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2280 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 05/06/2025.

Ken and the King score a goal

Remember the Humphrey Bogart who "appeared" to Woody Allen in Play It Again, Sam, offering him tips on what to do and what not to do to get the girl? Ken Loach takes the idea and runs with it in...  

18/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition/UK

Chaos reigns in Antichrist

There was an uproar of applause and whistles after the press screening of Antichrist, the new work by highly talented, bold and intransigent director Lars Von Trier, presented yesterday evening in...  

18/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition/Denmark

Franco-Chinese alliance for Johnnie To’s Vengeance

A self-confessed admirer of Jean-Pierre Melville’s work, virtuoso Hong Kong director Johnnie To today presented his film Vengeance in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Displaying To’s...  

17/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition | France

Audiard’s outstanding Prophet

With his remarkable A Prophet, Jacques Audiard takes a genre film about prison and criminality and transcends it, creating a complex work that combines powerful realism, the sensitive portrait of...  

16/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition/France

Jane Campion: Poetry and passion in Bright Star

Poetry and passion are Jane Campion’s fellow travellers: the acclaimed director and screenwriter from New Zealand was discovered over 20 years ago by a selector for Cannes, the veteran Pierre...  

15/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition | UK

Andrea Arnold’s wild child in Fish Tank

In 2006, the 48-year-old director from southeast England Andrea Arnold at Cannes gave us her powerful feature debut Red Road (Jury Prize). The previous year her short Wasp won her an Oscar and...  

14/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition/UK

France driving force of international auteur film

Besides the three French directors selected in competition (see news) at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival (May 13-24), ten other Gallic productions and co-productions will vie for the Palme d’Or....  

27/04/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition

Resnais, Audiard and Giannoli in line-up

Three generations of French directors – Alain Resnais, Jacques Audiard and Xavier Giannoli – will represent their country in the race for the Palme d’Or at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival (May...  

24/04/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition/France

Wajda pays homage to women again in Sweet Rush

Andrzej Wajda’s new film Sweet Rush was presented in official competition today at the Berlinale. After Katyn – a political work that paid tribute to the women (wives, mothers, sisters…) of...  

13/02/2009 | Berlinale 2009 | Competition/Poland

Llosa’s Milk of Sorrow a triumphant ode to life

As the Berlin International Film Festival nears its end, the major film that festival-goers have been waiting for in this year’s competition has finally arrived, via Spain – the first ever...  

12/02/2009 | Berlinale 2009 | Competition/Spain

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