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Founded by Philippe Bober in the late 80's, the Coproduction Office -  a Sales Agent/Production Company based out of Paris comes to Cannes with...

Beginning July 28 and running until the end of August, Toronto's TIFF Bell Lightbox are complimenting their Fellini bonanza with a concurrent programme that spotlights perhaps the purest, most stripped down movement in film history: Italian Neorealism. For Fellini, La Dolce Vita signalled a gravitation toward his thematic and stylistic tendencies for excess and the fantastic; with later films like 8½ and Juliet of the Spirits dominating the canon, it is easy to overlook the more timid first decade of his career. The juxtaposition of Fellini's Double Bills with this showcase for Neorealismo serves not only as a logical contextualization for Fellini, but also it offers a chance to see rare prints of monumental Italian classics, many shipped straight over from Italy.

Today's announcement for the 2011 Venice Film Festival lineup basically crosses off plenty of sure bets we had been anticipating and makes us circle a bunch of titles we thought had a chance for a 2011 showing but now become hot items for the 2012 campaign. Films such as Juan Diego Solanas' Upside Down, Rodrigo Cortés' Red Lights, Pen-ek Ratanaruang's Headshot, Brillante Mendoza's Prey look more and more like Cannes 2012 items, while acquisition titles such as Antonio Campos' Simon Killer and Nick Cassavetes' Yellow wouldn't be out of place for a Sundance showing.

Cannes Classics, created in 2004, accompanies contemporary films from the Official Selection with a programme of restored films and lost films that have been found again, as part of their re-release in cinemas or on DVD. The screenings will be held at the Palais des Festival and will be shown again at La Licorne.

"Unfortunately time would vindicate me. Not everything has been beneficial for the people of Araya."