• Cannes Announcements

    Cannes08-posterThe big news in the Cannes Lineup (see also our Cannes Preview) is that Steven Soderberg‘s Che biopic is getting the ‘work-in-progress’ screening where both Guerrilla and The Argentine are being screened as a 4 hour event. Also nice to see Woody Allen‘s latest in there as well as (and I can’t wait for the DVD release of this, Wong Kar Wai‘s Ashes of Time Redux)

    From Cannes announcement yesterday (via Screen.com):


    Competition

    Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Three Monkeys (Turkey-France-Italy)
    Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne – Le Silence De Lorna (France-Belgium)
    Arnaud Desplechin – A Christmas Story (France)
    Clint Eastwood – Changeling (US)
    Atom Egoyan – Adoration (Canada)
    Ari Folman – Waltz With Bashir (Israel)
    Philippe Garrel – La Frontiere De L’Aube (France)
    Matteo Garrone – Gomorra (Italy)
    Charlie Kaufman – Synecdoche, New York (US)
    Eric Khoo – My Magic (Singapore)
    Lucretia Martel – La Mujer Sin Cabeza (Argentina-Spain)
    Brillante Mendoza – Serbis (The Philippines)
    Kornel Mondruczo – Delta (Hungary-Germany)
    Walter Salles & Daniela Thomas – Linha De Passe (Brazil)
    Paolo Sorrentino – Il Divo (Italy)
    Pablo Trapero – Leonera (Argentina-South Korea)
    Wim Wenders – The Palermo Shooting (Germany)
    Jia Zhangke – 24 City (China)
    Steven Soderbergh – Che (US-Spain-France) — one four-hour competion title comprised of Guerrilla and The Argentine

    Out of competition

    Steven Spielberg – Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull (US)
    Mark Osborne and John Stevenson – Kung Fu Panda (US)
    Ji-Woon Kim – The Good, The Bad, The Weird (South Korean)
    Woody Allen – Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Spain-US)

    Special screenings
    Marina Zenovich – Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (US)
    Wong Kar-wai – Ashes Of Time Redux (Hong Kong-China-Taiwan)
    Daniel Leconte – C’est Dur D’etre Aime Par Des Cons (France)
    Marco Tullio Giordana – Sangue Pazzo (Italy-France)
    Terence Davies – Of Time And The City (UK)

    Midnight Screenings

    Emir Kusturica – Maradona (Spain)
    Jennifer Lynch – Surveillance (US)
    Hong-Jin Na – The Chaser (South Korea)

    ***UPDATED 04/24*** with Un Certain Regard Program, Short Films, etc.

    Screening of the President of the Jury
    The Third Wave, U.S., Alison Thompson

    Un Certain Regard
    A festa da menina morta, Brazil, Matheus Nachtergaele
    Afterschool, U.S., Antonio Campos
    De Ofrivilliga, Sweden, Ruben Ostlund
    Je veux voir, France, Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige
    Johnny Mad Dog, France, Jean-Stephane Sauvaire
    La vie moderne (profiles paysans), France, Raymond Depardon
    Los Bastardos, Mexico, Amat Escalante
    Milh handha al-bahr, (Salt of This Sea), Palestine, Annemarie Jacir
    O’ Horten, Norway-Germany, Bent Hamer
    Soi Cowboy, U.K., Thomas Clay
    Tin Che, (Parking), Taiwan, Chung Mong-Hong
    Tokyo!, France-Japan, Bong Joon-ho, Michel Gondry, Leos Carax
    Tokyo Sonata, Japan, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
    Tulpan, Germany, Sergey Dvortsevoy
    Tyson, U.S., James Toback
    Versailles, France, Pierre Schoeller
    Wendy and Lucy, U.S., Kelly Reichardt
    Wolke 9 (Cloud Nine), Germany, Andreas Dresen
    Yi ban haishui, yi ban huoyan, China, Fendou Liu

    Cinefondation

    Ba Yue Shi Wu, U.S., Jiang Xuan
    Blind Spot, France, Johanna Bessiere, Cecile Dubois Herry, Simon Rouby, Nicolas Chauvelot, Olivier Clert, Yvon Jardel
    Et dans mon coeur, j’emporterai…, Belgium, Yoon Sung-A
    Forbach, France, Claire Burger
    Gata, Russia, Diana Mkrtchyan
    Gestern in Eden, Germany, Jan Speckenbach
    Himnon (Anthem), Israel, Elad Keidan
    Illusion Dwellers, U.K., Rob Ellender
    Interior. Scara de bloc, Romania, Ciprian Alexandrescu
    Kestomerkitsijat, Finland, Juho Kuosmanen
    The Maid, U.S., Heidi Saman
    Naus, Czech Republic, Lukas Glaser
    O Som E O Resto, Brazil, Andre Lavaquial
    El Reloj, Argentina, Marco Berger
    Shtika (Silence), Israel, Hadar Morag
    Stop, South Korea, Park Jae-ok
    This Is a Story About Ted and Alice, U.S., Teressa Tunney

    Shorts in Competition

    411-Z, Hungary, Daniel Erdelyi
    Buen Viaje (Bon Voyage), Javier Palleiro, Guillermo Rocamora
    De Moins en Moins, France, Melanie Laurent
    El Deseo (The Desire), Mexico, Marie Benito
    Jerrycan, Australia, Julius Avery
    Love You More, U.K., Sam Taylor Wood
    Megatron, Romania, Marian Crisan
    My Rabbit Hoppy, Australia, Anthony Lucas
    Smafuglar, Iceland, Runar Runarsson

4 Comments


  1. swarez says:

    I just found out that the short film that I was in, Two Birds by Runar Runarsson, will be competing in the main short event.
    It’s not often that hundreds of people will see your naked ass raping a passed out underaged girl. But it’s always exciting when that happens.

  2. Kurt Halfyard says:

    So, is that a speaking part or a reaping part?

  3. swarez says:

    None speaking raping part, while another bloke masturbates besides me…also naked. Ah good times they were.

  4. rot says:

    Fernando Meirelles’ Blindness is opening the festival according to the Toronto Star. not sure if that means it is in contention.

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