CANNES LINEUP COMPLETE
The remaining two sidebars of the Festival de Cannes — Quinzaine des Realisateurs (Directors’ Fortnight) and Semaine Internationale de la Critique (International Critics’ Week) — were announced this week.
Among the American films in Directors’ Fortnight are Jonathan Caouette’s Tarnation, Nicole Kassell’s The Woodsman and Jacob Aaron’s Mean Creek, each of which premiered at Sundance earlier this year, and the world premiere of Asia Argento’s adaptation of J.T. Leroy’s The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things.
In addition, the Festival announced a new section, Cannes Classics, which will present restored and new prints of classic films together with a series of tributes.
The inaugural Cannes Classics includes the world premiere of the short film Lo Sguardo di Michelangelo (The Gaze of Michelangelo) by Michelangelo Antonioni, as well as restored prints of Blow Up, Ralph Thomas’s Deadlier than the Male (1966), which will be screened on the beach with Quentin Tarantino in attendance, Samuel Fuller’s The Big Red One (1980), Robert Bresson’s Pickpocket (1959), Carl Th. Dreyer’s Ordet (1955), Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers (1965), with Pontecorvo in attendance, and Tony Richardson’s The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, among others.
The festival will also present a tribute to Brazil’s Cinema Novo movement, a series of film by Buster Keaton, and several documentaries about filmmaking, including La fantome de Henri Langlois, about the co-founder of the Cinematheque Francais.
