On this, the 13th episode of Film Spiel, Anders and Dave tackle PIRATES OF CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES (even though Dave only saw it in 2D) before a major brawl breaks out as the pair discuss SNOWTOWN and there’s pretty much, and rather fittingly, blood on the walls. Then Dave nips [...]

I had high expectations today as I planned to see three films in Official Competition. The day started nice and early with the screening of Pedro Almodovar’s latest La piel que habito (The Skin I Live In). I excitedly walked into the Grand Theatre Lumiere for the first time… and it was amazing. Absolutely huge. I sat up high in the balcony and it ended up filling out just about [...]

Better start today – I got up on time! In doing so, I amusingly discovered a room-mate still hadn’t come home from the night before (a Parisian scriptwriter hoping to find a director for her film – what a party animal!). For me, today was the Day of Shorts. First up was the press screening of all the short films in competition; I got there early, like I you have [...]

In one of those rare success stories that sounds like something out of a movie itself, eighteen-year-old South Australian Lucas Pittaway was approached in public and asked to audition for a role in an upcoming film. Without any acting experience or even aspirations toward a career in performing arts, Pittaway not only landed the role, but has since received a lot of attention and acclaim for his performance – [...]

Last night ended up being a trip back in time. First, I was led around in circles before heading to the screening of Cannes classic Le Sauvage [1975], but felt privileged as soon as Catherine Deneuve – the film’s star, now pushing 70 – gracefully walked through the door. It was her everyone wanted to see, past fellow heavyweights Costa-Gavras and director Jean-Paul Rappeneau. One girl bravely stopped her in [...]

Alongside modern heavyweight Woody Allen and the premiere of  Midnight In Paris, French magician and filmmaker Georges Méliès has also wowed audiences at this year’s Cannes Film Festival — despite having been dead for over 70 years. Méliès’ century-old classic, A Trip to the Moon [Le voyage dans la lune], was shown for the first time in colour on opening night at Cannes, thought to have been lost for decades [...]