Key Players in the Cannes Market: Wild Bunch

The kings of the Croisette – Wild Bunch have got titles coming out of all orifices that they just supplied the fest with the last minute addition of Ken Loach’s Route Irish. Earlier in the year they had one of the best comedies of the year in Four Lions play in Sundance (which has yet to be picked up for the North American market) and the steamy Rome in Room should fog up the Market Screenings. Three titles that should receive a lot of attention in this year’s fest are: Jorge Michel Grau’s contempo cannibal film to break out We Are What We Are (see pic), and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson’s Sound of Noise – a high risk film because it mixes genres together like someone grabbing whole bunch of leftovers from the fridge. Already causing a stir is the social commentary docu film by agitator Sabina Guzzanti – Italian politicians beware. Of the titles that I had mentioned as possible candidates for Cannes and are headed for the biggie fests of San Sebastian, Venice, London and TIFF we have Andrucha Waddington’s epic film, Peter Mullan’s youth pic, Ozon’s Potiche still baffling that it wasn’t selected for the festival. They also have Pedro Almodóvar and Emir Kusturica’s next projects about to begin filming this summer.

FILM SOCIALISM by Jean-Luc GODARD – Completed
KABOOM by Gregg ARAKI – Completed
THE BURMA CONSPIRACY by Jérôme SALLE – Production
THE CLINK OF ICE (LE BRUIT DES GLAÇONS) by Bertrand BLIER – Post-Production
A DISTANT NEIGHBORHOOD (QUARTIER LOINTAIN) by Sam GARBARSKI – Post-Production
A WOMAN, A GUN AND A NOODLE SHOP by Yimou ZHANG – Completed
DOG POUND by Kim CHAPIRON – Completed
DRAQUILA – L’ITALIA CHE TREMA by Sabina GUZZANTI – Completed
EVEN THE RAIN by Icíar BOLLAÍN – Post-Production
EXODUS (UTOMLYONNYE SOLNSTSEM 2) by Nikita MIKHALKOV – Completed
FOUR LIONS – Completed
FULL TREATMENT (SOINS COMPLETS) by Pierre SALVADORI – Post-Production
HAPPY FEW by Antony CORDIER – Post-Production
IMMACULATE by Grégoire VIGNERON – Completed
LEILA by Audrey ESTROUGO – Post-Production
LOPE by Andrucha WADDINGTON – Post-Production
NEDS by Peter MULLAN – Post-Production
OF GODS AND MEN (DES HOMMES ET DES DIEUX) by Xavier BEAUVOIS – Completed
POTICHE by François OZON – Post-Production
ROOM IN ROME by Julio MEDEM – Completed
ROUTE IRISH by Ken LOACH – Post-Production
SECOND CHANCE (LA CHANCE DE MA VIE) by Nicolas CUCHE – Post-Production
SOUND OF NOISE by Johannes Stjärne NILSSON – Completed
THE CITADEL by Nikita MIKHALKOV – Post-Production
THE DITCH by Wang BING – Post-Production
THE EXTRA MAN by Shari SPRINGER BERMAN – Completed
THE REVELATION OF THE PYRAMIDS by Patrice POOYARD – Completed
THE TWO ESCOBARS by Zimbalist JEFF – Completed
WE ARE WHAT WE ARE (SOMOS LO QUE HAY) by Jorge MICHEL GRAU – Completed