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The official poster for the 60th Festival de Cannes. It shows Pedro Almodovar, Juliette Binoche, Jane Campion, Souleymane Cisse, Penelope Cruz, Gerard Depardieu, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, and Wong Kar Wai.
Wong Kai Wai's first English-language feature, My Blueberry Nights, in competition this year at Cannes, will be - as many already predicted - the opening night film. GreenCine Daily has the complete line-up. Among the films in competition are Coen brothers' No Country for Old Men, David Fincher's Zodiac, Julian Schnabel's Le Scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), and Catherine Breillat's Une Vieille Maitresse. Screening out of competition are Michael Winterbottom's A Mighty Heart, Denys Arcand's L'Âge des ténèbres, Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Thirteen, and Michael Moore's documentary, Sicko.
EW has a feature on A Mighty Heart, Michael Winterbottom's (The Road to Guantanamo) adaptation of the book by Mariane Pearl, whose journalist husband was kidnapped and killed by militants in Pakistan. Angelina Jolie and Dan Futterman play Mariane and Daniel Pearl. [imdb]
Lindsay Lohan, displaying no sense whatsoever, has left the Dylan Thomas biopic, The Best Time of Our Lives. Cillian Murphy, Keira Knightley, and Matthew Rhys are still attached. [imdb]
Michael Gambon (Gosford Park) and Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensability) will play the heads of the once-distinguished yet Catholic aristocratic family, the Marchmains, in Brideshead Revisited, based on the novel by Evelyn Waugh. The film also stars Ben Whishaw (Perfume) and Hayley Atwell (The Line of Beauty) as their children, Sebastian and Julia, and another rising star Matthew Goode (The Lookout) as Charles Ryder, the outsider who befriends them. Directed by Julian Jarrold (Becoming Jane). (Dark Horizons) [imdb]
Some new hi-res stills from Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Thanks to xxflissxx. ETA: AND THERE'S MORE! Here.
Dark Horizons interviews Ray Lawrence, director of Lantana and Jindabyne.