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mfunk9786 wrote:I would buy a plane ticket right this minute if someone offered me passes. That seems like a once in a lifetime Cannes, depending on how some of these films turn out. Absolutely stacked.

Trees wrote:Which are the films you guys are most excited about from this list?

Trees wrote:Which are the films you guys are most excited about from this list?

Trees wrote:Which are the films you guys are most excited about from this list?

doh286 wrote:Cannes Classics line-up has been revealed.

doh286 wrote:Cannes Classics line-up has been revealed.

• Solyaris (Solaris) by Andreï Tarkovski (1972, 2h47, Russian Federation)
A presentation of Mosfilm Cinema Concern.
Digital frame-by-frame restoration of image and sound from 2K scan of the negative. Producer of the restoration: Karen Shakhnazarov.

• Ugetsu monogatari (Ugetsu) by Kenji Mizoguchi (1953, 1h37, Japan)
Presented by The Film Foundation, KADOKAWA Corporation, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Restored by The Film Foundation and KADOKAWA Corporation at Cineric Laboratories. Special thanks to Masahiro Miyajima and Martin Scorsese for their consultation on this restoration. Restoration funding provided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in association with The Film Foundation and KADOKAWA Corporation.

[i][url=http://variety.com/2016/film/global/asghar-farhadi-the-salesman-cannes-festival-competition-1201758950/]Variety[/url][/i] wrote:COMPETITION:

“The Salesman” (Asghar Farhadi). Shot in Teheran, “The Salesman” is a contemporary tale centering around a couple who drift into violence because of societal pressures. Taraneh Alidoosti (“About Elly) and Shahab Hosseini (“A Separation”). Farhadi, who won the foreign-language Oscar for “A Separation” in 2012, competed at Cannes with his previous film, the Paris-set “The Past” which earned Berenice Bejo a best actress award and Farhadi the prize of the Ecumenical jury. Sales: Memento

MIDNIGHT SCREENING:

“Blood Father” (Jean-Francois Richet). Produced by Why Not Productions and Chris Briggs, “Blood Father” is a redemption-themed thriller set in New Mexico, starring Mel Gibson as an ex-con forced to step in and help his estranged 16-year-old daughter when drug mobsters threaten to kill her. The screenplay is by U.S. novelist Peter Craig (“The Town”). Sales: Wild Bunch

UN CERTAIN REGARD:

“Hell or High Water” (David Mackenzie). A male-driven heist thriller, “Hell or High Water” star Chris Pine and Ben Foster as two brothers who plot a bank robbery to save their family farm in New Mexico. Jeff Bridges also star. The script, penned by Taylor Sheridan, won the 2012 Black List. A critically-aclaimed young British director, Mackenzie previously won three BAFTA’s for “Starred Up” in 2014 and a BAFTA for “Young Adam” in 2004. He’s had two films play in Berlin, “Hallam Foe” and “Asylum.”

SPECIAL SCREENINGS:

“Wrong Elements” (Jonathan Littell, U.S.) A documentary from U.S. filmmaker Littell, produced out of France, Belgium and Germany, “Wrong Elements” is set in the Congo and Central African Republic following soldiers through jungle as they attempt to flush out the last remaining supporters of Jonathan Kony’s once powerful Lord’s Resistance Army, accused of the deaths of 100,000 of people and abduction of 60,000 children.

“Fool Moon” (“La Foret des quinconces,” Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, France) A contempo relationship dramedy produced by Paulo Branco’s Alfama Films Production, “Fool Moon” reps the feature directorial debut of 28-year-old French thesp-turned -helmer Leprince-Ringuet (“Strayed” “Love Songs”), a four-time Most Promising Actor Cesar nominee who also stars in the film. Sales: Alfama

“Chouf” (Karim Dridi, France/Tunisia) A Marseille drug gang-set vengeance thriller, “Chouf” reps is produced by Jean Brehat from Tessalit Productions and helmed by Dridi, who broke through with Venice competition player ”Pigalle.”

Trees wrote:Which are the films you guys are most excited about from this list?

Jeff wrote:As if the competition line-up wasn't already stacked, Asghar Farhadi's The Salesman has been added

yoshimori wrote:Directors' Fortnight

yoshimori wrote:Just Park and Mendoza [?! he must have some dirt of Fremaux] from Asia in the comp?

Some jury members dispute the festival's claim of neutrality. "When we were deliberating, the festival president came in and said, 'I think it would be good if the Filipino film won a prize,' and that was that," recalls one.