Trophies Times

The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) is pleased to announce that we will be highlighting the work of  legendary actor Koji YAKUSHO and emergent animation director Masaaki YUASA  at the 31st TIFF, running  October 25 - November 3, 2018 . This year’s TIFF  Japan Now  section will shine a spotlight on the internationally acclaimed actor  Koji   YAKUSHO , hosting a retrospective of his works as leading actor, from classic films to his latest masterpiece, demonstrating his indelible contributions to the Japanese film industry, as well as to foreign co-productions.  Over a stellar 40-year career, Yakusho has won best actor awards at a variety of international film festivals, such as with  Cure  (1997) at TIFF,  Warm Water Under the Red Bridge  (2001) at the Chicago International Film Festival,  Walking My Life  (2007) at Film Madrid,  The Woodsman and the Rain  (2011) at the Dubai International Film Festival and  The World of Kanako  (2014) at the Sitges Film Festiva

Radio Festival, the official webradio of the Festival de Cannes, launched to mark the event’s 70 th  anniversary, is returning in 2018! From May 8 th  to May 19 th , experience the event in different way: live on Radio Festival via the Festival de Cannes official website and mobile app! A professional, freewheeling and wide-ranging radio station is back… Radio Festival 2018©FDC A space for analysis, a laboratory for ideas,bringing together the widest audience… Radio Festival has a daily schedule of programs offering debates, encounters and interviews, news and backstage insights from the Official Selection and reportages from the Croisette… Radio Festival will also have a musical playlist linked to the cinema, with an emphasis on film scores from previous selections, but also soundtracks from lesser known, rare and independent films. Radio Festival will broadcast 24 hours a day, in French (with simultaneous translation of interviews in English). And new for 2018

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote © Alan Amato Things are looking up for Terry Gilliam's film,  The Man Who Killed Don Quixote . On Wednesday 9 May 2018, the French court dismissed the request by Paulo Branco and his production company Alfama Films Production to ban the film from being screened during the Closing night of the Festival de Cannes, on  Saturday 19 May. As such, Paulo Branco and his production company Alfama Films Production have, naturally, seen their claim for compensation from the Festival de Cannes thrown out, having openly denigrated the event in the press and on social media, asserting that its organisers had no right to select  The Man Who Killed Don Quixote  to be presented in Cannes. The campaign of attempted intimidation orchestrated by Paulo Branco and his lawyer son have therefore proved fruitless. The urgent applications judge has, through this decision, confirmed that contrary to what the Brancos have continued to claim (among other slanderous