For the fifteenth time, Christies is the projection technology partner for the Cannes Film Festival, which began today and runs through July 17. It will be the first in-person edition of the Cannes Film Festival since 2019, and Christie will provide installation and show support for the occasion. Source: Christie Projection Partner for Cannes Film … [Read more...]
Award-winning Soviet Georgian classic ‘Repentance’ returns to Cannes Film Festival
One of Soviet Georgian cinema's all-time classics is returning to France's major Cannes Film Festival next month, with a freshly restored and digitised version of Tengiz Abuladze's 1984 Repentance set to screen in the Cannes Classics section that presents preserved masterpieces to audiences of the … [Read more...]
New French Covid-19 travel restrictions hit UK industry Cannes plans
A decision by France to impose a seven-day quarantine on people arriving from the UK due to fears over the Indian Covid-19 variant that has been detected in the UK has further complicated the plans by the country’s film industry to attend the Cannes Film Festival from July 6-17. Source: https://www.screendaily.com/news/ … [Read more...]
Cannes Film Festival: How It Could Resuscitate World Cinema
Cannes is back — or so the festival organizers are insisting, announcing an official selection that’s bigger and more bullish than the (pre-pandemic) 2019 edition, boasting new films from Wes Anderson (“The French Dispatch”), Sean Penn (“Black Flag”) and Oliver Stone (“JFK: Through the Looking Glass”), to name three Americans from among a host of … [Read more...]
Options dwindle for postponed Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday abandoned plans for a postponed 2020 edition in June or July but declined to give up entirely, saying it will explore other options. French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday extended France’s national lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, banning all public events until mid-July. That essentially dashed … [Read more...]
Christie ensures the content shines at Europe’s most glamorous film festival
Partnership between Cannes Film Festival and Christie enters 13th year CANNES, France – (May 14, 2019) – Christie® is once again delighted to be the projection technology partner for the Cannes Film Festival. For the 2019 festival, which runs May 14-25, Christie supplied 36 digital cinema projectors from across its Solaria™ Series, and … [Read more...]
