Interview with actor Bill Pullman, in Cognac to promote The Guilty, which was directed by Anthony Waller....

Interview with director Anthony Waller of The Guilty (Part One)...

The homage to Irene Papas was the festival highlight as the event got underway. Once on stage, this Greek actress with more than 50 films to her credit, broke out in dancing and singing....

The homage to Irene Papas was the festival highlight as the event got underway. Once on stage, this Greek actress with more than 50 films to her credit, broke out in dancing and singing....

interview with Vincent-Cyril Thomas, Festival director...

Philippe Queau has been the director of the Information and Informatics Division at UNESCO since July 1996. Previously, he was the Research Director at INA (French Audiovisual Institute) where his endeavors in the virtual reality and tele-virtuality sectors debuted in 1980. At INA, he also co-founded Imagina in 1981 and was responsible for the scientific program up to 1997. Quéau received a telecommunication engineering degree from Ecole Polytechnique and a doctorate in information and communic...

About convergence and interractivity? Games… Internet…...

Born in Long Beach, CAlifornia in 1947, John Dykstra studied industrial designl. He began working in cinema with Douglas Trumbull on The Andromeda Strain by Robert Wise and on Silent Running. In 1975, Trumbull introduced him to George Lucas and producer Gary Kurtz who proposed that he supervise the special effects of Star Wars, which won him an Oscar in 1977. Dykstra, who prefered to stay in Los Angeles, left ILM fofounded by Lucas. As a freelancer, he collaborated on several productions for the...

Brother of director Randal Kleiser, Jeff Kleiser was born in Philadelphie and received a diploma in Computer Sciences at Colgate University (New York State). He founded Digital Effects in New York and worked for Disney involved in the special effects of Tron (1982). He then became director of special effects at Omnibus Computer Animation and took the Pixel-INA Prize for visual effects for Flight of the Navigator (1986) at Imagina 87. In 1987, he founded Kleiser-Walczak Construction Company (KWCC...

Following his studies in architecture and a first job at TDI (Thomson Digital Image), Christophe Hery was the first European to the team at ILM (Industrial Light & Magic) in 1993. As assistant to Mark Dippe (head of special effects for Jurassic Park), he worked on films such as The Flintstones or The Mask. He also supervised the special effects of Spawn, the first film by Mark Dippe. At 33, he is presently computer graphics supervisor and one of the key persons involved in the making of The...

Have things changed in Hollywood from the point of view of special effects?...

At the exit of the two day event, we asked participants about the face of new technologies:Kyioshi Kurosawa, Murali Nair...

This Australian director, long-time assistant to Jane Campion, is in Cannes for the special screening of Soft Fruit, presented during the Critics' Week by FIPRESCI. She talked to us about Jane Campion, the Creteil Women's Film Fest, as well as the father/son relationship and the round-figured actresses in her film. ...

Bernardo Bertolucci is the Critic Week Godfather; he himself was brought into the limelight as a budding filmmaker in this selection with Prima Della Rivoluzione (Before the Revolution) in 1964. How did you gain prominence in this section?...

FilmFestivals.com met with Toronto festival director at Cannes who coined the event as a huge meeting ground and a festival of premieres. Handling also talked about scouting for films in Cannes, Asian cinema and some of the strangest moments at the Toronto festival. Toronto as compared to Cannes....

Seven men and one woman -myself- screened 410 feature films for the 39th International Critic's Week at the Cannes Film Festival. We focused on first-timers and second-timers. It was exhausting, exciting, titillating and sometimes very brutal. Tell us about the committee and how many films were viewed?...

Why are there so many women filmmakers in as compared to elsewhere in the world?...

Are there any American films in the selection this year?...

The Unapproachable offers insight on the cultural significance of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Director Oscar Roehler and Actress Hannelore Elsner commented on the film. ...

Venezuelan director Fina Torres debuted in 1985 with the French produced Oriane, which took the Camera d'Or at Cannes that year. She was in Cannes with her latest film Woman on Top starring Penelope Cruz. ...

I fell in love with these characters, what can I say? says writer/director Frank Novak, about his outrageous satire, Good Housekeeping. Winner of the Grand Jury prize at Slamdance, it explores the white-trash life of loud-mouthed long-time married couple Don (Bob Miller) and Donatella (Petra Western). FilmFestivals.com met with Frank, Bob and Petra....

In Cannes presenting Purely Belter, Herman talked about the term, his past working in bacon and the music chosen for the film....

Novelist, screenwriter, actor, documentarist, director, producer... no one knows the twists and turns of film-making, from the inside out, from concept to release, better than Amos Kollek. Born in 1947 in Jerusalem, Kollek has always gone his own way. He is in Cannes with competition film Fast Food, Fast Women starring AnnaThomson. ...

Star of Directors' Fortnight film Koroshi. The film tells the story of Yuhi Hamazaki (Ryo Ishibashi), a gentle and honest man ­ a typical Japanese salaried man, says director Kobayashi ­ who gets laid off from his job during the recent Japanese recession. Ryo shared his thoughts about the character. ...

French writer Jeanne Labrune (who wrote and directed the 1998 drama Si Je T'Aime, Prends Garde A Toi) wrote the screenplay for Vatel while Oscar-winning playwright Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare In Love) adapted the it for English audiences. What was your inspiration for the screenplay?...