Cannes loves Campion
Australian director Jane Campion is back in the spotlight at the 62nd Annual Cannes Film Festival where her new film, BRIGHT STAR, premiered Friday. The film centers on the last two years of poet John Keats’s short life (he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25) as seen through the eyes of his young [...]
Read More »Isabelle Huppert – Madame President
President of the Jury for the 62nd Annual Cannes Film Festival – Isabelle Huppert The 62nd Annual Cannes Film Festival kicked of today in France. For only the 4th time in its history, the Festival Jury is presided over by a woman, Isabelle Huppert. (Others were Liv Ullmann, Jeanne Moreau and Françoise Sagan). Huppert, one [...]
Read More »25th Anniversary Films Announced
Sundance Institute announced today that Steven Soderbergh’s sex, lies, and videotape (1989 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award Winner) and Wendell B. Harris’s Chameleon Street (1990 Sundance Film Festival Jury Prize Winner) have been selected for the Festival’s From the Collection screenings. Each year the Festival presents two retrospective screenings of influential feature-length films from the Sundance Collection at UCLA, paying tribute to significant works in the history of independent film.
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