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Cannes Film Festival 2010 Line-Up Announced

Cannes Film Festival 2010 line-up announced last Friday (15th April)

Cannes Festival 2010 will feature a number of big names in world cinema including films from Riddley Scott, Takeshi Kitano, Godard, Leigh and many many more….

Tim Burton has been announced festival president for 2010, a decision which critics highlight indicates a populist move for the festival, considering the main stream nature of Burton’s profile and films.

The festival this year will open with Riddley Scott’s ‘Robbin Hood’ featuring Russel Crowe and Kate Blanchett. This film is out of competition for the festival, however, likely to make an exciting start to the event. Another film out of competition, but appearing in the festival is Woody Allen’s ‘You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger’ featuring Anthony Hopkins and Naomi Watts.

Banksy art in London

Banksy is an absent guest in Berlin. The English artist presented his first film without showing up.

Much has been spoken about Roman Polanski’s  absence from Berlinale, however, little has been mentioned about Banksy and his first film ‘Exit through the gift shop’. If the director Polanski could not go to Germany for legal reasons (which everyone knows about), the case of Banksy, the English street artist is a little different. A major figure in the graffiti world, a Bristol native born in 1974, presented ‘Exit through the gift shop‘, his first feature-length film remaining incognito on Sunday. A special requirement for this splendid outlaw who left his mark on the walls of the largest capitals, in New-Orleans after Katrina, and in the West Bank. A kind of True-fake documentary, ‘Exit through the gift shop’ speaks about a cultural movement which wants to be subversive and switches to the denunciation of the snobbery in the world. I’m not sure when it come out, but I’m looking forward to checking it out hopefully soon. Did anne see it on Sunday or at the Sundance festival?