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IN COMPETITION

Barbara ALBERT Fallen Austria - 88'
Gianni AMELIO La stella che non c'è Italy, France, Switzerland, Singapore - 103'
Darren ARONOFSKY The Fountain USA - 96'
Allen COULTER Hollywoodland USA - 126'
Emanuele CRIALESE Nuovomondo (The Golden Door) Italy, France - 120'
Alfonso CUARÓN Children of Men UK, USA - 114'
Brian DE PALMA The Black Dahlia USA - 120'
Emilio ESTEVEZ Bobby USA - 120'
Stephen FREARS The Queen UK, France, Italy - 97'
Mahamat-Saleh HAROUN Daratt Ciad, France, Belgium, Austria - 96'
Benoît JACQUOT L'intouchable France - 82'
KON Satoshi Paprika Japan - 90'
Joachim LAFOSSE Nue propriété Belgium, Luxembourg, France - 92'
ÔTOMO Katsuhiro Mushi-shi Japan - 131'
Alain RESNAIS Private Fears in Public Places France, Italy - 120'
Jean-Marie STRAUB, Danièle HUILLET Quei loro incontri Italy, France - 68'
Johnnie TO Exiled Hong Kong, China - 98'
TSAI Ming-Liang Hei yanquan (I don't want to sleep alone) Taiwan, France, Austria - 115'
Paul VERHOEVEN Zwartboek Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, UK - 135'
VYRYPAEV Ejforija Russia - 74'
Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL Sang sattawat (Syndromes And A Century) Thailand, France, Austria - 105'

OUT OF COMPETITION

Santiago AMIGORENA Quelques jours en Septembre France, Italy - 112'
Kenneth BRANAGH The Magic Flute UK - 135'
FENG Xiaogang Yeyan China, Hong Kong - 131'
David FRENKEL Devil Wears Prada USA - 110'
Pavel LOUNGUINE Ostrov Russia - 112'
David LYNCH Inland Empire USA - 168'
MIYAZAKI Goro Gedo senki Japan - 115'
Manoel de OLIVEIRA Belle toujours Portugal - 68'
Oliver STONE World Trade Center USA - 129'
Jaume BALAGUERÃ’ Para entrar a vivir Spain - 68'
CHAN Benny Rob-B-Hood Hong Kong, China - 134'
FAZLI Bayram Baaz ham sib daari? Iran - 90'
KUROSAWA Kiyoshi Sakebi Japan - 103'
Neil LABUTE The Wicker Man USA - 97'
RYOO Seung-wan Jakpae (The City of Violence) South Korea - 92'
Piotr UKLANSKI Summer Love Poland - 93'
Vittorio DE SETA Lettere dal Sahara Italy - 123'

HORIZONS

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Lynch's films get longer and longer.....

Anyone know anything about Verhoeven's film?

yoshimori wrote:Allen COULTER Hollywoodland USA - 126'

For a moment I thought it said "Ann Coulter".

Ah..... a 'Magic Flute' from Branagh... well he'd be the only one to dare this after the Bergman version. Glad to see he's back in business, anyhow. Looks like we finally get to see some great films in the cinemas by the end of the year. This Branagh, the Lynch, and - not appearing here - the new Greenaway on Rembrandt...

Tommaso wrote: the new Greenaway on Rembrandt...

The Greenaway "film" is actually an installation at the Rijks Museum in Amsterdam that investigates the mystery depicted in Rembrandt's "Nightwatching" (also the title of the installation). Now, maybe you're saying he's releasing it as a film as well, but I haven't heard anything about that happening.

chaddoli wrote:

Tommaso wrote: the new Greenaway on Rembrandt...

The Greenaway "film" is actually an installation at the Rijks Museum in Amsterdam that investigates the mystery depicted in Rembrandt's "Nightwatching" (also the title of the installation). Now, maybe you're saying he's releasing it as a film as well, but I haven't heard anything about that happening.

According to Greenaway's site, the installation is being done in addition to the film which is scheduled for a Spring 2007 release. I hope it all comes together - I was worried the whole Tulse Luper Suitcases thing might sink him for good...

Exactly, I had the film in mind, not the exposition. I think it might bring him to attention again (although when it only comes in 2007 he misses the Rembrandt year). I expect something along the lines of "The Draughtsman's contract" combined with some art lecturing....
It's a shame that TLS seems to have been too far out for the distributors, and that most people simply think it was just a crazy monomaniacal project without having seen it. I've only been able to see Pt1., and it was surprisingly approachable and much funnier than most of his 90s stuff.

Tommaso wrote:It's a shame that TLS seems to have been too far out for the distributors, and that most people simply think it was just a crazy monomaniacal project without having seen it. I've only been able to see Pt1., and it was surprisingly approachable and much funnier than most of his 90s stuff.

Yes, it's depressing that Greenaway has effectively been exiled from Britain (particularly after '8 1/2 Women'), since he's arguably one of the few interesting British filmmakers still working today. I've been waiting to see the Tulse Luper films for three years now, but there's no sign of them ever getting even a limited cinematic release. The few clips I've seen look formally extraordinary. I even emailed the British Film Institute about it, but they said they had no interest in screening the films.

Greenaway may be a megalomaniac, but I think his point about cinema's failure to experiment with new technological possibilities is a valid one. As for the Rembrandt film, last time I checked IMDB the lead seemed to have been taken by the actor who played the character Tim in the BBC sitcom 'The Office'. I can't really imagine him being good in a film role, but then actors are always a secondary concern for Greenaway.

Gropius, in order not to take this thread completely off-topic, I'll start a new thread about TLS in the 'new films' section, okay ? (though TLS now is no longer totally new...)

Is it just me, or is the "In competition" roster the least interesting one?

Branagh, Lynch, Stone, Balaguero, Kurosawa, LaBute, Aoyama, Khlebnikov, Spike Lee, Oshii....all not in the main competition.

cafeman wrote:Is it just me, or is the "In competition" roster the least interesting one?

Branagh, Lynch, Stone, Balaguero, Kurosawa, LaBute, Aoyama, Khlebnikov, Spike Lee, Oshii....all not in the main competition.

With these big film festivals, I have often wondered what determines "in" and "out" of competition, and even "why" films would be presented out of competieion. Does anyone know? Sorry, I am sure these are banal questions.

cafeman wrote:Is it just me, or is the "In competition" roster the least interesting one?

Branagh, Lynch, Stone, Balaguero, Kurosawa, LaBute, Aoyama, Khlebnikov, Spike Lee, Oshii....all not in the main competition.

Wisely these are not in competition. Spike Lee's is a docu made for cable/TV, Stone's is a studio film that really for political reasons isn't in competition. Aoyama and Kurosawa are far from their primes. Oshii's is actually a good film, but it's just way too talky and off-beat and docu-y to be in competish. Lynch and Branagh I don't have high hopes for...

Grimfarrow wrote:

cafeman wrote:Is it just me, or is the "In competition" roster the least interesting one?

Branagh, Lynch, Stone, Balaguero, Kurosawa, LaBute, Aoyama, Khlebnikov, Spike Lee, Oshii....all not in the main competition.

Wisely these are not in competition. Spike Lee's is a docu made for cable/TV, Stone's is a studio film that really for political reasons isn't in competition. Aoyama and Kurosawa are far from their primes. Oshii's is actually a good film, but it's just way too talky and off-beat and docu-y to be in competish. Lynch and Branagh I don't have high hopes for...

So you've seen the Kurosawa and Aaoyama films, or are you just making a prediction based upon the fact that both directors last films were far from their best? Before the awful mummy film, Kurosawa had made DOPPELGANGER and BRIGHT FUTURE, both extremely interesting, sui generis works.

And why on earth would you not have high hopes for Lynch's movie? Again, this sounds like nothing more than vague speculation to me. It's a rare example of one of American cinema's few geniuses getting to make a movie in exactly the way he wants, free of any interference, so if anything this is one of the most eagerly awaited movies of the year.

cafeman wrote:Is it just me, or is the "In competition" roster the least interesting one?

Branagh, Lynch, Stone, Balaguero, Kurosawa, LaBute, Aoyama, Khlebnikov, Spike Lee, Oshii....all not in the main competition.

David Lynch never enters his films "In Competition" so that is why they all screen 'Out of Competition" like MULLHOLAND DRIVE did in Cannes in 2001.

cafeman wrote:Is it just me, or is the "In competition" roster the least interesting one?

Branagh, Lynch, Stone, Balaguero, Kurosawa, LaBute, Aoyama, Khlebnikov, Spike Lee, Oshii....all not in the main competition.

I mean, all we've got in competition are new films by Aronofsky, Cuaron, De Palma, Frears, Kon, Resnais, To, Tsai Ming-Laing, Paul Verhoeven, and Weerasethakul.

What an 'uninteresting' group of filmmakers.

marty wrote:David Lynch never enters his films "In Competition" so that is why they all screen 'Out of Competition" like MULLHOLAND DRIVE did in Cannes in 2001.

Actually, he has entered four films in the Cannes Competition. As you may remember, "Wild at Heart" won the Palme d'Or in 1990 and "Mulholland" the Best Director award in 01.

According to IMDB, he's only entered his films in Cannes. So perhaps he abides to his rule everywhere except Cannes.

marty wrote:

cafeman wrote:Is it just me, or is the "In competition" roster the least interesting one?

Branagh, Lynch, Stone, Balaguero, Kurosawa, LaBute, Aoyama, Khlebnikov, Spike Lee, Oshii....all not in the main competition.

David Lynch never enters his films "In Competition" so that is why they all screen 'Out of Competition" like MULLHOLAND DRIVE did in Cannes in 2001.

WRONG

portnoy wrote:

cafeman wrote:Is it just me, or is the "In competition" roster the least interesting one?

Branagh, Lynch, Stone, Balaguero, Kurosawa, LaBute, Aoyama, Khlebnikov, Spike Lee, Oshii....all not in the main competition.

I mean, all we've got in competition are new films by Aronofsky, Cuaron, De Palma, Frears, Kon, Resnais, To, Tsai Ming-Laing, Paul Verhoeven, and Weerasethakul.

This lineup impresses me much more than Cannes did, that's for sure...

Any predictions on who's walking away with that Golden Lion.

Cold Bishop wrote:This lineup impresses me much more than Cannes did, that's for sure...

Any predictions on who's walking away with that Golden Lion.

Having not seen any of the movies, if it's a pure 'world art cinema' zeitgeist thing, they'll probably hand it to Tsai or Weerasethakul. But based on buzz, THE QUEEN is supposed to be pretty tremendous. I have little hope from Aronofsky, but Black Dahlia looks like De Palma's best in ages, but who knows? Maybe a little filmmaker named Emilio Estevez will sneak on in there...

bkimball wrote:Anyone know anything about Verhoeven's film?

Trailer

Tommaso wrote:Exactly, I had the film in mind, not the exposition. I think it might bring him to attention again (although when it only comes in 2007 he misses the Rembrandt year). I expect something along the lines of "The Draughtsman's contract" combined with some art lecturing....
It's a shame that TLS seems to have been too far out for the distributors, and that most people simply think it was just a crazy monomaniacal project without having seen it. I've only been able to see Pt1., and it was surprisingly approachable and much funnier than most of his 90s stuff.

Greenaway's latest is part of contentfilm's slate. You may find it crop up on cable channels and such like, as I believe it was being packaged with other more sellable titles..

Anyone wanting to find more out about the titles should go can get pdfs with contacts and websites here:

Competition
Out of Competition
Horizons

and not to forget the delectable Venice sidebars.. Sites are here:

Critics Week
Venice Days

Be sure to check out Khadak in the Venice Days sidebar. It's a beautiful film set in outer mongolia.

You've already seen Khadak? Isn't it called The Color of Water?

Stills from some of the films, including Inland Empire & Retribution (the new Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

Exciting to see that Kurosawa is using Koji Yakusho again. They seem to bring out the best in each other.