2012 Winners and Awards

Palme d'Or:
"Amour"
Grand Prix:
"Reality"
Prix de la Mise en Scene (best director):
Carlos Reygadas, "Post Tenebras Lux"
Prix du Scenario (best screenplay):
"Beyond The Hills"
Camera d'Or (best first feature):
"Beasts of the Southern Wild"
Prix du Jury (jury prize):
"The Angel's Share"
Prix d'interpretation feminine (best actress):
Cosmina Stratan and Christina Flutor, "Beyond The Hills"
Prix d'interpretation masculine (best actor):
Mads Mikkelsen, "The Hunt"

All 2012 Festival Trailers Available

A hidden, but pretty key gem on the sometimes a little hard to navigate official Cannes Festival site are the trailers of all films in the 2012 Festival (added link to top menu to make it easier to find).

All is there - competition films, side programs, even "Cannes Classics".

Here are some straight links to some of the most highly anticipated films by the "general public":

• Cosmopolis starring the "rob" part of robsten - Robert Pattinson. Trailer looks promisingly gruesome, dangling rats (or is it mice? does it matter?) included, in line with Director Cronenberg's past oeuvre.
• On the Road - on to the "sten" part, Kristen Stewart. Based on Jack Kerouacs famous novel.
• Madagascar 3 - which suitably starts out in nearby Monaco

The "most mysterious trailer" award, though, goes to "Holy Motors" - see for yourself why.

Cannes Film Festival: Who is Who on Twitter

The Cannes Film Festival is one of the best-covered media events each year. Thousands of journalists from all around the world write even more articles every day covering film screenings, a little scandal here and a celebrity sighting there.. The number of journalists attending the Cannes Film Festival is approaching or even exceeding the number of journalists at the Olympic games.

But journalism is so ... yesterday in these times of the "real-time Web". Is it possible to get some news straight from the source? Are there Cannes key players using their twitter accounts to give first hand impressions on what's going on at the Cannes Film Festival?

Here's a shortlist of the most interesting or prominent Cannes Film Festival tweeters and non-tweeters we came across for now (later updates not precluded), what they write about, and whether they are worth following.

• Hiam Abbass - the Palestinian actress and jury member is not on twitter 
• Andrea Arnold - well there's a few of folks on twitter that share the name with this Director and jury member, but none of them seem to be her.
• Emmanuelle Devos - twitter draws a complete blank for the French actress who sits on the jury
• Thierry Fremaux -  second (or first now?) in command at the festival and designated to succeed Gilles Jacob - comments on his personal festival highlights while still carving out time for his passion for Bruce Springsteen. Worth following - again, tweets mostly in French
• Jean-Paul Gaultier - film jury member for ten days and fashion designer otherwise - mostly tweets and retweets about himself - follow him, and you won't miss any appearance of a JPG dress on the red carpet. If that's not your pretty special interest, don't follow.
• Gilles Jacob - festival president since God created the world or even before -  uses the cute twitter handle "jajacobbi" to tweet cheeky pics of Sean Penn and for witty exchanges with his Cannes insider buddies. Worth the follow if you read French. 
• Diane Kruger - no discernible twitter presence for the German actress/jury member
• Ewan McGregor - realizes that as jury member he needs to keep mum about the films he's watching and got slammed for saying film selection is "brilliant". Don't expect any revelations if you choose to follow.
• Nanni Moretti - Jury President - doesn't seem to have a known presence on twitter yet. 
• Alexander Payne - again there's a few matches for this jury member but no clear hit - could he be "married 5 kids and self employed farrier for 15 year" or rather "Director of bin.com, Microsoft "? The search goes on .
• Raoul Peck - no known tweets from the film director from Haiti sitting on the jury

Alec Baldwin's after-midnite film shot at Cannes Film Festival

Walking along the Croisette after midnite, ran into Alec Baldwin walking slowly along the Croisette towards the Carlton Hotel and being filmed chatting to a corpulent, very hollywood-looking companion. It seems this is part of the work on Baldwin's Cannes Film festival documentary called "Seduced and Abandoned" which is following Baldwin and his partner looking for funding for a movie during the festival, interviewing several director's along the way to determine the current state of cinema - deadline.com has all the details.

Program Cannes Film Festival 2012

COMPETITION


Opening Film: Wes ANDERSON MOONRISE KINGDOM 1h35

Jacques AUDIARD DE ROUILLE ET D'OS 1h55
Leos CARAX HOLY MOTORS 1h50
David CRONENBERG COSMOPOLIS 1h45
Lee DANIELS THE PAPERBOY 1h41
Andrew DOMINIK KILLING THEM SOFTLY 1h40
Matteo GARRONE REALITY 1h50
Michael HANEKE AMOUR (LOVE) 2h06
John HILLCOAT LAWLESS 1h55
HONG Sangsoo DA-REUN NA-RA-E-SUH (IN ANOTHER COUNTRY) 1h28
IM Sangsoo DO-NUI MAT (TASTE OF MONEY) 1h53
Abba KIAROSTAMI LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE 1h49
Ken LOACH THE ANGELS' SHARE 1h46
Sergei LOZNITSA IM NEBEL (IN THE FOG) 2h07
Cristian MUNGIU BEYOND THE HILLS 2h35
Yousry NASRALLAH BAAD EL MAWKEAA (AFTER THE BATTLE) 1h56
Jeff NICHOLS MUD 2h15
Alain RESNAIS VOUS N'AVEZ ENCORE RIEN VU 1h55
Carlos REYGADAS POST TENEBRAS LUX 1h40
Walter SALLES ON THE ROAD (SUR LA ROUTE) 2h20
Ulrich SEIDL PARADIES : Liebe (PARADISE : Love) 2h00

Thomas VINTERBERG JAGTEN (THE HUNT) 1h46

Film for the Closing Ceremony:
Claude MILLER THÉRÈSE DESQUEYROUX (Out of Comp.) 1h50


UN CERTAIN REGARD

Ashim AHLUWALIA MISS LOVELY First film 1h50
Juan Andrés ARANGO LA PLAYA First film 1h30
Nabil AYOUCH LES CHEVAUX DE DIEU (GOD'S HORSES) 1h55
Catherine CORSINI TROIS MONDE 1h40
Brandon CRONENBERG ANTIVIRAL First film 1h50
Benicio DEL TORO, Pablo TRAPERO, Julio MEDEM, Elia SULEIMAN, Juan Carlos TABIO,
Gaspard NOÉ et Laurent CANTET 7 DIAS EN LA HABANA 2h05
Benoit DELÉPINE, Gustave KERVERN LE GRAND SOIR 1h32
Xavier DOLAN LAURENCE ANYWAYS 2h41
Michel FRANCO DESPUÉS DE LUCIA 1h33
Joachim LAFOSSE AIMER À PERDRE LA RAISON 1h54
Darezhan OMIRBAYEV STUDENT 1h30
Moussa TOURE LA PIROGUE (THE PIROGUE) 1h27
Pablo TRAPERO ELEFANTE BLANCO (WHITE ELEPHANT) 2h00
Sylvie VERHEYDE CONFESSION OF A CHILD OF THE CENTURY 2h05
Koji WAKAMATSU 11.25 THE DAY HE CHOSE HIS OWN FATE 2h00
YOU Le MYSTERY 1h30
Benh ZEITLIN BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD First film 1h32

OUT OF COMPETITION

Bernardo BERTOLUCCI IO E TE (ME AND YOU) 1h37
Eric DARNELLE, Tom MCGRATH MADAGASCAR 3, EUROPE'S MOST WANTED 1h30
Philip KAUFMAN HEMINGWAY & GELLHORN 2h34


Midnight Screenings

Dario ARGENTO DARIO ARGENTO'S DRACULA 1h46
Takashi MIIKE AI TO MAKOTO 2h14

65th Birthday

Gilles Jacob and Samuel Faure UNE JOURNÉE PARTICULIÈRE 53'


SPECIAL SCREENINGS

Fatih AKIN DER MÜLL IM GARTEN EDEN (POLLUTING PARADISE) 1h25
Laurent BOUZEREAU ROMAN POLANSKI : A FILM MEMOIR 1h34
Ken BURNS, Sarah BURNS, David MCMAHON THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE 2h00
Sébastien LIFSHITZ LES INVISIBLES 1h55
Claudine NOUGARET, Raymond DEPARDON JOURNAL DE FRANCE 1h40
Nelson PEREIRA DOS SANTOS A MUSICA SEGUNDO TOM JOBIM 1h30
Gonzalo TOBAL VILLEGAS First film 1h36
Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL MEKONG HOTEL 1h01

Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Brad Pitt to be in Cannes 2012

This morning, the official 2012 Cannes Film Festival Program was announced in Paris.
The news that created most excitement with the general public was probably that "Twilight" and real-life couple Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart will attend the festival.
The couple won't appear together in one movie, however. Pattinson is starring in David Cronenberg's "Cosmopolis", while Stewart is part of the cast on "On the Road" by Walter Salles.
Of course, the next big question is: at what date will Pattinson and Stewart be in Cannes? Unfortunately, that won't be known until the festival schedule is published - and that may take a few more weeks!
What is already known: There will be a public red carpet ceremony where Pattinson and Stewart appear. However, the screening of their movies won't be open to the public.
In "Cosmopolis", Pattinson plays a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager, riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo in order to get a haircut, whose day devolves into a odyssey with a cast of characters that start to tear his world apart.
And the best: The trailer for the movie is already available! See below

"On The Road" features Kristen Stewart in the role of Marylou in a movie based on Jack Kerouac's famous early-60s novel that defined the "beat generation". Stewarts co-stars include Sam Riley, Kirsten Dunst, Viggo Mortensen and Steve Buscemi.
Again, trailer available below.

More details on the full Cannes Film Festival 2012 program.

Cannes Film Festival 2012 Program Rumors

While the official announcement of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival program is still a few weeks away (current plan: April 19), rumors are still swirling around on who will make it into this years.
For a quick summary, check out An Early Peek at Cannes 2012 Films by The Hollywood Reporter.
However, some of the best information is in French, of course, given the selection happens in France, and so journalists here are "close to the source".
Google translate helps "globalizing" this information somewhat. Here's a series of articles that French magazine "AlloCine" ran a few days ago:

• Cannes 2012 rumors: U.S. movies
• Cannes 2012 rumors: French films
• Cannes 2012 rumors: World cinema

Cannes Film Festival 2012 Dates: May 16 to May 27

The next Cannes Film Festival will take place from May 16 to May 27 2012 - a few days later than 2011.
And yes, Christina, in case you are still not quite sure, it will be in Cannes, as usual!