Greatest Living Filmmakers United for Secret Cannes Project
Filed under: Foreign Language, Cannes, Shorts, Quentin Tarantino
For its 60th year anniversary, the Cannes Film Festival will premiere new films from many past winners of the Palme d'Or. It isn't known how many of these winners will have new material this year, but apparently festival president Gilles Jacob and artistic director Thierry Frémaux tried to get many of the living "Golden Palm" vets -- winners and nominees, both -- to contribute to a special project. Each participating filmmaker has directed a short film of 2-3 minutes in length that will be shown together as a feature-length film at a gala event on May 20. Variety reports that those known to be included are Ken Loach ('06: The Wind That Shakes the Barley), Gus Van Sant ('03: Elephant), Lars von Trier ('00: Dancer in the Dark), Theodoros Angelopoulos ('98: Eternity and a Day), Abbas Kiarostami ('97: Taste of Cherry), Chen Kaige ('93: Farewell My Concubine), Wim Wenders ('84: Paris, Texas) and non-winners (though often-nominated) Wong Kar-Wai, Michael Cimino, Amos Gitai, Manoel de Oliveira, Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang. There are 30 shorts in all, so obviously a lot of other contributors are as yet unknown. Only Pedro Almodóvar (also a non-winner, and never a nominee) is known to have declined the offer.
I have to admit that I have never wanted to attend Cannes more than this year, if only because of this special film. According to Variety, the compilation will only be shown the one time and never released publicly. And not only that, but the one time it is shown will be a "low key" event, meaning that even if I were able to get there, I probably wouldn't get to see the films, even with press credentials. A spokesperson for the festival claims they don't want the thing to overshadow the, "main business of showing films." Okay, I don't quite understand how showing films overshadows showing films, but I'll take this spokesperson's word for it and go cry into my pillow.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
2-09-2007 @ 4:54AM
anonymous said...
I happen to know one of the directors involved, and if what I'm hearing is correct, they are asked to film a special place, a cinema or something that embodies their vision of the movies.
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2-13-2007 @ 3:01PM
jessica said...
I would also die to go to Cannes this year. I was actually just watching this video about Cannes, which showed shots of everyone from Hitchcock to Wells, back in the day, and I would love to see some of todays directors in person. (Especially Van Sant) Check out the video, it's pretty cool.
http://travelistic.com/video/show/2371
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3-27-2007 @ 12:20AM
Charlie Watts said...
Sounds interesting. But the fact that Ingmar Bergman isn´t included makes the whole thing rather silly.
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