Cannes Festival 2007

[wkw]

The films in competition at the 2007 Cannes festival has been announced.
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Opening film:
Wong Kar Wai MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS 1h51
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Fatih Akin - AUF DER ANDEREN SEITE 2h02
Catherine Breillat - UNE VIEILLE MAÎTRESSE 1h50
Joel & Ethan Coen - NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN 2h02
David Fincher - ZODIAC 2h36
James Gray - WE OWN THE NIGHT 1h45
Christophe Honore - LES CHANSONS D’AMOUR 1h40
Naomi Kawase - MOGARI NO MORI (The Mourning Forest) 1h37
Kim Ki Duk - BREATH 1h20
Emir Kusturica - PROMISE ME THIS 2h10
Lee Chang-dong - SECRET SUNSHINE 2h30
Cristian Mungiu - 4 LUNI, 3 SAPTAMINI SI 2 ZILE (4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days) 1h53
Raphaël Nadjari - TEHILIM 1h45
Carlos Reyagada - STELLET LICHT 2h22
Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud - PERSEPOLIS 1st Film 1h30

Julian Schnabel - LE SCAPHANDRE ET LE PAPILLON 1h52
Ulrich Seidl - IMPORT EXPORT 2h16
Alexander Sokourov - ALEXANDRA 1h32
Quentin Tarantino - DEATH PROOF 1h50
Béla Tarr - THE MAN FROM LONDON 2h12
Gus Van Sant - PARANOID PARK 1h25
Andrey Zvyagintsev - IZGNANIE (The Banishment) 2h30
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Closing film:
Denys Arcand - L’ÂGE DES TÉNÈBRES (Out of Competition) 1h51

[Clark Nova]

andruini said:

i think it's dumb to have tarantino's film in and not rodriguez', or grindhouse as a whole.

meh, can't be helped. Tarantino pretty much has carte-blanche when it comes to Cannes by now.

[captainofbeef]

Such an awesome line-up, wish I could be there.

[PTAhole]

Holy shit! The Coen brothers have a new movie out?

[wkw]

According to this report, the version of QT's Death Proof that will be shown at Cannes will be significantly different from the theatrical version.

film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2061202,00.html

"In the latest twist in the Grindhouse saga, Quentin Tarantino will be competing for the Palme d'Or with Death Proof, his section of the double feature made in collaboration with Robert Rodriguez. Tarantino won the award back in 1994 for Pulp Fiction. Sources suggest that the Cannes version of Death Proof will be significantly different than the one already on show in the US."

[criterionmaster]

wkw said:

Quentin Tarantino - DEATH PROOF 1h50
Béla Tarr - THE MAN FROM LONDON 2h12

Yeah, look at that running time on Tarantino’s; it is like 20 minutes longer than the one I saw. Or was it really that long? And I wonder, what will they do with the trailers? Will they have them at the beginning? Not at all? What?

I would kill to see that Tarr film in the theater too, I didn't even have a clue it was done. Wow, if that doesn't come to a film festival around here, or something, I may die. It is going to take SO long before I can see it. UGH!

[criterionmaster]

Some Cannes Premieres May Cost More Than Movies Shown There
Source: IMDB

The Los Angeles Times observed today (Wednesday) that the costs of premiering a film in Cannes have skyrocketed as the dollar drops in value and the buzz at the festival increases in value. The newspaper said that while a Hollywood premiere may cost as much as $750,000, last year's premiere of The Da Vinci Code at Cannes is believed to have cost as much as $4 million. Hotel rooms at some of the swankest hotels are going for up to $3,000 a night, with many hotels demanding minimum stays of 12 days. The Times observed that when the producers of Mark Wahlberg's latest film We Own the Night balked at putting up his five-member entourage at the Hotel Du Cap, Wahlberg notified the company that he would not attend the festival.

End of Article.

[ie]

Guess who won?


No.


Wrong.


Are you even trying?






Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days, of course!

I have a friend from Romania, and he said that names went Family Name Given Name there... so it's confusing to me that both Yahoo and Wikipedia are spelling it, apparently, Given Name Family Name, but whatever. Too tired to really mind.

[criterionmaster]

Yeah, I haven't seen that film, but who would have guessed it could win, when it was up against so many great directors?

Here are some news articles about Cannes, and the thing you just posted as well:

Jury, Critics Agree on Cannes Winner
Source: IMDB

For a change, the jury at the Cannes Film Festival found itself in agreement with critics as it voted the prestigious Palme d'Or for best film Saturday to the Romanian entry 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. The film tells of a young woman's effort to get an abortion two years before the toppling of Romania's ruthless Communist regime in 1989. The film by director Cristian Mungiu received overwhelmingly favorable reviews when it opened at the beginning of the festival and was quickly bought by IFC for domestic release. Accepting the award from presenter Jane Fonda, Mungiu said that only six months ago he was struggling to find enough money to complete his film. "You don't necessarily need a big budget and big stars to tell a story that everyone will listen to," the 39-year-old director told the crowd. American artist-turned-filmmaker Julian Schnabel, an American working with French actors, won the best directing prize for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, a non-fiction account about a writer who was completely paralyzed by a stroke and could communicate only by blinking at letters. Another American, Gus Van Sant, received the special 60th Anniversary Prize for his film Paranoid Park about a teenage skateboarder who accidentally kills a guard. The Grand Prix award -- essentially the second-place trophy for best film -- went to the Japanese film The Mourning Forest, from director Naomi Kawase. Korea's Jeon Do-yeon won the best actress prize for her performance in Secret Sunshine, while the best actor prize went to Russia's Konstantin Lavronenko for The Banishment.

End of Article.

Romanian Receives Posthumous Award at Cannes[/b]
Source: IMDB

In the separate Un Certain Regard competition, which honors young filmmakers, the winner was also Romanian -- Cristian Nemescu, whose film, California Dreamin' is set during the Kosovo war of 1999. Nemescu died in an automobile accident shortly before completing the film at the age of 27. Earlier in the week the jury had decided not to judge the film since Nemescu did not finish it, but after screening it, the jurors changed their minds. Jury president Pascale Ferran called it "far and above, the most lively and liberated film proposal we've seen in our ten days here."

End of Article.

[ie]

They only disagreed because here's this talking movie up against one of the best car chasing movies, maybe. I mean, I haven't seen too many, but I like it more than Vanishing Point. Either way, Dodge Challengers... nice.