Video: Chaz Ebert Reports on Enticing Films at Cannes
Chaz Ebert reports on enticing films at Cannes, including “Son of Saul,” “Carol” and “Irrational Man.”
Chaz at Cannes
Video: Chaz Ebert Bids Adieu to Cannes
Chaz Ebert shares some of her favorite moments from the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.
Video: Chaz Ebert Recaps the Winners of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival
On her way home, Chaz Ebert takes time to recap the winners of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.
Video: Our Cannes Reporters Discuss Their Favorite 2014 Films
A video report on RogerEbert.com’s favorite films of Cannes 2014, including new works by Mike Leigh and the Dardennes brothers.
Video: Awards, Premieres, and More at Cannes 2014
The latest Cannes 2014 video covers the biggest awards, interviews several of this year’s attendees, and highlights the Dardennes’ “Two Days, One Night” and Ryan Gosling’s “Lost River.”
Video: Cannes Premieres of “Life Itself,” “Foxcatcher,” and “The Homesman”
Chaz Ebert’s latest video reports on the Cannes premieres of “Foxcatcher,” “The Homesman,” “Mr. Turner,” and “The Wonders,” while offering an extended report on the emotional screening of “Life Itself.”
Video: Cannes Film Festival Opens with Star-Studded Events
Our first video segment from the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.
Events About Roger Ebert Set For This Week at Cannes
Life Itself, an interview with Steve James & Chaz Ebert, and “The Roger Ebert Critics Panel” all take place this week in France.
Cannes 2014 Coverage: Table of Contents
A list of all of our 2014 coverage of the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival.
Postcards from Chaz to Roger 2
When Chaz has gone to Cannes without Roger in the past, she has written
about the festival in the form of letters and postcards to Roger. This is her second post of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
Postcards from Chaz to Roger
When Chaz has gone to Cannes without Roger in the past, she has written about the festival in the form of letters and postcards to Roger. These are the postcards she sends to him this year.
A letter from Chaz
• Chaz Ebert at Cannes
Dear Roger: “We were once indivisible from every atom in the cosmos,” and that is how I feel when I am sitting in the Palais watching movies at Cannes with a screen spread out as wide as the galaxy, the audience circling around like protons and neutrons breathing as one in empathy.
Chaz’s video report from Cannes
What we tried to do in this video was give an overall impression of Cannes–the films, the publicity, the crowds. This is the top convention city in France, and it’s strange to think of the Palais as hosting car dealers or financial experts, but it does. Especially on the weekends, the city is jammed by tourists who have no hope of getting into a screening, but just like to hang around and see the stars walking up the steps on the famous red carpet.
Photographed and edited by Scott Dummler. Assistant producer, Sonia Evans. The photographs are by Scott.
The Cannes winners, as sort of expected
Beasts of the Southern Wild
• Chaz Ebert in Cannes
The Cannes 2012 Palme D’Or was indeed won Sunday by Michael Haneke for “Amour,” the best film in the festival. And what an emotional moment to see its two stars, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuel Riva walk up on stage with Haneke to accept the award. A juror, Jean-Paul Gaultier said they gave the most emotionally real performances of any film in the festival. He said he bawled his eyes out. This was the second time in three years that Hakeke won the Palme, after “The White Ribbon” in 2009.
And surprisingly, three out of four of my award speculations also won prizes. However, if you listened carefully to the reasoning of the Jury you can conclude that actually all four of the lineup would have won.
Who will win the Palme d’Or?
Haneke, Riva, Trintignant
• Chaz Ebert at Cannes
Who will win the Palme D’Or? I expect top prizes for Michael Haneke for his film, “Amour,” with Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva, but I am terrible at the awards-guessing game. I think “Amour” is one of the very best films in the festival with its harrowing portrait of the mental and physical deterioration of an esteemed piano teacher after a series of strokes, and the husband who must bear witness to this as he takes cares of her.
Haneke’s film is so mature and well done that its emotional impact builds quietly, from the core. You marvel at how he layers the scenes of a marriage so naturally that you know the couple has been together for decades in a relationship that is comfortable and emotionally enriching. And so when they make their choices you are right there with them emotionally until the bitter end, and there is no judgment about the choices made.
Indy in the Riviera sunshine
Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford and George Lucas bring “Indiana Jones” to Cannes. (AP photo)
Dear Roger,
The weather gods smiled on Steven Spielberg and George Lucas for their world premiere of “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.” Crowds gathered in the Riviera sun, some of them with signs pleading, “S’il vous plait, I NEED tickets for Indiana Jones!” There was a screening scheduled for 1 p.m., for both the press and the official invitation holders. In the past mixing the two has spelled disaster for a movie so highly anticipated; usually the screenings are separate, so the black tie crowd doesn’t hear the possible snickers of the critics. Today I expected a crowd, so I got to the Palais des Festivals much earlier than usual, but to no avail. The guards told me it was complet!
A teacher wins the Cannes film festival
Director Laurent Cantet accepts the Palme d’Or, surrounded by his cast.
For the first time in 21 years, a French film has taken the top prize at the Cannes film festival, and in a rarity for Cannes, the Palme d’Or was awarded unanimously. The prize could have easily been named “The Golden Apple” rather than the The Golden Palm since it went to “The Class” (“Entre Les Murs”), the Laurent Cantet film about a young teacher who tries to reach his class of primarily immigrant children in a school on the outskirts of Paris. Confronted with their apathy and sometimes outright hostility, he questions them in a Socratic fashion until they begin to ask themselves if perhaps an education might be relevant to them. This film moved me to tears and so of course I thought that, in the grand tradition of Cannes, it had no chance of winning the top prize.
Alone in the ring at Cannes
Mike Tyson in James Toback’s documentary.
CANNES, France — Roger, when we talked about sending you messages from the film festival I never expected that my first would be about a heavyweight boxer. Mike Tyson’s grip was surprisingly gentle when he shook my hand, and his voice soft and polite on stage, but there was nothing gentle, soft or polite about the images onscreen here in “Tyson,” James Toback’s documentary about his life. It is a compelling character study. His life is a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions.
