Mid-Week News Roundup
Wednesday March 22, 2006
- Aki Kaurismaki, last seen directing The Man Without a Past, is about to reemerge with Lights in the Dusk, which will premiere at Cannes. Movie City Indie links to an interview with the Finnish director, one of our favorites.
- Speaking of Cannes, the line-up for this year's festival is coming into focus. Lights in the Dusk is already a lock, and so is Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation followup, Marie Antoinette, as well as new films by David Lynch and Pedro Almodovar.
- More line-ups: the Tribeca Film Festival, slated for April 25-May 7, will screen 37 world premieres from eleven countries.
- New Directors/New Films begins today at MoMA in New York, with 25 features and five shorts. We can vouch for the extraordinarily high quality of the opening film Half Nelson.
- In DVD news, Universal has announced the release of Brokeback Mountain for April 4.
- Michael Winterbottom's The Road to Guantanamo will come to the US: the film, which caused a stir at the Berlin Film Festival, has been acquired by Roadside Attractions for an early summer release.
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