Welcome to the Cannes Film Festival!

Feel free to look around:
Roger Ebert’s photos
“Cannes” tagged photos on Flickr
“Cannes” on Google images
“Cannes Red Carpet” on Google images
Winner & me

And to see something from this year that’s not related to the Vinci code, check out these pictures from the new Daft Punk film “Daft Punk’s Electroma” which is screening at Cannes 2006. (source: digg)

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Some great films were included in the competition in Cannes the past 2 years but did not win a prize. These films are available today on DVD.

2005: A History of Violence
2005: Last Days
2005: Where the Truth Lies

2004: The Motorcycle Diaries
2004: The Edukators
2004: Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
2004: The Holy Girl

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Cannes starts this week and to catch up on previous winners feel free to browse our listings. Today - The prize for Best Screenplay:

2004: Agnes Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri: Look at me
2003: Denys Arcand: The Barbarian Invasions
2002: Paul Laverty: Sweet Sixteen
2001: Danis Tanovic: No Man’s Land
2000: John C. Richards & James Flamberg: Nurse Betty

2005 winner Guillermo Arriaga for “The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrad” - This movie will be available on DVD 6/06/06

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The prize for Best Director was awarded in recent years to these extraordinary films -

2004: Tony Gatlif: Exiles
2003: Gus Van Sant: Elephant
2002: Paul Thomas Anderson: Punch-Drunk Love
2002: Kwon-Taek Im: Chi-hwa-seon
2001: Joel Coen: The Man Who Wasn’t There
2001: David Lynch: Mulholland Drive
2000: Edward Yang: Yi Yi

2005 winner Michael Haneke for “Cache” (Hidden) - This movie will be available on DVD 6/27/06

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Recent prizes for Best Actress -

2003: Marie Josée Croze: The Barbarian Invasions
2002: Kati Outinen: The Man Without a Past
2001: Isabelle Huppert: The Piano Teacher
2000: Björk Guðmundsdóttir: Dancer In The Dark

2005 winner Hana Laszlo for “Free Zone” (also features Natalie Portman) - This movie is still playing in theaters. There are no DVD details available yet.

2004 winner Maggie Cheung for “Clean” - This movie is now playing in theaters.

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2004: Yagira Yuuya: Nobody Knows
2003: Muzaffer Ozdemir & Mehmet Emin Toprak: Distant
2002: Olivier Gourmet: The Son
2001: Benoît Magimel: The Piano Teacher
2000: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai: In The Mood For Love

If you appreciate films from abroad this is an excellent list of movies that are joined together by their unique tempo and ability to provide an extraordinary look at the human experience in a contemporary world. Highly recommended. Each of these.

The 2005 winner - Tommy Lee Jones for “The Three Burials of Melquiades” releases June 6th.

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Skipping back 10 years, the 1995 festival featured these outstanding films:

» Best Picture: Underground
» Grand Prize: Ulysses’ Gaze
» Best female lead: Helen Mirren for The Madness of King George
» Special Prize: Shanghai Triad

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The focus in DVD ideas is on films that are available for the public on DVD. In our new series of posts tagged “Cannes Film Festival” we are providing a 2-week summary of Cannes from the standpoint of films you can enjoy today. We will also cover controversies from recent  festivals and provide links to reading materials and other websites. We hope you enjoy and hope you take the time to watch some of the films. ~

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