The Jury for the 65th Cannes Film Festival has just been announced: Hiam ABBASS (actress, director)Andrea ARNOLD (director and screenwriter)Emmanuelle DEVOS (French actress)Diane KRUGER (German actress)Jean Paul GAULTIER (designer)Ewan MC GREGOR (actor)Alexander PAYNE (director, screenwriter and producer)Raoul PECK (director, screenwriter and producer)The president of the jury will be actor, writer and producer Nanni Moretti.With such a selection of films and this jury, this […]

  Welcome to Viddy Well’s first Classic of the Week! Every week, we will talk about a classic film we have seen and share our love for old cinema. Of all the films I’ve watched growing up, The Adventures of Robin Hood is the one I’ve seen the most. I know by heart every single […]

It has been announced that Lindsay Lohan will play Elizabeth Taylor on television. Lifetime is preparing a biopic of the actress, centered on her romance with actor Richard Burton. This is one of the most ridiculous choices of casting ever! Lindsay Lohan, who was once good at acting, has now become more famous for her […]

Cette semaine, l’Hebdo Séries parle Boardwalk Empire, Soprano et Rolling Stones avec Terence Winter !  

En cette période électorale, je ne résiste pas à l’envie de  partager ce moment fort de la campagne législative en Corée qui s’est achevée il y a une semaine. Oui, il s’agit bien d’une manifestation politique dans le cadre d’élections de représentants du peuple et non un after de soirée après ingurgitation de substances psychotropes. […]

Looks like Guy Pearce’s career is back on tracks! The actor will be joining the cast of Iron Man 3. According to Variety, Pearce will play Aldrich Killian, a geneticist. Ben Kingsley is also apparently in talks to be the movie’s villain. I’m not much of a comic book fan (Batman is the only one […]

Today’s musical post is from Vincente Minnelli’s masterpiece, Meet Me in St. Louis (1944). Judy Garland stars and gets to sing one of the greatest songs in her career. It’s also a very cheerful song, so I thought it would be a nice way to start the day! Enjoy and Viddy Well! E.C

  Last February, the Academy Awards vastly celebrated the critically acclaimed French film «The Artist» directed by Michel Hazanavicius, which had already made itself noticed at the previous Cannes Film Festival. Almost simultaneously, at the Berlin Film Festival this time, another partly silent film received a much quieter yet welcome greeting, with what felt like […]

Can an election be won on social media? That question is being increasingly asked in France, before the first round of the presidential election. The French are very much online now: 75% of people surf the web while 25 million have Facebook accounts, out of a total population of 66 million, of whom 43 million […]

Voici de bonnes nouvelles ce matin ! La sélection officielle du Festival de Cannes vient d’être dévoilée ! Je suis bien contente de voir autant de noms attendus (Cronenberg, Audiard, Hillcoat, Dominik, Haneke…) et aussi déçue de voir que les films de Paul Thomas Anderson et James Gray n’ont pas été terminés à temps… Enfin, […]