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CANNES 2011

Alex is Heading Back to the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Once Again!

by Alex Billington
May 9, 2011

Round Three! I'm currently at the airport waiting to board my flights to Nice, France where I'll then catch a bus down to the very south of France to attend my third Cannes Film Festival in a row. It's a particularly exciting year thanks to The Tree of Life and Melancholia, but after a mediocre reaction to the films from last year, the line-up for 2011 looks like it might be a truly amazing year. Only time will tell, but as always, I wanted to let you guys know that for the next two weeks I'll be covering the fest and running this website from France. The fest runs from May 11th to 22nd and I'll be there the entire time. We'll see you in France!

For informational purposes, Ethan Anderton (as well as Cate and Jeremy) will be around to keep the site updated, plus Alex will continue to write posts throughout the fest as well. We'll continue to bring you the exact same news and trailers and updates that you're used to, in addition to films reviews and on-the-ground coverage from Cannes (hopefully blog updates, videos and lots of reviews!). If you haven't seen the line-up yet, you can catch it here, it looks like there's a lot that might be great, but as always with every festival, you never know until you're actually watching the films themselves.

While I couldn't convince Peter Sciretta from SlashFilm to join me on this adventure once again, which is a shame, I will be staying with my Cannes cohort Eric Lavallee from IONCinema.com (who always has some of the best Cannes coverage you'll find anywhere) and our friend/producer Yama Rahimi. I couldn't ask for better friends to be staying with for Cannes, as its advocates like this (and friends who can speak fluent French) that really make a difference and make this summer festival spectacular. I'm leaving today, and will return home on Sunday, May 22nd. Let me know what you guys are excited for at this year's fest!

Filed under Cannes 11, Feat, General

From around the web:

Ron

Lucky bastard! So effing jealous! LOL! How do you prepare yourself for something like this? Do you watch all you can when you can? Or do you actually plan out which movies to actually go for?
Xerxexx

"Did you just refer to yourself in the fourth person?" Have a good time Alex, don't forget about us while you are there! Else we will seek vengeance.
- http://www.firstshowing.net Alex Billington
  
  Don't worry I won't. And yes I did, you mean third person? Yea it worked for that sentence, or so I thought. Who knows...
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JEOOYMKTUKVIFHUAYNQ7YOTYLQ Rey

wow, sooooooo lucky, im soo jealous right now, haha
Moviekid

Will you be catching Pirates 4 by any chance?
http://twitter.com/marcdunn Marcus Dunn

Let me know what Sleeping Beauty is like!!
- http://www.firstshowing.net Alex Billington
  
  Oh I will, definitely planning on seeing that!
RhythmDave

you have such an awesome job
rocKKicker

no Alex, you wont see me on the ground in France, because i dont have an awesome job that allows me to go to france to see movies. but thanks for reminding me of that.
- Xerxexx