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BRITISH FILMS FAIL TO MAKE CANNES FESTIVAL LINEUP
By Bonnie Malkin and agencies
Daily Telegraph/UK
23/04/2008
Veteran directors Clint Eastwood, Steven Soderbergh and Wim Wenders
will face up-and-coming filmmakers in the battle for the coveted
Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes film festival.
In full: Cannes Film Festival The 61st festival lineup includes
films from Belgium, Turkey, France, Argentina, Brazil and Italy -
but not one from Britain.
Organisers announced the 19-strong list in Paris Organisers announced
the 19-strong list in Paris, saying many of the festival's favourite
directors are currently working on new movies. A 20th film from France
is to be announced in the next few days.
Eastwood's The Changeling is a thriller set in the 1920s starring
Angelina Jolie. Soderbergh's Che tells the story of Ernesto "Che"
Guevara.
Wenders' Palermo Shooting, starring Milla Jovovich and Dennis Hopper,
follows a German photographer who travels to Palermo to escape
his past.
Among other directors vying for the Palme d'Or are Canada's
Armenian-born Atom Egoyan, Brazil's Walter Salles, China's Jia Zhangke,
Israeli Ari Folman, Pablo Trapero of Argentina and Nuri Bilge Ceylan
of Turkey.
advertisementThe jury will be headed by American actor turned
director Sean Penn and includes American actress Natalie Portman,
Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron, French director Rachid Bouchareb
and Italian actor and director Sergio Castellitto.
Penn said: "The Cannes Film Festival has long been the epicentre in
the discovery of new waves of filmmakers.
"I very much look forward to participating."
Last year's Palme d'Or went to the harrowing Romanian drama 4 Months,
3 Weeks and 2 Days - a wrenching story about a girl's illegal,
backstreet abortion in communist-era Bucharest.
Screening out of competition will be the latest works from top-name
directors Woody Allen and Steven Spielberg.
Spielberg will be bringing the year's most-awaited movie, Indiana
Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - the fourth installment
in the series starring Harrison Ford as the archaeologist adventurer.
Woody Allen, a longstanding favourite at Cannes, brings Vicky Cristina
Barcelona starring Penelope Cruz, Scarlett Johansson and Javier Bardem.
The festival takes place from May 14 to May 25.
List of contenders and directors
"Uc Maymun" (The Three Monkeys) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey)
"Le Silence De Lorna" (The Silence of Lorna) by Jean-Pierre and Luc
Dardenne (Belgium)
"Un Conte de Noel" (A Christmas Tale) by Arnaud Desplechin (France)
"Changeling" by Clint Eastwood (United States) - "Adoration" by Atom
Egoyan (Canada)
"Waltz With Bashir" by Ari Folman (Israel)
"La Frontiere De l'Aube" (The Frontier Of Dawn) by Philippe Garrel
(France)
"Gomorra" by Matteo Garrone (Italy) - "24 City" by Jia Zhangke (China)
"Synecdoche, New York" by Charlie Kaufman (United States)
"My Magic" by Eric Khoo (Singapore)
"La Mujer Sin Cabeza" (Woman Without A Head) by Lucrecia Martel
(Argentina)
"Serbis" by Brillante Mendoza (Philippines)
"Delta" by Kornel Mundruczo (Hungary)
"Linha de Passe" (Line of Passage) by Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas
(Brazil)
"Che" by Steven Soderbergh (United States)
"Il Divo" by Paolo Sorrentino (Italy)
"Leonera" by Pablo Trapero (Argentina)
"The Palermo Shooting" by Wim Wenders (Germany)
Out of competition
"Vicky Cristina Barcelona" by Woody Allen (United States)
"The Good, The Bad, The Weird" by Kim Jee-Woon (South Korea)
"Kung Fu Panda" by Mark Osborne, John Stevenson (United States)
"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" by Steven
Spielberg (United States)
By Bonnie Malkin and agencies
Daily Telegraph/UK
23/04/2008
Veteran directors Clint Eastwood, Steven Soderbergh and Wim Wenders
will face up-and-coming filmmakers in the battle for the coveted
Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes film festival.
In full: Cannes Film Festival The 61st festival lineup includes
films from Belgium, Turkey, France, Argentina, Brazil and Italy -
but not one from Britain.
Organisers announced the 19-strong list in Paris Organisers announced
the 19-strong list in Paris, saying many of the festival's favourite
directors are currently working on new movies. A 20th film from France
is to be announced in the next few days.
Eastwood's The Changeling is a thriller set in the 1920s starring
Angelina Jolie. Soderbergh's Che tells the story of Ernesto "Che"
Guevara.
Wenders' Palermo Shooting, starring Milla Jovovich and Dennis Hopper,
follows a German photographer who travels to Palermo to escape
his past.
Among other directors vying for the Palme d'Or are Canada's
Armenian-born Atom Egoyan, Brazil's Walter Salles, China's Jia Zhangke,
Israeli Ari Folman, Pablo Trapero of Argentina and Nuri Bilge Ceylan
of Turkey.
advertisementThe jury will be headed by American actor turned
director Sean Penn and includes American actress Natalie Portman,
Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron, French director Rachid Bouchareb
and Italian actor and director Sergio Castellitto.
Penn said: "The Cannes Film Festival has long been the epicentre in
the discovery of new waves of filmmakers.
"I very much look forward to participating."
Last year's Palme d'Or went to the harrowing Romanian drama 4 Months,
3 Weeks and 2 Days - a wrenching story about a girl's illegal,
backstreet abortion in communist-era Bucharest.
Screening out of competition will be the latest works from top-name
directors Woody Allen and Steven Spielberg.
Spielberg will be bringing the year's most-awaited movie, Indiana
Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - the fourth installment
in the series starring Harrison Ford as the archaeologist adventurer.
Woody Allen, a longstanding favourite at Cannes, brings Vicky Cristina
Barcelona starring Penelope Cruz, Scarlett Johansson and Javier Bardem.
The festival takes place from May 14 to May 25.
List of contenders and directors
"Uc Maymun" (The Three Monkeys) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey)
"Le Silence De Lorna" (The Silence of Lorna) by Jean-Pierre and Luc
Dardenne (Belgium)
"Un Conte de Noel" (A Christmas Tale) by Arnaud Desplechin (France)
"Changeling" by Clint Eastwood (United States) - "Adoration" by Atom
Egoyan (Canada)
"Waltz With Bashir" by Ari Folman (Israel)
"La Frontiere De l'Aube" (The Frontier Of Dawn) by Philippe Garrel
(France)
"Gomorra" by Matteo Garrone (Italy) - "24 City" by Jia Zhangke (China)
"Synecdoche, New York" by Charlie Kaufman (United States)
"My Magic" by Eric Khoo (Singapore)
"La Mujer Sin Cabeza" (Woman Without A Head) by Lucrecia Martel
(Argentina)
"Serbis" by Brillante Mendoza (Philippines)
"Delta" by Kornel Mundruczo (Hungary)
"Linha de Passe" (Line of Passage) by Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas
(Brazil)
"Che" by Steven Soderbergh (United States)
"Il Divo" by Paolo Sorrentino (Italy)
"Leonera" by Pablo Trapero (Argentina)
"The Palermo Shooting" by Wim Wenders (Germany)
Out of competition
"Vicky Cristina Barcelona" by Woody Allen (United States)
"The Good, The Bad, The Weird" by Kim Jee-Woon (South Korea)
"Kung Fu Panda" by Mark Osborne, John Stevenson (United States)
"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" by Steven
Spielberg (United States)