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Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullman’s iconic film “Faithless” is now being remade into a limited series, continuing the trend of TV reimaginings of past Bergman features like “Scenes From a Marriage.”

“Faithless” is directed by “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” and “Let The Right One In” helmer Tomas Alfredson. Sara Johnsen wrote the script adapted from Bergman’s original screenplay for the 2000 feature. The official first look trailer is debuted by IndieWire below.

The “Faithless” series will premiere at TIFF 2024. Fremantle is handling the worldwide sales. The show is a six-part TV series.

The official synopsis reads: “In the present day, renowned director David Howard, 73, is reunited with his former great love, actress Marianne Vogler, 75 (Lena Endre). Their encounter forces them to confront the painful repercussions of their past relationship, not only for themselves but also for their families. 40 years prior, a young David (Gustav Lindh) and Marianne (Frida Gustavsson...

The cover of Time magazine once proclaimed Liv Ullmann “Hollywood’s new Nordic star,” a designation that never sat well with the Norwegian actress. She was a committed performer, starring in some of Ingmar Bergman’s greatest films of the Sixties and Seventies. She was an accomplished director, with a résumé that includes the Bergman-scripted 2000 gem Faithless. She became a vocal humanitarian, traveling to hardscrabble parts of the world as a Unicef ambassador. But a star? “I never became a star,” Ullmann tells Rolling Stone in a recent interview to...

Liv Ullmann is opening up about her career regrets.

The “Persona” actress revealed that she second-guessed turning down Ingmar Bergman’s 1982 family saga “Fanny and Alexander” and that the auteur “never forgave” her for rejecting the script he wrote for her. Ullmann and Bergman collaborated on “Persona,” “Scenes From a Marriage,” and “Cries and Whispers,” among many other films, and also shared a daughter, Linn Ullmann. He died in 2007.

Ewa Fröling was instead cast in the “Fanny and Alexander” role Bergman wrote specifically for Ullmann.

“I told him I had already accepted another offer. He never forgave me,” Ullmann told Variety while promoting the documentary “Liv Ullmann – A Road Less Travelled.”

Ullmann was Oscar-nominated in 1977 for Bergman’s “Face to Face” and received an Honorary Academy Award in 2022.

She continued, “He kept writing me letters, addressed to ‘Dear Liv Ullmann,’ he was very dramatic. We didn’t talk for a year.

In Cannes, nobody talks to Liv Ullmann at parties.

“We went to this event and nobody noticed us. When I am around many people, they don’t always include me in the group. With Dheeraj, we both felt a little humiliated. But then we decided we will just tell great stories about it: ‘Catherine Deneuve was there too and she danced!,’” she laughs.

The legendary actor – “I am no legend,” she insists – has presented documentary “Liv Ullmann – A Road Less Travelled” at the French fest, directed by Dheeraj Akolkar, further cementing her status as an artist who never conformed. Even in the U.S., where she was expected to look a certain way. In the film, she states: “I didn’t wear makeup. I am Norwegian.”

“Yes, and look at me now,” howls Ullmann.

“I have my own makeup artist here! It will make me look better in photos, but that’s not real life.

The Norwegian author’s powerful new novel, Unquiet, grew out of a series of conversations she recorded with the film director not long before his death

When Linn Ullmann’s father was well into his 80s, he began to refer to the life that he was now experiencing as “the epilogue”. Lying in bed in the mornings, he would tot up his ailments, allowing himself one per decade: if there were fewer than eight, he would get up; if there were more, he would stay put. But these strategies denoted realism rather than appeasement, and his determination to continue work remained largely unshaken.

Ullmann’s father was the great Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman, and the work that he fixed on in his last years was a collaboration with his daughter, a book that would capture something of his life and thoughts as he approached the end. Recalling the beginnings...

Terrence Malick won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2011 with “The Tree of Life,” a drama that’s widely considered one of the best Cannes winners in history. However, it turns out Malick’s magnum opus was not the original frontrunner among the competition jury members. Speaking to the French publication Liberation (via The Film Stage), Olivier Assayas confirms it was Lars von Trier’s “Melancholia” that most won over the jury’s heart. Assayas served on the jury alongside Robert De Niro, Jude Law, Uma Thurman, actress Martina Gusmán, producer Nansun Shi, writer Linn Ullmann, and filmmakers Mahamat-Saleh Haroun and Johnnie To. De Niro was the jury’s president, and Assayas said the actor was “rather unfamiliar with international cinema.”

According to the “Personal Shopper” and “Clouds of Sils Maria” director, only Jude Law and himself believed from the start that “The Tree of Life” was worthy of the Palme d’Or.

While they likely aren’t even recorded, one can only dream of the delight it would bring to listen to the jury deliberations when it comes to the major film festivals around the world. Sometimes, details on why one film came out victorious over the others are spilled in a post-awards press conference, but often more times than not, the jury stays buttoned up and if we learn anything, it’s years after the fact. Tied with this year’s canceled edition of Cannes, the French outlet Liberation asked a selection of jury members of years past to dish on their process and one fascinating bit of history surfaced.

Olivier Assayas, who was on the competition jury in 2011 with Jude Law, Uma Thurman, Martina Gusmán, Nansun Shi, Linn Ullmann, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Johnnie To, and jury president Robert De Niro, revealed that The Tree of Life was very close to not taking the Palme d’Or.

We already got details on The Criterion Collection’s major release this July–a seven-disc Bruce Lee box set–but that’s not all of the cinematic goodness they will be serving up this summer.

They’ve now unveiled the rest of their July releases, some of which are Blu-ray upgrades, including the Abbas Kiarostami masterpiece Taste of Cherry and their first Netflix release, Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story.

Also in the lineup is the Preston Sturges classic screwball comedy The Lady Eve, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda as well as Byron Haskin’s Technicolor adaptation of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds. Check out full details on all the releases below.

Taste of Cherry

The first Iranian film to win the Palme d’Or, this austere, emotionally complex drama by the great Abbas Kiarostami follows the middle-aged Mr. Badii (Homayoun Ershadi) as he drives around...

July 14 marks the 100th birthday of writer-director Ingmar Bergman, whom Variety declared on Nov. 24, 1954, to be “Sweden’s top director.” Within three years, Bergman went beyond that: He was recognized as one of the top filmmakers in the entire world, thanks to the 1957 duo of “The Seventh Seal” and “Wild Strawberries.” A year later, Carl Dymling, president of Sweden’s leading production unit Svensk Filmindustri, told Variety that “Seventh Seal” marked a new era in moviemaking: “Bergman uses the film much as an author does his book. As a rule, one can’t afford to be too explicit about one’s own feelings in making a picture. But Bergman does it.” The director made global stars of Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow and inspired young filmmakers around the world for decades with his tales of existential crisis, the tenderness and brutality between individuals, and the pleasures and insanity of sex.

Ingrid Bergman ca. early 1940s. Ingrid Bergman movies on TCM: From the artificial 'Gaslight' to the magisterial 'Autumn Sonata' Two days ago, Turner Classic Movies' “Summer Under the Stars” series highlighted the film career of Greta Garbo. Today, Aug. 28, '15, TCM is focusing on another Swedish actress, three-time Academy Award winner Ingrid Bergman, who would have turned 100 years old tomorrow. TCM has likely aired most of Bergman's Hollywood films, and at least some of her early Swedish work. As a result, today's only premiere is Fielder Cook's little-seen and little-remembered From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1973), about two bored kids (Sally Prager, Johnny Doran) who run away from home and end up at New York City's Metropolitan Museum. Obviously, this is no A Night at the Museum – and that's a major plus. Bergman plays an elderly art lover who takes an interest in them; her...

The Tree of Life, Drive, and the other winners of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival have been announced. The 64th Annual Cannes Film Festival (le Festival de Cannes), ”founded in 1946, is one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious film festivals. The private festival is held annually (usually in May) at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, in the resort town of Cannes, in the south of France…at the Festival de Cannes in France, the jury presided by Robert De Niro presented their awards in a ceremony at the Palais. Robert De Niro received a standing ovation from the attendees.” The jury for the 2011 Cannes Film Festival consisted of aforementioned “president Robert De Niro (USA), Martina Gusman (Argentina), Nansun Shi (China), Uma Thurman (USA), Linn Ullmann (Norway), Olivier Assayas (France), Jude Law (UK), Mahamat Saleh Haround (Chad) and Johnnie To (China/Hong-Kong).” The full listing of the winners...

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The Jury of the 64th Cannes Film Festival, presided over by Robert De Niro, and further comprised of Martina Gusman, Nansun Shi, Uma Thurman, Linn Ullmann, Olivier Assayas, Jude Law, Mahamat Saleh Haroun and Johnnie To, has awarded the Palme d'Or to Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life.

The Grand Prix has been split this year, going to both Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Once Upon a Time in Anatolia and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's The Kid with a Bike.

Nicolas Winding Refn wins Best Director for Drive.

Joseph Cedar's won the Best Screenplay award for Footnote.

Best Actor goes to Jean Dujardin for his performance in Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist.

Kirsten Dunst's won Best Actress for her performance in Lars von Trier's Melancholia. She thanked the Festival for allowing the film to carry on competing even though its director has been declared "persona non grata.

The 2011 Cannes Film Festival awards winners were announced on Sunday evening in France. As we've been following the fest closely this year, I was curious to see who would win, and it indeed was Terrence Malick's year, as his abstract new film The Tree of Life took home the coveted Palme d'Or. Additionally, Kirsten Dunst from Melancholia, directed by since banned filmmaker Lars von Trier, won Best Acting. I've seen the film and she deserves it, so congrats. The jury included: Robert De Niro, Olivier Assayas, Martina Gusman, Jude Law, Uma Thurman, Johnnie To and Linn Ullmann. Read on for a full winners list! Here's the complete list of 2011 Cannes Film Festival winners. Head to the official Cannes website for more. Palme d'Or (Golden Palm): The Tree of Life directed by Terrence Malick Grand Prix (Runners Up): Once Upon A Time In Anatolia directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan...

The nine-member jury, headed by Robert De Niro, gave the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize, Palm D’Or to Terence Malick’s The Tree of Life here this evening. The American movie, with Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain, is a mix of family life, father-son relationship and the creation of the universe.De Niro and his jury -- Jude Law, Uma Thurman, Martina Gusman, Nansun Shi, Linn Ullmann, Olivier Assayas, Mahamat Saleh Haroun and Johnnie To -- were all on the stage – during the coveted announcements.The Grand Prix was shared by two-time Palme d'Or winners, the Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, ...

Well here we are, already at the end of Cannes, and Terrence Malick's The Tree Of Life has been bestowed with the festival's top honor. And one wouldn't have thought it possible at a fest like Cannes, but Nicolas Winding Refn has gone and won himself best director for his forthcoming thriller Drive. The Grand Prix (Aka second place) was split down its creamy golden center with Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Once Upon A Time In Anatolia and The Dardenne Bros.' latest The Kid With A Bike tying. This year's jury was a mixed bunch, if leaning on the Hollywood side with Robert Deniro leading, Uma Thurman, Jude Law, plus Ingmar's daughter, Linn Ullmann,  Hong Kong master, Johnnie To, Oliver Assayas and Mahamat Saleh Haroun. Meanwhile,...

After much controversy at Cannes, we can now report some good news in the form of the winners! Robert De Niro headed up the jury alongside Uma Thurman, Jude Law, Olivier Assayas, Johnnie To, Martina Gusman, Nansun Shi, Linn Ullmann and Mahamat Saleh Haroun.

The highest prize, the Palme d’Or, went to Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, a controversial pick due to mixed reviews, though some found the film to be Malick’s strongest work to date.

Kirsten Dunst won Best Actress for her work in Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia. Thankfully, Dunst wasn’t hurt in the making of the controversy noted above. Hopefully this will lead us to talk more about the film itself, once its been made more available.

Jean Dujardin took Best Actor for his role as a silent film star in The Artist.

Nicolas Winding Refn took Best Director for Drive. The film got a great response,...

Brad Pitt, The Tree of Life Who'll take home the 2011 Palme d'Or? I wonder if Little Fockers star and Official Competition jury president Robert De Niro, and fellow jury members Martina Gusman, Olivier Assayas, Johnnie To, Jude Law, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Uma Thurman, Linn Ullmann, and Nansun Shi have any idea themselves. [My Cannes 2011 awards predictions.] Strong Palme d'Or possibilities include Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life, Aki Kaurismäki's Le Havre, Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive, Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In, Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist, and Radu Mihaileanu's The Source. That's six out of twenty films. And I could have easily listed [...]...

Jamie Cullum sang to Robert De Niro at the Cannes Film Festival last night (11.05.11).

The jazz musician played a medley of Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York" and Jay-z and Alicia Keys' duet "Empire State of Mind" for the screen legend in front of a star-studded audience at the opening ceremony of the event at the Palais des Festival.

Jamie was specially chosen to perform a tribute by the "Goodfellas" star, who is acting as the chairman of the festival's jury this year.

Speaking afterwards, the 31-year-old star said, "De Niro is a film legend who defines what cinema is all about. It's amazing to have the opportunity to honor him."

He added, "It was supposed to be fun and not too serious."

Among the stars in attendance were Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, and Woody Allen.

Woody's movie "Midnight in Paris" was the first film screened at the 64th Festival de Cannes,...

All the latest news, reviews, comment and buzz from the Croisette, as it happens

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It's 10.00am: on 11 May 2011 which means that the 64th Cannes film festival has just kicked off. Right this minute, the world's film press are huddled in the Palais du cinema as the opening credits roll on the first press screening of the opening night film, Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris. And in about 90 minutes, we'll know the verdict: is it a new Manhattan or another Curse of the Jade Scorpion? Will this year's fest have been launched with a bang or a whimper?

We'll be bringing you all the news, reviews and reaction from the Croisette, as it happens, right through the festival. My colleague Ian and I will be drawing coverage together in London; we'll be getting regular updates from the team on the ground: Peter Bradshaw, Xan Brooks, Andrew Pulver, Charlotte Higgins, Jason Solomons,...

Jude Law and Robert De Niro sandwiched Uma Thurman during a photo call this morning in France. The trio make up a portion of the jury at this year's Cannes Film Festival, along with other cinema people like Linn Ullmann, Nansun Shi, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Johnnie To, Martina Gusman, and Carlos director Olivier Assayas. Uma, in Dolce & Gabbana, had a white dress faceoff with fellow early riser Rachel McAdams, who was also out today to promote her movie Midnight in Paris. Jude touched down near the Mediterranean just yesterday to get settled before his judging duties commenced. Robert is the head of their group, a task he should be comfortable with after years of helming the Tribeca Film Festival, which just wrapped up recently in NYC. We're in Cannes reporting from some of 2011's biggest premieres, so make sure to stay tuned for the latest red carpet news from the likes of Angelina,...

This year's president of the Festival de Cannes Robert De Niro will preside over jury members including fellow actors Jude Law, Uma Thurman and Martina Gusman, directors Olivier Assayas, Johnnie To and Mahamat Saleh Haroun, Chinese producer Nansun Shi and Norwegian critic and writer Linn Ullmann. The nine jury members will hand out the main prizes including the Palme d'Or amongst others for writing, directing and performances. They will follow the path of some of the greatest names in the history of cinema. Many accused Isabelle Huppert of playing favourites when Haneke finally won for his long overdue Palme. De Niro has worked with Brad Pitt and Sean Penn --- will the brotherhood remain intact with a vote going towards Malick?  Unlike any other awards, the Palme d'Or is the most elusive and coveted of them all. The first prize handed out was the Grand Prix in 1949 at the third...

With the Cannes Film Festival just a matter of weeks away, and the film’s announced, it’s now time for the jury to be filled out with a really interesting mixture of names.

The closest Criterion Collection connection is in the form of Olivier Assayas (Summer Hours, and the impending release of Carlos), who has joined the Robert De Niro-led jury for this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Joining him will be Jude Law, Uma Thurman, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Nansun Shi, Martina Gusman and Johnnie To.

However, most interesting, the last addition to the festival’s jury is Linn Ullmann. Who’s Linn Ullmann? Well, she is a Norwegian film critic who is the daughter of none other than Liv Ullmann and one Ingmar Bergman. Talk about a family pedigree.

Personally, while I don’t normally get all that excited about a festival’s jury, this is different. The...

Updated through 4/20.

Gilles Jacob and Thierry Frémaux announced that, out of 1715 submissions, 49 features from 33 countries have been selected in total for this year's Cannes Film Festival — four of them made by women, a record. 19 titles are lined up for the Competition so far, leaving room for surprise announcements from here on to the Opening Ceremony on May 11.

Competition

Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Inhabit. As noted yesterday, here's what Variety's Justin Chang had heard as of this past weekend: "In late March, it seemed that Almodóvar, a Cannes veteran who won prizes for All About My Mother and Volver, might skip the event altogether this year. Since 2004's Bad Education, the helmer has presented every one of his films in competition at the May fest, usually following a spring local release. The Sept 2 Spanish release date for The Skin That I Inhabit (which Sony Classics will release Stateside in...

London, April 21: Actors Jude Law and Uma Thurman have been included as jury members at the Cannes Film Festival.

Other members of the Robert De Niro’s jury, announced on Tuesday, include Chinese filmmaker Nansun Shi, Argentine actress Martina Gusman and Norwegian author and journalist Linn Ullmann, reports the BBC.

The jury is completed by film directors Johnny To from.

Robert De Niro

The 64th festival de Cannes announced its Jury on Wednesday. No Indian follows in the footsteps of actress Sharmila Tagore and director Shekhar Kapoor who served on the Cannes Jury in 2009 and 2010 respectively.

The Jury of the Competiton presided over by Robert De Niro will comprise Martina Gusman (actress and producer, Argentina), Nansun Shi (producer, Hong Kong/China), Uma Thurman (actress, scriptwriter, producer, USA), Linn Ullmann (writer,literary critic, Norway), Olivier Assayas (director, France), Jude Law (actor, producer, UK), Mahamat Saleh Haroun (director, Chad) and Johnnie To (director, producer, Hong Kong/China).

The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury presided by Michel Gondry will comprise Julie Gaynet (Actress and Producer, France), Jessica Hausner (Director and Producer, Austria), Corneliu PorumBoiu (Director, Romania and João Pedro Rodrigues (Director, Portugal).

Brief introduction of the Main Jury as stated on Cannes official website:

Martina Gusman created Matanza Cine, a production company with...

Uma Thurman and Jude Law will be part of the jury at this year's Cannes Film Festival. The stars - who worked together in 1997 science-fiction movie 'Gattaca' - will sit on the 64th panel which will be presided over by 'Taxi Driver' legend Robert De Niro. Hong Kong director Johnny To, Argentine actress Martina Gusman and Norwegian writer Linn Ullmann will also appear on the jury when the festival takes place from May 11-22 in the South of France. Uma, 40, is best known for roles made famous by director Quentin Tarantino, starring in 'Pulp Fiction'...

As the time ticks on towards this year’s fest, the official Cannes Film Festival website has just sent me a Newsletter informing me of the Avengers style band of filmy people who will make up this year’s Grand Jury- lead in Captain America style (albeit a grumpy and grizzly version now) by Robert DeNiro. Among the list of eight are stellar actors Uma Thurman and Jude Law (stellar provided we forget the other Avengers movie, and the remake of Sleuth), writer/director Oliver Assayas (Carlos) and director Johnnie To (Election). The full list is as follows: Martina Gusman (actress and producer, Argentina) Nansun Shi (producer, Hong Kong/China) Uma Thurman (actress, scriptwriter, producer, USA) Linn Ullmann (writer,literary critic, Norway Olivier Assayas (director, France) Jude Law (actor, producer, UK) Mahamat Saleh Haroun (director, Chad) Johnnie To (director, producer, Hong Kong/China) What the names mean to the likely winners isn’t clear yet, but...

With the line-up now all but finalised (albeit with some persistent rumours of more films yet to be announced), and time running out before the Opening Credits roll on this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the official festival website has now announced the Jury that will preside over things on the Croisette. The prestigious panel for this year is as follows…

Martina Gusman (actress and producer, Argentina) Nansun Shi (producer, Hong Kong/China) Uma Thurman (actress, scriptwriter, producer, USA) Linn Ullmann (writer,literary critic, Norway) Olivier Assayas (director, France) Jude Law (actor, producer, UK) Mahamat Saleh Haroun (director, Chad) Johnnie To (director, producer, Hong Kong/China)

The jury of the Festival de Cannes will preside over the main competition’s 19 included films, before naming the winners of the usual seven awards- presented during the Closing Ceremony – including the holiest of holies, the Palme d’Or.

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The Cannes Film Festival announced on Tuesday, April 19 the judges that would make up the competition jury panel this year. Representing U.K. and U.S. respectively are actors Jude Law and Uma Thurman. These two are joined by six others from China, Argentina, Norway and other countries.

French director Olivier Assayas, Chinese producer Nansun Shi, critic-writer Linn Ullmann from Norway, Hong Kong director Johnnie To, Argentinean actress-producer Martina Gusman and director Mahamat Saleh Haroun from Chad would work under Robert De Niro who has been selected as the jury president.

The jury will award seven prizes during May 11 to 22. The in-competition films, which were announced last week, included Paolo Sorrentino's "This Must Be the Place", Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life", and Lynne Ramsay's "We Need to Talk About Kevin".

For the full list of participating films at this year's festival, head to official site.

The 64th Cannes Film Festival, to run from May 11 to 22, will have British actor Jude Law and American actress Uma Thurman on its prestigious international jury. Both have won Cannes’ top prize, Palm d’Or.The world’s largest movie producer, India, remains unrepresented on the jury as it does in the festival’s official lineup. The nine-member jury, headed by yet another American actor, Robert De Niro, will have the following members: Gautaman BhaskaranRobert De Niro (actor/director/producer, Us) [jury president] Martina Gusman (actress/producer, Argentina) Nansun Shi (producer, China) Uma Thurman (actress, writer, producer, Us) Linn Ullmann ...

The 64th Cannes Film Festival, to run from May 11 to 22, will have British actor Jude Law and American actress Uma Thurman on its prestigious international jury. Both have won Cannes’ top prize, Palm d’Or.The world’s largest movie producer, India, remains unrepresented on the jury as it does in the festival’s official lineup. The nine-member jury, headed by yet another American actor, Robert De Niro, will have the following members: Gautaman BhaskaranRobert De Niro (actor/director/producer, Us) [jury president] Martina Gusman (actress/producer, Argentina) Nansun Shi (producer, China) Uma Thurman (actress, writer, producer, Us) Linn Ullmann ...

Just which Hollywood heavyweights have to decide what film will take home the prestigious Palme d'Or at the 64th Annual Festival de Cannes in May? Jude Law and Uma Thurman. The pair have been added to the jury at Cannes, along with actress-producer Martina Gusman, producer Nansun Shi, critic-writer Linn Ullmann, and directors Olivier Assayas, Johnnie To and Mahamat Saleh Haroun. Robert De Niro will act as jury president. [Deadline]...

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Anticipated art films like Terrence Malick's 'The Tree of Life,' starring Brad Pitt, Lars Von Trier's 'Melancholia' and Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's latest, 'The Skin I Live In' will all debut at this year's Cannes Film Fest; now we know who'll be deciding which of these films deserve those all-important prizes.

Members of the jury have just been announced, including Jude Law and Uma Thurman, who'll serve with previously announced jury president Robert De Niro.

The rest of the international members of the Cannes jury:

Actress-producer Martina Gusman (Argentina), known for her films 'Carancho' and 'The Lion's Den;' critic-writer Linn Ullmann (Norway), daughter of director Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann who appeared in several of her father's films as a child; Olivier Assayas (France) of the mini-series 'Carlos' and 'Paris, je t'aime;' director Johnnie To...

Uma Thurman is the second American on the feature film jury of the Cannes Film Festival, joining jury chairman Robert De Niro, the festival announced Tuesday. The other members, all announced Tuesday, include British actor Jude Law, Argentinian actress/producer Martina Gusman ("Carancho") and French director Olivier Assayas ("Carlos"). Other jurors: producer Nansun Shi ("Late Autumn") from China, director Mahamat Saleh Haroun ("A Screaming Man") from Chad and director-producer Johnny To ("Election") from Hong Kong. Norwegian critic-writer Linn Ullmann, the daughter of Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullman, completes the panel. The jury's selections, including the...

Uma Thurman, Jude Law, Olivier Assayas and Johnny To are among those joining Robert DeNiro on the Competition Jury of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, it was announced today. The complete list is below. Martina Gusman (actress and producer, Argentina) Nansun Shi (producer, China) Uma Thurman (actress, producer, USA) Linn Ullmann (critic and author, Norway) Olivier Assayas (director, France) Jude Law (actor, UK) Mahamat Saleh Haroun (director, Chad) Johnny To ...

Faro Island (Sweden), July 16 – Here in Faro Island, jostling alongside summer tourists are fans of the great director Ingmar Bergman from across the world on a pilgrimage of sorts. They go around visiting various sites where Bergman lived and shot many of his films.

But not many know that all this has been made possible by a rich Norwegian archaeologist and inventor, Hans Gude Gudesen, who is a big Bergman fan. He walks amid them but refuses to be recognised, thanked or interviewed.

The story is best heard from Bergman’s daughter, Linn Ullmann,.