Catherine Shoard 

Cannes 2012: live blog – day nine

We're delivering the headlines direct (via London) from the Croisette on the day The Paperboy premieres
  
  

9.24am: Good morning and welcome to day nine of the Cannes liveblog. Without further ado, let's see what the Cannesettes are tweeting as they come out of this morning's big screening, Lee Daniels's The Paperboy …

9.33am: So: pretty exciting stuff. AND The Paperboy has a voiceover by Macy Gray. A little more Twitter reaction.

9.40am: Not sufficiently sated by the Kidman/Efron wee news? Here's some Cannes content that went live overnight that you might have missed:

• A red carpet gallery of last night's premieres

• A lovely Cannes diary by Katrine Boorman about going to the festival, again, with her father, John, for the premiere of documentary Me and Me Dad

• The latest clapometer

9.46am: Our own Peter Bradshaw seems the keenest on The Paperboy so far

9.53am: So what else have we got coming up today? Well, Peter will deliver his full verdict on The Paperboy, plus Xan Brooks gives us the skinny on Post Tenebras Lux, Henry Barnes reports on the Kayne West experimental short film Cruel Summer, Andrew Pulver rounds up The Central Park Five, and Peter then weighs in on The Dream and the Silence and In the Fog. Plus Charlotte Higgins will be reporting on that Nicole Kidman press conference, we'll have video reviews of all yesterday's big films, a couple of galleries, Xan's daily diary and much more. (Well, a bit more, perhaps, let's see how it goes.)

10.08am: As Cannes progresses, so the films get gradually weirder. Here's Xan Brooks on Post Tenebras Lux, the latest from the idiosyncratic Mexican behind Japon and Battle in Heaven and the surprisingly brilliant Silent Light. This one – not so much … 

10.11am: What with the excitement of hearing about the Paperboy's special delivery, I clean forgot that we've also got today Peter Bradshaw's verdict on Sightseers, the new one from Ben Wheatley, who made Down Terrace and Kill List and who we interviewed last week (I'm sure for him, too, these things are of equal importance).

10.30am: Those who love Cannes traditionally also have a soft spot for Boyzone, so there will much excitement when I reveal: this afternoon we will also have a video interview with Ronan Keating, who is in town promoting a new romcom called Goddess.

10.53am: Breaking news from the Paperboy press conference:

11.17am: Four stars from Peter for both The Paperboy and The Dream and the Silence. Reviews live shortly.

11.31am: Some mazin quotes in tomorrow's Pete Doherty interview to promote Confession of a Child of the Century.

11.37am: Visual confirmation of what @GuyLodge suggested earlier.

Gray is on the left, alongside Kidman, McConaughey, Cusack and Efron.

11.53am: A bumper update. Here's Peter's full The Paperboy review.

Plus newbie Andrew Pulver joins Xan and Peter to review Holy Motors and On the Road.

11.55am: Some exciting casting news from the Paperboy press conference.

1.03pm: Here's that Sightseers review we spoke of earlier.

1.48pm: Here's Peter giving four stars to The Dream and the Silence, Xan Brooks's tether-end diary and Henry Barnes's verdict on Kanye West's experimental short film Cruel Summer.

2.28pm: Steven Spielberg introduced the restored Jaws last night in Cannes. Here's what he said. You might like to grow a beard (unless you're there already), become a man (ditto) and try reading it aloud.


Well, let me start by saying thank you for accepting "Jaws" in the Cannes Classic programme which is a great honour. It occurs to me that I really have not introduced Jaws in maybe 35 years so it's been a long time since my last introduction to a picture that was actually being shot 38 years ago. A lot of water under the bridge, a lot of blood in the water, but a lot of careers changed for the better, a lot of people perhaps being affected for the worst about the water. I want to be able to clarify, now that I have you as my captured audience, that I have never had any animosity toward sharks. I love sharks, they've been very, very good to me and at the same time, Jaws was a very atavistic, primal story that came from the genius of Peter Benchley and the great book he wrote. And I just think that this is a movie that doesn't seem to have aged as, as perhaps as much as some of my other directed pictures. And for many reasons, I'm very, very proud of this film.

The experience one was a terrible one as you've all heard but those stories are not all apocryphal but by the same token, in a sense, I feel like my struggle with the ocean to bring Jaws to you was a bit like a divorce from the sea and at the same time I feel that the alimony settlement was all in my favour and all in your favor. So for all of the growing pains and labour pains of bringing Jaws to movie theaters, now it re-arrives in Cannes for the 100th Anniversary of Universal Studios. And also I think that the digital print that has been struck from the negative which can be certainly enjoyed, you know, on Blu-ray, looks as good if not better than the original print I remember seeing right out of the lab in 1974, '75. So thank you again for coming and enjoy it and I hope the picture, after all these years holds up for you. Thank you.

3.24pm: Is this the pinnacle of our coverage so far? I reckon so. Ronan Keating on playing a marine biologist in Goddess.

4.57pm: Here's a little gallery of the day so far. In other exciting news, I can confirm that Xan Brooks has interviewed Kylie.

5.21pm: Nice Paperboy pun here.

6.07pm: Okeydoke - I'm off for the evening now – see you in the morning for more Cannes japes, plus all the early word on David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis.

 
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