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The Cannes Film Festival got off to a solid start Wednesday night with the premiere of Pixar’s Up. Tilda Swinton was one of the biggest names on the red carpet, and I think we can officially say that she’s now wearing make-up for her most of red carpet appearances. Hooray! Her outfit even looked amazing, some sort of layered maroon dress/cardigan thing that looked lovely. But her hair! Oh, God, that hair. Isn’t that the haircut Marines are given? The shaved bottom half and kept longish at the top? Perhaps I think that’s a Marine cut because I see it so often on NCIS.
From what I can tell, Bollywood goddess Aishwarya Rai just came to party, considering she’s not in any of the films premiering at Cannes and she’s not a judge. She’s still one of the best dressed women thus far.
The evening gowns glittered, the red carpet was unfurled _ and the 3-D glasses were at hand as the 62nd Cannes Film Festival opened Wednesday with the soaring animated adventure “Up.”
“Up’”s delighted filmmakers from Pixar Animation joined the crowd of stars and cineastes on the red carpet in this French Riviera resort and said being invited to Cannes was a dream come true.
“We’re just a bunch of animation geeks from northern California on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival,” said a beaming John Lasseter, Pixar’s creative maestro.
Edward Asner, who voices “Up’”s main character, did not come to Cannes. But his counterpart in the French-language version, crooner Charles Aznavour, was there.
Lacking star power from the “Up” voice cast, the biggest name on the red carpet was Academy Award-winning actress Tilda Swinton.
Inside, Roxy Music singer Bryan Ferry serenaded the crowd with a version of Aznavour’s “She,” before Aznavour declared the festival officially open.
Organizers were hoping “Up” would provide a buoyant start before the festival plunges into 12 days of movies that take in passion, murder, Korean vampires and a band of Nazi-hunters led by Brad Pitt.
Members of the jury, led by French actress Isabelle Huppert will be wrangling over which auteurs _ from a slate that includes Pedro Almodovar, Ang Lee, Quentin Tarantino and Ken Loach _ should receive Cannes’ coveted prizes. But on Wednesday, Huppert was in a gentle mood.
“I don’t think we are here to judge,” she said. “I think we are here to love films _ and to see what we love more than others.”
Huppert is one of only a handful of women ever to head the jury at the world’s most prestigious film festival. She said the numbers didn’t bother her: her predecessors _ who include Sophia Loren and Liv Ullmann _ were “women who count for a lot.”
Fellow juror Hanif Kureishi, the British screenwriter of “My Beautiful Laundrette” and “The Mother,” was more concerned with another omission.
“I’m not aware we’ve ever had a black or Asian president of the jury,” he said. “It will be interesting to see when that will occur.”
Scores of celeb-watchers waited patiently outside Cannes’ waterside film complex Wednesday, hoping for a glimpse of the stars _ any stars. Few knew who was due to arrive, but most didn’t seem to mind.
“I want to see Angelina Jolie on the red carpet,” said Corinne Besnier, who traveled hundreds of miles (kilometers) from Reims in northern France. “And Johnny Hallyday” _ the French rock star who plays a killer in Hong Kong’s director Johnnie To’s “Vengeance.”
Hundreds of brightly colored helium balloons festooned the building in honor of “Up,” the story of an old man and a young boy who float off to South America in an airborne house.
There’s weightier fare among the 20 films in competition, including Tarantino’s World War II epic “Inglourious Basterds,” with Pitt as leader of a group of Jewish soldiers hunting down Nazis.
The lineup looks strong, but festival organizers and industry attendees are apprehensive about how the global recession will affect the event. Festival director Thierry Fremaux said he expects attendance to be up slightly from last year, but Vanity Fair magazine has canceled its annual Cannes party, and some soirees are rumored to have swapped champagne for sparkling wine.
[From Huffington Post]
As HuffPo mentioned, French actress Isabelle Huppert is the jury’s president this year, taking over from last year’s president Sean Penn. In a weird twist, Robin Wright Penn is on the jury this year too. Last year, Sean said publicly that his goal was to reward and recognize political films, but Huppert has already stated her difference in opinion. She told the media that her number one rule for recognizing a film was “the importance of the humanist ambitions and esthetic intentions of movies.” So, it looks like the Nazi bloodfest of Inglourious Basterds isn’t going to make the cut!
Shown are Tilda Swinton, Elizabeth Banks, Aishwarya Rai, Robin Wright Penn, Asia Argento, and Shu Qi of “UP.” Credit: WENN.com
Written by Kaiser
Posted in Aishwarya Rai, Asia Argento, Elizabeth Banks, Robin Wright Penn, Shu Qi, Tilda Swinton
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this woman is a great actress, I’ll give her that. but she makes some horrific fashion choices, over and over and over.
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Tilda, I mean. No offense to the others.
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I love Tilda. I love her “don’t give a crap what you think” attitude. She is who she is, and she is comfortable with that. Maybe I am biased though because my mom does her hair in a similar style, although my mom’s hair has a little more curl to it than Tilda’s.
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Since their story photos are next to eachother, I’d have to say Tilda’s hair looks incredibly chic in comparison with Kate Gosselin’s.
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Her hair suits her. I think that’s what separates fashion from trends– fashion is about your own style, working with a total look, while trends are about, well, trends. I would never call Tilda trendy by any stretch of the imagination, but she is certainly fashionable. Only she could pull off this hair and make it work.
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Yes Kaiser, that is early NCIS Gibbs hair!
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I adore Tilda Swinton. I also love her hair. She’s a real individual and an amazing actress – she doesn’t need to play this trendy, orange skin game.
I must say Ms. Rai is divine!
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I love Tilda. I love that she does what she wants and doesn’t care what anybody thinks.
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Roma – Right? I saw the pics and all I could think about was Mark Harmon.
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nah, tilda always does an alien-lesbian look, the hair suits her, she’s cool.
who’s the lady with the cherry-blossom-tattoo waves dress? that dress is awesome.
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Yes, Tilda is amazing. I think she’s six feet tall, so her gender-bending always makes a splash. Also, Isabelle Huppert is a phenomenal actress, one of the best I’ve ever seen. Rent anything of hers (most of her movies are in French, with subtitles). Now, Huppert should definitely have won a Best Actress Oscar by now. Most American actresses could not even compare to her.
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When I think Tilda Swinton, I also think of Vanessa Redgrave, both are incredible actors and have interesting individual styles.
Ms. Swinton has a totally different look compared to the “Orlando” days, with red hair.
Come to think of it, I think of David Bowie, whenever I see Ms. Swinton. I don’t mean that in a negative way! They are extremely stiking in appearance!
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I think she looks fab, the hair included. It’s Tilda, whaddya expect?
Love, Love, love Robin’s dress.
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He look-a like-a man…..
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I’ve only seen Tilda in “Orlando” and “The Deep End”. Aside from those two movies, I have no experience whatsoever with the woman.
I will say, however, that seeing her in “Orlando” when I was 7 was AMAZING. Anyone who has not seen that movie MUST DO SO. It’s just beautiful. I love “Orlando” to the point that I want to bestow the name “Orlando” as a middle name on one of my [WAY future] daughters. Yes, I know it’s a boy’s name. Yes, I know she’s going to be made fun of as being named for the East Coast’s Disneyland. I am an artsy drama chick to the point that I don’t care. It’s a beautiful movie.
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I love her hair, I love that she doesn’t always wear make-up. She doesn’t need it! And saying so on a blog is just perpetuating the sexist opinion that women are supposed to wear make-up.
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I like it quite much. Not all girls need to have long hair. Not all girls need to look like barbies.
I love Tilda´s style.
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The Indian chic is soooo beautiful! She makes everyone else look pretty dull & boring.
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The return of the Thin White Duke.
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I think she looks pretty.
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I love the fact that she does not look like everyone else does in Hollywood, she has her own style, and it´s fantastic!
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Wow, she could be David Bowie’s daughter.
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in his hair not feel me bad i am showing interest about these like hair thanks for care to share them with web and reach this post from me
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