CAE: Daughter of the Dust

« Daughter of the Dust » by vocalist Cae will be available on Spotify, Rhapsody, iTunes, Amazon on the 28th of May.

Cae has sung alongside Australian guitar virtuoso singer sonwriter Jeff Lang and Blue Note up and coming Blue Note artist Zahra Hindi. Now, French-Haïtian Berklee Alumni singer and songwriter Cae, releases her own music : "Daughter of the Dust" her first 7 track E.P. whose subtle pop material draws its strengh and authenticiy at the roots of soul folk jazz and blues influences.

Cae was a vocalist or the soundtrack to Little Senegal (2001) by French director Rachid Bouchareb starring Sotigui Kouyaté, who recently passed away on April 18. Bouchareb's latest film Hors-la-loi (Outside the Law) was nominated for a Palme d'Or this year at Festival de Cannes.

«Take a listen to « Daughter of the Dust », and find out why Cae just might be considered the spiritual sister of a Yael Naim, Emily Loizeau or Hindi Zahra, just to name a few of her talented contemporaries she could be compared to. »Mysoul.Fr

« A new soulful, jazzy and thrilling voice » Bintou Simporé, R.F.O, Cargo, Radio Nova

« Between philosophie and literature, between lyrics and words, between France and the Carebians, she sings her very groovy folk, and her blues and voice reveal African overtones »
Marijosé Alie, France Ô, Studio M

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63:e Festival de Cannes Ends Virtuous

"When a film-maker, an artist, is imprisoned it is art as a whole that is attacked, and it is against this that we should react."

This statement was made by French actress Juliette Binoche in reaction to the incarceration of filmmaker Iranian Jafar Panahi for over two months. He was just about to go on a hunger strike and was released a few days ago. Panahi was to have served on the Cannes Jury this year for the official selection; his seat was vacant with his nameplate at the festival to protest this action.

Juliette Binoche won the best actress award at Cannes for her role in probably one of Iranian filmmakers Abbas Kiarostami’s most commercial films to date, Certified Copy.

During the awards ceremony Binoche held up Panahi’s nameplate.

Virtually no one tipped off the film that took home the Palme d’or winner this year: Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL from Thailand
for 
best
film and screenplay - Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, his fifth entry at Cannes. His film Tropical Malady received jury prize in 2004.

Here you have a director who has by made a fascinating tableaux of images from six locations, full of emotions and ideas that create a dialogue with the spectator.

The story is about Uncle Boonmee who is suffering from acute kidney failure, who wants to spend his final days with his loved ones in the 
countryside. During this time the ghost of his deceased wife comes to comfort him, and his long lost son returns home as a spirit Boonmee goes with them to a cave on the top of a hill the birthplace of his first life.

Weerasethakul’s award is a tribute to experimental film among a terrain of traditional narrative features.

BONJOUR CANNES

Official competition CANNES 2010:

Directors: Mike LEIGH, IÑÁRRITU, KIARSTOMI, TAVERNIER,

WEERASETHAKUL, BEAUVOIS, BOUCHAREB, LUCHETTI, MIKHALKOV MUNDRUCZO MUNDRUCZOKITANO, LEE, and WANG are all Cannes veterans.

OFFICIAL SELECTION

• ANOTHER YEAR directed by Mike LEIGH
• BIUTIFUL directed by Alejandro GONZÁLEZ IÑÁRRITU
• COPIE CONFORME (CERTIFIED COPY) directed by Abbas KIAROSTAMI
• DES HOMMES ET DES DIEUX (OF GODS AND MEN) directed by Xavier BEAUVOIS
• FAIR GAME directed by Doug LIMAN
• HORS LA LOI (OUTSIDE OF THE LAW) directed by Rachid BOUCHAREB
• LA NOSTRA VITA (OUR LIFE) directed by Daniele LUCHETTI
• LA PRINCESSE DE MONTPENSIER (THE PRINCESS OF MONTPENSIER) directed byBertrand TAVERNIER
• LUNG BOONMEE RALUEK CHAT (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives)directed by Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL
• OUTRAGE directed by Takeshi KITANO
• POETRY directed by LEE Chang-dong
• RIZHAO CHONGQING (CHONGQING BLUES) directed by WANG Xiaoshuai
• ROUTE IRISH directed by Ken LOACH
• SCHASTYE MOE (MY JOY) directed by Sergei LOZNITSA
• SZELÍD TEREMTÉS - A FRANKENSTEIN TERV (TENDER SON - The Frankenstein Project) directed by Kornél MUNDRUCZÓ
• THE HOUSEMAID directed by IM Sangsoo
• TOURNÉE (ON TOUR) directed by Mathieu AMALRIC
• UN HOMME QUI CRIE (A screaming man) directed by Mahamat-Saleh HAROUN
• UTOMLYONNYE SOLNTSEM 2: PREDSTOYANIE (THE EXODUS - Burnt by the sun 2)directed by Nikita MIKHALKOV

Mathieu AMALRIC makes his directorial debut with Tournée but several times at Cannes as actor.

Only , Doug LIMAN , IM Sangsoo, Sergei LOZNITSA and Mahamat-Saleh HAROUN are newbies at this year's Cannes official competition. (Above: Sergei LOSNITSA)

Out of competition at Cannes - Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, nor does Michael Douglas who keeps on and on like a Duracell battery. Oliver Stone explained that although the film would not be released until September, he did not feel the need to chase the press in lieu of recent economic setbacks. The film was actually planned for 2006.


Doug LIMAN, on the other hand, is Cannes newbie and Hollywood veteran, director of "Bourne Identity" and "Mr and Mrs Smith", now thriller "Fair Game", in official selection. Starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn, based on "Plamegate", the CIA leak of uncover agent Valerie Plame after Joseph Wilson's OP-ED article in NY Times.

Lucy Lawless Honored for Spartacus in Monte Carlo

Lucy Lawless who plays Lucretia in Spartacus: Blood and Sand has been nominated for an outstanding actress award at the 50th Monte Carlo TV Festival slated for June 1-6. Andy Whitfield and John Hannah are nominated as outstanding actors. Lawless's husband, Rob Tapert, Sam Raimi, Joshua Donen and Steven S. DeKnight are on the list for outstanding international producers. What can this team not do?

Accompanying Lawless to Monte Carlo will be Peter Mensah who plays "Doctore" in the series.
The Monte Carlo TV Festival begin in 1961 and was launched by Prince Rainier III of Monaco. The regent remarked on the occasion that he "wished to encourage a new form of artistic expression, in the service of peace and understanding for mankind".

The festival has competitions for outstanding television movies, news, and mini series with categories in documentary, comedy and drama. There is also an international TV audience award for best comedy, drama and soap opera series.

The winners will take home a "Golden Nymph" statuette. That would be appropriate for Lawless's role. But a little background to why she took this role after Xena:Warrior Princess, is that she really wanted to someone "naughty". Her favorite character in Xena, she reveals, was bad girl "Meg".

Lucretia" seems to be the strongest role Lawless has had since the series ended in 2001.

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Spartacus: Blood and Sand on Way to 50th Monte Carlo TV Festival

May 8, 2010 2:44 PM MST 

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Lucy Lawless as Lucretia in Spartacus: Blood and Sand

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The controversial Starz cable series Spartacus: Blood and Sand that has kept spectators pinned to their seats in San Francisco since its premiere January 22 through its final episode for Season 1, April 16, has not only received local acclaim but now international recognition.

Lucy Lawless  who plays Lucretia in Spartacus has been nominated for an outstanding actress award at the 50th Monte Carlo TV Festival slated for June 1-6. T. Andy Whitfield and John Hannah have also been nominated as outstanding actors. Rob Tapert, Lawless' husband, Sam Raimi, Joshua Donen  and Steven S. DeKnight are also on the list for outstanding international producers. Accompanying Lawless to Monte Carlo will be Peter Mensah who plays Doctore in the series. 

The Monte Carlo TV Festival begin in 1961 and was launched by Prince Rainier III of Monaco. The regent remarked on the occasion that he "wished to encourage a new form of artistic expression, in the service of peace and understanding for mankind".

The festival has competitions for outstanding television movies, news, and mini series with categories in documentary, comedy and drama, There is also an international TV audience award for best comedy, drama and soap opera series. The winners will take home a "Golden Nymph" statuette.

Other nominees in Monte Carlo for shows that are popular in San Francisco  include actors from Dexter:  Michael C Hall for outstanding actor and Julie Benz and Jennifer Carpenterfor outstanding actress. The Millenieum series - Män som Hatar Kvinnor - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo produced by Yellowbird AB,  Sweden has been nominated as outstanding mini series, recently enjoying a successful run in San Francisco  at Landmark Theaters and  the Balboa Theater.

Tina Fey and Jane Krakowski have been nominated as outstanding actresses in a comedy series for 30 Rock.

David Fincher to Direct American Remake of Swedish "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"

May 5, 2010 6:41 AM MST 

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David Fincher at Director's Guild of America Awards

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David Fincher is to direct the American remake of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" , the English translation of the original Swedish title "Men Who Hate Women". Production will commence in Stockholm and is  tentatively slated for October. As yet there is no script. The film team will be Swedish, excluding Fincher and some of his people.  San Francisco awaits the new film with baited breath, already a hit featured at the Balboa Theater.

There are three films in the Milennium series based on the novels written by the late Swedish author Stieg Larsson.  Fincher is contracted to direct the first and possibly the other two films.

- Fincher's set designer has been in Stockholm for three weeks and now David Fincher is here. They are totally in awe of the city and think there are several good places for shooting the film, said film commissioner Ingrid Rudefors at Film Stockholm-Mälardalen Region. 

 Rudefors reported that Sweden doesn't offer any tax breaks to film production companies so only exterior scenes in Stockholm and a few indoor scenes will be shot in the country. 

- Most of the film team will be employed in Sweden - David Fincher, his producer and set designer are the exceptions. Even the cinematographer will be Swedish, said Rudefors.

- David Fincher wants a European look for whole thing. A lot of films are appreciated in the US such as "Let the Right One In", commented Ingrid Rudefors.

The Swedish film commissioner will be working to convince the city of Stockholm to give their full cooperation to the project.

There are no actors on board yet, but Rudefors says big stars are being considered. Rumors are circulating that Brad Pitt, who has previously worked with David Fincher on "The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons" will play the investigative journalist Mikael Nyqvist. Who takes on the coveted role of Lisbeth Salander, a hacker that has been abused by her legal guardians  since she was a child, remains to be seen. Women in such roles are often nominated for major awards. Rumors have it that Carry Mulligan, nominated actress for An Education is being considered.

Yellow Bird's Søren Stærmose, Swedish producer of the three Millennium films, reports that its not exactly clear if Stockholm will be the site of  any production but the project looks good.