62nd Cannes Film Festival Line-Up
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The 62nd Annual Cannes Film Festival will officially start on May 13th in France. The opening film will be the Disney Pixar film Up, which is directed by Monsters, Inc. director Pete Docter.
It will be a first in the history of Festival de Cannes that a 3D animated film will serve as the opening film.
Up, which is a non-competition film for the top prize Palme d'Or or the Golden Palm, will be released in the US on May 29th, 2 weeks after the opening of 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
Twenty (20) films will be in competition for the Palme d'Or prize and that includes the Filipino film Kinatay (The Execution of P), which is directed by Brillante Mendoza who was also in competition for the top prize last year via the film Serbis.
Kinatay stars Coco Martin, Mercedes Cabral, Maria Isabel Lopez and John Regala. Martin and Cabral were also part of Serbis. Mercedes Cabral, amazingly, is also part of the Korean movie Thirst, one of the 20 competing films.
Director Mendoza will compete against big time and Oscar-winning directors in the world such as Spain's Pedro Almodovar for Broken Embraces (starring Penelope Cruz), Britain's Andrea Arnold for Fish Tank, New Zealand's Jane Campion for Bright Star (starring Paul Schneider), USA's Ang Lee for Taking Woodstock, USA's Quentin Tarantino for Inglorious Basterds (starring Brad Pitt) and 2006 Cannes' Golden Palm winner from the UK Ken Loach for Looking For Eric.
Three more Pinoy films will be participating in the said festival.
Raya Martin's Independencia, starring Tetchie Agbayani, Sid Lucero and Alessandra De Rossi, has been chosen for exhibition under "Un Certain Regard" section. Agbayani's role was first offered to the Star for All Seasons Vilma Santos, but the latter begged off due to conflict of schedules because she was to shoot for her next movie with Star Cinema tentatively titled A Mother's Story, with John Lloyd Cruz and Luis Manzano.
The film will compete for the Prix Un Certain Regard award.
Manila, jointly directed by Adolf Alix Jr. and Raya Martin, will also be part under "Special Screenings", but not competing for any prize. The movie's cast includes Piolo Pascual, Rosanna Roces, Jay Manalo and Alessandra De Rossi.
Under 'Short Films Corner', Sabongero (Cockfighter) by Janice Y. Perez has also been shortlisted.
Heath Ledger's last film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus will also be screened in the festival, but it's also out of the competition. It also stars Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farell, who all replaced Ledger in the movie.
The closing film for the 62nd Cannes Film Festival will be France's Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky.
The awarding and closing ceremony is scheduled on the 24th of May.
Here's the complete line-up of films for the 62nd Cannes Film Festival:
Opening Film : Pete DOCTER - UP - Out of Comp., USA
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THE COMPÉTITION :
Pedro ALMODÓVAR - LOS ABRAZOS ROTOS (Broken Embraces), Spain
Andrea ARNOLD - FISH TANK, UK
Jacques AUDIARD - UN PROPHÈTE (A Prophet), France
Marco BELLOCCHIO - VINCERE (To Conquer), Italy
Jane CAMPION - BRIGHT STAR, New Zealand
Isabel COIXET - MAP OF THE SOUNDS OF TOKYO, Spain
Xavier GIANNOLI - A L’ORIGINE (In the Beginning), France
Michael HANEKE - DAS WEISSE BAND (The White Ribbon), Germany/Austria
Ang LEE - TAKING WOODSTOCK, USA
Ken LOACH - LOOKING FOR ERIC, UK
LOU Ye - CHUN FENG CHEN ZUI DE YE WAN (Spring Fever), China
Brillante MENDOZA - KINATAY, Philippines
Gaspar NOE - Soudain le Vide (ENTER THE VOID), France
PARK Chan-Wook - BAK-JWI - (Thirst), South Korea
Alain RESNAIS - LES HERBES FOLLES (Wild Grasses), France
Elia SULEIMAN - THE TIME THAT REMAINS, Palestine/Israel
Quentin TARANTINO - INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, USA
Johnnie TO - VENGEANCE, Hong Kong
TSAI Ming-liang - VISAGE (Face), Taiwan
Lars VON TRIER - ANTICHRIST, Denmark
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Closing Film : Jan KOUNEN - COCO CHANEL & IGOR STRAVINSKY - Out of Comp., France
UN CERTAIN REGARD
BONG Joon Ho - MOTHER, South Korea
Alain CAVALIER - IRENE, France
Lee DANIELS - PRECIOUS, USA
Denis DERCOURT - DEMAIN DES L'AUBE, France
Heitor DHALIA - À DERIVA (Adrift), Brazil
Bahman GHOBADI - KASI AZ GORBEHAYE IRANI KHABAR NADAREH (Nobody Knows About The Persian Cats), Iran
Ciro GUERRA - LOS VIAJES DEL VIENTO (Les Voyages Du Vent), Colombia
Mia HANSEN-LOVE - LE PÈRE DE MES ENFANTS, France
Hanno HÖFER, Razvan MARCULESCU, Cristian MUNGIU, Constantin POPESCU, Ioana URICARU:
AMINTIRI DIN EPOCA DE AUR (Tales from The Golden Age)
Nikolay KHOMERIKI - SKAZKA PRO TEMNOTU (Tale In The Darkness)
HIrokazu KORE-EDA - KUKI NINGYO (Air Doll)
Yorgos LANTHIMOS - KYNODONTAS (Dogtooth)
Pavel LOUNGUINE - TZAR (Le Tsar)
Raya MARTIN - INDEPENDENCIA - (Independence), Philippines
Corneliu PORUMBOIU - POLITIST, ADJECTIV (Policier, Adjectif)
Pen-Ek RATANARUANG - NANG MAI (Nymph)
João Pedro RODRIGUES - MORRER COMO UM HOMEM (Mourir Comme Un Homme)
Haim TABAKMAN - EYES WIDE OPEN
Warwick THORNTON - SAMSON AND DELILAH
Jean VAN DE VELDE - THE SILENT ARMY
OUT OF COMPETITION:
Alejandro AMENABAR - AGORA, Spain
Terry GILLIAM - THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS, USA
Robert GUÉDIGUIAN - L'ARMÉE DU CRIME (The Army of Crime), France
MIDNIGHT SREENINGS :
Stéphane AUBIER, Vincent PATAR - A TOWN CALLED PANIC, Belgium
Sam RAIMI - DRAG ME TO HELL, USA
Marina de VAN - NE TE RETOURNE PAS (Don't Look Back), France
SPECIAL SCREENINGS:
Anne AGHION - Mon voisin, mon tueur (MY NEIGHBOR, MY KILLER), France
Adolfo ALIX, JR., Raya MARTIN - MANILA, Philippines
Souleymane CISSE - MIN YE, Mali
Michel GONDRY- L'EPINE DANS LE COEUR (A thorn in the heart), France
Zhao LIANG - PETITION, China
Eduardo VALENTE - NO MEU LUGAR (The Eye of the Storm), Brazil
Keren YEDAYA - JAFFA, Israel
Tribute to Fanny Ardant
Fanny ARDANT - CENDRES ET SANG (Ashes and blood), France
Lee Chang-Dong presents
Ounie LECOMTE - UNE VIE TOUTE NEUVE (A brand new life), France/South Korea
THE SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION
Mark ALBISTON, Louis SUTHERLAND - THE SIX DOLLAR FIFTY MAN-15' New Zealand
Daniel BORGMAN - LARSOG PETER-15' Denmark
Alex BRENDEMÜHL - RUMBO A PEOR-12' Spain
Jochem DE VRIES - MISSEN -12' The Netherlands
Jean-Christophe LIE - L'HOMME A LA GORDINI-10' France
Goran ODVORCIC - CIAO MAMA-10' Croatia
Laila PAKALNINA - KLUSUMS-14' Latvia
João SALAVIZA - ARENA-15' Portugal
Emma SULLIVAN - AFTER TOMORROW-15’United Kingdom
It will be a first in the history of Festival de Cannes that a 3D animated film will serve as the opening film.
Up, which is a non-competition film for the top prize Palme d'Or or the Golden Palm, will be released in the US on May 29th, 2 weeks after the opening of 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
Twenty (20) films will be in competition for the Palme d'Or prize and that includes the Filipino film Kinatay (The Execution of P), which is directed by Brillante Mendoza who was also in competition for the top prize last year via the film Serbis.
Kinatay stars Coco Martin, Mercedes Cabral, Maria Isabel Lopez and John Regala. Martin and Cabral were also part of Serbis. Mercedes Cabral, amazingly, is also part of the Korean movie Thirst, one of the 20 competing films.
Director Mendoza will compete against big time and Oscar-winning directors in the world such as Spain's Pedro Almodovar for Broken Embraces (starring Penelope Cruz), Britain's Andrea Arnold for Fish Tank, New Zealand's Jane Campion for Bright Star (starring Paul Schneider), USA's Ang Lee for Taking Woodstock, USA's Quentin Tarantino for Inglorious Basterds (starring Brad Pitt) and 2006 Cannes' Golden Palm winner from the UK Ken Loach for Looking For Eric.
Three more Pinoy films will be participating in the said festival.
Raya Martin's Independencia, starring Tetchie Agbayani, Sid Lucero and Alessandra De Rossi, has been chosen for exhibition under "Un Certain Regard" section. Agbayani's role was first offered to the Star for All Seasons Vilma Santos, but the latter begged off due to conflict of schedules because she was to shoot for her next movie with Star Cinema tentatively titled A Mother's Story, with John Lloyd Cruz and Luis Manzano.
The film will compete for the Prix Un Certain Regard award.
Manila, jointly directed by Adolf Alix Jr. and Raya Martin, will also be part under "Special Screenings", but not competing for any prize. The movie's cast includes Piolo Pascual, Rosanna Roces, Jay Manalo and Alessandra De Rossi.
Under 'Short Films Corner', Sabongero (Cockfighter) by Janice Y. Perez has also been shortlisted.
Heath Ledger's last film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus will also be screened in the festival, but it's also out of the competition. It also stars Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farell, who all replaced Ledger in the movie.
The closing film for the 62nd Cannes Film Festival will be France's Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky.
The awarding and closing ceremony is scheduled on the 24th of May.
Here's the complete line-up of films for the 62nd Cannes Film Festival:
Opening Film : Pete DOCTER - UP - Out of Comp., USA
***
THE COMPÉTITION :
Pedro ALMODÓVAR - LOS ABRAZOS ROTOS (Broken Embraces), Spain
Andrea ARNOLD - FISH TANK, UK
Jacques AUDIARD - UN PROPHÈTE (A Prophet), France
Marco BELLOCCHIO - VINCERE (To Conquer), Italy
Jane CAMPION - BRIGHT STAR, New Zealand
Isabel COIXET - MAP OF THE SOUNDS OF TOKYO, Spain
Xavier GIANNOLI - A L’ORIGINE (In the Beginning), France
Michael HANEKE - DAS WEISSE BAND (The White Ribbon), Germany/Austria
Ang LEE - TAKING WOODSTOCK, USA
Ken LOACH - LOOKING FOR ERIC, UK
LOU Ye - CHUN FENG CHEN ZUI DE YE WAN (Spring Fever), China
Brillante MENDOZA - KINATAY, Philippines
Gaspar NOE - Soudain le Vide (ENTER THE VOID), France
PARK Chan-Wook - BAK-JWI - (Thirst), South Korea
Alain RESNAIS - LES HERBES FOLLES (Wild Grasses), France
Elia SULEIMAN - THE TIME THAT REMAINS, Palestine/Israel
Quentin TARANTINO - INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, USA
Johnnie TO - VENGEANCE, Hong Kong
TSAI Ming-liang - VISAGE (Face), Taiwan
Lars VON TRIER - ANTICHRIST, Denmark
***
Closing Film : Jan KOUNEN - COCO CHANEL & IGOR STRAVINSKY - Out of Comp., France
UN CERTAIN REGARD
BONG Joon Ho - MOTHER, South Korea
Alain CAVALIER - IRENE, France
Lee DANIELS - PRECIOUS, USA
Denis DERCOURT - DEMAIN DES L'AUBE, France
Heitor DHALIA - À DERIVA (Adrift), Brazil
Bahman GHOBADI - KASI AZ GORBEHAYE IRANI KHABAR NADAREH (Nobody Knows About The Persian Cats), Iran
Ciro GUERRA - LOS VIAJES DEL VIENTO (Les Voyages Du Vent), Colombia
Mia HANSEN-LOVE - LE PÈRE DE MES ENFANTS, France
Hanno HÖFER, Razvan MARCULESCU, Cristian MUNGIU, Constantin POPESCU, Ioana URICARU:
AMINTIRI DIN EPOCA DE AUR (Tales from The Golden Age)
Nikolay KHOMERIKI - SKAZKA PRO TEMNOTU (Tale In The Darkness)
HIrokazu KORE-EDA - KUKI NINGYO (Air Doll)
Yorgos LANTHIMOS - KYNODONTAS (Dogtooth)
Pavel LOUNGUINE - TZAR (Le Tsar)
Raya MARTIN - INDEPENDENCIA - (Independence), Philippines
Corneliu PORUMBOIU - POLITIST, ADJECTIV (Policier, Adjectif)
Pen-Ek RATANARUANG - NANG MAI (Nymph)
João Pedro RODRIGUES - MORRER COMO UM HOMEM (Mourir Comme Un Homme)
Haim TABAKMAN - EYES WIDE OPEN
Warwick THORNTON - SAMSON AND DELILAH
Jean VAN DE VELDE - THE SILENT ARMY
OUT OF COMPETITION:
Alejandro AMENABAR - AGORA, Spain
Terry GILLIAM - THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS, USA
Robert GUÉDIGUIAN - L'ARMÉE DU CRIME (The Army of Crime), France
MIDNIGHT SREENINGS :
Stéphane AUBIER, Vincent PATAR - A TOWN CALLED PANIC, Belgium
Sam RAIMI - DRAG ME TO HELL, USA
Marina de VAN - NE TE RETOURNE PAS (Don't Look Back), France
SPECIAL SCREENINGS:
Anne AGHION - Mon voisin, mon tueur (MY NEIGHBOR, MY KILLER), France
Adolfo ALIX, JR., Raya MARTIN - MANILA, Philippines
Souleymane CISSE - MIN YE, Mali
Michel GONDRY- L'EPINE DANS LE COEUR (A thorn in the heart), France
Zhao LIANG - PETITION, China
Eduardo VALENTE - NO MEU LUGAR (The Eye of the Storm), Brazil
Keren YEDAYA - JAFFA, Israel
Tribute to Fanny Ardant
Fanny ARDANT - CENDRES ET SANG (Ashes and blood), France
Lee Chang-Dong presents
Ounie LECOMTE - UNE VIE TOUTE NEUVE (A brand new life), France/South Korea
THE SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION
Mark ALBISTON, Louis SUTHERLAND - THE SIX DOLLAR FIFTY MAN-15' New Zealand
Daniel BORGMAN - LARSOG PETER-15' Denmark
Alex BRENDEMÜHL - RUMBO A PEOR-12' Spain
Jochem DE VRIES - MISSEN -12' The Netherlands
Jean-Christophe LIE - L'HOMME A LA GORDINI-10' France
Goran ODVORCIC - CIAO MAMA-10' Croatia
Laila PAKALNINA - KLUSUMS-14' Latvia
João SALAVIZA - ARENA-15' Portugal
Emma SULLIVAN - AFTER TOMORROW-15’United Kingdom
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