2008 Cannes Film Festival
 Official poster of the 61st Cannes Film Festival featuring a photo of model Anouk Marguerite and photographed by Pierre Collier.[1] | |
| Opening film | Blindness |
|---|---|
| Closing film | What Just Happened |
| Location | Cannes, France |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Awards | Palme d'Or (Entre les murs) |
| Hosted by | Édouard Baer[2] |
| No. of films | 22 (En Competition)[3] 20 (Un Certain Regard) 8 (Out of Competition) 17 (Cinéfondation) 7 (Special screening) 9 (Short Film) |
| Festival date | 14 May 2008 – 25 May 2008 |
| Website | festival-cannes |
The 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival was held from 14 to 25 May 2008. In addition to films selected for competition this year, major Hollywood productions such as Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Kung Fu Panda had their world premieres at the festival.
The festival opened with Blindness,[4] directed by Fernando Meirelles and closed with What Just Happened, directed by Barry Levinson.[5] The film poster for the festival featured model Anouk Marguerite and photographed by Pierre Collier.[6] Hunger, directed by Steve McQueen, opened the Un Certain Regard section.[7]
The British press reported the list of films in competition this year was notable for its absence of British films for the second successive year.[8][9]
Feature film competition
Festival line-up
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opener | Blindness | Fernando Meirelles | Brazil | |
| Closer | What Just Happened | Barry Levinson | United States | |
Films in competition[10]
Films out of competition
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Good, the Bad, the Weird | 좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈 Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom |
Kim Jee-woon | South Korea |
| Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | Steven Spielberg | United States | |
| Kung Fu Panda | John Stevenson and Mark Osborne | United States | |
| Vicky Cristina Barcelona | Woody Allen | United States | |
Midnight screening
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Chaser | 추격자 Chugyeogja | Na Hong-jin | South Korea |
| Maradona | Emir Kusturica | Serbia | |
| Surveillance | Jennifer Chambers Lynch | United States | |
Special Screenings
- Of Time and the City (by Terence Davies, UK)
- Chelsea on the rocks (by Abel Ferrara)
- Sanguepazzo (by Marco Tullio Giordana, Italy-France)
- C'est dur d'être aimé par des cons (by Daniel Leconte)
- Ashes of Time Redux (by Wong Kar-wai, China)
- Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (by Marina Zenovich, USA-UK)
- The Third Wave by Alison Thompson
- Ghatothkach by (Singeetam Srinivasa Rao, India)
- Sarkar Raj (Marché du Film) by (Ram Gopal Varma, India)[11][12]
Un certain regard
- Afterschool, by Antonio Campos
- Hunger, by Steve McQueen
- De ofrivilliga, by Ruben Östlund
- Je veux voir, by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
- Johnny Mad Dog, by Jean-Stephane Sauvaire
- A Festa De Menina Morta, by Matheus Nachtergaele
- La Vie moderne, by Raymond Depardon
- Le Sel de la mer, by Annemarie Jacir
- Los Bastardos, by Amat Escalante
- O' Horten, by Bent Hamer
- Parking, by Chung Mong-Hong
- Soi Cowboy, by Thomas Clay
- Tokyo!, by Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Bong Joon-ho
- Tokyo Sonata, by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Tulpan, by Sergey Dvortsevoy
- Tyson, by James Toback
- Versailles, by Pierre Schoeller
- Wendy and Lucy, by Kelly Reichardt
- Wolke 9, by Andreas Dresen
- Yi Ban Haishui, Yi Ban Huoyan, by Fendou Liu
Competition shorts
- 411-Z, by Daniel Erdélyi
- Buen Viaje, by Javier Palleiro
- De moins en moins, by Mélanie Laurent (France)
- El Deseo (film), by Marie Benito
- Jerrycan, by Julius Avery
- Love You More, by Sam Taylor-Wood
- Megatron, by Marian Crişan
- My Rabbit Hoppy, by Anthony Lucas
- Smafuglar, by Rúnar Rúnarsson
Juries
International competition
- Sean Penn, American actor and director (president)
- Jeanne Balibar, French actress and singer
- Rachid Bouchareb, Franco-Algerian director
- Sergio Castellitto, Italian actor and director
- Alfonso Cuaron, Mexican director
- Alexandra Maria Lara, German/Romanian actress
- Natalie Portman, Israeli-American actress
- Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French author and director
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thai director
Un certain regard
- Fatih Akin, Turkish-German director (president)
Camera d'or
- Bruno Dumont, French director (president)
Cinefondation and short films
- Hou Hsiao Hsien, Taiwanese director (president)
- Olivier Assayas, French director
- Susanne Bier, Danish director
- Marina Hands, French actress
- Laurence Kardish, American curator
Awards
- Palme d'Or - Laurent Cantet for Entre les murs
- Grand Prix - Matteo Garrone for Gomorra
- Prix de la mise en scène - Nuri Bilge Ceylan for Üç Maymun
- Prix du Jury - Paolo Sorrentino for Il Divo
- Prix du scénario - Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne for Le Silence de Lorna
- Prix d'interprétation féminine du Festival de Cannes - Sandra Corveloni in Linha de Passe directed by Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas
- Prix d'interprétation masculine du Festival de Cannes - Benicio del Toro in Che directed by Steven Soderbergh
- Prix du 61ème anniversaire - ex aequo, Catherine Deneuve for Un conte de Noël, and Clint Eastwood for Changeling
- Camera d'Or - Steve McQueen for Hunger
- Palme d'Or - Short Film - Megatron (film) directed by Marian Crişan[13]
References
- ^ "Posters 2008". Retrieved 14 December 2013.
- ^ "Edouard Baer, emcee of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-01-02.
- ^ "Official Selection 2008 : All the Selection". Retrieved 14 December 2013.
- ^ Cannes Film Festival 2008 opener: the end of civilisation. telegraph.co.uk. December 10, 2013
- ^ 2008 Cannes Film Festival Lineup. voices.yahoo.com. December 10, 2013
- ^ Posters 2008. festival-cannes.fr. December 10, 2013
- ^ Visceral Brit offering opens Un Certain Regard section. theguardian.com. December 10, 2013
- ^ Cannes Film Festival snubs British movies for the second year running. The Independent. April 23, 2008
- ^ Indiana Jones steals the show as Cannes ignores British films. Times Online. April 24, 2008
- ^ Festival de Cannes : Official Selection 2008
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/content/articles/2008/05/23/bollywood_news_sarkar_cannes_feature.shtml
- ^ http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report-bollywood-biggies-bet-big-on-cannes-1164120
- ^ Festival de Cannes : Film details 2008
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