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    CANNES 2024 - remote notes

    CANNES 2024 - first overview.
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    The 77th edition runs May 15-25, 2024



    [Excerpt from the VARIETY intro:].
    In what looks to be another robust year in the making, the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival will bring together several iconic filmmakers, including Francis Ford Coppola with “Megalopolis” starring Adam Driver, George Miller with “Furiosa” starring Anya Taylor-Joy, as well as George Lucas who will be feted with an honorary Palme d’Or. Kevin Costner will also be on hand with the first installment of his Western epic “Horizon, an American Saga.”

    Some of the high-profile films in the pipeline for this year’s competition include Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Kinds of Kindness,” a stylized three-part story set in the present that reunites the “Poor Things” helmer with Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe; Paul Schrader’s “Oh, Canada” with Richard Gere, based on a novel by the late Russell Banks (“Affliction”); Jacques Audiard’s musical melodrama “Emilia Perez” starring Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez; Paolo Sorrentino’s “Parthenope” with Gary Oldman; and David Cronenberg’s “The Shrouds” starring Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger. There’s also Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance,” a female-powered horror film starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley from Universal Pictures and Working Title Films.

    Beyond the major studio titles, one of the features attracting the most attention on the Croisette could be Ali Abbasi’s “The Apprentice,” which sees Sebastian Stan take on the role of a Donald Trump in a biopic examining his time as real estate businessman in the 1970s and ’80s. Outside of competition, Irish director Lorcan Finnegan leaps from Critics’ Week (where he screened “Vivarium” in 2019) to official selection with the midnight movie “The Surfer,” featuring Nicolas Cage in the title role.

    International movies slated for Cannes’ competition include Karim Aïnouz’s “Motel Destino”; Jia Zhang-Ke’s “Caught by the Tides”; Magnus von Horn’s “The Girl With the Needle” and Kirill Serebrennikov’s “Limonov: The Ballad.”

    More will be added to the Competition list, festival director Thierry Frémaux says.

    As previously announced, Greta Gerwig will head the Competition Jury. Xavier Dolan will head the Un Certain Regard one.
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    The whole Cannes 2024 lineup

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    SEE "THE OSCAR EXPERT" INTROS TO SOME OF THE MAIN FILMS

    OPENING FILM

    LE DEUXIÈME ACTE (THE SECOND ACT) by Quentin DUPIEUX – Out of Competition

    COMPETITION

    THE APPRENTICE by Ali ABBASI
    MOTEL DESTINO by Karim AÏNOUZ
    BIRD by Andrea ARNOLD
    EMILIA PEREZ by Jacques AUDIARD
    ANORA by Sean BAKER
    MEGALOPOLIS by Francis Ford COPPOLA
    THE SHROUDS by David CRONENBERG
    THE SUBSTANCE by Coralie FARGEAT
    GRAND TOUR by Miguel GOMES
    MARCELLO MIO by Christophe HONORÉ
    FENG LIU YI DAI (CAUGHT BY THE TIDES) by JIA Zhang-Ke
    ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT by Payal KAPADIA
    KINDS OF KINDNESS by Yórgos LÁNTHIMOS
    L’AMOUR OUF by Gilles LELLOUCHE
    DIAMANT BRUT (WILD DIAMOND) by Agathe RIEDINGER | 1er film
    OH CANADA by Paul SCHRADER
    LIMONOV – THE BALLAD by Kirill SEREBRENNIKOV
    PARTHENOPE by Paolo SORRENTINO
    PIGEN MED NÅLEN (THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE) by Magnus VON HORN

    UN CERTAIN REGARD

    NORAH by Tawfik ALZAIDI | 1st film
    THE SHAMELESS by Konstantin BOJANOV
    LE ROYAUME by Julien COLONNA | 1st film
    VINGT DIEUX by Louise COURVOISIER | 1st film
    LE PROCÈS DU CHIEN (DOG ON TRIAL) by Laetitia DOSCH | 1st film
    GOU ZHEN by GUAN Hu (BLACK DOG)
    THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE by Mo HARAWE | 1st film
    SEPTEMBER SAYS by Ariane LABED | 1st film
    L’HISTOIRE DE SOULEYMANE by Boris LOJKINE
    THE DAMNED by Roberto MINERVINI
    ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL by Rungano NYONI
    BOKU NO OHISAMA (MY SUNSHINE) by Hiroshi OKUYAMA
    SANTOSH by Sandhya SURI
    VIET AND NAM by TRUONG Minh Quý
    ARMAND by Halfdan ULLMANN TØNDEL | 1st film

    OUT OF COMPETITION

    SHE’S GOT NO NAME by CHAN Peter Ho-Sun
    HORIZON, AN AMERICAN SAGA by Kevin COSTNER
    RUMOURS by Evan JOHNSON, Galen JOHNSON, Guy MADDIN
    FURIOSA : A MAD MAX SAGA by George MILLER

    MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS

    TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIOR WALLED IN by Soi CHEANG
    THE SURFER by Lorcan FINNEGAN
    LES FEMMES AU BALCON (THE BALCONETTES) by Noémie MERLANT
    I, THE EXECUTIONER by RYOO Seung Wan

    CANNES PREMIERE

    EVERYBODY LOVES TOUDA by Nabil AYOUCH
    C’EST PAS MOI by Leos CARAX
    EN FANFARE (THE MATCHING BANG) by Emmanuel COURCOL
    MISÉRICORDE by Alain GUIRAUDIE
    LE ROMAN DE JIM by Arnaud LARRIEU and Jean-Marie LARRIEU
    RENDEZ-VOUS AVEC POL POT by Rithy PANH

    SPECIAL SCREENINGS

    LE FIL by Daniel AUTEUIL
    ERNEST COLE, LOST AND FOUND by Raoul PECK
    THE INVASION by Sergei LOZNITSA
    APPRENDRE by Claire SIMON
    LA BELLE DE GAZA by Yolande ZAUBERMAN
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    The 2024 Directors’ Fortnight lineup
    [FEATURES]
    THIS LIFE OF MINE by Sophie Fillières Opening Film
    IN HIS OWN IMAGE by Thierry de Peretti
    CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER'S POINT by Tyler Taormina
    DESERT OF NAMBIA by Yôko Yamanaka
    EAST OF NOON by Hala Elkoussy
    EAT THE NIGHT by Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel
    EPHUS by Carson Lund
    GAZER by Ryan J. Sloan
    GHOST CAT ANZU by Yôko Kuno & Nobuhiro Yamashita
    GOOD ONE by India Donaldson
    MONGREL by Chiang Wei Liang & You Qiao Yin
    VISITING HOURS by Patricia Mazuy
    SAVANNA AND THE MOUNTAIN by Paulo Carneiro (Portugal)
    SISTER MIDNIGHT by Karan Kandhari
    SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING BORROWED by Hernán Rosselli
    THE FALLING SKY by Eryk Rocha & Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha
    THE HYPERBOREANS by Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña
    TO A LAND UNKNOWN by Mahdi Fleifel
    THE OTHER WAY AROUND by Jonás Trueba (Spain)
    UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE by Matthew Rankin
    PLASTIC GUNS by Jean-Christophe Meurisse [Closing Film]
    The old symbol for the series used the word "réalizateurs" for directors; the new image for this year uses the word "cinéastes".
    The 2024 Cannes Film Festival runs May 14-25.
    The Directors’ Fortnight creative director Julien Rejl announced the program on Tuesday. (Directors’ Fortnight, or Quinzaine des Cinéastes, is the big independent sidebar that presents 'adventurous' works simultaneously with Cannes.)

    The 21 Directors' Fortnight feature selections come from 14 different countries including four American films (Tyler Taormina’s Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, Carson Lund’s Eephus, Ryan J. Sloan’s Gazer and India Donaldson’s Good One). There are five French films, two Japanese, one Palestinian, and films from Canada, Argentina, Brazil and Chile (eight films from the Americas). There will be a special screening of Chantal Akerman’s Histoires d’Amérique: Food, Family and Philosophy.
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    Milo Machado-Graner in SPECTATEURS by Arnaud Desplechin

    Cannes 2024: newly added films

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    CANNES COMPETITION AND OTHER ADDITIONS.

    The Festival de Cannes has added over a dozen titles to the Festival including three to the Competition roster. The latter include Michel Hazanavincius' animated feature THE MOST PRECIOUS OF CARGOES and Mohammad Rasoulof's THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG. Hazanavincius' is the first animated feature in Cannes Competition since Ari Folman's 2008 WALTZ WITH BASHIR. It is adopted from Jean-Claude Grumberg's bestselling novel about the Holocaust and WWII. Score by Alexandre Desplat. It will release in France Nov. 20. Voiced by the late Jean-Louis Trintignant with Grégory Gadebois and Dominique Blanc.

    Mohammad Rasouloof has previously presented MANUSCRIPTS DON'T BURN and A MAN OF INTEGRITY in Un Certain Regard and his last film, THERE IS NO EVIL (2020), won the Golden Bear in the Berlinale, when he was barred from attending by the Iranian government, which has withdrawn the filmmaker's passport and repeatedly detained him in prison.

    To Cannes Premiere has been added MARIA by Jessica Palud, a biopic about Maria Schneider based on the book by the subject's cousin Vanessa Schneider, about the tragic life of the actress who starred opposite Marlon Brando in Bernardo Bertolucci’s LAST TANGO IN PARIS. It costars HAPPENING star Anamaria Vartolomei with Matt Dillon as Brando, also including Alain Attal.

    International films joining the Special Screenings lineup include Chinese filmmaker Lou Ye’s untitled documentary feature set against the backdrop of the pandemic; Arnaud Desplechin’s feature SPECTATEURS depicting the filmmaker's youth with ANATOMY OF A FALL child actor Milo Machado-Graner and Mathieu Amalric as his alter ego; and Oliver Stone’s LULA, about Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

    Added to Un Certain Regard is actress Céline Salette’s directorial debut NIKI, another biopic, about the French-American artist Niki de Saint-Phalle, who is played by Charlotte Le Bon.

    Full list of the Cannes additions:

    Un Certain Regard
    WHEN THE LIGHT BREAKS by Rúnar Rúnarsson
    NIKI by Céline Sallette
    FLOW by Gints Zilbalodis

    Cannes Premiere
    VIVRE, MORIR, RENAITRE by Gaël Morel
    MARIA by Jessica Palud

    Special Screenings
    SPECTATEURS by Arnaud Desplechin
    NASTY by Tudor Giurgiu
    LULA by Oliver Stone
    AN UNFINISHED FILM by Lou Ye

    Out of Competition
    LE COMTE DE MONTE-CRISTO by Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte

    Competition
    THE MOST PRECIOUS OF CARGOES by Michel Hazanavicius
    TROIS KILOMMETRES JUSQU'A LA FIN DU MONDE by jusqu`A Emanuel Parvu
    HE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG by Mohammad Rasoulof
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    Tsui Hark's classic 1984 comedy SHANGHAI BLUES to be part of this year's Cannes Classics

    Hong Kong – April 23, 2024 [From the press release.] – A restored 4K version of Tsui Hark’s SHANGHAI BLUES (1984) will be screened as part of the Cannes Classics program at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.

    Set against the backdrop of wartime Shanghai in the 1940’s, the film weaves a poignant love story involving a soldier (Kenny Bee) and a young woman (Sylvia Chang) who vow to meet after the war ends, but circumstances keep making them miss their reunion. The film is a blend of romanticism, satirical wit, and whimsical sophistication that showcases Tsui Hark's skill at fusing genres.

    The film has been meticulously restored under Hark's supervision with new grading and new dubbing, with each character speaking in their native dialects - Mandarin, Shanghainese, Cantonese and other from various regions to add an extra layer of authenticity and depth to the entertaining script.

    SHANGHAI BLUES has a special place for Tsui Hark as the first film of his production company, Film Workshop, established in 1984 with Nansun Shi. Itr also represents the heyday of Hong Kong cinema.
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    Nathalie Emmanuel (in black), Adam Driver (in car), on the set of COPPOLA'S MEGALOPOLIS, Jan. '23. GETTY IMAGES

    Is Francis Ford Coppola's MEGALOPOLIS going to be a historic flop - or a sleeper classic?

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    He was aged 80 when he began on it. It was his first film since 2010 when he delivered TWIXT, the third of three "small" (ca. $10 million) commercial failures. He first began writing on it in 1983.

    He mortgaged part of his (now successful) Sonoma County vineyards to raise the $150 and it was shot in Augusta, Georgia.

    He had long wanted to make this movie. It was a story based on ancient Roman history. Something starring Adam Driver, a struggle to rebuild a destroyed New York-like city.

    He invited a handpicked crowd of family and friends and honchos for an exclusive IMAX screening, No US distributor resulted, and reactions were like "experimental," "confusing." Some think a small company like A24 or Neon might pick it up.

    Whatever, it's certainly one of the talked-about movies at Cannes. In France response has been more positive: notorious risk-taker Le Pacte has taken it on. Maybe it will be a sleeper, like APOCALYPSE NOW, rejected by the US Press, which co-won the Palme d'Or with Volker Scheendorf's THE TIN DRUM, and eventulaly became acknowledged as a classic after very limited release.


    Coppola on the MEGALOPOLIS set.


    First official image from MEGALOPOLIS released by Coppola.
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