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New Cannes Reveals
The Cannes Film Festival has officially announced that Fernando Meirelles' Blindness (Miramax, 9.12) will open the festival on Wednesday, 5.15. Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Danny Glover and Gael Garcia Bernal costar.
Gwynneth Paltow during shooting of Two Lovers
On top of which a third French film -- Laurent Cantet's Entre Les Murs, with Francois Begaudeau -- has been added to the Competition:
An American film has also been added to the Competition slate: James Gray's Two Lovers, a Brooklyn-set romantic drama about a guy (River Phoenix) torn between the good woman his parents wish he would marry and his beautiful but volatile new neighbor (Gwynneth Paltrow).
As tipped earlier by Variety, Steve McQueen's Hunger will open Un Certain Regard on Thursday, 5.15.
French actress Jeanne Balibar and the Iranian author-director Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis) have joined the jury, which will be led this year by Sean Penn.
And finally, it turns out that Barry Levinson's What Just Happened? -- the Sundance bomb costarring Robert De Niro, Bruce Willis, Catherine Keener, Robin Wright Penn, John Turturro and Sean Penn -- will close the festival after all. De Niro will present the Palm d'Or at the closing night ceremonies.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on April 29, 2008 at 11:29 AM
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cinefan ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/nav-commenters.gif)
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It's Joaquin, not River, Phoenix in Two Lovers (River Phoenix passed away in 1993).
Posted by cinefan at April 29, 2008 12:04 PM
Posted by actionman at April 29, 2008 12:07 PM
comment #3
BurmaShave says ...
Wow, Portishead puts out a new LP, and now River Phoenix is in another movie!
Posted by BurmaShave at April 29, 2008 12:08 PM
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p.Vice says ...
This confirms my suspicions about Blindness. It's common knowledge the opening night movie at Cannes is a turd.
Posted by p.Vice at April 29, 2008 12:20 PM
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nemo says ...
"As tipped earlier by Variety, Steve McQueen's Hunger will open Un Certain Regard on Thursday, 5.15."
"Wow, Portishead puts out a new LP, and now River Phoenix is in another movie!"
And Steve McQueen has a new movie coming out! Feels like the good old days.
Posted by nemo at April 29, 2008 12:32 PM
comment #6
Terry McCarty says ...
Re River Phoenix: It would be interesting if the George Sluizer film with River and Judy Davis that was not completed could be utilized as part of a future documentary.
Posted by Terry McCarty at April 29, 2008 12:36 PM
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JD says ...
I love Cannes' loyalty to James Gray (this is his third straight film in the Cannes competition). He's truly one of the most underrated filkmmakers working today and this announcement really heals the disappointment I felt when this film was excluded from the original competition announcement. Apparently, this is a re-make of White Nights, one of Visconti's greatest films. It's also cool to see Gray and Soderbergh in competition at the same time as they recorded a commentary together for Gray's director's cut of The Yards.
Posted by JD at April 29, 2008 12:50 PM
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Jeffrey Kunze says ...
Putting River instead of Joaquin is a pretty big slip-up.
Was Jeff just REALLY tired/not-playing attention, or was that intentional?
Posted by Jeffrey Kunze at April 29, 2008 01:31 PM
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VoiceOfReason says ...
The Yards commentary with Gray and Soderbergh is mad dope (as opposed to being mad wack.)
Posted by VoiceOfReason at April 29, 2008 02:07 PM
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