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2007 is the year that the Cannes film festival turns 60 and to celebrate the occasion they asked 35 world-ranking directors to mark the b-day bash with a three-minute short. For many Chacun son cinema shall bring out the pearly whites among he few cinephiles lucky enough to see the film. Sixty is also nifty because of the onslaught of other projects that will most likely make it at this year’s fest. Both a culmination of what I’ve read in Variety and cineuropa.org and my own two cents worth, this is a taste of some of the stuff we can expect to see at this year’s 60th.

The “auteurist theory” is put into practice in our final TEN – and not surprisingly, 4 of the top 10 projects I’d wait in a line to see on opening day have no distributor in place for the U.S market. The ten filmmakers (make that 11 with the Coens) represent a global sampling of what one might consider challenging cinema. I hoped that you enjoyed this top 10, and same time next year we should have some talk backs/forums so you guys can tell me what was omitted. Bon cinema!

Aggressively buying up what shall be a very healthy slate of films for 07’, The Weinstein Co. have got themselves perhaps the (early prediction here) crown jewel acquisition. Variety reports that the company has bought all U.S. rights to Wong Kar Wai's newest feature which he co-wrote with Lawrence Block.

Rachel Weisz, fresh off of winning an Oscar, starring in The Fountain, and having Darren Aronofsky’s baby, has signed on to star in The Brothers Bloom, an indie adventure to be written and directed by Brick layer Rian Johnson.

A BITTERSWEET LIFE South Korea, Dir: Kim Ji-Woon, 2005 Montreal Premiere  + In a country increasingly known for producing stylish genre films, South Korea’s Kim Ji-Woon has...