BIG UPS: Blue Valentine makes it to Cannes

voicefilm.com Gosling and William in Blue Valentine. Director Derek Cianfrance must be feeling mighty fine right about now. His locally-shot divorce drama Blue Valentine was chosen as part of the Un Certain Regard section of this year's Cannes Film Festival. He is the only American director featured in that category. Ooo la la, sacre bleu and various other stereotypical French aphorisms! Valentine, which stars Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling, was lauded at this year's Sundance Film Festival, where his work was shown against primarily American filmmakers. But at Cannes, Cianfrance is among such heavy hitters as Jean-Luc Godard and the 101-year-old (!!!) Manoel de Oliveira. Valentine will be released stateside on the gimme-my-damn-Oscar date of Dec. 31 by the Weinstein Company (via The Playlist) but that's just an qualifying date for the Academy Awards so Philly will probably get it a week or two later. The Un Certain Regard section runs parallel to the main Palme d'Or competition, awarding prizes to lesser-knowns (i.e. Cianfrance, who makes his feature-length debut) and more experimental fare. This year's Un Certain Regard panel will be headed up by Claire Denis, no stranger to Un Certain Regard herself (Cindy Fuchs gave her last film, 35 Shots of Rum, an A-). See the entire Cannes line-up after the jump (via The Hollywood Reporter). RELATED >> Meet the director of the locally-shot, Sundance-bound Blue Valentine IN COMPETITION "Another Year," U.K., Mike Leigh "Biutiful," Spain-Mexico, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu "Burnt by the Sun 2," Germany-France-Russia, Nikita Mikhalkov "Certified Copy," France-Italy-Iran, Abbas Kiarostami "Fair Game," U.S., Doug Liman "Hors-la-loi," France-Belgium-Algeria, Rachid Bouchareb "The Housemaid," South Korea, Im Sang-soo "La nostra vita," Italy-France, Daniele Luchetti "La Princesse de Montpensier," France, Bertrand Tavernier "Of Gods and Men," France, Xavier Beauvois "Outrage," Japan, Takeshi Kitano "Poetry," South Korea, Lee Chang-dong "A Screaming Man," France-Belgium-Chad, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun "Tournee," France, Mathieu Amalric "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives," Spain-Thailand-Germany-U.K.-France, Apichatpong Weerasethakul "You, My Joy," Ukraine-Germany, Sergey Loznitsa UN CERTAIN REGARD "Adrienn Pal," Hungary-Netherlands-France-Austria, Agnes Kocsis "Aurora," Romania, Cristi Puiu "Blue Valentine," U.S., Derek Cianfrance "Chatroom," U.K., Hideo Nakata "Chongqing Blues," China, Wang Xiaoshuai "The City Below," Germany-France, Christoph Hochhausler "Film Socialisme," Switzerland-France, Jean-Luc Godard "Ha Ha Ha," South Korea, Hong Sang-soo "Les Amours imaginaires," Canada, Xavier Dolan "Life Above All," France, Oliver Schmitz "Los labios," Argentina, Ivan Fund, Santiago Loza "Octubre," Peru, Daniel Vega "Qu'est-il arrive a Simon Werner?," France, Fabrice Gobert "Rebecca H.," France, Lodge Kerrigan "R U There," Taiwan, David Verbeek "The Strange Case of Angelica," Portugal, Manoel de Oliveira "Tuesday, After Christmas," Romania, Radu Muntean "Udaan," India, Vikramaditya Motwane OUT OF COMPETITION "Robin Hood," U.S.-U.K., Ridley Scott "Tamara Drewe," U.K., Stephen Frears "Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps," U.S., Oliver Stone "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger," U.K.-Spain, Woody Allen MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS "Kaboom," U.S.-France, Gregg Araki "L'autre monde," France, Gilles Marchand SPECIAL SCREENINGS "Abel," Mexico, Diego Luna "Chantrapas," France, Otar Iosseliani "Draquila -- L'Italia che trema," Italy, Sabina Guzzanti "Inside Job," U.S., Charles Ferguson "Nostalgia de la luz," France, Patricio Guzman "Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow," Netherlands, Sophie Fiennes

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BIG UPS: Blue Valentine makes it to Cannes

POSTED: Thursday, April 15, 2010, 5:15 PM

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Gosling and William in Blue Valentine.

Director Derek Cianfrance must be feeling mighty fine right about now. His locally-shot divorce drama Blue Valentine was chosen as part of the Un Certain Regard section of this year's Cannes Film Festival. He is the only American director featured in that category. Ooo la la, sacre bleu and various other stereotypical French aphorisms! Valentine, which stars Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling, was lauded at this year's Sundance Film Festival, where his work was shown against primarily American filmmakers. But at Cannes, Cianfrance is among such heavy hitters as Jean-Luc Godard and the 101-year-old (!!!) Manoel de Oliveira. Valentine will be released stateside on the gimme-my-damn-Oscar date of Dec. 31 by the Weinstein Company (via The Playlist) but that's just an qualifying date for the Academy Awards so Philly will probably get it a week or two later. The Un Certain Regard section runs parallel to the main Palme d'Or competition, awarding prizes to lesser-knowns (i.e. Cianfrance, who makes his feature-length debut) and more experimental fare. This year's Un Certain Regard panel will be headed up by Claire Denis, no stranger to Un Certain Regard herself (Cindy Fuchs gave her last film, 35 Shots of Rum, an A-). See the entire Cannes line-up after the jump (via The Hollywood Reporter). RELATED >> Meet the director of the locally-shot, Sundance-bound Blue Valentine IN COMPETITION "Another Year," U.K., Mike Leigh "Biutiful," Spain-Mexico, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu "Burnt by the Sun 2," Germany-France-Russia, Nikita Mikhalkov "Certified Copy," France-Italy-Iran, Abbas Kiarostami "Fair Game," U.S., Doug Liman "Hors-la-loi," France-Belgium-Algeria, Rachid Bouchareb "The Housemaid," South Korea, Im Sang-soo "La nostra vita," Italy-France, Daniele Luchetti "La Princesse de Montpensier," France, Bertrand Tavernier "Of Gods and Men," France, Xavier Beauvois "Outrage," Japan, Takeshi Kitano "Poetry," South Korea, Lee Chang-dong "A Screaming Man," France-Belgium-Chad, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun "Tournee," France, Mathieu Amalric "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives," Spain-Thailand-Germany-U.K.-France, Apichatpong Weerasethakul "You, My Joy," Ukraine-Germany, Sergey Loznitsa UN CERTAIN REGARD "Adrienn Pal," Hungary-Netherlands-France-Austria, Agnes Kocsis "Aurora," Romania, Cristi Puiu "Blue Valentine," U.S., Derek Cianfrance "Chatroom," U.K., Hideo Nakata "Chongqing Blues," China, Wang Xiaoshuai "The City Below," Germany-France, Christoph Hochhausler "Film Socialisme," Switzerland-France, Jean-Luc Godard "Ha Ha Ha," South Korea, Hong Sang-soo "Les Amours imaginaires," Canada, Xavier Dolan "Life Above All," France, Oliver Schmitz "Los labios," Argentina, Ivan Fund, Santiago Loza "Octubre," Peru, Daniel Vega "Qu'est-il arrive a Simon Werner?," France, Fabrice Gobert "Rebecca H.," France, Lodge Kerrigan "R U There," Taiwan, David Verbeek "The Strange Case of Angelica," Portugal, Manoel de Oliveira "Tuesday, After Christmas," Romania, Radu Muntean "Udaan," India, Vikramaditya Motwane OUT OF COMPETITION "Robin Hood," U.S.-U.K., Ridley Scott "Tamara Drewe," U.K., Stephen Frears "Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps," U.S., Oliver Stone "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger," U.K.-Spain, Woody Allen MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS "Kaboom," U.S.-France, Gregg Araki "L'autre monde," France, Gilles Marchand SPECIAL SCREENINGS "Abel," Mexico, Diego Luna "Chantrapas," France, Otar Iosseliani "Draquila -- L'Italia che trema," Italy, Sabina Guzzanti "Inside Job," U.S., Charles Ferguson "Nostalgia de la luz," France, Patricio Guzman "Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow," Netherlands, Sophie Fiennes

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