cannes

Monday, May 25, 2009
Big Screen

Samson And Delilah Wins Camera d’Or!

10:16AM Jess McGuire | I am always thoroughly chuffed to begin a week here at Defamer Australia with a fantastic Aussies Done Good™ story, and it doesn’t get much better than Samson and Delilah’s victory at the Cannes Film Festival. More »
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
Big Screen

America Will Indeed See Willem Dafoe’s Bloody Ejaculation

5:45AM Richard Lawson | Lars von Trier’s ball-banging, blood-coming horror flick Antichrist has been picked up by an American distributor at Cannes. IFC Films will take the America-hating filmmaker’s crazy Willem Dafoe movie to the people he hates. This is the new cinematic diplomacy! Hope and change and bloody penises and all. [IndieWire]
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
People

Cannes

5:13PM Defamer Hollywood | Italian actress Monica Bellucci, right, and French actress Sophie Marceau, left, walk the red carpet at the screening of a film ‘Ne te retourne pas’ (Don’t Look Back), during the Cannes Film Festival.
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Big Screen

Lars Von Trier Is The Best Ball-Banging Director In The World

4:56AM Joshua Stein | Recently two films have shocked the world with graphic depictions of violence followed by acts of sex: Bob Dylan’s Beyond Here Lies Nothing and Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist. Coincidence or zeitgeist? You decide. More »
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Saturday, May 16, 2009
Flotsam & Jetsam

Jonathan Lipnicki Is A High School Girl From Nebraska

12:14AM Richard Lawson | News from Cannes and from Mickey Rourke. A strange movie gets strange casting, terrible TV shows are picked up, and New York will collapse on October 16th. More »
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Friday, April 24, 2009
Flotsam & Jetsam

When Will Cameron Diaz Be Eaten By Vampires?

12:43AM Richard Lawson | Today Cannes gets a bit clearer, a comedy haus has opened, Cameron Diaz continues to invade your local cinema, another Twilight movie staggers along, and Straw Dogs gets remade. More »
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Friday, March 20, 2009
Flotsam & Jetsam

Nothing’s Lost Forever

1:44AM Richard | A SAG-sack returns, two beauties team up for impossibly beautiful lovemaking, Up graces Cannes, Kevin Costner is back, and so is Behind the Music. More »
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Saturday, February 14, 2009

Cannes! You! Dig It!

8:42AM Seth | We must be dead, stupid & hate movies:Here’s Cannes! [CHUD] More »
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Thursday, May 29, 2008

German Cinema Legend Makes Comeback With Cannes’ Prestigious ‘Crap d’Or’ Trophy

7:45AM Defamer Hollywood | And here we thought Che had it rough with critics at Cannes. Enter Wim Wenders, the New German Cinema pioneer whose Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire were among the fest’s most beloved films of the ’80s, but yet who’s fallen on hard times of late with a string of dodgy bombs including Don’t Come Knocking and Land of Plenty. His return to the Croisette with Palermo Shooting, about a fashion photographer who comes face-to-face with death, isn’t likely to help matters much — particularly not with the Absolute Worst Review of the 2008 Cannes Film Festival now making the rounds. More »
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Jealous Harvey Weinstein Stakes His Own Claim to ‘Valkyrie’ Debacle

2:55AM Defamer Hollywood | Amid all of Tuesday’s post-holiday hustle and bustle, we regrettably overlooked perhaps the most profound news item of the day: Harvey Weinstein indirectly hopped in the Valkyrie fray at Cannes by picking up US theatrical/DVD rights to Operation Valkyrie, a 2004 German retelling of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. It’s the same film Tom Cruise and Bryan Singer made (or are making, with worse accents) only to see it bumped twice to a Feb. 2009 release-date Siberia by Cruise/UA’s partners at MGM — oddly the same folks with whom The Weinstein Company shares its own distribution deal. Small world, eh? It gets even weirder — kind of. More »
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