2007 Cannes Film Festival

[M Two One]

Does anyone else follow what goes on at this festival? It is widely considered as the World's most prestigious film festival. You can read more about it here. A little information is that Cannes is located in France's Provence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur region. The festival started in 1939 and brings millions of people to the city including many famous actors, actresses, directors, etc from all over the world. This year the festival runs from May 16 - 27. Funny note - If you want to make a joke about how stuck up French people are feel free to do so against the arrogant people of Cannes. Anyway, here is the line-up for 2007.


<font size=""3"">Festival Line-up</font>

Opener

My Blueberry Nights, by Wong Kar Wai (Hong Kong-France-China)

Closer

The Age of Darkness, by Denys Arcand (Canada)


Films in Competition

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, by Cristian Mungiu (Romania)
Alexandra, by Alexander Sokurov (Russia)
Auf der anderen Seite des Lebens, by Fatih Akin (Germany-Turkey)
The Banishment, by Andrey Zvyagintsev (Russia-Belgium)
Breath, by Kim Ki-duk (South Korea)
Les Chansons d'amour, by Christophe Honore (France)
Death Proof, by Quentin Tarantino (United States)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, by Julian Schnabel (France)
Import/Export, by Ulrich Seidl (Austria)
The Man From London, by Bela Tarr (Germany-France-U.K.-Hungary)
Mogari No Mor, by Naomi Kawase (Japan)
No Country For Old Men, by The Coen Brothers (United States)
Paranoid Park, by Gus Van Sant (France-United States)
Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud (France-United States)
Promise Me This, by Emir Kusturica (France-Serbia)
Secret Sunshine, by Lee Chang-dong (South Korea)
Silent Light, by Carlos Reygadas (Mexico-France-Netherlands)
Tehilim, by Raphael Nadjari (France)
Une Vieille Maitresse, by Catherine Breillat (France)
We Own the Night, by James Gray (United States)
Zodiac, by David Fincher (United States)


Out of competition gala screenings

A Mighty Heart, by Michael Winterbottom (United Kingdom)
Ocean's Thirteen, by Steven Soderbergh (United Kingdom)
Sicko, by Michael Moore (United States)


Midnight screenings

Boarding Gate, by Olivier Assayas (France)
Go Go Tales, by Abel Ferrara (United States)
U2 3D, by Catherine Owens and Mark Pellington (United States)


Un certain regard

Am ende kommen touristen, by Robert Thalheim (Germany)
L'Avocat de la terreur, by Barbet Schroeder (France)
El Bano del papa, by Enrique Fernandez and Cesar Charlone (Uruguay)
Bikur Hatizmoret, by Eran Kolirin (Israel)
California Dreamin', by Cristian Nemescu (Romania)
Calle Santa Fe, by Carmen Castillo (Chile)
Et toi, t'es sur qui?, by Lola Doillon (France)
Kuaile Gongchang, by Ekachai Uekrongtham (Thailand)
Magnus, by Kadri Kousaar (Estonia-United Kingdom)
Blind Mountain, by Li Yang (China)
Mio fratello e figlio unico, by Daniele Luchetti (Italy)
Mister Lonely, by Harmony Korine (United States)
Munyurangabo, by Lee Isaac Chung (United States)
Night Train, by Diao Yi'nan (China)
Les Pieuvres, by Celine Sciamma (France)
Le Reve de la nuit d'avant, by Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi (France)
La Soledad, by Jaime Rosales (Spain)


Special screenings

11th Hour, by Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners (United States)
He Fengming, by Wang Bing (China)
Retour en Normandie, by Nicolas Philibert (France)
The War, by Ken Burns (United States)


60th Anniversary Tributes

Boxes, by Jane Birkin (France)
One Hundred Nails, by Ermanno Olmi (Italy)
Roman de gare, by Claude Lelouch (France)
Ulzhan, by Volker Schlondorff (Germany)


Cannes Classics — Documentaries on Cinema

Brando, by Mimi Freedman and Leslie Greif (United States)
Lindsay Anderson, Never Apologize, by Mike Kaplan (United States)
Maurice pialat l'amour existe, by Anne-Marie Faux and Jean-Pierre Devillers (France)
Pierre Rissient, by Todd McCarthy (United States)


Competition shorts

Ah Ma, by Anthony Chen (Singapore)
Ark, by Grzegorz Jonkajtys (Poland)
The Last 15, by Antonio Campos (United States)
Looking Glass, by Erik Rosenlund (Sweden)
My Dear Rosseta, by Yang Hae-hoon (South Korea)
My Sister, by Marco Van Geffen (The Netherlands)
The Oate's Valor, by Tim Thaddeus Cahill (United States)
Resistance aux tremblements, by Olivier Hems (France)
Run, by Mark Albiston (New Zealand)
To onoma tou spourgitiou, by Kyros Papavassiliou (Cyprus)
Ver Llover, by Elisa Miller (Mexico)


<font size=""3"">Juries</font>

International competition jury

Stephen Frears, British director (president)
Marco Bellocchio, Italian director
Maggie Cheung, Hong Kong actress
Toni Collette, Australian actress
Maria de Medeiros, Portuguese actress
Orhan Pamuk, Turkish novelist
Michel Piccoli, French actor
Sarah Polley, Canadian actress
Abderrahmane Sissako, Mauritanian director


Un certain regard jury

Pascale Ferran, French director (president)
Kent Jones, American writer
Cristi Puiu, Romanian director
Bian Qin
Jasmine Trinca, Italian actress


Camera d'Or jury

Pavel Lounguine, Russian writer, director (president)
Renato Berta, Swiss cinematographer
Julie Bertucelli, French director
Clotilde Courau, French actress


Cinefoundation and short films jury

Jia Zhangke, Chinese director (president)
Niki Karimi, Iranian actress, filmmaker
Jean-Marie Le Clezio, French writer
Dominik Moll, German director
Deborah Nadoolman, American costume designer


Official website (English)

 

[Really Lost One]

Is this like the Oscars?

 

[Chutney]

I've just started getting into the Film Festival scene this past year and am planning to go to the Toronto one later this summer. I thought "We Own the Night" sounded promising. Other than that, I don't know much about the European releases.

 

[phunDamentalz]

I was in Cannes when I was a kid, not during the festival though. It's a VERY expensive little city. Some of the Palme D'Ors have been dubious. Gus van Sant's "Elephant" for example. "Punch Drunk Love" being another one.

 

[Char]

<div class="quote_poster">Brian Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Is this like the Oscars?</div>

Bigger. (IMO) Cannes is the international one. I often regard Cannes winners higher than Oscar winners. Pulp Fiction won best film(am I right??)at Cannes and didn't get much notice at the Oscars.

 

[Sasha]

<div class="quote_poster">phunDamentalz Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I was in Cannes when I was a kid, not during the festival though. It's a VERY expensive little city. Some of the Palme D'Ors have been dubious. Gus van Sant's "Elephant" for example. "Punch Drunk Love" being another one.</div>
Elephant was wonderful and Punch Drunk Love was good as well.

I really want to see Sicko though.

 

[phunDamentalz]

<div class="quote_poster">Sasha Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Elephant was wonderful and Punch Drunk Love was good as well.

I really want to see Sicko though.</div>

you are a sicko if you thought Elephant was "wonderful".

some of the shots were cool, but it was seriously devoid of conflict and wholly unsatisfying.
at least it was better than the Cobain-inspired one from him - that was PAINFUL - and I LIKE art films. I've watched almost all Jarmusch films and that movie was the slowest, most pointless thing I've ever seen.
Punch Drunk Love had its moments but it had huge amounts of wankery, it was an exercise in style with virtually no substance. The best films have both.

 

[M Two One]

<div class="quote_poster">Char Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Bigger. (IMO) Cannes is the international one. I often regard Cannes winners higher than Oscar winners. Pulp Fiction won best film(am I right??)at Cannes and didn't get much notice at the Oscars.</div>

The Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) is the award you're thinking of and yes Pulp Fiction won it in 1994. I also regard the winners of this award to be more important then the Oscar winners because it is at an International level with equal opportunities for films to win. There is no real country barrier like the Oscars have. Here is a list of previous winners from 1975 and on.

1975 Chronicle of the Years of Fire (Chronique des ann?es de braise)
1976 Taxi Driver
1977 Padre Padrone
1978 The Tree of Wooden Clogs (L'Albero degli zoccoli)
1979 Apocalypse Now / The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel)
1980 All That Jazz / Kagemusha
1981 Man of Iron (Człowiek z żelaza)
1982 Missing / Yol
1983 The Ballad of Narayama
1984 Paris, Texas
1985 When Father Was Away on Business (Otac na službenom putu)
1986 The Mission
1987 Under the Sun of Satan (Sous le soleil de Satan)
1988 Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle erobreren)
1989 sex, lies, and videotape
1990 Wild at Heart
1991 Barton Fink
1992 The Best Intentions (Den goda viljan)
1993 Farewell My Concubine / The Piano
1994 Pulp Fiction
1995 Underground (Подземље, Podzemlje)
1996 Secrets & Lies
1997 Taste of Cherry (طعم گيلاس, Ta'm-e gilass) / The Eel
1998 Eternity and a Day (Μια αιωνιότητα και μια μέρα, Mia aioniotita kai mia mera)
1999 Rosetta
2000 Dancer in the Dark
2001 The Son's Room (La stanza del figlio)
2002 The Pianist
2003 Elephant
2004 Fahrenheit 9/11
2005 The Child (L'Enfant)
2006 The Wind That Shakes the Barley

 

[Sasha]

<div class="quote_poster">phunDamentalz Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">you are a sicko if you thought Elephant was "wonderful".

some of the shots were cool, but it was seriously devoid of conflict and wholly unsatisfying.
at least it was better than the Cobain-inspired one from him - that was PAINFUL - and I LIKE art films. I've watched almost all Jarmusch films and that movie was the slowest, most pointless thing I've ever seen.
Punch Drunk Love had its moments but it had huge amounts of wankery, it was an exercise in style with virtually no substance. The best films have both.</div>
Devoid of conflict? The whole movie was emotionally conflicting, and that's what Van Sant set out to do. He wasn't going out to make an action art house flick. That would defeat the purpose of the story. It showcased a different perspective, on an inner conflict, if you will.

As for PDL, it has huge amounts of wankery because Sandler played the lead role. Sandler is a wanker anyway you look at it. Still good though.

 

[phunDamentalz]

<div class="quote_poster">M Two One Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">The Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) is the award you're thinking of and yes Pulp Fiction won it in 1994. I also regard the winners of this award to be more important then the Oscar winners because it is at an International level with equal opportunities for films to win. There is no real country barrier like the Oscars have. Here is a list of previous winners from 1975 and on.

1975 Chronicle of the Years of Fire (Chronique des ann?es de braise)
1976 Taxi Driver - 9/10
1977 Padre Padrone
1978 The Tree of Wooden Clogs (L'Albero degli zoccoli)
1979 Apocalypse Now 10/10/ The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel)
1980 All That Jazz / Kagemusha
1981 Man of Iron (Człowiek z żelaza)
1982 Missing / Yol
1983 The Ballad of Narayama
1984 Paris, Texas 10/10
1985 When Father Was Away on Business (Otac na službenom putu)
1986 The Mission
1987 Under the Sun of Satan (Sous le soleil de Satan)
1988 Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle erobreren)
1989 sex, lies, and videotape 9/10
1990 Wild at Heart 6/10
1991 Barton Fink 8/10
1992 The Best Intentions (Den goda viljan)
1993 Farewell My Concubine / The Piano
1994 Pulp Fiction 9/10
1995 Underground (Подземље, Podzemlje)
1996 Secrets & Lies 7/10
1997 Taste of Cherry (طعم گيلاس, Ta'm-e gilass) / The Eel
1998 Eternity and a Day (Μια αιωνιότητα και μια μέρα, Mia aioniotita kai mia mera)
1999 Rosetta
2000 Dancer in the Dark
2001 The Son's Room (La stanza del figlio) - 7/10
2002 The Pianist
2003 Elephant 5/10
2004 Fahrenheit 9/11
2005 The Child (L'Enfant)
2006 The Wind That Shakes the Barley</div>
thanks for this list. ones i've seen in bold with what i thought of em.
i've got to catch up on some of these.

the problem i have is Secrets and LIes but not Naked
Elephant but not My Own private idaho
Barton Fink but not blue velvet
Taxi Driver but not Raging Bull
and not one Kubrick...arguably one of the best 5 directors of all time...
etc.
but at least they are unpredictable

 

[M Two One]

In my opinion, Taxi Driver was well deserving. I love that film.

 

[Mamba]

I don't think he was saying that it wasn't deserving, I think he was saying that if Taxi Driver won...then Raging Bull should've. Many believe that Raging Bull is Scorsese's masterpiece. Many also believe it is De Niro's finest performance. The duo was outstanding in that movie, but I'll take Taxi Driver FTW.

 

[M Two One]

For me, and many others as well, the biggest surprise not to win there was le Fabuleux Destin d'Am?lie Poulain. That's one of my favorite films of all-time.

 

[M Two One]

The awards are being handed out today. I'll update later if anyone is interested.

I'm currently watching it live.