Thursday, April 15, 2010

Mike Leigh competing at Cannes

British senior manager Mike Leigh will lapse to this year's Cannes Film Festival to contest for a event's tip esteem with his ultimate offering, Another Year.

US senior manager Doug Liman creates his Cannes debut with Fair Game, to one side Abbas Kiarostami as well as Takeshi Kitano.

Woody Allen as well as Oliver Stone's ultimate cinema will be premiered during a May event, out of competition.

Benicio Del Toro as well as Kate Beckinsale are joining a legal holiday jury, that is headed by Tim Burton.

Between them, they will confirm a film that will take home a prestigious Palme d'Or prize.

Red runner row

Leigh won a esteem for Secrets as well as Lies in 1996, 3 years after picking up a festival's many appropriate senior manager award for Naked.

The Oscar-nominated director's ultimate movie stars Jim Broadbent as well as Imelda Staunton.

Last year, The White Ribbon by Austrian senior manager Michael Haneke was announced as a winner.

A sum of sixteen directors will contest for this year's honour, together with South Korea's Lee Chang-dong as well as France's Bertrand Tavernier as well as Xavier Beauvois.

Mexican senior manager Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, known for sprawling dramas Amores Perros as well as Babel, is additionally putting his ultimate - Biutiful - in front of a judges.

The Spanish-language movie stars Oscar leader Javier Bardem. Full list of films in foe for a Palme d'Or

Out-of-competition, Oliver Stone will showcase Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.

The sequel to his 1987 hit reunites Michael Douglas as well as Charlie Sheen, to one side younger stars Shia LaBeouf as well as Carey Mulligan.

Woody Allen's British-set film You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins as well as Naomi ! Watts, w ill additionally receive a premiere.

And British senior manager Stephen Frears follows up his Oscar-winner The Queen with Tamara Drewe - starring Gemma Arterton as well as formed on Posy Simmonds' comic frame as well as graphic novel of a same name.

Kate BeckinsaleKate Beckinsale will help confirm a leader of a Palme d'Or

Both Leigh as well as Frears' cinema received funding from a UK Film Council, as did Nakata's Chatroom, that has been nominated to take partial in a Un Certain Regard territory of a festival.

"This is a pointer that right right away British films, filmmakers as well as bent are delivering great work that a rest of a universe wants to see," pronounced John Woodward, arch senior manager of a UK Film Council.

Cannes is a many prestigious eventuality in a film calendar after a Oscars, as well as attracts more than 33,000 people to a French locale each year.

However, coverage of a eventuality by news agencies around a universe is in doubt.

Agence France-Presse, Reuters, AP as well as Getty TV did not attend a press discussion to announce a choice on Thursday in Paris, because of a quarrel over red runner access.

The agencies, that gather as well as distribute news stories to newspapers as well as broadcasters around a world, together with a BBC, are upset over restrictions on video footage during a event.

In a statement expelled earlier this week, they pronounced they "may be forced to suspend their presence during a legal holiday altogether" if a quarrel was not resolved.

FILMS IN COMPETITION:

  • Tournee (Mathieu Amalric)
  • Des Hommes et des Dieux (Xavier Beauvois)
  • Hors la Loi (Rachid Bouchareb)
  • Biutiful (Alejandro Gonalez Inarritu)
  • Un Homme Qui Crie (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)
  • Housemaid (Im Sangsoo)
  • Copie Conforme (Abbas Kiarostami)
  • Outage (Takeshi Kitano)
  • Poetry (Lee Chang-dong)
  • Another Year (Mike Leigh)
  • Fair Game (Doug Liman)
  • You. My Joy (Sergei Loznitsa)
  • La Nostra Vita (Daniele Luchetti)
  • Utomlyonnye Solntsem 2 (Nikita Mikhalkov)
  • La Princesse de Montpensier (Bertrand Tavernier)
  • Loong Boonmee Ralek Chaat (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

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