Monday, May 26

• Awards handed out at Cannes

  The The French film, The Class (Entre les murs), has won the top prize -- the Palme d'Or -- at this year's Cannes Film Festival. The Class, which is about contemporary society from the perspective of a French junior high classroom -- is the first French film to win Cannes in 21 years.

  Second prize went to Gomorrah, an Italian film about the mafia in Naples. Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan won the director prize for a family drama called Three Monkeys. Paolo Sorrentino won the jury prize with Il Divo, Benicio Del Toro won best actor for playing the title role in Che (about Che Guevara), and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne won best screenplay for Lorna's Silence.

  Source: Variety.

  
  

  Posted 05/26/2008 by Heather

  Benicio Del Toro | Il Divo | Guerrilla | Lorna's Silence | The Class | Gomorrah | Three Monkeys

Saturday, July 21

• Che gets a chica

  Director Steven Soderbergh just signed another castmember for his two-film series about Che Guevara.

  The Argentine and Guerrilla, which will star Benicio del Toro as the Latin American revolutionary, will now be rounded out by Columbian actress Catalina Sandino Moreno, who was nominated for her work in Maria Full of Grace.

  Julia Ormond, Benjamin Bratt, and Franka Potente are also contributing their talents. The films, which will be in Spanish, begin shooting next week in Spain.

  Source: Variety.

  
  

  Posted 07/21/2007 by Heather

  Benicio Del Toro | Benjamin Bratt | Steven Soderbergh | Catalina Sandino Moreno | Julia Ormond | Franka Potente | The Argentine | Guerrilla