Cannes 2008: Michael Moore, Jane Birkin, Woody Allen
John Horn talks about Michael Moore’s upcoming documentary, tentatively titled "While America Slept," in the Los Angeles Times:
"Even though he says the new film ‘isn’t about Bush,’ the president is clearly a central target.
"’He and his cronies and his supporters literally got away with murder,’ Moore says. But it is also obvious that the country’s citizens share some of the blame, he says, which explains the proposed title being considered by distributors Paramount Vantage and Overture Films.
"’I am going to take a look at the empire we’ve created and ask the question, ‘How did we get here?’"
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Jane Birkin to take up the Burmese people’s cause at Cannes — via Agence France-Presse:
"British-born singer and actress Jane Birkin will join a protest on the sidelines of the Cannes film festival Monday to highlight the critical ordeal of the two million survivors of Myanmar’s cyclone disaster.
"’We are trying to touch people, we will go to Cannes, we will take to the streets, where important people from around the world are gathered,’ Birkin told a support rally in Paris on Saturday."
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"Woody Allen, Cruz say threesomes only work in the movies" at Agence France-Presse:
"Threesomes are too ‘complicated’ to work in real life, Woody Allen and Penélope Cruz said Saturday as they unveiled Vicky Cristina Barcelona, a sex romp featuring a hilarious menage a trois.
"The movie, which is screening out of competition at the Cannes film festival, drew big laughs and applause at a packed press preview late Friday ahead of its red-carpet premiere later Saturday.
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"Asked whether he had scripted a private fantasy of sex with two women, Allen quipped: ‘It’s hard enough to get one person.’"
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Kim Voynar on Woody Allen and Vicky Cristina Barcelona at Cinematical:
"Allen brushed aside a question about whether it was true that Spanish directors were upset with Allen over the reported 1 million Euros in financing for the film given him by the Spanish government, saying that ‘I know nothing about the financing of my films,’ and that he was simply offered the opportunity to make a film in Barcelona, and agreed to do so. He said that, so far as he is aware, there is no backlash from Spanish directors aimed at him, and quipped that while the press might like to believe that, and make more of it than it is, it simply isn’t so."
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