New Kitano Short Film for Cannes

Michael McCaskey mccaskem
Thu Mar 22 10:38:58 EDT 2007


You probably already know about Kitano's new film, Kantoku - Banzai, but he's also making another short film, as part of a very impressive project, as reported below.

<Kitano shooting short-film for Cannes> 

http://www.kitanotakeshi.com/index.php?content=news
Saturday, March 10, 2007 

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<To mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, Kitano is one of thirty-five directors from twenty-five countries, asked by Cannes organisers to contribute a film, three minutes or shorter, on the theme of a "motion-picture theatre" for the anniversary. 

The concept is "...reuniting a group of creators - all universally famous - who represent both their countries and a proud conception of cinema, for a stroll around a unique theme, springboard for their inspiration ...their current state of mind as inspired by the motion-picture theatre.", according to Cannes director Gilles Jacobs, who further notes, that none of the directors has any knowledge of what the other directors are making, neither about what fragment they are making or about what subject. 

On this, Kitano jokingly commented, ""What happens if other directors are thinking about the same things as I am?"

The involved directors are:
Theo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August, Jane Campion, Youssef Chahine, Chen Kaige, Michael Cimino, Ethan & Joel Coen, David Cronenberg, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Manoel De Oliveira, Raymond Depardon, Atom Egoyan, Amos Gitai, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Alejandro Gonzalez I?arritu, Aki Kaurismaki, Abbas Kiarostami, Kitano Takeshi, Andrei Konchalovsky, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, Nanni Moretti, Roman Polanski, Raoul Ruiz, Walter Salles, Elia Suleiman, Tsai Ming Liang, Gus Van Sant, Lars Von Trier, Wim Wenders, Wong Kar Wai and Zhang Yimou, and the entire collection of short-films will be screened at the festival on May 20, 2007.>
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http://www.kitanotakeshi.com/index.php?content=news

Michael McCaskey
Georgetown University





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