So the 62nd Cannes Film Festival is just around the corner and the films have been announced. Since this blogger will be in Cannes (yes, I'm working as an intern at the festival), and will be able to go to almost every screening (bar the big 'uns, unless I score a ticket), I felt like I should share with you loyal readers some info about the films.
This year, not a lot of Hollywood films are in the festival. Quentin Tarantino's long-anticipated Ingorious Basterds will compete for the prestigous Palme d'Or against Ang Lee's Talking Woodstock, a comic spin on the concert starring Liev Schreiber, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Emile Hirsch (I love him). The other films competing are by Pedro Almodovar, Lars van Trier, Jane Campion, Michael Haneke, Johnnie To and Park Chan-wook. Should be a good smackdown.
Another film being shown at midnight is Sam Raimi's horror opus, Drag Me to Hell (I'll have a shot at seeing this). The film I'm most looking forward to hopefully seeing is My Neighbor, My Killer, a docu on post-Rwandan genocide reconciliation by Anne Aghions. If you know me, you'll understand how much this will mean to me.
Anyway, this is the first year that no newcomers, no new directors have a film entered. Everyone is seasoned and tested. Should make for some interesting smackdowns.
To read more: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118002762.html?categoryid=13&cs=1&query=john+hopewell
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