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    Cannes Announces 2008 Competition Lineup, Jury

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    By Christopher P. Duffy on 04/23/2008 News
    Today at a press conference in Paris, Giles Jacob, the Cannes Film Festival president, and general manager Thierry Fremaux announced the slate of films that will be included in the official selection when the 61st annual festival begins next month.
    In the lineup are a number of excellent foreign filmmakers, and a few big name Hollywood directors, including Clint Eastwood with “Changeling”, a period mystery staring Angelina Jolie, and Steven Soderbergh, whose biopic, “Che”, stars Benicio Del Toro as the iconic Ernesto “Che” Guevara.

    The official lineup as follows:

    Competition
    Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Three Monkeys (Turkey-France-Italy)
    Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne – Le Silence De Lorna
    Arnaud Desplechin – A Christmas Story (France)
    Clint Eastwood – Changeling (US)
    Atom Egoyan – Adoration (Canada)
    Ari Folman – Waltz With Bashir (Israel-France-Germany)
    Philippe Garrel – La Frontiere De L’Aube (France)
    Matteo Garrone – Gomorra (Italy)
    Charlie Kaufman – Synecdoche, New York (US)
    Eric Khoo – My Magic (Singapore)
    Lucretia Martel – La Mujer Sin Cabeza (Argentina-Spain)
    Brillante Mendoza – Serbis (The Philippines)
    Kornel Mondruczo – Delta (Hungary-Germany)
    Walter Salles & Daniela Thomas – Linha De Passe (Brazil)
    Paolo Sorrentino – Il Divo (Italy)
    Pablo Trapero – Leonera (Argentina-South Korea)
    Wim Wenders – The Palermo Shooting (Germany-Italy)
    Jia Zhangke – 24 City (China)
    Steven Soderbergh – Che (US-Spain-France)

    Out of competition
    Steven Spielberg – Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull (US)
    Mark Osborne and John Stevenson – Kung Fu Panda (US)
    Ji-Woon Kim – The Good, The Bad, The Weird (South Korean)
    Woody Allen – Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Spain-US)

    Special screenings
    Marina Zenovich – Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (US)
    Wong Kar-wai – Ashes Of Time Redux (Hong Kong-China-Taiwan)
    Daniel Leconte – C’est Dur D’etre Aime Par Des Cons (France)
    Marco Tullio Giordana – Sangue Pazzo (Italy-France)
    Terence Davies – Of Time And The City (UK)

    Midnight Screenings
    Emir Kusturica – Maradona (Spain)
    Jennifer Lynch – Surveillance (US)
    Hong-Jin Na – The Chaser (South Korea)

    Special Jury President’s screening
    Alison Thompson – The Third Wave (US)

    Main Jury
    Sean Penn, president
    Sergio Castellitto
    Natalie Portman
    Alfonso Cuaron
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul
    Alexandra Maria Lara
    Rachid Bouchareb

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