And the winner is...
Back in Blighty for nay six hours and Total Film is missing Cannes already. And it’s not just because the weather here is awful, the pissing rain a stark contrast to the blazing sun of the Croisette. No, Cannes is being missed because if we were there now, your bloggers would be able to bask in the glory of knowing stuff about films. Why? Because we actually managed to pretty accurately predict some of the Competition winners... Read More

In a busy day of interviews, Total Film also caught up with Martin Scorsese and Harmony Korine. Scorsese is in Cannes to launch the World Cinema Foundation, dedicated to restoring and preserving movies from around the world. Features, shorts, industrials… nothing will escape his beady eye, as Marty continues to track down old prints and raise the finance needed to lick them into pristine shape. Read More

About ten minutes after meeting, Edgar started texting... and getting texts back. Pegg? His mum? Nah, the bloke who just wandered into the bar. Somebody called Quentin Tarantino. Who sidled up to our table, proceeding to spend the next ten minutes with the three of us. Read More

The Death Proof party put all others to shame, and not just because it had girls in tiny bikinis walking around just for the hell of it. No, it also had vodka shots in glasses made of ice (see photo) and a star-packed VIP room, stalked by the likes of Kurt Russell, Goldie Hawn, Rose McGowan, Vanessa Ferlito, Harvey Weinstein, QT, RR, Roth and Wright. Read More

The suitcase was empty. Yes, it was time to meet the world’s most famous/beautiful actress in clothes hooked out from behind the bed, scrunched and pungent.

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Sunday night, and the hottest ticket in town is the St Trinians party on Long Beach. Thanks to our wily charms and the lovely Lorna at DDA, we scabbed three - hitting the disco after one of the annual Cannes highlights, the Optimum Releasing dinner. Held at the Petit Lardon, the food was delicious and the Rose flowing. We truly would have stayed for ages, had it not been for the most hyped bash of the lot. A film about school girls? At Cannes? It couldn’t - and didn’t - disappoint.Read More

Time for a parting bear hug and walloping backslaps. This is Guillermo’s way. But he now has a new method of showing his love: nipple pinches. A big man with the strength of a grizzly, he took a firm hold of Total Film’s left nipple and operated a twist-while-you-squeeze manoeuvre, bellowing laughter at his captive’s high-pitched screams. There is now 8 days for the bruise to go down before Total Film has some serious explaining to do to the wife. Read More

It’s Saturday morning, Day 4. 10.30am. Total Film has just stumbled out of the world premiere of Michael Moore’s latest documentary Sicko.Read More

Yes, folks, this was the other side of Cannes: the shameless promotional stunt. Said stunt involved The World’s Funniest Man Jerry Seinfeld ™, kitted out in an oversized bumblebee costume, sliding down a set of wires from the top of the seven-storey Carlton Hotel to a platform on the beach...
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Cannes reaches 60 this year and as one would expect, the town has prepared for one of its biggest celebrations yet. Over the next 12 days, expect glitz, glamour and sparkly grog, as Cannes revels in the two weeks a year when everyone is looking at them... Read More

There are some legendary teams in the movies: Laurel and Hardy, Pearl and Dean and Turner and Hooch to name just three. But now there’s another power pair ready to straddle Hollywood like hairy colossuses. Colussi? Colussssss… Our head hurts.Read More

Now we know a new Evil Dead flick has been festering in the movie-mill since year dot, but when we heard Sam Raimi recently speak words to the tune of: I’m trying to get the script written, and, I have been talking about making another one. Well, we immediately started getting palpitations and sweaty palms.
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Chris Nolan’s vision of Batman really didn’t put a foot wrong. The director embellished an arrogant, brooding side of Bruce Wayne, tried to give a believable (well kinda) nuance to its elements, and went right back to the origins of the caped crusader, before he went through that odd Joel Schumacher camp period.Read More

Chris Nolan’s The Dark Knight seems to be gaining momentum with the breaking news that Eric Roberts has just signed up to play a criminal kingpin in the sequel, slash prequel, slash re-generation of the iconic Batman franchise.Read More

Internet fandom has been led a merry dance these last few months as the producers of Indiana Jones IV stayed coy and giggly like schoolgirls when confronted with the rumour that Transformers human and current box office champ (see this week’s box office figures) Shia LaBeouf had nabbed a role alongside Harrison Ford and Cate Blanchett.Read More