After ‘The Wedding Banquet’ in 1993 and ‘Brokeback Mountain’ in 2005, Ang Lee is becoming an expert in the gay genre. And he’s always having some success at the box office with it.
Together with Focus Features, he is now making a comedy called ‘Taking Woodstock’ (A True Story of a Riot, Concert, and a Life). “It explores an inspiring historical moment when liberation and freedom were in the air,” said James Schamus, CEO of Focus Features.
Hmm, “a Riot, Concert, and a Life.” Sounds like this movie has a long way to come.
‘Changeling,’ the new thriller by Clint Eastwood, is one of the three Hollywood titles standing out on the list of competitors for a Palme d’Or award. Then there is the Charlie Kaufman movie we mentioned earlier, called ‘Synecdoche, New York.’ And Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Che,’ a $40 million biopic about Che Guevara.
Outside the competition is Woody Allen, with his spanish comedy ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona.’ And of course the one and only Steven Spielberg with ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,’ still a way too long title.
You can find the full list of movies in competition after the jump.
I’m sorry in advance for the tabloidism, but this just sounds too good. Apparently, James Caan, the ‘Las Vegas’ boss, quit the new David O Russell movie. The reason? They disagreed about how to choke on a cookie.
Caan reportedly refused to cough while choking, because he think you are unable to do that when you are choking. When Russell wanted to shoot both versions, the story goes, Caan walked off.
Is this the art of cinema, fighting about how to choke on a cookie? Or is it just stupid — and quite funny? Since this article already turned into a Britney Spears write up, here’s a behind the scenes at the set of ‘I Heart Huckabees,’ also a movie by David O Russell — skip to the half for the good part.
