Archive for the ‘Cannes festival’ Category

Marilyn Monroe featured on Cannes festival poster

Marilyn Monroe featured on Cannes festival poster

As there is no hard news about the Cannes Film Festival 2012 yet, the release of the poster is always worth a few lines in the online press. This year’s poster continues the tradition of beautiful women related to cinema. The shot of a young Marilyn Monroe is certainly pretty, and one of the least-known [...]

New flights to and from Cannes for the festival

New flights to and from Cannes for the festival

Just in time for the Cannes Festival 2012, two low-cost airlines have opened new flights to and from Nice airport. This could interest anyone attending the festival, either directly or indirectly if they have to transfer to reach Nice airport. EasyJet is opening seven new connections to Nice, including Lille, Naples, Venice and Barcelona. This [...]

Italy’s Nanni Moretto to preside the Cannes jury

Italy’s Nanni Moretto to preside the Cannes jury

Italian director and actor (and Palme winner) Nanni Moretti will preside over the jury of the Cannes Film Festival 2012, the 65th edition of the event in Cannes. Why Moretti, a spirited and occasionally controversial director? “When we decided to put ‘Ecce Bombo’ – a super 8 film – into Competition when I first arrived [...]

Attending the Cannes 2012 festival for free

Attending the Cannes 2012 festival for free

Every year, the Cannes Film festival becomes the n° 1 destination for movie fans and tourists. Inevitably, the prices shoot up. But there are ways of getting to the festival for free and enjoying loads of VIP treatment, red-carpet screenings and other goodies. In the run-up to the Cannes Film festival, I’ll be detailing all [...]

Public funding for Film and Audiovisuals

Public funding for Film and Audiovisuals

The news for people into film and TV production is that the grandly-named European Audiovisual Observatory has released its annual review of public funding sources for film and television in Europe. The Observatory collects, analyses and publishes information on public funding for the film and television industry in Europe. It has been working since 1993 [...]

6 new destinations from Nice airport

6 new destinations from Nice airport

Already the second busiest airport in France, the big travel news is that Nice airport will become even busier in 2012. After EasyJet’s announcement of more flights to Nice from March, Air France is now adding more destinations with six extra direct flights to Nice one month later. The destinations are Tel Aviv, Barcelona, Athens, [...]

EU unveils plans for “Creative Europe”

EU unveils plans for “Creative Europe”

The EU has unveiled plans for a major programme called Creative Europe that would replace the MEDIA programme. The news is of significant importance to European film, TV and music professionals – as well as their international partners. What is the Creative Europe programme? The Creative Europe programme would support European cinema and the cultural [...]

Von Trier drops a bomb

Von Trier drops a bomb

Intensely awkward in interviews, Lars Von Trier let his tongue run too far at the press conference for “Melancholia” on Thursday May 19. Von Trier noted that he knew Charlotte Gainsbourg “from all angles” and later made several references to making a long porn film featuring her and Kirsten Dunst. As the conference drew to [...]

Lady Gaga sings live on the Croisette

Lady Gaga sings live on the Croisette

(requires Flash Player) Lady Gaga – Judas – Concert du Grand Journal du 11/05/2011 It had to be one of the biggest crowds ever seen on the Croisette in a long time – and that’s saying something. Lady Gaga’s appearance on CANAL+’s Grand Journal was one of the early highpoints of the Cannes Film Festival. [...]

Film and Television: Falling in Love again?

Film and Television: Falling in Love again?

The good news is that following a fascinating conference last year called, “Show me the Money”, the European Audiovisual Observatory is taking a look at the symbiotic relationship between television and cinema on May 15 at 3pm. Although this is from a  European perspective, the co-production environment means that all sides of the movie business [...]