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The Descendants Closing Cannes Heavy NYFF
The New York Film Festival revealed today that its Closing Night Gala film will be Alexander Payne’s ‘The Descendants,’ which reviewers have described as an adroit dramedy starring George Clooney about a man who takes his daughters on a road trip to find his wife’s lover.
Trailers and Posters for Main Comp Cannes Selected Joseph Cedar’s ‘Footnote’
At the top of the year, I posted a list of my 5 most anticipated films of 2011. Number one on that list was Footnote, by Joseph Cedar (Oscar nominated Beaufort). The film was set to be released in Israel in March (presumably after a Berlin premiere), but it was pushed back to June. Everyone thought that the film wasn't ready, but apparently the producers and the distributers knew something we didn't: The film was admitted to the main competition in the most prestigious Film Festival in the world, in Cannes.
Gus Van Sant’s Gets ‘Restless’ in Cannes
Annually loyal to its stars and auteurs with an extended red carpet rolled out for them to make an appearance either with a film or to serve in an honorary position, it is names, names and more names that Cannes stands for and since Van Sant arrived in Cannes for the first time with "To Die For," he has since won the Palme d'Or and best director for "Elephant" and was last seen in Cannes with "Paranoid Park" (prior to that he was among those who contributed to Chacun son Cinema).
Updated Cannes 2011 Predictions List
We're about 36 hours away from Cannes Film Festival's big unveiling of the 2011 line-up and while the Main Comp should bare very little surprises (see the math below), the one title whose status is still a mystery and could break into the 20 or so titles is Carlos Reygadas' Post Tenebras Lux.
Melvil Poupaud Becomes a Woman for Xavier Dolan’s ‘Laurence Anyways’
Melvil Poupaud has replaced Louis Garrel in the cross-dresser titular lead role for French Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan's third feature film. Poupaud who was most recently seen in Gilles Marchand's Cannes bomb L'autre monde, joins his Les Sentiments co-star Nathalie Baye as part of constituency of French from France joining the France-Quebec production. Winter filming on Laurence Anyways takes place in Montreal next week up until the 12th of April...
