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Dunst’s Bastard and Franco’s The Clerk’s Tale Close Critic’s Week
Spiderman co-stars Kirsten Dunst and James Franco will each be presenting both of their short films on the closing night of Critic's Week in Cannes. Franco's 13-minute short The Clerk's Tale will receive its world premiere screening and the pics for the short are sublime as they are 1970's magazine-like in their look. The short, which I imagine Franco filmed as part of his work at NYU is based on the eponymous poem by Spencer Reece, The Clerk's Tale is a psychological portrait of a gay man trapped in the monotonous routine of life at a high-end menswear store.
Alistair Banks Griffin’s Top Ten Films of All Time
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile, we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their top ten list of all time favorite films. This April/May we profile Alistair Banks Griffin who will see his debut feature, Two Gates of Sleep have its world premiere within the sidebar section of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Look for this Director's Fortnight selected film to show screen during the Fall film festival season.
Cannes Poster: Xavier Dolan’s Les Amours imaginaires (Heartbeats)
Here is your first look at the festival poster for Xavier Dolan's Un Certain Regard selected Les Amours imaginaires (a.k.a Heartbeats) in what I imagine is the first of three. Niels Schneider, the actor is who had a bit part in I Killed My Mother has a more significant role in this three way and is featured in the poster below.
Director’s Fortnight 2010: Lerman, Koch, Berthaud, Frammartino, Archer and Grau
La Mirada invisible (The Invisible Eye) - Diego Lerman. Winner of the Sundance/NHK Int. Filmmakers Award and part of Cannes' Atelier de la Cinefondation, this is set in 1982's Buenos Aires, close to the end of the military dictatorship and focuses on the tensions between teachers and students. Picco - Philip Koch. German debut from Koch is actually based on true events, PICCO is the first picture to shed light on the every-day life of youth prison inmates in Germany and shows in a gripping and merciless way that the contemporary judiciary system is by no means able to properly re-educate these lost youths...
Director’s Fortnight 2010: Braganca, Duffy, Boe, Rowe, Hernandez , Renaud Barret & Florent de la Tullaye
Alegria (Joy) Marina Méliande and Felipe Braganca. Braganca who we know from 2006's Love for Sale, teams up on a project which you can get a better feel for if you check out this picture and if you read portuguese. All Good Children - Alicia Duffy. This Brit debut promises to hit you where it hurts. Based on Sam Taylor’s novel The Republic of Trees, this centres on Dara and Eoin, two young Irish children of 11 and 12, who have to go and live at their aunt’s house in France, following their mother’s suicide.
