Dateline: 5/12/00
The world's most influential film festival in underway once again. Located on the stunning Côte d'Azur, the quality of the landscape and the amount of glitz is almost as spectacular as the range of films. This year, line-up was selected from nearly 1,400 movies. Fifteen countries are represented.
Films compete for the prestigious Palme d'Or, Grand Jury Prize, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. Last year, a little known dark French film Rosetta, directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne, won the coveted Palme d'Or and Best Actress, sparking the career of newcomer Emilie Dequenne.
Competition films include O Brother, Where Art Thou, directed by Joel Coen (one half of the talented American filial team), Lars von Trier's latest Dancer in the Dark, Aoyama Shinji's Eureka, Liv Ullman's Trolosa, among numerous others. Notably absent are entries from Italy, which has caused outrage among the Italian film community.
And of course, the scene outside the movie theaters is just as exciting. Kim Basinger, Juliette Binoche, Faye Dunaway, Melanie Griffith, George Clooney, Gregory Peck and Sean Penn mingle with thousands of unknown hopefuls who strut their stuff on La Croisette, the beautiful beach promenade that leads past the Carlton Hotel to the festival theatre.
Adam Kaufman of IndieWIRE offers a look at a look at some of the higher-profile English language films that will be on distributor's agendas over the next 12 days, such as actor Griffin Dunne's latest Famous, the directorial debut of Eurythmics' David A. Stewart, a new Dogma 95 film, John Water's Cecil B. Demented and many others.
Check back here for updated links as the festival progresses!
IndieWIRE Cannes 2000
For the best daily coverage, interview, reviews, pictures, awards updates, jury
debates and more, you won't want to miss the coverage from IndieWire and Filmfest.com's
journalists at the festival.
Official
Competition
Get your list of films being shown from filmfestivals.com.
Cannes: A Festival
Virgin's Guide
"Irreverent and completely unofficial."
Official Site of
the Cannes Film Festival
Of course, you should also check out the official Cannes site, for a complete
filmography, descriptions about the various competitions, biographies of the
juries, directors, and daily schedules of showings.
Derek Hudson Photography
Some ravishing shots from the romp at the French Riviera. Who cares if the captions
are in German?
Director
Interviews
Watch Sabine Franel (Le premier du nom) and Marie-Pierre Macia discuss
their movies in RealVideo.
Review:
Ken Loach's Bread and Roses
IndieWire has the scoop on the English filmmaker's first Cannes entry -- and
they're disappointed.
