Big Screen Little Screen

Early on, the official Cannes site pales in comparison to this unofficial site (again, plug the non-sanctioned site into Babelfish for English translations). A quick perusing will lead you to notes, images, and sometimes trailers for the selected films. Some you may have seen floating around previously, some not.

A few points of interest include shots of Samantha Morton as a Marilyn Monroe impersonator in Harmony Korine’s Mister Lonely, Anton Corbijn’s biopic of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis - Control (also with Morton), plus Willem Dafoe and Bob Hoskins in Abel Ferrara’s Go Go Tales. In addition: Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s The Red Balloon, the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men, Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park, and Michael Moore’s Sicko. Cannes begins today. More to come.