The Raindance Film Festival is to present its inaugural Auteur Award to the veteran British director Ken Loach. He’ll be presented with the honour at an event at the festival on 29th September, at which the organisers say he’ll discuss “his career, films, the ever-changing film industry and what he may have in store for […]
The British director Ken Loach has won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival for the second time. Ten years after winning the Palme d’Or for his story of Irish nationalism, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, the jury – this year led by the Mad Max director George Miller – chose I, Daniel […]
Some people call it the film industry, others refer to it as the entertainment business but these terms could be said better to describe the film market at Cannes, than the festival. The likes of Sex Tape, The Expendables 3, and the latest Hunger Games and Transformers films are certain to do a lot of […]
BFI staff posing in “Pits and Perverts” T-shirts to promote Pride, closing the Directors Fortnight at Cannes 2014 On Monday over lunch, the head of the BFI Film Find, Ben Roberts, proudly boasted to a group of British reviewers about the work the organisation has been doing over the past year. With two British directors […]
Two British directors will be up against each other for the prestigious Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Both Cannes veterans – indeed Palme d’Or winners – this will be Ken Loach’s eighteenth time screening a film at the festival. Indeed, despite it being relatively rare for any British directors to feature in […]
The jury at the Berlin Film Festival has given its top prize, the Golden Bear, to the Chinese film Black Coal, Thin Ice. The director Diao Yinan told the audience “It’s really hard to believe this dream has come true.” The film also won the festival’s best actor prize for Liao Fan. Haru Kuroki, from […]
It might have been one of the wettest Cannes Film Festivals in living memory, but from from the point of view of the industry, it had to be good news – those spare moments that critics and buyers alike might have
The Austrian director Michael Haneke has won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival for the second time in four years.
His French-language drama Love — about an elderly couple learning to cope with the wife’s stroke — has beaten off
Promoting his latest feature, The Angels’ Share,his eleventh in competition here at Cannes, one of Britain’s most acclaimed – if controversial – film-makers, Ken Loach, has launched an outspoken attack on the British Board of Film Classification.
The film, about how
Former winners of the Palme d’Or, including Britain’s Ken Loach and the polyglot Austrian Michael Haneke, are back in competition again at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.