'PULP' ON 'CLOUDS'

Quentin Tarantino and the stars of "Pulp Fiction" walked the red carpet in Cannes on Friday night (23 MAY 2014) for the premiere of "Clouds of Sils Maria."

The acclaimed American director is at the festival this year to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his cult classic, which won the festival's top prize in 1994.

They were joined at the event by French director Olivier Assayas and his "Sils Maria" cast, which includes Kristen Stewart, Juliette Binoche, and Chloe Grace Moretz.

Assayas' latest offering is showing in competition at this year's festival which draws to a close on Sunday.

Tarantino will also be helping to close the 67th edition of the festival with a tribute to Sergio Leone.

The filmmaker will present a restored version of Leone's "A Fistful of Dollars" (1964) at the May 24 closing ceremony.

Usually, the Palme d'Or winner is screened at the Cannes closing ceremony, but this year's schedule has been tweaked because of European elections.

The Palme d'Or winner will be shown Sunday (25 MAY 2014) instead.

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Cannes, France, 23 May 2014

1. Tilt down of red carpet

2. Pan of photographers

3. Joe Jackson red carpet

4. Catherine Deneuve arrival

5. Cutaway of press

6. Various of "Pulp Fiction" arrivals including Lawrence Bender, Quentin Tarantino, Uma Thurman, John Travolta and Kelly Preston

7. Tilt up Kristen Stewart

8. Cutaway of press

9. Various of "Clouds of Sils Maria" arrivals including Kristen Stewart, Juliette Binoche, Chloe Grace Moretz and Olivier Assayas

KRISTEN STEWART BRINGS GUANTANAMO BAY FILM TO SUNDANCE

Sorry, "Twilight" fans, Kristen Stewart is not sticking with young adult fare as her acting career continues in the wake of the blockbuster franchise that launched her career.

"Camp X-Ray," Stewart's new film that had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival Friday (17 JAN. 2014), tells the story of a young woman who joins the Army and ends up as a guard at Guantanamo Bay, the notorious U.S. prison in Cuba where some of the most dangerous terrorist suspects are detained.

Stewart admitted the role terrified her at first.

"That's the desirable struggle. If I'm not afraid of something, it's probably not worth doing for me," she said. "In this case I just thought it was a really -- I hadn't worked in like two years, hadn't found anything that really got me going -- and I just thought that this story of a young girl who is sort of so pragmatic and logical and practical, like you know, very self-assured based on things that she can grasp -- and so if she can control every situation and join the Army and be a good person and, you know, fill all these responsibilities that she's been brought up to fulfill, and yet still sort of feel like she's not doing the right thing, because Guantanamo it's like this slightly greyer area -- and so she's not getting as much back from what she thought she was putting into it -- and so I thought that that was an interesting struggle."

The 23-year-old actress traveled to Guantanamo Bay in preparation for the part and said what struck her most was the order.

"I think my idea of what it was like down there was not correct. It is clean. I know that sounds ridiculous and very ignorant, but it's really, it's like clinical, you know what I mean?" she said. "Standard operation procedure is like the bible. And to have such like set guidelines for something like that is, for somebody who really wants to follow the rules and do the right thing, when they're kind of confusing -- like they should be the most straightforward thing ever -- you know my character, and this is very individual to this project, I'm not making any grand statements about anything, but you know my character definitely goes through a process of questioning whether or not she's doing the right thing, but she's following the rules."

Stewart didn't get very personal on the red carpet at Sundance, but did say she finds it difficult to watch her work on the screen.

"I watch, literally, like with a fine-toothed comb," she said. "Like, it's the most, it's sort of deathly uncomfortable, but it completes the process. It's a necessary. And it's awesome. It just makes me a little nauseous."

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Park City, Utah, 17 Jan. 2014

1. Wide of Eccles Theatre

2. Wide of cast posing for photographers

3. Wide of Kristen Stewart, center, with writer and director Peter Sattler, left, and actor Peryman Moaaadi, right, posing for photographs. Then pan to photographers.

4. Medium of Stewart talking to a reporter

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Stewart/Actress, on why she has said previously she was scared of doing the movie at first:

"That's the desirable struggle. If I'm not afraid of something, it's probably not worth doing for me. In this case I just thought it was a really -- I hadn't worked in like two years, hadn't found anything that really got me going -- and I just thought that this story of a young girl who is sort of so pragmatic and logical and practical, like you know, very self-assured based on things that she can grasp -- and so if she can control every situation and join the Army and be a good person and, you know, fill all these responsibilities that she's been brought up to fulfill, and yet still sort of feel like she's not doing the right thing, because Guantanamo it's like this slightly greyer area -- and so she's not getting as much back from what she thought she was putting into it -- and so I thought that that was an interesting struggle."

6. Close-up of Stewart talking to a reporter

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Stewart/Actress:

"I think my idea of what it was like down there was not correct. It is clean. I know that sounds ridiculous and very ignorant, but it's really, it's like clinical, you know what I mean? Standard operation procedure is like the bible. And to have such like set guidelines for something like that is, for somebody who really wants to follow the rules and do the right thing, when they're kind of confusing -- like they should be the most straightforward thing ever -- you know my character, and this is very individual to this project, I'm not making any grand statements about anything, but you know my character definitely goes through a process of questioning whether or not she's doing the right thing, but she's following the rules."

8. Medium pan right to left of cast

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Stewart/Actress:

"I watch, literally, like with a fine-toothed comb. Like, it's the most, it's sort of deathly uncomfortable, but it completes the process. It's a necessary. And it's awesome. It just makes me a little nauseous."

10. Wide of Eccles Theatre

KRISTEN STEWART RE-EMERGES ON TORONTO RED CARPET

"Twilight's" newest vampire re-emerged in public Thursday night at the Toronto Film Festival.

Kristen Stewart made her first public appearance in nearly two months.

After publicly apologizing for having a tryst with the married director of her last film, "Snow White and the Huntsman," the 22-year star went into lockdown mode.

Hundreds of fans eagerly awaited her return as she walked the red carpet for her latest film, "On the Road," based on the classic Jack Kerouac novel.

Stewart posed for photographers, spoke to a few television crews (while paired with co-star Garret Hedlund, and signed lots of autographs for fans. Many of them had waited since the early morning.

Dressed in a slinky, floral Zuhair Murad dress, Stewart held her head high but showed signs of nervousness.

Several times she broke away from the press line to pose for pictures with fans behind the barricade.

At times, it seemed that the fans were providing the support Stewart needed to carry on through mobbed press event.

Stewart says she likes the idea of books being made into movies, and that "On the Road" is one of her favorite books.

"Yeah, specifically to this case there were untapped resources that we were allowed to sort of be privy too. Being somebody that has loved the book their whole life, I think to be allowed to know the information that we knew and be able to bring it to life in a way that was connected to the people and not just the book and the fiction of it. It happened. It wasn't just a novel. I think it pays homage to all of that, and it feels good," she said.

But did she ever think she would act in the big screen version back when she first read it?

"I was so young when I read the book, there wasn't a second's thought that I would ever play this part, so when it came about I drove away from my meeting with Walter absolutely vibrating, shaking, so yeah," Stewart said.

Back in July Stewart admitted to having an affair with 41-year old director Rupert Sanders. That announcement had a rippling effect, putting her romantic relationship with "Twilight" co-star Robert Pattinson on definite hold.

When asked how she was doing, Stewart responded: "I'm doing fine." Then she walked away.

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Toronto, 6 September 2012

1. Wide of fans outside Ryerson Theater

2. Camera crews waiting for Kristen Stewart

3. Wide of Kristen Stewart posing for photographer

4. Medium of Kristen Stewart posing for photo with fan

5. Medium of fans waiting for autographs

6. Medium of Kristen Stewart hugging friend on red carpet

7. Wide of Kristen Stewart and Garret Hedlund talking to reporters

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Stewart/Actress, on working from a book again:

"Yeah, specifically to this case there were untapped resources that we were allowed to sort of be privy too. Being somebody that has loved the book their whole life, I think to be allowed to know the information that we knew and be able to bring it to life in a way that was connected to the people and not just the book and the fiction of it. It happened. It wasn't just a novel. I think it pays homage to all of that, and it feels good."

9. Wide of Kristen Stewart and Garret Hedlund talking to reporters

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Stewart/Actress, on imaging herself in the movie when reading the book:

"I was so young when I read the book, there wasn't a second's thought that I would ever play this part, so when it came about I drove away from my meeting with Walter absolutely vibrating, shaking, so yeah."

11. Wide of Kristen Stewart and Garret Hedlund talking to reporters

12. SOUNDBITE (English) Garret Hedlund/Actor:

"I read this book when I was in high school. I looked it up on lone to see who was directing and it said Francis Ford Coppola and I said I'll never get it. I have no chance at this. And then eight years later we were all on set together, me and Kristen and Sam (Riley) and Kirsten (Dunst) and Viggo (Mortensen) and it's one of the greatest experiences you could ever feel."

13. Tilt up on Kristen Stewart signing autograph

14. Kristen Stewart walking on red carpet

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Park City, Utah, 24 Jan. 2016

1. Wide, left to right, James Jordan, Sara Rodier, Jared Harris, James Le Gros, Kristen Stewart, Kelly Reichardt and Lily Gladstone posing

2. Medium of Kristen Stewart

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Stewart, actress

"It's a very quiet, tiny, thoughtful, little movie. It's segmented into three little pieces and there isn't much of an obvious through line. I think if you were to pick one I think it's all about a particular person who desires something that they can't have and I was drawn to this character because of her sort of distracted nature and the missed connections that she makes with another character and the sort of tone of it. I love Kelly's (Reichardt) movies. She focuses on things that typical filmmakers just wouldn't. It's always the little things in between the cinematic moments. It's always the little, undetected and visible communications. She's really good at highlighting the unsaid and I wanted to do something like that."

4. Wide of Kristen Stewart, push in to medium of Kristen Stewart, tilt down of Stewart

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Stewart, actress

"That production company wants to make money and here, they just like to showcase film and highlight work that they admire. It's an institution for independent film, it's like there aren't too many places to celebrate little, tiny movies that most people don't see and, you know, for two weeks out of the year we go like, 'This is the most important thing' because it's a really close-knit, little family of like esoteric film nerds. It's fun. Yeah."

6. Medium of Kristen Stewart, left, and Kelly Reichardt, right

7. Medium of Sara Rodier posing

8. Tilt dowhn and up of Lily Gladstone

9. Medium of Jared Harris

KRISTEN STEWART: SUNDANCE IS FOR 'ESOTERIC FILM NERDS'

Kristen Stewart says the Sundance Film Festival is for "esoteric film nerds" and that's why it matters.

The actress premiered her film "Certain Women" Sunday (24 JAN. 2016) at the festival.

On the red carpet, she talked about why Sundance celebrates and encourages a variety of story-telling, more so than a mainstream Hollywood production company.

"That production company wants to make money and here, they just like to showcase film and highlight work that they admire," explained Stewart. "It's an institution for independent film, it's like there aren't too many places to celebrate little, tiny movies that most people don't see and, you know, for two weeks out of the year we go like, 'This is the most important thing' because it's a really close-knit, little family."

Stewart described "Certain Women" as "a very quiet, tiny, thoughtful, little movie. It's segmented into three little pieces and there isn't much of an obvious through line. I think if you were to pick one I think it's all about a particular person who desires something that they can't have," she said.

"Certain Women" also stars Michelle Williams and Laura Dern but they weren't at the Sundance premiere. Cast members Jared Harris, Lily Gladstone and Sara Rodier and director Kelly Reichardt did attend with Stewart.

The Sundance Film Festival runs through Jan. 31.

STEWART AND HOULT ARRIVE AT VENICE

Kristen Stewart's fans were out in force in Venice, Italy.

The star was greeted by screaming fans when she arrived by boat for a press conference on Saturday (5SEPT2015) for her sci-fi romance "Equals" at the Venice film festival.

She was joined by co-star Nicholas Hoult and director Drake Doremus.

Set in a futuristic society where emotions have been genetically suppressed, the drama focuses on Silas and Nia, two co-workers who fall in love and must find a way to keep their feelings a secret.

Guy Pearce, Bel Powley and Jacki Weaver also star in the film.

The film screens in competition at the 72nd Venice Film Festival.

Equals will premiere in North American at the Toronto Film Festival on September 13th.

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Venice, 5 September 2015

1. Wide of boat arriving

2. Various of actors Nicholas Hoult and Kristen Stewart and director Drake Doremus getting out of the boat

3. Medium of actors Nicholas Hoult and Kristen Stewart and director Drake Doremus posing on pier

4. Wide of (left to right) actors Nicholas Hoult and Kristen Stewart, director Drake Doremus, and other castmembers

5. Wide of actors Nicholas Hoult and Kristen Stewart, director Drake Doremus leaving

6. Medium of actress Kristen Stewart signing autographs

7. Close up of actress Kristen Stewart signing autographs

8. Wide of actor Nicholas Hoult signing autographs

9. Close up of actor Nicholas Hoult signing autographs

10. Wide of actress Kristen Stewart signing autographs

STEWART, HOULT BRING 'EQUALS' TO VENICE

Kristen Stewart and Nicholas Hoult were greeted by hoards of screaming fans at the Venice Film Festival premiere of their new futuristic romance, "Equals," on Saturday night.

Directed by Drake Doremus, the American filmmaker behind troubled-love stories "Like Crazy" and "Breathe In," "Equals" is a science-fiction romance that puts Stewart and Hoult into a future society where emotions _ messy, disruptive things _ have been genetically suppressed for the good of humanity.

Their characters, Nia and Silas, develop feelings which blossom into a secret love that shakes their identities and endangers their lives.

"Equals" is one of 21 films competing for the festivals top prize, the Golden Lion.

The Venice Film Festival draws to a close on September 12th.

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Venice, 5 September 2015

1. Wide of Kristen Stewart arriving

2. Pan from photographers to Stewart

3. Various of Kristen Stewart posing for photographers

4. Various of Nicholas Hoult posing for photographers

5. Medium of director Drake Doremus and guest

6. Close of Doremus

7. Medium of fans

8. Medium of Doremus, Stewart and Hoult

9. Cutaway photographers

10. Medium of Stewart and Hoult posing for photos

11. Various of Hoult signing autographs

12. Medium of Stewart signing

13. Tracking shot of Stewart walking away from fans towards theater

CANNES KICKS OFF WITH STARS AND SNIPERS

Under the watchful eye of the French security forces, the 69th Cannes Film Festival kicked off with a celeb-filled red carpet Wednesday night (11 MAY 2016).

Coming six months after the Paris terror attacks, snipers were in position on the Palais des Festivals rooftop as stars including Julianne Moore, Justin Timberlake, Gael Garcia Bernal, Jessica Chastain, Victoria Beckham, Eva Longoria, Gong Li and many more walked the famous red carpet for the premiere of Woody Allen's 1930s Hollywood comedy "Cafe Society" - the opening film.

Alan was joined at the event by cast members Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart and Blake Lively.

In the film, Eisenberg stars as a Bronx nebbish trying to make it in Hollywood, where his uncle (Steve Carell) is a powerful agent. He becomes smitten with his uncle's assistant, played by Stewart.

Also on the carpet were this year's competition jury, led by Australian filmmaker George Miller and including actors Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Paradis, Kirsten Dunst and Mads Mikkelsen.

Over the next 10 days, they will screen an especially strong slate of films vying for the Palme d'Or - the festival's top prize - including new releases from Pedro Almodovar, Jim Jarmusch, Asghar Farhadi, Andrea Arnold, Sean Penn and the Dardenne brothers.

Other high profile directors screening films at the festival include Steven Spielberg ("The BFG") and Jodie Foster ("Money Monster"). Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe are among the stars expected to attend the movie extravaganza, which runs until Sunday, May 22.

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Cannes, 11 May 2016

1. Tilt down, Palais des Festivals banner to security

2. Various of security

3. Medium shot of sniper on roof of Palais des Festivals

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5. Tilt up from crowd to security

6. Medium shot, lookout on roof of Palais des Festivals

7. Pan of red carpet

8. Various of Gong Li on red carpet

9. Various of Julianne Moore on red carpet

10. Various of Susan Sarandon

11. Various of Naomi Watts

12. Various of Eva Longoria

13. Various of Doutzen Kroes

14. Medium Paolo Sorrentino and guest

15. Medium of Gael Garcia Bernal

16. Various of Victoria Beckham

17. Various of Justin Timberlake

18. Various Anna Kendrick

19. Various of Timberlake and Kendrick

20. Various of Jessica Chastain and Vincent Lindon

21. Various of jury including George Miller, Arnaud Desplechin, Kirsten Dunst, Valeria Golino, Mads Mikkelsen, Laszlo Nemes, Vanessa Paradis, Katayoon Shahabi and Donald Sutherland

22. Various of Woody Allen and "Café Society" cast, including Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart and Blake Lively

23. Tilt down from Palais des Festival banner to red carpet steps

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Cannes, France, 25 May 2012

1. Wide of red carpet

2. Medium of Kristen Stewart and Tom Sturridge posing for photographers

3. Pan up Kristen Stewart and Tom Sturridge as they enter the Palais

4. Cutaway photographers

5. Zoom out Aishwarya Rai

6. Wide of model Doutzen Kroes

7. Wide of cast of "The Oath of Tobruk," with director Bernard-Henri Levy

8. Medium of Bonnie Wright

9. Wide of Cuba Gooding Jr, David Oyelowo, director Anthony Hemmingway, Melody Hobson and director George Lucas

10. Close up of Robert Pattinson

11. Wide of "Cosmopolis" cast - Paulo Branco, Don Dellilo, Juliette Binoche, Robert Pattinson, director David Cronenberg, Sarah Gadon, Paul Giamatti, Emily Hampshire and Martin Katz

12. Medium pan of "Cosmopolis" cast

13. Wide of cast, zoom in on Robert Pattinson entering the Palais

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14. Trailer clip: "Cosmopolis"

RED CARPET ROLLED OUT AHEAD OF OPENING NIGHT OF 67th CANNES FILM FESTIVAL

The red carpet has been rolled out over the famous steps of the Cannes Film Festival, ready to welcome the stars at the opening gala in a few hours time.

The 67th Cannes Film Festival will open Wednesday evening (14 May 2014) with Nicole Kidman's new movie "Grace of Monaco."

Directed by Olivier Dahan, it stars Kidman as screen icon Grace Kelly, torn between her duties as Princess of Monaco and the chance to return to Hollywood to star in an Alfred Hitchcock film.

This year brings a selection somewhat light on Hollywood and perhaps missing some of the year's most anticipated releases (like Paul Thomas Anderson's "Inherent Vice," due in December).

But it's heavy on world-class auteurs, including Jean-Luc Godard, Ken Loach, the Dardenne brothers, Mike Leigh and Michel Hazanavicius, returning to where his film "The Artist" became a sensation.

Films in competition will bring a bevy of A-listers to the prestigious red carpet, including both former "Twilight" co-stars Robert Pattinson (in "Maps to the Stars" and the Aussie outback thriller "The Rover") and Kristen Stewart (in Olivier Assayas' "Clouds of Sils Maria").

Ryan Gosling presents his directorial debut, "Lost River."

Notably this year has a bigger presence of women, with two female directors competing in the main competition and five women on the jury - which is headed up by Jane Campion.

The 67th Cannes Film Festival runs through until Sunday 25th May.

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Cannes, France, 14th May 2014

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2. Wide shot man carries roll of red carpet

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UTAH TOWN GETS READY FOR SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

Preparations are underway in Park City, Utah for the 30th year of the Sundance Film Festival.

Stars from Kristen Stewart to Aaron Paul are traveling to the mountains for Robert Redford's celebration of independent cinema.

The ten-day festival kicks off Thursday with a lineup that includes 117 feature films.

Redford himself will make an appearance at the opening news conference - scheduled for hours after the Oscar nominations are announced.

Redford is a potential nominee for his performance as a solo sailor adrift at sea in "All Is Lost."

The opening night premiere is "Whiplash," starring Miles Teller as an aspiring jazz drummer and JK Simmons as his strict instructor.

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Park City, Utah, 15 January 2014

1. Wide mountain range tilt down to Park City streets

2. Medium trolley on Main Street

3. Wide building with Sundance HQ signage

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5. Wide Egyptian Theatre with Sundance signage

6. Close Egyptian Theatre marquee

7. Medium Main Street pedestrians

8. Wide Main Street

9. Medium Main Street pedestrians

10. Wide line outside Main Street building

11. Wide hotel with festival headquarters signage

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13. Medium Sundance registration area

14. Wide Sundance staff and attendees sorting papers

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Cannes, France, 15th May 2012

1. Wide shot of The Palais

1. Mid shot of Festival de Cannes sign

2. Wide shot of the Pavilion

3. Wide shot of people walking

4. Close up of people walking

5. Close up the Carlton hotel

6. Pan down from "The Amazing Spider-Man" movie poster to "The Dictator" movie poster outside the Carlton hotel

7. Close up of Sacha Baron Cohen on "The Dictator" movie poster

8. Wide of the beach

9. Medium shot of man doing juggling tricks on the beach

10. Medium of Thierry Fremaux, Cannes Festival Director, talking to reporter

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Thierry Fremaux, Cannes Festival Director:

"To celebrate an anniversary is also an opportunity to make the atmosphere much more, much more happy, much more like in a family. We're all happy when there is something to celebrate and, and I think that we celebrate every year what cinema is, but saying that it's the 65th anniversary it's maybe a way not to celebrate Cannes but to celebrate what Cannes has done for, or what the film festivals in the world (have) done for. We are here to celebrate cinema, to support the filmmaker, the cinema d'auteur, to support the professionals who are working here. We are not only here in the sun with beautiful landscape we are all here to work and in a word, it's, it's to say that Cannes is here to prove that the cinema is alive."

12. Medium of Thierry Fremaux, Cannes Festival Director, talking to reporter

13. SOUNDBITE (English) Thierry Fremaux, Cannes Festival Director:

"Yeah, a lot of films made in America by people who come from America, three but, David Cronenberg is Canadian, Walter Salles is Brazilian, John Hillcoat and Andrew Dominik are Australian, so America is becoming again maybe a land of open dreams for the filmmakers in the world, but what is very interesting is that the recent American cinema was divided in two blocks. One was the small independent cinema celebrated in a festival like the Sundance Film Festival for example which emerged in the 80s with the video and so on, and on the other side the big blockbuster made by the studio in Hollywood - the summer movies and we have maybe now some kind of comeback of the filmmakers who are making films for the public for people from thirty to sixty years old. Of course we still have Quentin Tarantino, the Coen Brothers and Terrence Malick and so on but there is quite a young generation, like Jeff Nichols, who is in competition this year with "Mud." I think he's 35 or 36 and maybe they are the sons of Jerry Schatzberg or Bob Rafelson or Martin Scorsese all the filmmakers who were famous in the seventies."

14. Medium of Thierry Fremaux, Cannes Festival Director, talking to reporter

THE AMERICANS ARE COMING TO CANNES

Despite the mood in Europe, don't expect any austerity at the Cannes Film Festival, the annual Cote d'Azur extravaganza where glamor is wrapped in world cinema fervor and gauzy Mediterranean sunshine.

Except for the Oscars, it's the flashiest red carpet in the world, a ruby staircase flanked by tuxedoed photographers - and a world away from financial turmoil.

Yet Cannes, the 65th edition of which starts Wednesday (16th May 2012), fetes its directors as much as it does its stars.

This year, there are plenty of both: esteemed international filmmakers like Abbas Kiarostami and Michael Haneke to big-name talent like Brad Pitt and Nicole Kidman.

Among the 22 films in competition, there's a particularly large American contingent which was selected, in-part, by Cannes' artistic director Thierry Fremaux.

"America is becoming again maybe a land of open dreams for filmmakers," says Fremaux.

"Of course we still have Quentin Tarantino, the Coen Brothers and Terrence Malick and so on, but there is quite a young generation, like Jeff Nichols, who is in competition this year with 'Mud.' I think he's 35 or 36 and maybe they are the sons of Jerry Schatzberg or Bob Rafelson or Martin Scorsese all the filmmakers who were famous in the seventies."

The opening night film is Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom" - the story about adolescent love on the run that brings a few new names (Bruce Willis, Ed Norton) into Anderson's carefully orchestrated world.

Later, there's David Cronenberg's Don DeLillo adaptation, "Cosmopolis," starring Robert Pattinson.

Brazilian director, Walter Salles' ("The Motorcycle Diaries") anticipated adaptation of Jack Kerouac's beloved "On the Road" is produced by Francis Ford Coppola and stars Sam Riley and Garrett Hedlund, but has attracted more attention for its supporting roles, including Pattinson's "Twilight" co-star Kristen Stewart as Dean Moriarty's girlfriend.

The unusually large U.S. group is rounded out by Jeff Nichols' "Mud," with Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon; and Lee Daniels' "Precious" follow up, "The Paperboy," a death row drama starring McConaughey, Zac Efron and Kidman.

There's also Australian director, John Hillcoat's "Lawless," a prohibition-era bootlegging tale starring Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy, and New Zealander Andrew Dominick's "Killing Them Softly," a crime film starring Pitt as a mob enforcer.

The 65th addition of the Cannes Film Festival runs through until Sunday 27th May when the winner of the Palme d'Or - the festival's top prize -will be announced.

"To celebrate an anniversary is also an opportunity to make the atmosphere much more, much more happy, much more like in a family. We're all happy when there is something to celebrate and, and I think that we celebrate every year what cinema is, but saying that it's the 65th anniversary it's maybe a way not to celebrate Cannes but to celebrate what Cannes has done for, or what the film festivals in the world (have) done for. We are here to celebrate cinema, to support the filmmaker, the cinema d'auteur, to support the professionals who are working here. We are not only here in the sun with beautiful landscape we are all here to work and in a word, it's, it's to say that Cannes is here to prove that the cinema is alive," says Fremaux.

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'CAFE SOCIETY' IN CANNES

Woody Allen's latest film, "Cafe Society" will open this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Programmers say the movie, starring Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg, will have its red carpet premiere at the French Riviera festival on May 11.

Blake Lively, Parker Posey and Steve Carell also appear in the film, set in Hollywood in the 1930s.

Tuesday's announcement confirms Cannes' love affair with the 81-year-old American director. It's Allen's third film to open the festival, after "Hollywood Ending" in 2002 and "Midnight in Paris" in 2011.

"Cafe Society" is not in competition for the Palme D'Or and other prizes, to be awarded by a jury headed by "Mad Max" director George Miller.

The 69th Cannes Film Festival runs May 11-22.

CANNES WINNERS REACT TO THEIR AWARDS

Veteran British director Ken Loach has won his second Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for "I, Daniel Blake."

The award for the 79-year-old, the festival's top prize, was announced by actor Mel Gibson at the Sunday ceremony at the Palais des Festivals on the French Riviera.

"I, Daniel Blake" is a warmly realistic drama about a middle-aged widower in northern England who can neither work nor get government benefits after a heart attack. Loach previously also won the top award for "The Wind That Shakes The Barley."

Loach said that he would like to dedicate his Palme d'Or to the ordinary people who have suffered because of bureaucracy.

"The film is about the cruelty of bureaucracy and it starts as a comedy and finished seriously. But we met many inspiring people who told us their stories so of course the film is for them and the prize is for them; people who find food to feed the hungry people in our country which is a hugely rich country, and I know it's like that throughout Europe. So yes, it's for those people who are struggling against the cruelty of bureaucracy, which ever country."

When asked how it felt to receive a Palme d'Or at this point his career, Loach joked, "it shows that's there is life when you're nearly 80 "

French director Olivier Assayas received shared the Best Director awards with Romanian director Cristian Mungiu.

Assayas won for "The Personal Shopper" starring Kristen Stewart as a young woman working in Paris as a personal shopper to a celebrity. She grieves the death of her twin brother but believes that she is able to connect with her brother from the other side. Assayas praised Steward for her dedication to the role and said that he couldn't have done it without her.

"This belongs to Kristen. When you are a director, as good as you can get, you are nothing if you don't have the actress who brings you then energy, who gives you strength in every single shot, who understands what you are doing just like a ballet dancer in front of your camera. Kristen is the co-author of this film, she owns this."

Mungiu said he didn't mind sharing the award with Assayas at all since he was a huge fan of his work. The Romanian director won this year for his family drama "Graduation." Mungiu said that he hopes his win will bring more people to the theaters to watch the movie.

"I think it's great to get awards but unless films pleased spectators, awards don't mean too much. So I hope this is accommodation for everybody to watch the film. Maybe think about what the film wants to tell us because I think cinema has this power, to make people think about the choices they make and maybe find a better discourse for their children because unless we educate our children well, we won't have a better world. "

Iranian director, Asghar Farhadi's film "The Salesman," picked up two awards - Best Screenplay and Best Actor for Shahab Hosseini.

The director said that he was thrilled for his actor, and didn't expect to hear his name called.

"So, as soon as his name was called, I feel like I had won. I was very happy for him. I really didn't expect to receive another prize. I feel very privileged and grateful for having received 2 prizes for 1 film out of the 7 prizes that the festivals give."

Standing by his director's side, Hosseini said that there are a lot of people that he needed to thank for his best actor win.

"Well this is a great night in my life. I believe in God so I think I owe it to God and secondly to Asghar Farhadi and his trust. I'm very glad to be able to give some joy to my people because I think they've been pray for this to happen to me. "

Jaclyn Jose is the first Filipino actress to ever win the Best Actress award at Cannes. It's an emotional night for Jose who also has her daughter, with her by her side. Jose said that she hopes her win will bring some new change for her country, when their new president Rodrigo Duterte is sworn in next month.

"The Filipinos will watch the film because I won and a lot of people will see what the movie is all about. I'm sure our new president will go to the places where we shoot and look for Ma' Rosa and find out and stop this thing," said Jose.

Other winners included British director Andrea Arnold, who won the Jury Prize for "American Honey"; French and Romanian filmmakers Olivier Assayas and Cristian Mungiu, who shared the Best Director award for their films "Personal Shopper" and "Graduation"; plus Canadian director Xavier Dolan who picked up the Grand Jury Prize for his drama, "It's Only the End of the World."

Cannes, 22 May 2016

1. Wide shot of Ken Loach, director, holding the Palme d'Or award

2. Close up shot of the Palme d'Or

3. Pan shot from cameraman to Loach

4. Tilt up shot of Loach

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ken Loach, director, on who he would like to dedicate the Palme d'Or to

"The film is about the cruelty of bureaucracy and it starts as a comedy and finished seriously. But we met many inspiring people who told us their stories so of course the film is for them and the prize is for them; people who find food to feed the hungry people in our country which is a hugely rich country, and I know it's like that throughout Europe. So yes, it's for those people who are struggling against the cruelty of bureaucracy, which ever country."

(Reporter: What does it mean to you to win the Palme d'Or at this point in your career?)

Ken Loach: "Well it's extraordinary. I thought I was in extra time, to use a footballing image so it was a big surprise. We didn't expect to do another film and then here we are. So it was a big surprise and it shows that's there is life when you're nearly 80."

6. Pan shot from camera to Olivier Assayas, director "Personal Shopper,' speaking to reporters

7. Wide shot of Assayas

8. Tilt up shot of Assayas

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Olivier Assayas, director "Personal Shopper", on who he would like to dedicate his Best Director award to;

"Oh, I dedicate it to Kristen Stewart. This belongs to Kristen. When you are a director, as good as you can get, you are nothing if you don't have the actress who brings you the energy, who gives you strength in every single shot, who understands what you are doing, who's just like a ballet dancer in front of your camera. Kristen is the co-author of this film, she owns this."

10. Wide shot of Cristian Mungiu, director of Graduation, speaking to reporters

11. Tilt up shot of Mungiu

12. SOUNDBITE (English) Cristian Mungiu, director of "Graduation," on his Best Director win

"I would like to dedicate this awards to the spectators. I think it's great to get awards but unless films pleased spectators, awards don't mean too much. So I hope this is accommodation for everybody to watch the film and maybe think about what the film wants to tell us because I think cinema has this power, to make people think about the choices they make and maybe find a better discourse for their children because unless we educate our children well, we won't have a better world."

13. Wide shoot of Asghar Farhadi, Iranian director and Shahab Hosseini, actor with translator

14. Wide shot of Farhadi and Hosseini

15. Mid shot of Farhadi and Hosseini

16. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Asghar Farhadi, director "The Salesman", on his Best Screenplay win at Cannes

"I'm extremely happy. I've worked with Shahab many times. He's one of the best actors I've had the opportunity to work with. So as soon as his name was called, I feel like I had won. I was very happy for him. I really didn't expect to receive another prize. I feel very privileged and grateful for having received 2 prizes for 1 film out of the 7 prizes that the festivals give."

17. Tilt up shot from the Best Actor award to Hosseini

18. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Shahab Hosseini, actor, on his win for Best Actor at Cannes

"Well this is a great night in my life. I believe in God so I think I owe it to God and secondly to Asghar Farhadi and his trust. I'm very glad to be able to give some joy to my people because I think they've been pray for this to happen to me. "

19. Wide of Farhadi and Hosseini

20. Tilt up shot of Hosseini

21. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrea Arnold, director of "American Honey," on who she would like to share the award with

"Everyone who worked on the film. I mean we had a huge team of people. I know absolutely everyone who worked on the film worked with a great deal of love and put their hearts into what they did. So,it really does belong to everyone who worked on the film. I truly believe that. It was a real team effort."

22 Mid shot of Jaclyn Jose, actress, Best Actress winner with daughter actress Andi Eigenmann

23. Mid shot of Jaclyn Jose

24. SOUNDBITE (English), Jaclyn Jose, actress, on her hopes for the Philippines president elect Rodrigo Duterte

Jaclyn Jose: "The Filipinos will watch the film because I won and a lot of people will see what the movie is all about. I'm sure our new president will go to the places where we shoot and look for Ma' Rosa and find out and stop this thing. Andi, am I right?"

Andi Eigenmann, Jaclyn Jose's daughter/actress: "I hope so "

Jaclyn Rose: "Yeah I hope so."

25. Close up shot of Jose's Best Actress Award

26. Wide shot of Xavier Dolan, director, winner of the Grand Prix award

27. Mid shot of Dolan

CANNES FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR DISCUSSES SECURITY AND A-LIST GUESTS

Sean Penn's "The Last Face" about aid workers in Africa will compete at the Cannes Film Festival - along with movies about interracial marriage in 1950s America, illness and poverty in working class Britain and cannibal fashion models in L.A. - in a high-glamour yet socially conscious lineup announced by festival organizers Thursday.

The 49 selected films come from 28 countries, including Iran, Brazil, Egypt, Israel and South Korea, with 20 of them running for the Palme d'Or, the top prize at the French Riviera festival, held under heightened security after recent deadly Islamic extremist attacks on France and Belgium.

"The festival has been under security measures for many, many years, so it will be, of course, something we pay attention to - not only we the festival, but the French government," said the festival's director Thierry Fremaux. "I'm sure that everyone is working in the same feeling to make the festival safe, for sure, secure, but also to be a wonderful, friendly moment."

This year, top stars expected to grace the famed red carpet at the May 11-22 festival include Marion Cotillard, Shia LaBeouf, Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron, Julia Roberts, Jodie Foster and George Clooney. This edition will also see the return of numerous Cannes favorites such as directors Pedro Almodovar, Ken Loach, Jim Jarmusch and the Dardenne brothers.

"When you mention big Cannes, Cannes big names. It's not Cannes big names only, it is world cinema big names and Cannes is the greatest film festival in the world and it's an honor for us to welcome all those great artists," said Fremaux.

"I think it is a good sign, the sign that it is always good for these people to be in Cannes. I must confess that, to me, and from Pierre Lescure, the president of Cannes, and the team, it's still very important that Cannes can be the place to be, still, and I think we will show that it is," he added.

Penn's latest directorial offering, which stars Theron and Javier Bardem, is likely to get top attention, alongside the festival's wackiest entry, the Danish horror film "The Neon Demon" (Nicolas Winding Refn) about beauty-obsessed, flesh-eating models.

Other films at the festival include "Loving" by American director Jeff Nichols, about a black-white couple in the U.S. in the 1950s, and British director Loach's "I, Daniel Blake," about a working-class man in northern England struggling with poverty and injury.

Spanish director Almodovar's "Julieta" is also competing, and young Canadian director Xavier Dolan has a new entry with "It's Only the End of the World" about a dying author — the second time the rising star has had a film in the running for the Palme d'Or. It stars Cotillard and Lea Seydoux.

American auteur Jarmusch returns to the Rivera with "Paterson" — a yarn about a bus driver and a poet set in New Jersey.

"Basic Instinct" director Paul Verhoeven features among the lineup with his first French-language film "Elle," a psychological thriller starring actress Isabelle Huppert.

This year's festival has a markedly American flavor, and opens with Woody Allen's 1930s Hollywood film "Cafe Society," starring Stewart and Eisenberg. It's showing out of competition.

Of the 20 films running for the top prize, three were made by women: Germany's Maren Ade with "Toni Erdmann"; the U.K.'s Andrea Arnold with "American Honey," starring LaBeouf; and France's Nicole Garcia with "From the Land of the Moon," starring Cotillard alongside Louis Garrel. The festival organizers have been criticized in previous years for failing to include a wider selection of films directed by women.

For the first time there will be no closing film. Instead the festival will rescreen the winning film.

The jury is presided over this year by "Mad Max" director George Miller.

Paris, 14 April 2016

1. Medium shot (left-right) Pierre Lescure (Cannes Film Festival President) and Thierry Fremaux (Cannes Film Festival Director)

2. Wide shot Pierre Lescure and Thierry Fremaux

3. Cutaway photographers

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Thierry Fremaux, Cannes Film Festival Director:

"I think this festival will be, well, first I don't know what it will be, because we are going to make it together and it's like the selection. The selection is - we love the movies we picked up - we don't know how they will be received and we know that we have surprise, positive surprise and sometimes (not), unfortunately, but, in a way, it is also the legend of Cannes. Sometimes some films will be very discussed and maybe we will have some fight with the festivals-goers about some films."

5. Pan from Cannes Film Festival sign to Thierry Fremaux being interviewed

6. Wide shot Thierry Fremaux talking to press

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Thierry Fremaux, Cannes Film Festival Director:

"When you mention big Cannes, Cannes big names - it's not Cannes big names only, it's world cinema big names and Cannes is the greatest film festival in the world and it's an honor for us to welcome all those great artists. And, for me, I'm very proud to have Woody Allen to open the festival, to have Steven Spielberg - and Steven Spielberg he doesn't come (to the festival) so often - and so it's great to have him for sure, and Pedro Almodovar, Ken Loach, all these people - they are great auteurs."

FILE: Cannes, 15 May 2015

8. Various shots Woody Allen, Emma Stone and Parker Posey

FILE: Cannes, 15 May 2013

9. Medium shot Steven Spielberg and Nicole Kidman

FILE: Cannes, 22 May 2014

10. Medium shot Ken Loach

FILE: London, 13 December 2012

11. Medium shot Rossy de Palma and Pedro Almodovar

Los Angeles, 13 April 2016

12. Medium shot Sean Penn

Paris, 14 April 2016

13. SOUNDBITE (English) Thierry Fremaux, Cannes Film Festival Director:

"I think that this festival will show how strong cinema is in the world of a lot of different images. I mean cinema was the first art of motion pictures and then now we are living in the world of the TV series. But the films, it's hard to make a good movie and I'm sure that this festival will show, this selection, will show the vitality and the good health of the creativity of the filmmaker in the world. And not only in our world - France, United States or the occidental world - but really from all over the world, because almost 30 countries are inside the official selection."

14. Medium shot Thierry Fremaux talking to media

15. Medium shot cameraman

16. SOUNDBITE (English) Thierry Fremaux, Cannes Film Festival Director:

"The festival has been under security measures for many, many years, so it will be, of course, something we pay attention to - not only we the festival, but the French government, the city of Cannes and I'm sure that everyone is working in the same feeling to make the festival safe, for sure, secure, but also to be a wonderful, friendly moment."

17. Wide shot Thierry Fremaux

18. Pan from backdrop to Thierry Fremaux

19. SOUNDBITE (English) Thierry Fremaux, Cannes Film Festival Director:

"George (George Clooney) is not a usual suspect in Cannes, it's not so often that we have him in Cannes, so we are lucky as well to have him and Julia Roberts for the first time. I think it's a good sign, the sign that it is always good for these people to be in Cannes. I must confess that, to me, and from Pierre Lescure, the president of Cannes, and the team, it's still very important that Cannes can be the place to be, still, and I think we will show that it is."

FILE: Los Angeles, 1 February 2016

20. Medium shot George Clooney being interviewed

Los Angeles, 13 April 2016

21. Director Garry Marshall and Julia Roberts speaking to reporter

FILE: Beverly Hills, 13 July 2015

22. Medium shot Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel

Los Angeles, 11 April 2016

23. Medium shot Charlize Theron posing for photos with fans

FILE: Los Angeles, 28 January 2016

24. Wide shot with zoom in to medium, director George Miller poses for photographers at G'day USA gala

AMERICAN FILMS DOMINATE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL LINE UP

American movies are taking center stage at the Cannes Film Festival, with a fistful of U.S. films and stars including Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain in the 2012 line up announced Thursday (19 APRIL).

Among some of the most anticipated titles of the year is an adaptation of Jack Kerouac's Beat classic "On the Road."

It's one of 20 films battling for the May 16-27 festival's coveted top prize, the Palme d'Or.

Announcing the slate at Paris' Intercontinental Hotel, Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux said, "American cinema is back in force."

A total of 54 features representing 26 countries, from the U.S. to Syria, Iran and Brazil,were chosen from a record-breaking 1,779 films submitted to organizers of the French Riviera festival.

There's a possibility for a few late additions in the coming weeks.

Walter Salles' "On the Road," tells the story of the years Kerouac spent traveling the United States in the 1940s with his friend Neal Cassady and several other figures who would go on to fame in their own right.

Staring Sam Riley and "Twilight'"s Kristen Stewart, it also features a performance from Kirsten Dunst, who won Cannes' best actress award last year for her role in

"Melancholia."

Other U.S-slanted highlights include Andrew Dominik's "Killing Them Softly" starring Brad Pitt as a mob enforcer, and " The Paperboy," a drama with Zac Efron and Nicole Kidman by Lee Daniels, director of "Precious."

For Canadian director David Cronenberg, whose film "Cosmopolis" is among those in competition, the festival will be something of a family affair. His son Brandon's debut feature, "Antiviral" is in the festival's secondary competition, Un Certain Regard.

Screenings are expected to be packed to see if Cronenberg junior has the cinematic skills of his veteran father, who came to fame with visceral films such as "Videodrome" and "Naked Lunch."

"Cosmopolis," based on the Don DeLillo novel, features Stewart's "Twilight" co-star Robert Pattison.

For the young at heart, the 3-D animation "Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted" will also premiere at the festival, marking Cannes' continuing friendship with Hollywood's DreamWorks studios. The film features the vocal talents of Ben Stiller and Sacha Baron Cohen of "Borat" fame.

It is not the only 3-D offering included in the festival. For those with more nocturnal proclivities, Cannes will get out its garlic and wooden stakes for a midnight screening of Dario Argento's highly awaited "Dracula" in 3-D.

Several Cannes winners are back this year, including Austria's Michael Haneke, with "Amour," Britain's Ken Loach, with "The Angels' Share," and Romania's Cristian Mungiu, with "Beyond the Hills."

Joining them will be living legend Alain Resnais, who, at nearly 90, will present the aptly titled "Vous N'Avez Encore Rien Vu" or "You Haven't Seen Anything Yet." It's an adaptation of Jean Anouilh's "Eurydice" starring Cannes veteran Mathieu Amalric.

The festival will also pay a special tribute to the French filmmaker Claude Miller, who passed away this year.

"Claude Miller will close this 65th edition of the Cannes Festival with his movie," said Fremaux. " Without being to lyrical, Claude will be with us thanks to his movie. He would have wanted to be with us physically. As you know, he worked on this movie during the fall, he worked on the editing until the end of February. His disease only gave him much respite, but not much more. Right after the final cut, he was left with just a few days to live, he left us around 15 days ago."

Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti will chair the judging panel for the festival.

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Paris, France 19 April 2012

1. Pan conference room at the Intercontinental hotel in central Paris

2. Mid Cannes Festival 2012 poster

3. Pan arrival general director of the Cannes Festival Thierry Fremaux and Festival president Gilles Jacob

4. SOUNDBITE (French), Thierry Fremaux, General director of the Cannes Festival

"Celebrities have always been an important part of the Cannes tradition. I actually love when people ask me: 'don't you think it is strange that you have tragic movies on screen, while celebrities walk up the red carpet?' And my answer is: it not bizarre, people would actually be surprised if we did not carry on this double tradition, with authors on the hand and their vision of our world's chaos, and on the other hand, stars, parties, pleasure and glamor."

5. Mid Thierry Fremaux with journalists

6. SOUNDBITE (French), Thierry Fremaux, General director of the Cannes Festival

"This year around the festival will be about glamor with the iconic figure of Marilyn Monroe, celebrities will be led so to speak by Nicole Kidman. She will feature in two movies. She has not been at the Cannes Festival for some time now. She and I have a special connection, because we know each other well, and we made our Cannes debut together. It was for "Moulin Rouge!" It was my first year in Cannes, a great memory. Yesterday again she told me how happy she is to be back in Cannes."

7. Mid conference with Thierry Fremaux and Gilles Jacob

8. SOUNDBITE (French), Thierry Fremaux, General director of the Cannes Festival

"Claude Miller will close this 65th edition of the Cannes Festival with his movie. Without being too lyrical, Claude will be with us thanks to his movie. He would have wanted to be with us physically. As you know, he worked on this movie during the fall, he worked on the editing until the end of February. His disease only gave him so much respite, but not much more. Right after the final cut, he was left with just a few days to live, he left us around 15 days ago."

9. Wide conference room

10. SOUNDBITE (French), Gilles Jacob, President of the Cannes Festival

"In this world dominated by shallowness and zapping, by mediocrity and a lack of debate, what matters, what makes us unique is our strong passion for cinema and for the great authors who produce it. Cannes has this great privilege to gather people around the discovery of a new movie. A movie which invents, reveals, overwhelms and dedicates."

11. Pan Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux

12. Mid and close of Jacob and Fremaux in front of the festival's poster

SHOTLIST (including transcript):-

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Paris, 14 April 2016

1. Wide shot press conference

2. Medium shot journalists

3. Wide shot Thierry Fremaux, Cannes Film Festival director and Pierre Lescure, Cannes Film Festival president

4. UPSOUND (French) Thierry Fremaux, Cannes Film Festival director:

"Sean Penn from the United States came only once in the competition for a movie called "The Pledge", fifteen years ago in 2001. He comes with his movie called 'The last Face' with Charlize Theron, Javier Bardem, Adele Exarchopoulos and some others. It's a love story in times of humanitarian engagement in Africa."

5. Cutaway audience

6. UPSOUND (French) Thierry Fremaux, Cannes Film Festival director:

"Loving" is the new movie by Jeff Nichols of the United States. 'Midnight Special' is still in cinemas, it was presented in Berlin. This one will be presented during the Cannes competition. This is a little change of pace for him, it's about interracial marriage, one in particular, famous in the United States. A famous case in the United States with a black man and white woman who were chased out of the state they were married in. Their case ended up in the Supreme Court. The film is called 'Loving.'"

7. Cutaway audience

8. UPSOUND (French) Thierry Fremaux, Cannes Film Festival director:

"Ken Loach from the U.K. - who said that his last movie was his last movie - is saying this one is his last movie. He keeps telling me he's thinking about his last movie. This one is called "I, Daniel Blake." And when I say (Jim) Jarmusch is very 'Jarmuschian', this one is very 'Loachian' - Ken Loachian."

9. Cutaway

10. UPSOUND (French) Thierry Fremaux, Cannes Film Festival director:

"The selection we are presenting is quasi-complete. We might make some adjustments in the days to come to be in tune with the news – a film that comes from Panama… (laughs after a comment from journalist saying this one is well financed). Yes, it's a movie that's was nicely financed."

11. Medium shot Thierry Fremaux, Cannes Film Festival director and Pierre Lescure

12. UPSOUND (French) Pierre Lescure, Cannes Film Festival president - on security at the festival:

"We've done everything we can to ensure the right balance is stuck between attention to security and, at the same time, allow this film festival to remain a place of freedom and pleasure."

13. Wide shot presser

CANNES LINE-UP ANNOUNCED IN PARIS

Sean Penn's "The Last Face" will compete at this year's Cannes Film Festival - along with movies about interracial marriage in 1950s America and cannibal fashion models in L.A. - in a high-glamour lineup announced by festival organizers Thursday (14 APRIL 2016).

20 films from 28 countries will compete for prestigious prizes at the May 11-22 festival on the French Riviera, being held under extra security after Islamic extremist attacks on both France and Belgium.

Penn's latest directorial effort, which stars Charlize Theron and Javier Bardem, is likely to receive plenty of attention, as will Danish horror film "The Neon Demon" by Nicolas Winding Refn, which explores the lives of beauty-obsessed models.

Other films at the festival include "Loving" by American director Jeff Nichols - about a black-white couple in the U.S. in the 1950s - and British director Ken Loach's "I, Daniel Blake," about a man struggling with poverty and injury.

Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's "Julietta" is also competing, while young Canadian director Xavier Dolan appears with "Juste la fin du monde" about a dying author.

In a mysterious reference to the Panama Papers offshore investigations, festival director Thierry Fremaux said there also might be a late entry from Panama, "for those who follow current affairs."

Festival president Pierre Lescure said there are 500 security personnel assigned to the festival and they're working with national security authorities.

This year's festival has a markedly American flavor, and opens with Woody Allen's 1930s Hollywood film, "Cafe Society," starring Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg, which is showing out of competition.

Other Hollywood heavy hitters - director Jodie Foster's "Money Monster" (starring George Clooney), Steven Spielberg's live action version of Roald Dahl's "The BFG" and Shane Black's thriller "The Nice Guys," which stars Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe.

For the first time there will be no closing film. Instead the festival will rescreen the winning film as an "experiment," Fremaux said.

The jury is presided over this year by "Mad Max" director George Miller.

'FROM AFAR' WINS THE GOLDEN LION IN VENICE

Venezuelan director Lorenzo Vigas' Caracas-set drama "From Afar" won the Golden Lion prize for best picture at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday.

It was a good night for Latin American films, as Pablo Trapero's Argentine true-crime thriller "El Clan" ("The Clan") took the Silver Lion for best direction.

"From Afar", "Desde Alla" in Spanish charts the unexpected relationship between a middle-aged, middle-class man and a street youth. Vigas dedicated his prize to his country, which has experienced severe political and economic instability.

"We are having some problems, but we are very positive," he said. "We are an amazing nation."

A jury led by Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron chose winners from among 21 movies competing at the 72nd annual festival an edition where war, crime and other woes of the world dominated onscreen.

The festival's Grand Jury Prize, considered the runner-up trophy, went to Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson's inventive, animated "anomalisa."

Italy's Valeria Golino took the best-actress trophy for playing a put-upon Neapolitan woman in Giuseppe Gaudino's experimental family drama "For Your Love." She took the same prize in 1986 for "A Tale of Love."

France's Fabrice Luchini was named best actor for his role as a judge trying to rekindle romance while presiding over a murder trial in Christian Vincent's "L'Hermine" ("Courted").

The world's oldest film festival wrapped up Saturday after 11 days that brought stars including Jake Gyllenhaal, Kristen Stewart, Tilda Swinton and Johnny Depp to the canal-crossed Italian city for water-borne photo ops and red carpet premieres.

It also identified some early potential Oscar contenders, including Depp for his performance as gangster Whitey Bulger in "Black Mass," and Eddie Redmayne as a transgender artist in "The Danish Girl."

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Venice, Italy, 12 September 2015

1. Wide shot red carpet

2. Reverse wide shot red carpet

3. Wide shot Elisa Sednaoui

4. Close up Elisa Sednaoui

5. Cutaway press

6. Wide shot "Mr. Six" stars Li Yifeng, Liu Hua, Jing Liang, director Guan Hu and actors Xu Qing, Feng Xiaogang and Zhang Yuxian

7. Medium shot "Mr. Six" stars

8. Medium shot crowd

9. Medium shot Guan Hu and Jing Liang

10. Tilt up Xu Qing

11. Tilt up Zhang Yuxian

12. Close up Zhang Yuxian

13. Pan of crowd

14. Various of Li Yifeng signing autographs and then walking on the carpet

15. Medium shot Li Yifeng

16. Cutaway crowd

17. Various Alba Rohrwacher and Saverio Costanzo on red carpet

18. Cutaway crowd

19. Various of Roberto Bolle

20. Cutaway camera

21. Medium shot Jonathan Demme and guest

22. Medium shot Anita Caprioli

23. Medium shot Paz Vega

24. Various arrival of Abraham Attah

25. x 2 shots of "Frenzy"Actors Mufit Kayacan, Berkay Ates, director Emin Alper and actor Mehmet Ozgur

26. Medium shot Liu Hua

27. Medium shot Brady Corbet

28. Medium shot Niki Karimi and Vahid Jalilvand

29. Pan of Niki Karimi and Vahid Jalilvand

30. Wide shot jury, Pawel Pawlikowski, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Diane Kruger, Lynne Ramsay, Elizabeth Banks, Francesco Munzi, Emmanuel Carrere and president Alfonso Cuaron

31. Pan of jury

32. Various of Diane Kruger

33. Various of Elizabeth Bannks

34. Medium shot From Afar" director Lorenzo Vigas and the film's producers and cast walking along carpet

35. Cutaway press

36. Various of the cast of "Tanna"

37. "Per Amor Vostro" stars arrival

38. Cutaway crowd

39. Medium shot Actress Valeria Golino (R) and producer Riccardo Scamarcio

40. Various of Pablo Trapero on red carpet

41. Arrival of Tom Noonan, guest, directors Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman and guest

42. Cutaway press

43. Tom Noonan walking inside

44. Wide shot red carpet

TORONTO DECKED OUT FOR 37TH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

The streets of Toronto are adorned with signs and every other person you see downtown has a credential around his neck.

Thousands of filmmakers, members of the media and industry representatives are in the Canadian city this week for the start of the Toronto International Film Festival.

"Looper," a sci-fi thriller starring Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, gets the coveted opening gala slot Thursday (6SEP) night at Roy Thomson Hall.

But it's the premiere later Thursday night of "On the Road" that is generating the biggest buzz as the festival gets underway. Star Kristen Stewart is scheduled to make her first public appearance since her split with Robert Pattinson.

One of the world's biggest cinema showcases, the Toronto festival will screen nearly 300 feature-length films during its 11-day run, including many upcoming studio releases and Academy Awards contenders.

Other highlights include Ben Affleck's Iran hostage thriller "Argo," Keira Knightley's Leo Tolstoy drama "Anna Karenina," Tom Hanks and Halle Berry's genre-bending tale "Cloud Atlas," Adam Sandler's animated comedy "Hotel Transylvania" and Tommy Lee Jones' Douglas MacArthur chronicle "Emperor."

AP Entertainment

Toronto, 6 Sept. 20120

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2. Medium of scrolling digital sign advertising Toronto International Film Festival

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5. Medium of Roy Thomson Hall marquee trumpeting tiff and the opening film "Looper"

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