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Award winning films shot on Cinema Cameras By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) Like Sundance before it, Cannes has had a huge presence for Blackmagic Design, with over 20 films screening and in competition that have been shot on Blackmagic cameras and/or have been color corrected on DaVinci Resolve. … [Read more...]
By Heath McKnight (doddleNEWS) Since around 2007, 2008, I've been a big fan of Amy Winehouse's music, with Frank being my favorite album. She was very complicated, and died of alcohol poisoning July 23, 2011. A24, the studio behind Ex Machina and Spring Breakers, recently acquired a documentary … [Read more...]
By Patricia Reaney - NEW YORK (Reuters) Cannes has its coveted prizes and Sundance its lucrative deals, but the New York Film Festival, unencumbered by awards or marketing, says its mission is simple: to present the year's best in world cinema. The 52nd annual event, which opens Friday, is for … [Read more...]
By Mark Hodge (doddleNEWS) Harvey Weinstein and Quentin Tarantino have always had an unconventional, yet highly effective Hollywood partnership. In over 20 years working together, arguably the smartest thing the pair ever did was splitting Kill Bill into two movies, and making twice the box … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) There's a bit of pushback currently going on with film directors who don't like the digital trends that they believe are taking a lot of the art out of their craft. First we had Christopher Nolan, who began a movement to return film to its rightful place in the art of … [Read more...]
By Alexandria Sage - CANNES France (Reuters) A gentle Labrador mix named Body won the "Palm Dog" award on the sidelines of the Cannes Film Festival on Friday, a pat on the head from canine-lovers and film critics for the outstanding movie performance by a pooch. Body starred in "Feher Isten" … [Read more...]
By Michael Roddy - CANNES France (Reuters) "How to Train Your Dragon 2" was set to bring some animated Hollywood star power to Cannes on Friday, while a feature about a child abduction underscored the 12-day film festival's variety and depth. The sequel to the animated blockbuster about a boy … [Read more...]
By Michael Roddy - CANNES (Reuters) With colors from the artist's own palette and a central performance that explores the 'art of the grunt', British director Mike Leigh brought the turbulent life of English artist J.M.W. Turner to the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday. Leigh, a Cannes regular … [Read more...]
By Michael Roddy - CANNES France (Reuters) Film fans already are standing outside security cordons with no idea which stars may show up, and security guards are keeping a constant vigil for potential jewel thieves as the 67th Cannes Film Festival prepares to open on Wednesday. With huge yachts … [Read more...]
PARIS (Reuters) New Zealand director Jane Campion will head a jury of five women and four men for this year's Cannes international film festival - its first majority female judging panel since 2009. The world's most prestigious international film festival, which made the announcement on Monday, … [Read more...]
PARIS (Reuters) Oscar-winning New Zealand director Jane Campion will head the jury for the 67th Cannes film festival in May, the festival announced on Tuesday. Campion, who won an Oscar for best screenplay for her 1993 film "The Piano" and is the only woman ever to win the top Cannes prize, the … [Read more...]
By Mark Hodge (doddleNEWS) One of the most controversial films of 2013 is undoubtedly Blue is The Warmest Colour. While there is no disguising the fact that the French Palme d'Or winner contains scenes of explicit sex, which admittedly verge into gratuity, the overall power of the film is … [Read more...]
By Steve Pond (TheWrap) The Cannes Palme d'Or winner "Blue Is the Warmest Color" will be released with an NC-17 rating in the United States, Sundance Selects announced on Tuesday. The decision to release Abdellatif Kechiche's sexually explicit coming-of-age story with the NC-17 makes it the … [Read more...]
By Mark Hodge (doddleNEWS) What a difference 10-years and four pirate adventure movies can make. In the 1990s, Johnny Depp was the darling of the art house, appearing in a raft of daring and uncompromising films which set him apart from other mainstream leading men. But, now after the … [Read more...]
By Rollo Ross - LONDON (Reuters) Actress Zoe Saldana has starred in the blockbuster movies "Avatar" and "Star Trek" so her latest movie, the smaller budget "Blood Ties," was quite a shift. But she is also eyeing another new role - director. In "Blood Ties," which had its world premiere at the … [Read more...]
By Belinda Goldsmith and Alexandria Sage - CANNES (Reuters) An intimate lesbian love story by French director Abdellatif Kechiche won the top prize in Cannes on Sunday, and the film festival's director immediately urged the large crowds protesting against gay marriage in Paris to go and see … [Read more...]
