Over the past three years (
2008 coverage and
2009 coverage and
2010 coverage) DT has given you an insider's look at the films and politics of the Cannes Film festival from the perspective of our Penn in Cannes program correspondents.
This year DT correspondent
Jonah Stern (C'13) recently returned from the 2011 Cannes film festival with coverage of this year's winner and loser films plus more! A local Philadelphian, Jonah aspires to one day enter the film industry and, hopefully, become a very successful filmmaker.
After the jump check out Jonah's coverage on:
- difficulty getting into movie screenings
- the good films
- some (highly marketed) big films to avoid
- hobnobbing with celebrities and what Faye Dunaway said to Jonah(!)
- advice from 4 Penn Hollywood alumni about the business
As part of our ongoing Penn weddings series, there was a notable wedding announced last weekend in the New York Times.
Recently, I covered Penn alum author Laura Dave (C'99) and her books The Divorce Party
, London is the Best City in America
and now her new book The First Husband
(read an excerpt here).