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Cannes Schedule Could Hurt Gilliam's Ledger Movie Parnassus
Cannes has posted the screening schedule (it's on the jump). Unfortunately for Terry Gilliam, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus doesn't screen until Friday the 22nd. Most buyers will be burned out and gone by Thursday. Will the sellers arrange an early buyer's screening like the one last year for Synecdoche, New York? It's better to have the positive power of the press behind you with a risky challenge of a movie, methinks. Isn't that what festivals are for?
Cinetic Media's John Sloss has already showed the movie to buyers in L.A. in hopes of scoring an early sale. Because Parnassus boasts Heath Ledger's last performance, there will be offers to buy the film. The question is how much they'll be willing to pay. One studio specialty distrib not interested in acquiring Parnassus suggested that Sony Pictures Classics was the perfect buyer. UPDATE: Indeed, SPC will see the movie in NYC before Cannes.
COMPÉTITION
E T F I L MS D’ OU V E RT URE E T DE CLÔT URE
Grand Théâtre Lumière - invitation
MER/WED 19.00 Cérémonie d’ouverture
23.00 UP H. C. 1h44
(Là-haut) de Pete Docter
JEU/THU 8.30 15.00 22.30 FISH TANK 2h04
d’Andrea Arnold
12.00 19.30 CHUN FENG CHEN ZUI DE YE WAN 1h55
(Spring Fever/Nuits d’ivresse printanière) de Lou Ye
VEN/FRI 8.30 15.00 19.30 BRIGHT STAR 2h00
de Jane Campion
11.30 22.30 BAK-JWI 2h13
(THIRST/THIRST, ceci est mon sang...)
de Park Chan-Wook
SAM/SAT 8.30 15.00 18.30 UN PROPHÈTE 2h30
(A Prophet) de Jacques Audiard
12.00 22.00 TAKING WOODSTOCK 2h00
d’Ang Lee
DIM/SUN 8.30 19.30 VENGEANCE 1h48
de Johnnie To
16.30 KINATAY 1h40
de Brillante Mendoza
LUN/MON 8.30 14.30 19.30 LOOKING FOR ERIC 1h56
de Ken Loach
11.30 22.30 ANTICHRIST 1h44
de Lars Von Trier
MAR/TUE 8.30 15.00 19.30 LOS ABRAZOS ROTOS 2h09
(Broken Embraces/Étreintes brisées)
de Pedro Almodóvar
12.00 22.30 VINCERE 2h08
de Marco Bellocchio
MER/WED 8.30 12.15 19.00 INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS 2h40
de Quentin Tarantino
16.00 LES HERBES FOLLES 1h44
(Wild Grass) d’Alain Resnais
JEU/THU 8.30 18.30 À L’ORIGINE 2h30
(In the Beginning) de Xavier Giannoli
12.00 22.00 DAS WEISSE BAND 2h24
(The White Ribbon/Le Ruban blanc)
de Michael Haneke
VEN/FRI 11.30 22.30 THE TIME THAT REMAINS 1h49
d’Elia Suleiman
14.30 ENTER THE VOID 2h30
(Soudain le vide) de Gaspar Noé
SAM/SAT 8.30 19.00 VISAGE 2h18
(Face) de Tsai Ming-liang
12.00 22.30 MAP OF THE SOUNDS OF TOKYO 1h49
(Carte des sons de Tokyo) d’Isabel Coixet
DIM/SUN 19.15 Cérémonie de clôture
23.00 COCO CHANEL & IGOR STRAVINSKY H. C. 1h58
de Jan Kounen
SAM/SAT 00.30 NE TE RETOURNE PAS 1h51 (Don’t Look Back) de Marina de Van DIM/SUN 19.45 (S) L’ARMÉE DU CRIME 2h19 (The Army of Crime) de Robert Guédiguian 11.30 22.30 AGORA 2h21 d’Alejandro Amenabar MER/WED 23.30 DRAG ME TO HELL 1h39 (Jusqu’en enfer) de Sam Raimi JEU/THU 00.45 PANIQUE AU VILLAGE 1h16 (A Town Called Panic) de Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar VEN/FRI 8.30 19.30 THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS 2h02 (L’imaginarium du Docteur Parnassus) de Terr y Gilliam HORS COMPÉTITION ET SÉANCES DE MINUIT Grand Théâtre Lumière - invitation / salle du Soixantième (S) - badge
SAM/SAT 00.30 NE TE RETOURNE PAS 1h51
(Don’t Look Back) de Marina de Van
DIM/SUN 19.45 (S) L’ARMÉE DU CRIME 2h19
(The Army of Crime) de Robert Guédiguian
11.30 22.30 AGORA 2h21
d’Alejandro Amenabar
MER/WED 23.30 DRAG ME TO HELL 1h39
(Jusqu’en enfer) de Sam Raimi
JEU/THU 00.45 PANIQUE AU VILLAGE 1h16
(A Town Called Panic)
de Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar
VEN/FRI 8.30 19.30 THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS 2h02
(L’imaginarium du Docteur Parnassus)
de Terr y Gilliam
HORS COMPÉTITION
ET SÉANCES DE MINUIT
SÉANCES SPÉCIALES
JEU/THU 20.00 (S) MY NEIGHBOR, MY KILLER 1h20
(Mon voisin, mon tueur) d’Anne Aghion
VEN/FRI 19.45 (D) THE RED SHOES 2h16
de Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Présenté par Martin Scorsese et Thelma Schoonmaker-Powell
20.00 (B) L’ÉPINE DANS LE CŒUR 1h26
de Michel Gondr y
SAM/SAT 17.00 (S) JAFFA 1h46
de Keren Yedaya
MAR/TUE 14.30 (B) LEÇON DE CINÉMA 1h45
de Luc et Jean Pierre Dardenne
20.15 (B) MANILA 1h30
d’Adolfo Alix Jr, Raya Martin
MER/WED 17.00 (S) UNE VIE TOUTE NEUVE 1h32
(A Brand New Life) d’Ounie Lecomte
19.30 (S) NO MEU LUGAR 1h53
(Eye of the Storm) d’Eduardo Valente
JEU/THU 17.00 (B) MY NEIGHBOR, MY KILLER 1h20
(Mon voisin, mon tueur) d’Anne Aghion
18.45 (S) MIN YE... 2h00
(Tell me who you are/Dis-moi qui tu es...)
de Souleymane Cissé
VEN/FRI 17.15 (S) PETITION 2h04
(Pétition : la Cour des plaignants) de Zhao Liang
20.30 (B) PORTRAIT DE GROUPE AVEC ENFANTS
ET MOTOCYCLETTES de Pierre-William Glenn 1h30
20.15 (S) CENDRES ET SANG 1h45
(Ashes and Blood) de Fanny Ardant
UN CERTAIN REGARD JEU/THU 11.00 19.45 Ouverture KASI AZ GORBEHAYE IRANI KHABAR NADAREH 1h46 (No One Knows About Persian Cats) de Bahman Ghobadi 13.30 22.30 KUKI NINGYO 2h05 (Air Doll) de Kore-eda Hirokazu VEN/FRI 11.00 POLITIST, ADJECTIV 1h55 (Police, Adjective/Policier, adjectif) de Corneliu Porumboiu 14.00 22.30 PRECIOUS 1h49 de Lee Daniels SAM/SAT 11.30 16.45 SAMSON AND DELILAH 1h41 de War wick Thornton 14.00 22.00 MOTHER 2h09 de Bong Joon Ho DIM/SUN 11.00 16.30 LE PÈRE DE MES ENFANTS 1h52 de Mia Hansen-Løve 14.00 22.00 TZAR 1h56 (Le Tsar) de Pavel Lounguine LUN/MON 11.00 16.30 IRÈNE 1h25 (Irene) d’Alain Cavalier 14.00 INDEPENDENCIA 1h17 de Raya Martin 22.00 DOGTOOTH 1h36 de Yorgos Lanthimos MAR/TUE 11.00 16.30 AMINTIRI DIN EPOCA DE AUR 2h18 (Tales from the Golden Age) de Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Popescu, Ioana Uricaru 14.00 22.00 DEMAIN DÈS L'AUBE 1h40 (Tomorrow at Dawn) de Denis Dercourt MER/WED 11.30 17.00 EINAYM PKUHOT 1h31 (Eyes Wide Open) de Haim Tabakman 14.00 22.30 NANG MAI 1h49 (Nymph) de Pen-Ek Ratanaruang JEU/THU 11.30 16.30 LOS VIAJES DEL VIENTO 1h57 (The Wind Journeys/Les Voyages du vent) de Ciro Guerra 14.00 SKAZKA PRO TEMNOTU 1h12 (Tale In The Darkness/Conte de l’obscurité) de Nikolay Khomeriki 22.30 À DERIVA 1h43 (Adrift) de Heitor Dhalia VEN/FRI 11.00 17.00 THE SILENT ARMY 1h32 (L'Armée silencieuse) de Jean Van De Velde 14.00 22.00 MORRER COMO UM HOMEM 2h13 (To Die Like a Man/Mourir comme un homme) de João Pedro Rodrigues SAM/SAT 20.00 Clôture Palmarès et projection du film primé salle Debussy - badge film concourant pour la Caméra d’or / In competition for Caméra d’or Les films en V.O. langue étrangère sont présentés avec sous-titres français. All films in any language other than English or French will be presented in English with electronic subtitling.
followed by a screening at sundown.
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Dear Ms. Thompson,
This article was posted on May 7th. Did the NYC screening ever take place? I've heard nothing about it; only the LA screening. And who was in attendance? Only SPC? A follow up article would be great. Thanks.
Posted by: Tim | May 20, 2009 at 04:11 PM