Cannes: US director Terrence Malick won the Palme d'Or for best picture at the Cannes film festival on Sunday for 'The Tree of Life,' a meditative, metaphysical epic starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn. Only his fifth feature, the two-hour 20-minute contemplation on the origins of life and where we go when we die was among the favourites to walk off with the coveted award, one of the most prized...
07:24 AM, May 23, 2011
Cannes: Danish director Lars Von Trier apologised on Wednesday for joking about Nazis and Hitler to reporters at the Cannes film festival, remarks that shocked organisers and caused offence among Jewish groups. The maverick film maker is at the cinema showcase with competition entry "Melancholia", a grand cinematic statement on life, death and the universe which wowed a packed audience at a press screening in the giant Grand Theatre Lumiere....
01:25 PM, May 19, 2011
Cannes: A cosmic collision brings the end to all life in "Melancholia", a grand cinematic vision from Danish maverick director Lars Von Trier that had the Cannes film festival buzzing with excitement on Wednesday. The movie, starring Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg as troubled sisters facing imminent death, brings stunning images on Earth and beyond and sets the tragedy to the swirling music of Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde". Von Trier...
07:27 PM, May 18, 2011
