Eastwood and Soderbergh top Cannes lineup
Clint Eastwood's Changeling to debut at 2008 Cannes film festival
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Wednesday, 23, Apr 2008 07:51
New films from Clint Eastwood and Steven Soderbergh are to be premiered at the 2008 Cannes film festival, it has been announced.
Eastwood's Changeling, a thriller about the kidnapping of a child, starring Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich and Amy Ryan, will take a bow at the prestigious French festival, as will Soderbergh's Che Guevara biopic The Argentine.
Other films unveiled to compete for the coveted Palme d'Or - previously won by Pulp Fiction, The Pianist, Fahrenheit 9/11 and 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days - include new efforts from Charlie Kaufman, veteran Wim Wenders, who won in 1984 with Paris, Texas, and Brazilian Walter Salles (director of The Motorcycle Diaries).
Woody Allen's new romance Vicky Cristina Barcelona, starring real-life couple Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, is also to be screened (though as an out-of-competition selection), while Kung Fu Panda, an animated comedy from Dreamworks featuring the voice talents of Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman and Lucy Liu, is also premiering out of competition.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the fourth instalment in the lucrative franchise about the adventurous archaeologist, is also set to debut in the south of France.
Heading this year's judging panel for the Palme d'Or is Oscar-winning actor-turned director Sean Penn, who told the AFP news agency that Cannes "has long been the epicentre in the discovery of new waves of filmmakers".
Opening and closing films for the festival, which runs from May 14th to 25th, have not yet been announced.
See below for the films included in this year's Cannes lineup and their directors:In competition:
24 City – Jia Zhangke
Adoration – Atom Egoyan
Changeling – Clint Eastwood
Che - Steven Soderbergh
Un Conte de noel – Arnaud Desplechin
Daydreams – Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Delta – Kornel Mundruczo
Il Divo – Paolo Sorrentino
Gomorra – Matteo Garrone
La Frontiere de l'aube – Philippe Garrel
Leonera – Pablo Trapero
Linha de Passe – Daniela Thomas
La mujer sin cabeza – Lucrecia Martel
My Magic – Eric Khoo
The Palermo Shooting – Wim Wenders
Serbis – Brillante Mendoza
The Silence of Lorna – Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Synecdoche, New York – Charlie Kaufman
Waltz With Bashir – Ari Folman
Out of competition:
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – Steven Spielberg
Kung Fu Panda – Mark Osborne, John Stevenson
The Good, the Bad, the Weird – Kim Jee-woon
Vicky Cristina Barcelona – Woody Allen