Langsung ke konten utama

Postingan

Menampilkan postingan dari Mei, 2018

71th Festival de Cannes Award Winners

Watching red carpet, soon the top prizes of Cannes 2018. Saturday May 19th Morning Update :  Un Certain Regard winners,  Queer Palm winners and more ... Today AFP gives us the most interesting news as this year will be the first time in 71 years of the festival where those Cannes main awards that used to receive diplomas will receive a mini-palmes d'or! Will update post with more awards as soon as they announce them around noon.  Tonight is the awards ceremony and post will become final when the ceremony and the festival are over.  Sigh. ---///--- Friday May 18th Morning Update : more awards including winners from La Quinzaine and Cinéfondation. Friday May 18th Afternoon Update : Palm Dog award winners.  Queer Palm award ceremony is tonight; tomorrow FIPRESCI and Ecumenical Jury awards ceremony. ---///--- 5/17/18 As there are some awards already announced and one parallel section over, will start the winners post today.  Post will be in progress until the ...

57th Semaine de la Critique Award Winners

Yesterday, the Cannes parallel section had their award ceremony with top award going to a Franco-Brazilian-Portuguese comedy drama. Check winners below in GREEN and at official press release here . Most interesting is the availability of 500 FREE tickets to watch the 2018 short films selection via Festival Scope.   Starting today, May 17th and until May 27th IF you hurry, will be able to watch the shorts; but act fast as there are only 500 tickets and yes, they're sold out quite quickly.  Festival Scope site is here . ---///--- 4/19/18 A few days back organizers released the video with Charles Tesson, Semaine de la Critique Artistic Director and Charlotte Lipinska, journalist and film critic announcing the selection for the 2018 edition of the Critics' Week and there is no surprise when we find that -as always- selection is eclectic (and strange) but having high-profile actors in the selection, is quite unusual and yes, surprising. Paul Dano's directing debut film has J...