This year is the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival. Among the filmmakers who are attending Cannes this year, a few of them had had their films shown on Movie Night. Steven Soderbergh (Bubble) is having a world premiere for Ocean's Thirteen. Gus Van Sant's (Paris, Je t'aime) Paranoid Park is of the twenty films in competition. Wong Kar-Wai's (In The Mood For Love) English-language debut "My Blueberry Nights" is the opening film for the festival. The film features Norah Jones, Jude Law, David Stratharim, Rachel Weiz and Tim Roth (plus Chan Marshall of Cat Power?).
Again, I'm trying to report faster than criterion.com on related filmmakers. My last attempt was announcing the death of Robert Altman.
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since we're talking about Cannes, here's a list of the films we've watched that were Palm d'Or nominees (we've never watched a Palm d'Or winner):
L'Avventura (1960)
Days of Heaven (1979)
Being There (1980)
Down By Law (1986)
Naked (1993)
Happy Together (1997)
The Celebration (1998)
All About My Mother (1999)
Yi Yi (2000)
In the Mood For Love (2000)
The Firemen's Ball never screened at Cannes because the 1968 festival was cancelled after many directors (including Milos Forman) pulled their films from the competition in response to the firing of Cinematheque Francaise head Henri Langlois. Interesting, huh?
Interesting, indeed.
As you listed these nominees, I found out Naked, Happy Together, All About My Mother and Yi Yi all lead up to a Best Director prize at Cannes.
And quite a few movie night directors won the Palm d'Or with another movie instead.
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