NEW YORK -- The 41st annual New York Film Festival, which will kick off Oct. 3 at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, appears to be taking its cue from this year's Festival de Cannes. As previously announced, Clint Eastwood's mystery/drama, Mystic River, from Warner Bros. Pictures/Village Roadshow, will open the Manhattan festival (HR 6/26). It also screened in competition at Cannes in May. It will be reunited at the NYFF with such other Cannes fare as Gus Van Sant's high-school study, Elephant. The HBO Films/Fine Line Features release was Cannes' Palm D'Or winner this year. In addition, other Cannes competitors that made the NYFF cut include Denys Arcand's The Barbarian Invasions (Miramax Films), Lars Von Trier's Dogville (Lions Gate Films), and Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Turkish production Uzak (New Yorker Films). Other NYFF selections that screened in various out-of-competition Cannes sections include Errol Morris' documentary The Fog of War (Sony Pictures Classics); Scottish helmer David Mackenzie's Ewan McGregor-starrer Young Adam; Iranian auteur Jaffar Panahi's Crimson Gold (Wellspring Media); Sri Lankan Lester James Peries' Mansion by the Lake; Cambodian Rithy Panh's S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine (First Run Features); and Faouzi Bensaidi's French-Moroccan production A Thousand Months.
- 8/18/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CANNES -- La Meglio Gioventu (The Best of Youth), a six-hour miniseries from Italian director Marco Tullio Giordana, snatched the top prize in Cannes' Un Certain Regard sidebar, one of a raft of awards presented at the festival during the weekend. The film, which screened over two nights in Cannes, is a portrait of an Italian family spanning four decades from the 1960s to the turn of the millennium. It stars Luigi Lo Cascio and Alessio Boni as brothers Nicola and Matteo, whose lives go in starkly different directions after a prescient meeting with mentally ill girl Giorgia (Jasmine Trinca). The runner-up Jury Prize in Un Certain Regard went to Iranian helmer Jafar Panahi for his Talaye Sorgh (Crimson Gold), the story of lowly pizza delivery man Hussein (Hossain Emadeddin), who longs for the life of luxury he sees represented in the windows of a Tehran jewelry shop. The award for best first film in the Un Certain Regard selection went to Moroccan director Faouzi Bensaidi's feature-length debut Mille Mois (A Thousand Months), about a child living in a village in the Atlas Mountains of North Africa.
- 5/27/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
La Meglio Gioventu (The Best Of Youth), a six-hour miniseries from Italian director Marco Tullio Giordana, snatched the top prize in Cannes' Un Certain Regard sidebar, one of a raft of awards presented at the festival over the weekend. The film, which screened over two nights in Cannes, is a portrait of an Italian family spanning four decades from the 1960s to the turn of the millennium. It stars Luigi Lo Cascio and Alessio Boni as brothers Nicola and Matteo, whose lives go in starkly different directions after a prescient meeting with a mentally ill girl Giorgia (Jasmine Trinca). The runner-up Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard sidebar went to Iranian helmer Jafar Panahi for his Talaye Sorgh (Crimson Gold), the story of lowly pizza delivery man Hussein (Hossain Emadeddin) who longs for the life of luxury he sees represented in the windows of a Tehran jewelry shop. The award for first film in the Un Certain Regard selection went to Moroccan director Faouzi Bensaidi's feature-length debut Mille Mois (A Thousand Months), about a child living in a village in the Atlas Mountains of North Africa.
- 5/26/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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