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Cannes 2011: Christophe Honoré interview

Beloved was the closing film of this year’s Cannes, and one that I really liked, being taken with many of the performances and smitten by the movie’s sheer boldness. Plus it can boast the presence of Catherine Deneuve, which is always an asset, never a flaw, for any motion picture. Towards the end of Cannes, I got the chance to speak to the director of Beloved, Christophe Honoré. Here’s what was said.

Free movies: British trio light up Indie

Attention please! Three free films for us to buzz about on Indie today. Firstly, we bid a hale and hearty hello to Take Me to Your Leader, a movie-making comedy from director Keith Wright. Then we welcome back Exhibit A, that found-footage favourite of ours. And finally, it's a pleasure to announce that Pat Higgins' The Devil's Music is now available to our users in the US. 

Cannes 2011: Eric Khoo interview

Yes, I'm still hacking my way through the backlog of Cannes interviews. Trier and Miike down, Beloved director Christophe Honoré is due for Monday (and then some longer interviews I did with the cast and director of one particular movie, which will surface sometime in the not too dim-and-distant). But today is the turn of Eric Khoo, the man behind animated anthology Tatsumi, which played in Un Certain Regard.

Cannes 2011: Takashi Miike interview

Hyper-prolific Japanese director Takashi Miike has become as permanent a fixture on the Euro film festival circuit as Ryan Giggs is fast turning into onto Twitter. And if the response for his Cannes 2011 offering, Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai, was more muted than that for 13 Assassins in Venice last autumn, then the chance to grab a few words with the man himself was still one I wasn't going to miss.

Trash Cannes: the sequel

Obviously, not every movie at Cannes is an artistic masterpiece. Heck, some real dreck even sneaks its way into the main competitions (hi, Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty). But it's out in the Marché du Film, the movie marketplace, where the true cine-madness lurks. From Cupid Dog to Dino Mom, from Bong of the Dead to Dear Friend Hitler..., come with me on a trip into the deranged realm of the Trash Cannes.

Cannes 2011: Joachim Trier interview

I am now back in London following the finale of this year's Cannes Film Festival, and also following a hellish flight home on a plane that appeared to have been purchased for a suitcase full of cash from a Chechen warlord. But I'll still be posting Cannes-y material this week, as I've a plethora of interviews that I didn't have time to write up while at the festival. First up is Norwegian director Joachim Trier.

Cannes 2011 awards

The 2011 Cannes film festival has just wrapped up and the Croisette is filled with the sound of (drunken) revelling. We've just come out of the press conferences for the jury and prize winners, which followed hot on the heels of the awards ceremony. Below, we've got the list of winners and some comments from the jury.

Keep on trucking – an interview with director Pablo Giorgelli: UPDATED

Cannes (Critics' Week) – Argentinian film Las acacias is the debut feature from director Pablo Giorgelli. charting a lonely truck driver's trip from Paraguay to Buenos Aires with a mother and child as passengers. Giorgelli snagged two of the Critics' Week prizes (the ACID/CCAS support award and the Very Young Critics' Prize) as well as the prestigious Camera D'Or, for a first-time filmmaker across all categories. Earlier in the week, we interviewed Giorgelli, who explained how his protagonist's journey was a metaphor for his own.

Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss

Not so long ago we had a Hunger Games catch-up detailing who'd be playing which character in the movie adaptation. Today the casting news is completed and we have a couple of pictures of Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen.

Alerting all movie lovers

Read all about it: daughter drives dad’s prostitute! Divorced man goes crazy! Teenage daughters rebel! Young girl turns to prostitution! Film students’ drama! Cannibal documentary! Hotel blood bath! New movies hot off the press.

Cannes 2011: War is Declared interview

The opening film of the 2011 Critics' Week, War is Declared (La guerre est déclarée) is the second feature from French writer-director-actress Valérie Donzelli, and is both a deeply personal family affair and a consistently inventive artistic triumph. Which meant that I was very excited to speak to she and her co-star, co-writer and real-life partner Jérémie Elkaïm in Cannes last Saturday.

Tintin trailer and posters

Just like waiting for a bus we’ve had nothing on director Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, and now, this very day we have two posters and a trailer. Get ready to check it all out after the jump.

Fright Night trailer

The first trailer for Fright Night has made its way online. This is director Craig Gillespie’s 3D remake of the 1985 film of the same name. So, to fans of the original, we pose the question: does this trailer promise good or bad things for the upcoming movie?

More free films! More free films!

Vampires! Nighttime wanderings! Revenge! Isolation! Six new free films for the US! We’ve got comedy horror in Netherbeast Incorporated, thrillers Daydreamer, Run! Bitch Run!, Buried Alive: Project Solitude and Dark Woods as well as drama Wah Do Dem.

More Cannes posters (plus competition winners)

The tramps have been run out of town and replaced by obnoxious Brits and Americans – yes, the 2011 Cannes Film Festival got fully under way yesterday. Today brings a few more of the new posters and standees that are helping to clutter up the Boulevard de la Croisette, and I'm also naming the winners of the recent batch of competitions here on Indie.

X-Men: First Class and Horrible Bosses

What excitement awaits you today? Charles Xavier tries to talk mutation with US representatives in a clip from X-Men: First Class and Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis are the men who decide that murder is the only way to deal with their awful office superiors in a trailer for Horrible Bosses.

Real Steel trailer

A trailer for Real Steel has been released by DreamWorks. The Shawn Levy directed robot flick has smashed its way online showing off said fighting machines in the ring. Check it out after the jump.

Miranda July looks into The Future

Debuting in the Berlin, Sundance and SXSW film festivals earlier this year, The Future is just that, with a US release date of July followed by a UK opening in November. But, says Kimberly Gadette, at least we get to talk to the filmmaker right here and now, in the present.

Cannes 2011: Beach-front billboards

Awesome as it is to have touched down in Cannes ahead of the 2011 festival whirring into full activity, it does mean that we've been forced to walk the Croisette – the occasionally hellish seafront stretch where you can feel under siege from jeans 'n' jacket-sporting grey-hairs, neighing poshos, and whiney bloggers (oh wait, that's us). At least there are plenty of new movie ads to check out down there too.

Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack and Tonto

With the release of the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie just around the corner, Johnny Depp has been doing the promotional rounds. Find out more about his in-depth involvement in the project and his thoughts on The Lone Ranger, specifically his character, Tonto.

Cannes 2011: From an indie filmmaker's POV

Remember when I asked for movie-types to get in touch if they were off to Cannes? Well, a Craigslist ad from an Alsatian-faced war criminal seeking a buxom young millionairess for friendship and fornication would have yielded a better response. And yet [warbles like Collins and Brookstein combined] against all odds [stops warbling], a few hardy souls dared enter my web of sin.

Cannes 2011: Indie's coverage starts here

Or here, to be more precise – our custom-built Cannes Film Festival mini-site, which even has a picture of the seafront as a background (er, depending on the dimensions of your monitor), making you feel as if you're really there. And if you want to crank up the verisimilitude a further couple of notches, then why not drink a £12 pint of lager while you peruse?

Thor animated video review

It's been out in the UK for a week, I've already reviewed it in print, and as of today our friends in the US will finally be able to see Thor too, as that newest Marvel blockbusters opens on their side of the Atlantic. But with me left perplexed by the critical love the movie is attracting, one of Indie's animated video reviews seemed called for, in order that I can work out my issues towards the lantern-jawed thunderer.

Retreat, Colombiana and The Trip

There have been trailers aplenty recently and today is no exception. See what happens when Cillian Murphy and Thandie Newton take a trip to a deserted island in Retreat, Zoe Saldana turns assassin after a troubled childhood in Colombiana, and Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon go on a road trip, tasing fine food and testing competing impressions in Michael Winterbottom's The Trip.

New movies!

Leading you into the weekend, we've made five new films available on the site. There's an Estonian thriller, Tim Roth versus a lie detector, a romantic drama set in Minnesota, a Turkish war movie and and a disturbing account of life in an Iranian prison. More details after the jump.

Trailers and tribulations

A full trailer for Marcus Nispel's Conan the Barbarian, a new trailer showing Ryan Reynolds in that green, CGI suit for the Green Lantern, a trailer for Martha Marcy May Marlene, a clip from The Tree of Life and a sneak peek at Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Watch them all after the jump.

Prisoners is “fragile”, says director Villeneuve

Earlier this afternoon I caught up with Denis Villeneuve, the director of the brilliant drama Incendies, which was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar earlier this year. I will bring you that interview in full closer to the movie's scheduled UK release date, but here is what he had to say when I asked him about Prisoners, the Black List-favoured script with which he has recently been linked.

Outside the Law: Blu-ray prizes to be won

One of the few rays of quality amidst a predominantly ponderous official selection at Cannes last year, Rachid Bouchareb's political actioner Outside the Law finally arrives in UK cinemas on 6 May. To mark that release, Indie is giving away a poster for the movie, plus a set of three Blu-rays. Read on for details how to win.

Hungry for a Hunger Games catch-up?

It's been a while since we've reported on the movie adaptation of The Hunger Games and in the intervening time, there's been a steady drip of casting information. That means catch-up time! Spoilers may follow and remember, contestants: may the odds be ever in your favour.