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March 21, 2006
Cannes Do: Filmmakers Under the Gun For 2006 Festival
The last time I took someone's word for it regarding putative film festival selections, I wound up applying aloe vera to my blistered skin for a week. That said, I am rolling the dice with today's Hollywood Reporter dispatch revealing some of the favorites and unofficial locks for slots at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
Charles Masters's survey is an occasionally fascinating read, reporting Sofia Coppola (Marie Antoinette), David Lynch (Inland Empires) and New York's own Prince of Perverted Sophistry, John Cameron Mitchell (Shortbus), as virtual shoo-ins for the event this May. Masters also reports that Richard Linklater could sneak in with the long-awaited Fast Food Nation, while Darren Aronofsky may have his time-warped historical epic The Fountain finished--at last--just in time for programming.
And if worse comes to worse for any of the above, a rough cut always goes over well with the Cannes crowd. Here's wishing the filmmakers all the crunch-time luck in the world.
Posted by stvanairsdale at March 21, 2006 09:48 AM
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