Azuriens awoke to a steady drumbeat of radio, tv and newspaper reports this morning assessing the damage wreaked by yesterday’s furious storm. It isn’t pretty. The 10-meter waves that pummelled the coast from Menton to Theole-sur-Mer swept away rows of beach restaurants as though they were children’s sand castles. The … Continue reading →
The Cannes Film Festival has just announced that director Tim Burton will be Jury President for the 63rd Cannes Film Festival to be held from May 12to 23. Upon accepting the invitation from Gilles Jacob and Thierry Frémaux, Tim Burton declared “After spending my early life watching triple features and … Continue reading →
Under partly cloudy skies, the Cannes Film Festival opened the Un Certain Regard section of the Official Selection (see more on the organization of the Cannes Film Festival) The second showing of the day was the Japanese director’s Hirokazu Koreeda’s film “Air Doll”. I read an article a few years … Continue reading →