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Screening At Cannes
I t’s going to be a high-profile year for Fujifilm at Cannes, this year celebrating its 60th Anniversary, with a number of eye-catching officially invited films, including
the Gala Opener, featuring our stocks. The selection of Wong Kar-wai’s My
Blueberry Nights marks the first time in Cannes’ history that a film by a Chinese director has kicked off the Festival.
Shot on 35mm Fujicolor Eterna 250T 8553, Eterna 500T 8573, Super F-64D 8522 and Eterna 400T 8583 by Darius Khondji, the romantic drama co-stars starring Norah Jones, Jude Law, David Strathairn, Rachel Weisz and Natalie Portman.
Shot across the United States in New York, Memphis, Nevada and along the legendary Route 66, it’s an inti- mate tale of love and self-discovery that features Wong’s trademark visual flair and colourful characters.
A number of Wong’s previous films, which include In The Mood For Love, Chungking Express, Happy Together (which earned him Best Director at Cannes in 1997) and 2046, have been shot on Fujifilm.
One of his regular past collabora- tors has been Christopher Doyle whose latest film is Gus Van Sant’s Official Competition entry, Paranoid Park, with Gabe Nevins, Daniel Liu and Taylor Momsen. Doyle co-shot it on Fujifilm with his production partner Kathy Li.
Also in Competition with a Fujifilm ‘look’ is Death Proof, a special adaptation of Quentin Tarantino’s sec- tion of Grindhouse, his co-production with Robert Rodriguez, currently on the release in the States.
This affectionate, albeit blood- spattered, homage to low-rent 70s exploitation films pits a homicidal stunt driver (Kurt Russell) against four women (Zoe Bell, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Jordan Ladd, Vanessa Ferlito) he encounters one night in a bar.
Other Fujifilm-stocked entries include a pair from France: Catherine Breillat’s Une Vieille Maitresse, with Asia Argento and Michael Lonsdale, and Julian Schnabel’s Le Scaphandre Et Le Papillon, with Mathieu Almeric and Emanuelle Seigner, lit by Janusz Kaminski; from Spain is Jaime Rosales La Soledad, lit by Oscar Durán.
Talking of competition, there has been controversy this year over the lack of a single British film in the Festival’s main section, especially following the award of the Palme D’Or last year to Ken Loach’s The Wind That Shakes Barley (which was shot on Fujifilm).
However, keeping the flag flying on Fujifilm are Brit director Michael Winterbottom’s out-of-competition entrant A Mighty Heart, Harmony Korine’s Mister Lonely, selected for Un Certain Regard, and NFTS student Joe Tucker’s animated For The Love Of God, a short invitee.
A Mighty Heart, co-stars Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Will Patton and Irfan Khan, in the true story of the kid- nap and murder in 2002 of investiga- tive American journalist Daniel Pearl. Mister Lonely, a Jeremy Thomas pro- duction, is an existential tragi-comedy, featuring Samantha Morton, Denis Lavant and Diego Luna. Both films were lit by young Danish cinematogra- pher Marcel Zyskind. ■
Mister Lonely was originated on 35mm Fujicolor Eterna 500T 8573, Reala 500D 8592, Super F-64D 8522 and 16mm Eterna 250D 8663; A Mighty Heart was partly originated on 35mm Fujicolor Eterna 250D 8563; For The Love Of God was originated on 35mm Fujicolor Super F-125T 8532
Photos from top l-r: Scenes from Wong Kar-wai’s My Blueberry Nights, this year’s Cannes Gala Opener; Samantha Morton in Mister Lonely, selected for Un Certain Regard; shooting NFTS student Joe Tucker’s animated short For The Love OfGod; DirectorHarmonyKhorineandDPMarcel Zyskind on the set of Mister Lonely; Un Certain Regard poster; this year’s Festival De Cannes poster; Angelina Jolie in A Mighty Heart;
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