Staff writers in Berlin 16 February 2006 04:00


With the dust settling on the Berlin line-up, all eyes are already on Cannes and films vying for selection there: Croisette regulars such as David Lynch (Inland Empire), Aki Karismauki (Lights In The Dusk), Ken Loach (The Wind That Shakes The Barley), Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Scream of the Ants) and Kim Ki-duk (Time) seem ripe to be joined by Francis Ford Coppola, going back to France and his indie days with Youth Without Youth.

The US and France inextricably linked already in this year’s selection, with The Da Vinci Code already announced for an opening slot and Coppola’s daughter Sofia readying her Marie Antoinette project with Kirsten Dunst. And then there’s Paris Je T’Aime, a 20-part Valentine to Paris by directors including Jean-Luc Godard, Walter Salles, Alexander Payne, Gerard Depardieu, The Coens, Olivier Assayas and Gus Van Sant, all Cannes habitués.

The cards are also stacking up for it to be a banner year for Spanish-language fare, with Pedro Almodovar putting the finishing touches on Volver; Guillermo Del Toro readying his Spain-shot Pan’s Labyrinth; and Pablo Trapero’s Born And Raised fresh from a new round of funding at Rotterdam.

To add some spice to the Cannes regulars, Jury president Wong Kar-wai could be treated with some exciting new talent in Hungary’s Gyorgy Palfi, with Taxidermia, the UK’s Andrea Arnold, with Red Road, and Australia’s Suburban Mayhem, from Paul Goldman.

Hot tickets at Cannes could be Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Babel; Darren Aronofsky’s return with The Fountain; Woody Allen making a visit to France with Scoop before he potentially films his next project there; Breaking And Entering, by Anthony Minghella, and Brian DePalma’s Black Dahlia.

And the big guns are lining up from Asia: China alone has five Cannes potentials in Luxury Car (Wang Chao); Still Life (Jia Zhangke); Summer Palace (Lou Ye); and Wu Qingyuan (Tian Zhuangzhuang). Hong Kong’s Johnnie To alone has Election 2. Australia’s Rolf de Heer is already making noise with an Aboriginal-language first in Ten Canoes, while Ray Lawrence follows up Lantana with Jindabyne, also ready in time.

Cannes Contenders

Films

Opener:

The Da Vinci Code (US) Ron Howard

Argentina

Born And Raised (Pablo Trapero)

Australia

Jindabyne (Ray Lawrence)

Suburban Mayhem (Paul Goldman)

Ten Canoes (Rolf de Heer)

Benelux

Northern Lights (David Lammers)

Waiter (Alex Van Warmerdam)

Canada

The Journals Of Knud Rasmussen (Zacharias Kunuk & Norman Kohn)

China

Luxury Car (Wang Chao)

Still Life (Jia Zhangke)

Summer Palace (Lou Ye)

Wu Qingyuan (Tian Zhuangzhuang)

Eastern Europe

Charlston & Vendetta (Uros Stojanovic) Serbia

Taxidermia (Gyorgy Palfi) Hungary

France

Azur & Asmar (Michel Ocelot)

C’est Gradiva Qui Vous Appelle (Alain Robbe-Grillet)

Days Of Glory (Rachid Bouchareb)

Exes (Martin Cognito)

Flanders (Bruno Dumont)

Free Land (Christophe Malavoy)

French California (Jacques Fieschi)

The Golden Door (Emanuele Crialese)

Lady Chatterley (Pascale Ferran)

The Man Of My Life (Zabou Breitman)

Murderers (Patrick Grandperret)

Paris Je T’Aime (Various)

The Very Big Apartment (Pascal Thomas)

Germany

I Am The Other Woman (Margarethe von Trotta)

The Heroine (Volker Schloendorff)

Madonnas (Maria Speth)

Hong Kong

Election 2 (Johnnie To)

Iran

Goodnight Life

Scream Of The Ants (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)

Italy

The Caiman (Nanni Moretti)

Flying Lessons (Francesca Archibugi)

The Missing Star (Gianni Amelio)

The Wedding Director (Marco Bellochio)

Japan

Hana (Hirokazu Kore-eda)

Korea

Time (Kim Ki-duk)

The host (Bong Joon-ho)

The Unforgiven (Yoon Jong-bin)

Scandinavia

Aki Kaurismaki

After The Wedding (Susanne Bier)

How To Get Rid Of The Others (Anders Ronnow Klarlund)

Princess (Anders Morgenthaler)

The Three Musketeers (Janis Cimermanis)

Spain

Captain Alatriste (Agustin Diaz-Yanes)

Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro)

Volver (Pedro Almodovar)

UK

Breaking And Entering (Anthony Minghella)

Red Road (Andrea Arnold)

Scoop (Woody Allen)

This Is England (Shane Meadows)

Venus (Roger Michell)

The Wind That Shakes The Barley (Ken Loach)

US

Babel (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)

The Black Dahlia (Brian DePalma)

Bobby (Emilio Estevez)

Clerks II (Kevin Smith)

Copying Beethoven (Agnieszka Holland)

Delirious (Tom DiCillo)

Fast Food Nation (Richard Linklater)

FUR (STEVEN SHAINBERG)

The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky)

Infamous (Doug McGrath)

Inland Empire (David Lynch)

Marie-Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)

The Namesake (Mira Nair)

Shortbus (John Cameron Mitchell)

Unknown (Simon Brand)

Youth Without Youth (Francis Ford Coppola)



http://www.screendaily.com/

Does anybody have any idea when the Cannes Festival will be?

That's great!

Sorry, I don't know when it will be..
Does anybody else know?

may..maybe between 20th and 25th may....

but this list is official????

Thanks Nicfan22, I'll keep an eye on that date. I don't know if this is official either but I thought the movie is not finished yet, is it?

I was about to ask the same question, nicfan.

I'm excited to see that Anthony Minghella's got a new film coming - this is the first I had heard of it. (Sometimes it's better that way, to be surprised by something that hasn't been over-hyped.) If you have the 2-disk set of Cold Mountain and haven't seen the "Words and Music of Cold Mountain" featurette, do. Mr. Minghella is incredibly intelligent, erudite - and charming.

Great news! thank you.

May 17-28th.

http://www.festival-cannes.fr/index.php?langue=6002

greetz xxx

C81, thx for the news. And thanks for dates, Flamenca.

gosh, another GREAT news! thanks C81!

Since the begining I thought Fur could go to Cannes! I hope it's true!
Can't wait for Nicole attending it! I miss her there!

Thanks for the great news C81. A few members suggested it might make Cannes even though it did not make Sundance after all. And they were right.

Thanks too for the full list of contenders for me to come back and digest later on.

This is not an official list, it is simply a list of films that MAY be shown at Cannes, just musings.

See? and I thought that they were still editing.
Even if it's not official that Fur will be in Cannes I'm still a little surprised because I thought it wasn't ready. Wow, this is a total shock for me. We'll just have to wait til they release it ad portas of award season.
phew...I need to digest this.

Thanks for all the info.

Luv,
Marie Xx

Forget my previous post, I've just read the sub-headline at Screendaily and it seems it is VYING to be selected. We will soon know if it gets selected, fingers crossed. It doesn't matter if it isn't completed just yet, many projects are put forward and even go on to still being edited one day before they are screened at Cannes. WKW's 2046 is an example, the screening of the movie had to be delayed at Cannes because WKW was still working on it .

Fingers crossed for Cannes I love seeing Nicole at Cannes. She always looks tres chic when she's there and the atmosphere is unlike other premieres.

OMG!!

Thanks, C81, Flamenca and Skanky!! That's great news!!! I'm just so happy!! I love when Nic attends awards!!!
Fingers crossed!!

Thanks, it would be wonderful having Nicole at Cannes again!
ciao

thanks, im pretty excited... i wish they were in april though...im going to france in april ... :( yeah well...just another missed opportunity to see nic :(

The 59th Festival de Cannes will be held from Wednesday May 17th to Sunday May 28th, 2006.


The Selection Committee of the Festival de Cannes is exclusively in charge of the following sections of the Official Selection: Competition (short and feature films), Out of Competition and Un Certain Regard. The selection Comitee decides which section a film can participate in.

A print, a videocassette or a DVD of the films must reach the Festival Selection Committee by March 20th, 2006.
The final print of each invited film must reach the sole receiving shipping agent accredited by the Festival de Cannes by May 15th, 2006.

About films will be selected, it’s too early to know it, The official press conference, which will take place towards mid-April.

Only that news is confirmed :

The Da Vinci Code, directed by Ron Howard will open the Festival de Cannes (Cannes Film Festival) on Wednesday May 17, 2006. The film will be presented Out of Competition.

Thanks for the details archer.

So we should not confuse being a contender and being selected to be shown. Fur is a contender to be selected? is that it...sort of a short list?

I think it will be selected. How can it not be!

I agree!!

Thanks, archer!!

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wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm soo Happy!!!!!!!!!!!..i'm crying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I absoloutely going to the CANNES FILM FESTIVAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!For 4 years i went to Cannes to see Nicole!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She wasn't there and i was so sad..and now..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hopr she wiil come and i wiil see her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow dats gr8 news!!!! I'm soooo excited now!!!
I really hope dat Nic will go!!!

~Viviana~

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Such wonderful news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't wait to see the pics for it if Nic goes!!!! :)

I'm hoping that they'll be picked.

thanks for the info, guys!!