Movie icon Clint Eastwood and Woody Allen will be among U.S. directors
showing their work at this year’s Cannes International Film Festival next
month, BBC News reports. The 61st festival runs from 14-25 May in
the south of France.
Eastwood’s latest directorial outing is a 1920s thriller,
called “Challenging,” and it stars Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich and Amy Ryan.
The latest Indiana Jones movie, “Crystal Skull,” will also be shown out of
competition. Other movies set for the Cannes
event include Steven Soderbergh's four-hour biopic of Cuban revolutionary “Che Guevara”
and Wim Wenders’ “The Palermo Shooting.”
Quentin Tarantino will attend the festival, where he will
give a film directing masterclass. Celebrities such as Woody Allen, Penelope
Cruz and Benicio Del Toro are rumored to be attending the event. Oscar-winning
Sean Penn leads this year’s jury, which also contains beautiful actress Natalie
Portman and former “Harry Potter” director Alfonso Cuaron. The jury will decide
which film takes home the prestigious Palme D'Or prize.
No British films have been announced as part of the Cannes
Festival’s line-up. Last year’s Palme D’Or went to Romanian drama “4 Months, 3
Weeks and 2 Days.” The festival is the most prestigious event in the film
industry after the Oscars, and attracts nearly 33,000 people to France
each year.
The films in competition are:
• Three Monkeys (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey / France
/ Italy)
• Le Silence De Lorna
(Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, France / Belgium)
• A Christmas Story (Arnaud
Desplechin, France)
• Changeling (Clint Eastwood, USA)
• Adoration (Atom Egoyan,
Canada)
• Waltz With Bashir (Ari Folman,
Israel)
• La Frontiere De L'Aube (Philippe
Garrel, France)
• Gomorra (Matteo Garrone,
Italy)
• Synecdoche, New York
(Charlie Kaufman, USA
/ France)
• My Magic (Eric Khoo, Singapore)
• La Mujer Sin Cabeza (Lucretia
Martel, Argentina / Spain)
• Serbis (Brillante Mendoza,
Philippines)
• Delta (Kornel Mondruczo,
Hungary / Germany)
• Linha De Passe (Walter Salles,
Brazil)
• Il Divo (Paolo Sorrentino,
Italy)
• Leonera (Pablo Trapero, Argentina
/ South Korea)
• The Palermo Shooting (Wim Wenders, Germany)
• 24 City (Jia Zhangke, China)
• Che (Steven Soderbergh, USA
/ Spain
/ France)
