2008 Sydney Film Festival competition announced
May 2nd 2008 00:04
From Eyes Wide Open:
"Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky (also the opening night film - good choice) and the latest from Mexican filmmakers Carlos Reygadas and Fernando Eimbke - Silent Light and Lake Tahoe...
Hunger (director - Steve McQueen, UK),
In Bruges (Martin McDonagh, UK)
My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, Canada)
Quiet Chaos (Antonello Grimaldi, Italy)
Rain of the Children (Vincent Ward, New Zealand)
Stop-Loss (Kimberly Peirce, USA)
The Square (Nash Edgerton, Australia)
Three Blind Mice (Matthew Newton, Australia
Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan)"
Hunger (director - Steve McQueen, UK),
In Bruges (Martin McDonagh, UK)
My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, Canada)
Quiet Chaos (Antonello Grimaldi, Italy)
Rain of the Children (Vincent Ward, New Zealand)
Stop-Loss (Kimberly Peirce, USA)
The Square (Nash Edgerton, Australia)
Three Blind Mice (Matthew Newton, Australia
Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan)"
I'm definitely excited to see "Silent Light" and "My Winnipeg", two movies loudly heralded by Sydney's hardest working cinephile, Matt Riviera:
"The only one I've seen is Guy Maddin's superb My Winnipeg, a must-see for anyone who's ever had a love-hate relationship with their home town. The ones I'm most looking forward to are Carlos Reygadas's follow up to Battle in Heaven, Silent Light, and Tokyo Sonata, from Japan's most versatile filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa."
On a more disappointing note, Lyndon Barber notes that the festival is heavily English-centered:
"It's a selection heavy on English language filmmakers (eight out of the 12, two of them from Australia - Matthew Newton and Nash Edgerton) with only one from Asia."
Still, the festival is sure to have plenty of foreign language films playing in the other categories - the Sydney Film Festival is the year's most exciting film event, and I'm hoping to see more than my fair share of films.
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