Wondering what some of your favorite filmmakers have been up to? A few of them are getting their premieres on at the upcoming Cannes film festival. Scheduled to appear are new features by the Coen Brothers (“No Country for Old Men“), arts patron Steven Soderberg (“Oceans 13“), Michael Moore (“Sicko“), Wong Kar Wai (“My Blueberry Nights“), Paulo Morelli’s “City of Men” (the sequel to Fernando Meirelles’ “City of God”), Gus Van Sant (“Paranoid Park”) and Todd Haynes “(“I’m Not There“).
Harmony Korine – missing in action since 1999’s “Julien Donkey-Boy” – will return to the cinematic stage with “Mister Lonely,” a film that’s been in the works since 2003 and stars Diego Luna and Samantha Morton. It’s apparently about a young American lost in Paris who’s a Michael Jackson look-alike who meets the ghost of Marilyn Monroe and ummm, some stuff about Charlie Chaplin and Shirley Temple. Interesting info is Truffaut fave/French New Wave actor Jean-Pierre Léaud will reportedly appear in the film (his last notable mainstream appearance was in Bertolucci’s very-naked, very NC-17, film-fetishers wet-dream, “The Dreamers“).
The Tarantino/Rodriguez flop and David Fincher’s remarkably laborious and financially unsuccessful (“Zodiac“) will also appear at the French Riviera-based festival.
Update: A 10-15 minute extended version of Tarantino’s “Death Proof” will play at Cannes plus, Abel Ferrara‘s strip-club film, “Go Go Set,” Emir Kuristica (director of the 1995 Palme d’Or winner, “Underground“) latest (“Promise Me This”), Julian Schnabel‘s French-language adaptation “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” and Bela Tarr‘s “The Man From London.”