The race was on. I left home in London at 4am and had to get to the UK Film Centre in the Village International
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Oscar-winning Iranian added to Cannes 2016 line-up
With less than three weeks to go to the opening night of the Cannes Film Festival, the organisers have announced a number of
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Two British directors among regulars in competition at Cannes
Confirming the old adage that the best way to get your new feature into the Cannes Film Festival is to have screened an
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Woody Allen to open Cannes for a record 3rd time
The Cannes Film Festival has picked one of its most regular visitors – and one of the most prolific directors – to open
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Cannes 2015 – The Second Thursday
With the market beginning to close down, by the second Thursday of Cannes, attention is turning almost exclusively to the festival and its
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Cannes 2015 – The Second Wednesday
Emily Blunt helping Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro bring down a Mexican drug cartel in Sicario Having spent last night partying Hollywood-style
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Cannes 2015 – The Only Tuesday
It’s not unusual for a film reviewer to spend the day in darkened rooms, watching film after film after film, but most of
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Cannes 2015 – The Only Monday
As well as writing about films, I also write films, so for me, the Cannes market that runs alongside the festival very much
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Cannes 2015 – The First Sunday
Cannes is not just about the screening of films. Like many festivals, it also provides opportunities for aspiring film-makers to network and attend
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Cannes 2015 – The First Saturday
It was straight down to business this year. No messing about by the beach. Within two hours of getting off the plane at
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Mr Turner – Review
DIRECTOR: Mike Leigh – CAST: Timothy Spall, Ruth Sheen, Lesley Manville, Amy Dawson, David Horovitch, Dorothy Atkinson, James Fleet, Karl Johnson, Marion Bailey, Martin Savage, Paul Jesson, Richard Bremmer, Roger Ashton-Griffiths
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Cannes you get the message from film?
Some people call it the film industry, others refer to it as the entertainment business but these terms could be said better to
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Brit Timothy Spall among Cannes winners
Timothy Spall wins best actor prize for portraying the painter JMW Turner in Mike Leigh’s biopic With two British films among the eighteen
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There’s more to Cannes than glitz
With many of the biggest names in the world of film descending on Cannes to be photographed on the red carpet at the
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Carell wrestles with drama in Cannes contender Foxcatcher
Director Bennett Miller (left) turned comic Steve Carell into the darkest of characters In Knocked Up, Kathryn Heigl’s character is commended for the
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BFI’s pride at best of British in Cannes
BFI staff posing in “Pits and Perverts” T-shirts to promote Pride, closing the Directors Fortnight at Cannes 2014 On Monday over lunch, the
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How Cannes helps the underdogs
With Cannes 2013 over, the festival award winners are slowly receding into the memories of those who were fortunate enough to see them,
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Cannes shows Redford has lost nothing
Anyone who’s seen last year’s Oscar-winning Life of Pi, might feel that they’ve done someone trying to survive against the odds on a
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Inside the Coen Brothers at Cannes
No strangers to Cannes, the Coen Brothers were back this year with Inside Llewyn Davis, their study of a talented but struggling 1960s folk singer in New York City.
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Rainsoaked Cannes ends with a stroke of genius
It might have been one of the wettest Cannes Film Festivals in living memory, but from from the point of view of the industry, it had to be good news – those spare moments that critics and buyers alike might have spent relaxing on the beach would instead have been spent in the many cinemas and screening rooms
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