As you can see from the list below, the 61st Festival de Cannes is filled with many familiar names including Steven Soderbergh, who brings his pair of Che films, and works from Clint Eastwood, Atom Egoyan, Wim Wenders, Woody Allen and Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut, Synecdoche, New York. The festival takes place May 14-25.

IN COMPETITION
24 City, directed by Jia Zhangke
Adoration, directed by Atom Egoyan
Changeling, directed by Clint Eastwood
Che (The Argentine, Guerrilla), directed by Steven Soderbergh
Un Conte de noel, directed by Arnaud Desplechin
Delta, directed by Kornel Mundruczo
Il Divo, directed by Paolo Sorrentino
Gomorrah, directed by Matteo Garrone
La Frontiere de l'aube, directed by Philippe Garrel
Le Silence de Lorna, directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
Leonera, directed by Pablo Trapero
Linha de Passe, directed by Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas
La mujer sin cabeza, directed by Lucrecia Martel
My Magic, directed by Eric Khoo
The Palermo Shooting, directed by Wim Wenders
Three Monkeys, directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Serbis, directed by Brillante Mendoza
Synecdoche, New York, directed by Charlie Kaufman
Waltz With Bashir, directed by Ari Folman

OUT OF COMPETITION
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, directed by Steven Spielberg
Kung Fu Panda, directed by Mark Osborne and John Stevenson
The Good, the Bad, the Weird, directed by Kim Jee-woon
Vicky Cristina Barcelona, directed by Woody Allen

UN CERTAIN REGARD
Afterschool, directed by Antonio Campos
Cloud 9, directed by Andreas Dresen
The Dead Girl's Feast, directed by Matheus Nachtergaele
Involuntary, directed by Ruben Ostlund
Je Veux Voir , directed by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
Johnny Mad Dog, directed by Jean-Stephane Sauvaire
O' Horten, directed by Bent Hamer
Los Bastardos, directed by Amat Escalante
Parking, directed by Chung Mong-Hong
Part Ocean, Part Flame, directed by Liu Fendou
Salt of This Sea, directed by Annemarie Jacir
Soi Cowboy, directed by Thomas Clay
The Moderne Life (Profils Paysans), directed by Raymond Depardon
Tokyo!, directed by Bong Joon Ho, Leos Carax, and Michel Gondry
Tokyo Sonata, directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Tulpan, directed by Sergey Dvortsevoy
Tyson, directed by James Toback
Versailles, directed by Pierre Schoeller
Wendy and Lucy, directed by Kelly Reichardt

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
The Chaser, directed by Na Hong-Jin
Maradona, directed by Emir Kusturica
Surveillance, directed by Jennifer Lynch

SHORT FILM COMPETITION
411-Z, directed by Daniel Erdelyi
Jerrycan, directed by Julius Avery
De Moins en Moins, directed by Melanie Laurent
Good Trip, directed by Javier Palleiro and Guillermo Rocamora
The Desire, directed by Marie Benito
Love You More, directed by Sam Taylor-Wood
Megatron, directed by Marian Crisan
My Rabbit Hoppy, directed by Anthony Lucas
Two Birds, directed by Runar Runarsson

SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Ashes of Time Redux, directed by Wong Kar Wai
C'Est Dur D'Etre Aime Par Des Cons, directed by Daniel Leconte
Chelsea Hotel, directed by Abel Ferrara
Of Time and City, directed by Terence Davies
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, directed by Marina Zenovich
Sanguepazzo, directed by Marco Tullio Giordana

SCREENING OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE JURY
The Third Wave, directed by Alison Thompson

# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 4/23/2008 09:05:00 AM

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Anyone heard of Straight 8? It's a really interesting "pure" short film competition that premieres its annual winners in the Kodak Pavillion on the riviera. Here's what they say about themselves:

you shoot a film on the single cartridge of super 8mm film that we send to you. you can only edit in-camera. then you hand back your un-developed film to us for processing. and upload an original soundtrack

the film we send you is the actual one you shoot and we show. if it's good enough... the first time you see your film is with a packed cinema audience

the projectionist will simply play your soundtrack when he sees the first frame of your film. no written instructions to our projectionist allowed - it is very dark in there. he doesn't care anyway. well, he does. a lot actually. but you get the idea

you need to create original sound and/or music and get clearance from any actors/performers who feature in your film and sound. we will send you our full rules / tips and a release form when you enter and all the wording will be there - you need to follow it to the letter

make the films you want. because that's what straight 8 is all about. we won't screen films we think are seriously offensive or defamatory. but we are open-minded

we love the fact we get entries about all different stuff from all over the world from people of all different backgrounds. that's why we never set themes

this is about you making the film you want to make...

****

I'm only mentioning it because I got in and am really excited. Would be good to see you there!
Much love!

George

check it out at straight8.net
# posted by  George @ 5/02/2008 4:29 PM  

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