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Cannes, anyone?

GreenCine Daily has a metric buttload of Cannes coverage, in their usual elliptical style.

Here is the list of films. Pedro Almodovar's new film, Volver, is in competition. Richard Linklater has both Fast Food Nation and A Scanner Darkly there. Sofia Coppola's mod Marie Antoinette is also in competition. Of course, the best films will turn out to be, as always, the ones that against all adversity and without political connections or fame made it to the international platform that is Cannes. It's a shame that only film journals like the ones GreenCine links to are expressly dedicated to covering these films in greater depth than a few sentences.

Here is the list of classic Cannes films that the festival is bringing back this year...

Continue reading about the 2006 Cannes Film Festival...:

A CHAIRY TALE directed by Claude JUTRA, Norman MCLAREN
A KID FOR TWO FARTHINGS directed by Carol REED
BEGONE DULL CARE directed by Evelyn LAMBART, Norman MCLAREN
BEJIN LOUG (BEZHIN MEADOW) directed by Sergei EISENSTEIN
BLAST OF SILENCE directed by Allen BARON
BLINKITY BLANK directed by Norman MCLAREN
CABIRIA directed by Giovanni PASTRONE
EL TOPO directed by Alejandro JODOROWSKY
HEN HOP directed by Norman MCLAREN
IL ETAIT UNE FOIS...ROME VILLE OUVERTE (ONCE UPON A TIME... ROME OPEN CITY) directed by Marie GENIN, Serge JULY
INDIA SONG directed by Marguerite DURAS
JOHN FORD / JOHN WAYNE: THE FILMMAKER AND THE LEGEND directed by Sam POLLARD
KAZE NO TANI NO NAUSHIKA directed by Hayao MIYAZAKI
LA DROLESSE (THE HUSSY) directed by Jacques DOILLON
LA POULETTE GRISE directed by Norman MCLAREN
LA TERRA TREMA directed by Luchino VISCONTI
LE MERLE directed by Norman MCLAREN
LE MYSTERE DE LA TOUR EIFFEL directed by Julien DUVIVIER
LES AVENTURIERS (THE LAST ADVENTURER) directed by Robert ENRICO
L'ESTATE VIOLENTA directed by Valerio ZURLINI
LINES HORIZONTAL directed by Evelyn LAMBART, Norman MCLAREN
MAIL EARLY directed by Norman MCLAREN
MARCELLO, UNA VITA DOLCE directed by Annarosa MORRI, Mario CANALE
MIRT SOST SHI AMIT (HARVEST: 3000 YEARS) directed by Haile GERIMA
MONTE-CRISTO directed by Henri FESCOURT
NEIGHBOURS directed by Norman MCLAREN
NORMAN MCLAREN'S OPENING SPEECH directed by Norman MCLAREN, Arthur LIPSET
ODD MAN OUT directed by Carol REED
OKTYABR (OCTOBER) directed by Sergei EISENSTEIN, Grigori ALEKSANDROV
PAS DE DEUX directed by Norman MCLAREN
PLATOON directed by Oliver STONE
ROMA CITTA APERTA directed by Roberto ROSSELLINI
SHI SI NU YING HAO directed by Cheng KANG
STARS AND STRIPES directed by Norman MCLAREN
SYNCHROMY directed by Norman MCLAREN
THE FALLEN IDOL directed by Carol REED
THE HOLY MOUNTAIN directed by Alejandro JODOROWSKY
THE SEARCHERS directed by Jonn FORD
THE WAY AHEAD directed by Carol REED

Sorry to say I've only seen two. How many have you seen?

UPDATE 5/26/06: See also NYTimes coverage, this article about the political nature of the American entries.

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