Tweet Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier first earned his reputation as the bad boy auteur of the Cannes Film Festival with divisive movies like Antichrist and his 2000 Palme d’Or winner Dancer in the dark. In recent years, Von Trier…
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The Morning Feed: Terrence Malick Skips Cannes Premiere of ‘The Tree of Life’
Tweet Brad Pitt found himself defending his Tree of Life director, Terrence Malick, at a Cannes press conference for the world premiere of the film, about a 1950s Texas family, starring Pitt as the somewhat stern father. Malick, famously private…
The Morning Feed: Johnny Depp Turns Cannes Crowds Into a Frenzy Promoting ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’
Tweet The 64th Cannes Film Festival wrapped up its opening weekend festivities and the crowds went crazy for Johnny Depp and the rest of his Pirates of the Caribbean colleagues as they hit the Croisette to promote the fourth installment…
The Morning Feed: Lynne Ramsay Wows Cannes with ‘We Need to Talk about Kevin’
Tweet The 64th Cannes Film Festival entered its opening weekend with Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay receiving the lion’s share of acclaim so far for her family drama We Need to Talk about Kevin. Ramsay adapted Lionel Schriver’s bestselling novel for…
The Morning Feed: Restored ‘A Clockwork Orange’ To Debut at Cannes!
Tweet The 64th Cannes Film Festival continued today with Angelina Jolie’s photo call in support of the DreamWorks animated feature Kung Fu Panda 2 attracting much of the media attention. For the cinema buffs on the Croisette, the bigger news…
The Morning Feed: Weinstein Company Buys ‘The Artist’ For First Deal of Cannes 2011
Tweet The 64th Cannes Film Festival started today with a photo call for the DreamWorks animated feature Puss in Boots and The Weinstein Company made the first deal by buying U.S. rights as well as some key foreign territories for…
The Morning Feed: Anish Kapoor Wants World’s Museums To Close For One Day To Support Ai Weiwei
Tweet Indian artist Anish Kapoor prepared the unveiling of his towering new sculpture Leviathan for the Monumenta 2011 exhibit at the Grand Palais in Paris and used the opportunity to speak on behalf of imprisoned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. Weiwei,…
The Morning Feed: Filmmaker Terry Gilliam Receives Praise for Debut Opera ‘The Damnation of Faust’
Tweet Despite standout fantasy movies like Brazil, 12 Monkeys and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, filmmaker Terry Gilliam consistently struggled to secure financing for his features. So fans weren’t surprised to watch Gilliam step to the left and stage his…
The Morning Feed: Morrissey Wants His Biography Published as a ‘Classic’
Tweet Singer Morrissey finds himself in the desirable position of having major publishers compete for the right to publish his memoirs detailing the history of his former band The Smiths. Morrisey, 51, has concerns beyond which publisher will pay him…
The Morning Feed: Catherine Zeta-Jones Talks Openly About Her Bipolar Disorder
Tweet Although her career is as robust as ever after winning a Best Actress Tony for A Little Night Music, Catherine Zeta-Jones made headlines for checking herself into Silver Hill Hospital for treatment of bipolar II disorder. Zeta-Jones spoke publicly…