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Cannes 2010: Short Film Competition
A whopping 5000 submissions and only nine films accepted. That's the nature of the Short Film Competition for the Cannes Film Festival. I plugged a couple of film titles into the search engine to see if there are some early glimpses -- I uncovered some paintings from Serge Avedikian's animated Chienne D’Histoire -- a rather disturbing tale about how Paris rid the capital of vagabond dogs. Here are the lucky 9 who'll compete for their own Palme D'or.
Title and Plot Details Revealed: Woody Allen Spills the Beans on ‘Midnight in Paris’
Title? Check! Brief synopsis? Check! Supporting players? Check! French president's wife to star in the pic? Check! THR reports that Woody Allen's Spanish financed, Paris-set rom com has got a working title and a brief synopsis that sort of goes thematically hand in hand with Vicky Cristina Barcelona and potentially You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger.
Paladin to Distribute a Brett Ratner Presented English Bollywood Film?
There are so many items in this press release that you wouldn't normally see paired together. First we have Brett Ratner lending his name and expertise to a Bollywood production that was filmed in the U.S. And then we have Mark Urman’s Paladin distribution label on board.
Oscilloscope ‘Howl’ for Off Beat Docu-Fiction Sundance Selection
Never a good sign when a film that technically opened the Sundance Film Festival and subsequently played at Berlin is picked up a full four months after the fact. I haven't seen Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's film but from what I heard, the film poses as a challenge to the patrons who'll end up seeing the film in theaters and might be a puzzle for the marketing department at Oscilloscope Laboratories who picked up the picture. The distributor plans a September 24th launch accompanied by a VOD release.
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.
