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Cannes Film Festival Names Competing Films

23 April 2009 2:39 AM, PDT | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »

Quentin Tarantino will have the distinction of being the only American-born filmmaker to be competing in the 62nd annual Cannes Film Festival this year. Tarantino, who won the festival's prestigious Palme d'Or in 1994, will be debuting his Inglourious Basterds, frequently described as a World War II revenge caper. (Although the film is set in France, it was filmed mostly in Germany to take advantage of that country's tax incentives.) Taiwanese-born director Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hulk, Brokeback Mountain, Lust, Caution), who became a U.S. citizen in 1983, will return to the festival with Taking Woodstock, which describes the origins of the Woodstock Music Festival in 1969. Other highlights of the competition include the premiere of Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's Los Abrazos Rotos (Broken Embraces), New Zealand director Jane Campion's Bright Star, British film director Ken Loach's Looking for Eric, and Danish director Lars Von Trier's Antichrist. The Cannes Film Festival is set to open on May 13 with the out-of-competition screening of Disney/Pixar's Up and to close on May 24 with the also-out-of-competition screening of Dutch filmmaker Jan Kounen's Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky. »

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Chow Yun-Fat To Play Confucius

19 March 2009 5:20 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Action movie star Chow Yun-Fat is giving up his trademark fighting scenes for his most peaceful acting role to date - as philosopher Confucius.

The Hong Kong actor, who starred in 2000's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, rose to fame starring in a series of martial arts movies in the 1980s and 1990s.

But now he is set to channel his inner peacemaker as the ancient thinker Confucius, whose most famous teaching was the golden rule - treating all people with consideration.

Filming on the biopic is to begin in April under director Hu Mei. »

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