Cannes Film Festival 2009 Official Selection On April 23
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Cannes 2009 official lineup unveiled
The official selection for the 62nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival, which will run from May 13 to 24, 2009, will be unveiled on April 23, 2009 at the traditional press conference. Fest director Thierry Fremaux and his selection committee still have numerous films to watch. Fremaux prefers to keep his options open to a certain extent until he’s seen everything, leaving anxious filmmakers, distribs and sales companies in the dark until the final bell. If you saw Barry Levinson’s “What Just Happened” you know how they feel now.
The news are coming and by now we know that the fest will have movies from top international filmmakers as directors including Ang Lee, Jane Campion, Michael Haneke, Quentin Tarantino, Ken Loach, Pedro Almodovar, Bong Joon-ho, Marco Bellocchio, Lars von Trier and Johnnie To among others.
At the moment it’s been confirmed that Disney Pixar’s “Up” directed by Pete Docter will open Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday May 13th, 2009 and we know French actress Isabelle Huppert will head the jury at this year’s Festival de Cannes.
It’s also been confirmed Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” will have its world premiere during the prestigious French film festival. “Inglorious Bastards” will be “in competition.”
Fest toppers saw Ang Lee’s “Taking Woodstock,” and the movie was offered an immediate invitation to screen in Cannes.
Longtime Ang Lee collaborator, James Schamus, wrote the script based on a book by Elliot Tiber with Tom Monte and the film stars Liev Schreiber, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Paul Dano, Kelli Garner, Demetri Martin, Imelda Staunton, Henry Goodman, Jonathan Groff, Emile Hirsch, Eugene Levy… Set in 1969, the film is described by Focus as the story of a man, “who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the famed happening it was.” Focus is planning an August release for the movie.
If Ang Lee’s movie is on the Cannes roster, it is widely expected to join opening night film “Up” from Pixar, Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglorious Basterds,” Pedro Almodovar’s “Los Abrazos rotos,” and Lars Von Trier’s “Antichrist,” a horror drama with Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a couple who retreat to a secluded forest cabin after the death of their son.
Francis Ford Coppola won’t be bringing his new film, Argentine family drama “Tetro,” with Vincent Gallo to next month’s Cannes Film Festival, declining an offer to screen his film out of competition. Coppola said, “While I very much appreciate the invitation, this is an independent film, self-financed and self released, and I felt that being invited for a non-competition gala screening wasn’t true to the personal and independent nature of this film.” He will instead debut the movie at the Seattle International Film Festival on June 10th, 2009.
UPDATED April 24, 2009.
Francis Ford Coppola turned down Cannes’ non-competing slot, but his latest “Tetro” will open the program.
“After Coppola announced that he wouldn’t show “Tetro” out of competition, we asked to screen it for the Quinzaine. We loved it! And our enthusiasm convinced Coppola that an opening Fortnight slot would be the ideal place to debut his film,” Fortnight topper Olivier Pere said.
Isabelle Huppert To Head Cannes Film Festival 2009 Jury
French actress Isabelle Huppert will head the jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the organizers said.
“Cannes is the open door to all the new ideas of the world. I am thrilled at the idea of being a privileged spectator in it.” Huppert said in the statement that announced her appointment.
Huppert has become something of a fixture at France’s premiere film event, appearing in Cannes 25 times in various roles, including as a jury member and master of ceremonies.
She has won the festival’s prestigious best actress award twice, the last time in 2001 for her part in “La Pianiste” by Austrian director Michael Haneke.
It will be the second year running that the Cannes jury will be headed by an actor. In 2008, Sean Penn was President of the Jury of the 61st Festival de Cannes.
The 62nd Cannes Film Festival will run from May 13 to 24 2009.
Cannes Film Festival – Unveiled This Year’s Poster – 2008
This undated photo provided Friday, April 18, 2008 by the Festival de Cannes organization shows the official poster of the 61st Cannes Film Festival.
The poster of the 61st Festival de Cannes is a work by Pierre Collier, a cinema poster artist, inspired by a photograph by David Lynch.
This tribute to the talent of David Lynch provides the tone for the 61st Festival de Cannes.
Pierre Collier has designed an aesthetic environment for festival goers that can be seen outside and inside the Palais, as though declaring it the land of film from May 14th to 25th.
