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  • Catherine Deneuve to receive European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award

    Catherine Deneuve to receive European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award

    MUMBAI: Catherine Deneuve, whose decades-long career has made her a prominent name in French cinema, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Film Academy.

     

    Her roles in Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg in 1964 and Repulsion by Roman Polanski in 1965 catapulted her to stardom, and since then she has gone on to work with industry heavyweights such as the late Spanish filmmaker Luis Bunuel in Belle de Jour and Tristana, French director and screenwriter Jean-Pierre Melville in Un Flic and Andre Techine in Ma Saison Preferee and Les Voleurs.

     

    Deneuve earned her first Cesar in 1981 for her role in The Last Metro by Francois Truffaut, and received another Cesar and an Oscar nomination for her role in Regis Wargnier’s Indochine. Her other accolades include a Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival and a Berlin Silver Bear.

     

    Deneuve has also delved into Hollywood, having guest starred in TV series Nip/Tuck and appearing in a sex scene with Susan Sarandon as a bisexual vampire in Tony Scott’s 1983 film The Hunger.

     

    Recently, she starred in Berlin competition title On My Way and will appear in Andrew Techine’s L’homme que l’on aimait trop and Benoit Jacquot’s Trois Coeurs. She will be an honorary guest at the 26th European Film Awards Ceremony on 7 December in Berlin.

  • Zurich fest presents Polanski lifetime achievement award

    Zurich fest presents Polanski lifetime achievement award

    MUMBAI: After exactly two years, Roman Polanski was presented with his lifetime achievement award at the Zurich Film Festival.

    "What can I say? Better late than never. It‘s a very moving moment for me. It‘s a strange anniversary for me – two years, day-for-day," the 78-year-old director has been quoted as saying.
     
    In 2009, when he was on his way to accept the honour, Polanski was detained on an American warrant in child sex charges upon landing at the Zurich airport. He fought extradition to the US and was allowed to walk free in 2010 after several months of jail time and house arrest at his Swiss chalet.

    The noted director is best known for his films like Chinatown, Rosemary‘s Baby and The Pianist.

  • Polanski apologises to victim in new documentary

    Polanski apologises to victim in new documentary

    MUMBAI: Directing his apology to Samantha Greimer, the woman he sexually assaulted 33 years ago, Roman Polanski has made a new documentary that had its world premiere Tuesday at the Zurich Film Festival.

    "She is a double victim: my victim and a victim of the press," the director says near the end of the documentary Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir.
     
    The film, shot while Polanski was under house arrest in Switzerland two years ago awaiting possible extradition, offers little new information not already in the public record.

    It is also unlikely to sway anyone on the fence in the Polanski case. The film — one long, wide-ranging conversation between Polanski and his old friend and colleague, producer Andrew Braunsberg.

    The Greimer case takes up only a small portion of the film while the bulk of the film is dedicated to Polanski‘s childhood in German-occupied Poland, including his escape from the Warsaw ghetto and his early life and career.

    Polanski chose to use the 2011 Zurich Film Festival as the platform for the world premiere of the documentary, picking the date almost two years to the day when he was arrested en route to a ceremony to receive a lifetime achievement award.

  • Cannes 2007: 33 directors to tribute 60 years of film fest

    Cannes 2007: 33 directors to tribute 60 years of film fest

    MUMBAI: 33 of the world’s renowned directors from 25 countries will be making short films about what it is like to go to the movies in the 60th year of the Cannes Film Festival. The organizers have commissioned these directors to produces the shorts.

    Festival director Gilles Jacob pointed out that directors have been allotted three minutes each and given a theme: Moviegoing. The shorts, will then be bundled into one film, and screened on 20 May at the premier global film festival held in the French Riviera. .

    Jacob revealed that among those who have been invited and commissioned for the shots include: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Babel, 21 Grammes), the Coen Brothers (Fargo), Roman Polanski (The Pianist), David Cronenberg (A History of Violence), Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves) and Wong Kar-wai (In the Mood for Love).

    The Cannes film fest website says that: “In this particular case, it was a matter of reuniting a group of creators – all universally famous – who represent both their countries and a proud conception of cinema, for a stroll around a unique theme, springboard for their inspiration.”
    The website says that none of the other filmmaker is aware of what the other is doing or the plot of their shorts. It adds that Wenders has so far filmed in the Congo, Tsai Ming Liang in Kuala Lumpur and Cronenberg in the… toilets!

    The website reveals they have all accepted “to discover them at the same time as the festival-goers themselves, on May 20th, as well as the general public, as it will be replayed the very same evening on television on Canal Plus.

    The list of directors who have been invited is as follow:
    Theo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August, Jane Campion, Youssef Chahine, Chen Kaige, Michael Cimino, Ethan & Joel Coen, David Cronenberg, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Manoel De Oliveira, Raymond Depardon, Atom Egoyan, Amos Gitai, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu, Aki Kaurismaki, Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Andrei Konchalovsky, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, Nanni Moretti, Roman Polanski, Raoul Ruiz, Walter Salles, Elia Suleiman, Tsai Ming Liang, Gus Van Sant, Lars Von Trier, Wim Wenders, Wong Kar Wai and Zhang Yimou.

    Earlier in January, the Festival had announced that Stephen Frears director of the UK blockbuster The Queen would preside over the Cannes Film jury. Frears has also been behind movies such as My Beautiful Laundrette, Prick up Your Ears, Dangerous Liaisons, Accidental Hero, The Grifters, The Snapper, High Fidelity, and Dirty Pretty Things.

    Additionally, the festival office had announced that super model and actress (Helen of Troy) Diane Kruger would be be the Master of Ceremonies for the 60th Festival de Cannes. On 16 May she would be welcoming jury president Stephen Frears onto the stage of the Palais des Festivals. She will also host the closing ceremony, on Sunday 27 May, during which the Awards will be announced.

    She succeeds in this role to Monica Bellucci, Laura Morante, Cécile de France and Vincent Cassel.