3 days to Cannes.

"Tsui Hark, Ringo Lam and Johnnie To's Hong Kong-Chinese cop caper Triangle is an 11th hour addition to the Cannes Film Festival's Official Selection, its presence having been OK'd by the Chinese authorities," reports Variety's Alison James. Via Matt Dentler.

"[I]t's hard not to feel a pang of jealousy towards Hollywood," writes Jason Solomons in his preview of the festival for the Observer. "Despite winning the main prize last year with Ken Loach's The Wind that Shakes the Barley, poor little Blighty will be made to look like the cinematic backwater France has always held it to be. Only Stephen Frears will be permitted to wave one of those little Union Jack flags he gave to every extra in The Queen as he becomes Britain's first-ever president of the jury." Also, Amy Raphael: "Both Loach and [Mike] Leigh sound a little wistful when talking of past visits to Cannes."

Variety's ready.

Volker Schlöndorff's been going to Cannes for about 40 years now. He tells a few stories in Der Tagesspiegel. More on Cannes in German from Martin Walder in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

Posted by dwhudson at May 13, 2007 5:57 AM