Cannes: Steven Spielberg Will Lead Jury From His Yacht, Polanski Film A Possibility, Short Films Announced
Here are some exclusive updates on Cannes 2013: Sources say Steven Spielberg‘s yacht has left Ft. Lauderdale and set sea for the Cote d’Azur. I’m told Spielberg will run the Cannes jury from the yacht, possibly screening films there instead of attending public screenings. I hope he does come to some of the screenings at the Palais. When Robert DeNiro was chief judge he was spotted constantly, and it gave the Festival a buzz.
The Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel reported last month that the Seven Seas is “at 282 feet long, it would soar 28 stories tall if set on end. Its cost: $200 million. It boasts luxury amenities for 12 guests, with a crew of 26. There is a large master stateroom with a study and private deck, a helipad, indoor cinema and an infinity pool with a 15-foot glass wall that converts to a movie screen so the director and his guests can take in a film while swimming.” …
…Roman Polanski was in Cannes last year for a tribute. But it’s been a while since he had a film in the festival. That may change today. Cannes chief Thierry Fremaux is screening Polanski’s take on the Broadway play “Venus in Fur” which stars Matthieu Almaric and Mrs. Polanski– Emmanuelle Seigner. The film is in French and would be Part 3 of Polanski’s “confinement series”– in “The Ghost Writer” everyone was stuck in that house on Martha’s Vineyard, then in “God Carnage” it was an apartment in Brooklyn. “Venus in Fur” takes place in a rehearsal studio.
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION
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Ali ASGARI |
BISHTAR AZ DO SAAT (MORE THAN TWO HOURS)
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Iran |
15’ |
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Mohammed ABOU NASSER, Ahmad ABOU NASSER
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CONDOM LEAD
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Palestine Jordan |
14’ |
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Gudmundur Arnar GUDMUNDSSON |
HVALFJORDUR (WHALE VALLEY)
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Iceland Denmark |
15’ |
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SASAKI Omoi |
INSEKI TO IMPOTENCE (THE METEORITE AND IMPOTENCE)
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Japan |
10’ |
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Gilles COULIER |
MONT BLANC
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Belgium |
14’ |
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Elzbieta BENKOWSKA |
OLENA
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Poland |
14’ |
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Annarita ZAMBRANO |
OPHELIA
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France |
15’ |
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MOON Byounggon |
SAFE
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South Korea |
13’ |
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Adriano VALERIO |
37°4 S
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France |
11’ |
I’d rather watch the last twenty years of Spielberg’s career than the first twenty – those films are much more interesting than the cornball adolescent fantasies that made his fortune.
ok that’s crazy. Starting with Lincoln, and including Minority Report, AI, Saving Pvt. Ryan, Schindlers List not to mention the very entertaining Catch Me If You Can and the weirdly interesting Terminal. Did I miss anything? War of the Worlds. A monster hit.
Qu’ils mangent de la brioche
The excesses of the self important… they are the great power of the universe… your day is coming!!!
He hasn’t made a good movie in 20 years. Steven who?
I would like to see Dog the Bounty hunter capture Polanski and bring him back to answer for Drugging, raping and sodomizing an underage girl. ,
Elitist. Just go to a cinema like the rest of us. It’s how the movies are supposed to be seen, anyway. Pretty sad for a filmmaker of his caliber and influence to shirk the cinemas for his luxury yacht.
Isn’t liberal petitioning – voting Commodore Spielberg simply wonderful? Commanding jury from his eco-yacht that is registered in the BVI’s so as to avoid over $4M in taxes per year, which when running upon the seas burns upwards of 1,900 gallons of fuel per hour…………..
AGENDA: GRINDING AMERICA DOWN. The best movie ever made explaining what is happening and why. Give it 5 minutes and you won’t be able to walk away! No conspiracy. Just verifiable facts!
If you have children watch it with them. They aren’t learning anything of this in school. Discuss it with them. Share with your pastors, get them to arrange a screening. Share with Tea Party groups, Veteran groups. Share with everyone. Link everywhere. FB, Tweet it. This needs to go VIRAL.
http://vimeo.com/63749370
This could be Spielberg’s opulent defiance to Oscar snub for “Lincoln”.
Speilberg will have a phalanx of Nubian slaves to peel his grapes for him. .m.m.m
“Venus in Fur” How many of the Venus’ are pubescent teenyboppers. My guess is that they all are…
Hmm, elitists and child molesters. Kinda makes you feel like you’re back in Los Angeles and not France.