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By Moira Sullivan Andrea Arnold wins Jury Prize at Cannes for 'American Honey' (Festival de Cannes)  It’s hard to believe that 11 days of the 69th Cannes Film Festival have come to an end. The event is a whirlwind of activity from the moment I entered the Palais des Festivals on the first day. I can assure you that journalists are taken well care of – the accreditation badge is a door opener to all the facilities on the grounds and even in town the badge is met with respect. It’s impossible to do everything so the object is to dive in and make a splash. There are excellent media facilities on the premises and each accredited journalist has their own login that is kept separate from others.  For the past three years,  Movie Magazine International   has been a blue card journalist with a mailbox - meaning I get in to all of the screenings except for the red carpet events which require an invitation –which I could ask for -   and the press confere...

Jodie Foster strikes a Dorothy Arzner* pose in 1991 (the only women directing in Hollywood in the 1920's, 30's and early 40's) By Moira Sullivan The Cannes Film Festival this year features a poster of a man walking up the steps of a building facing the Mediterranean. It is based on stills from Jean-Luc Godard’s 1963 classic   Contempt , starring Jack Palance, a Hollywood producer who hires Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of   The Odyssey . He also hires a screenwriter (Michel Piccoli) to rework the script, but Piccoli’s wife his (Brigitte Bardot) sporting a black wig evoking Godard’s wife Anna Karina starts picking fights with him. The poster although basking in yellow light lacks the 'personality' of previous festival icons such as Marilyn Monroe and Ingrid Bergman. The quotidian—daily schedules - are color schemed in red and gold unlike those of last year that each had a still from one of Bergman’s films. There are as usual only two women in the o...