Here's a report from our Euro-AICN guys that puts Mick Jagger and Scorsese together in the same project. Its strange but we've seen alot stranger things come out of the big time movie industry over the years. And Father Geek here really liked Mick in NED KELLY years ago. And our boys in Paris have also included in this report a ton of info on the upcoming CANNES FILM FESTIVAL. So check it all out below...
I know it's wrong, but whenever I think about Mick Jagger and movies, the word "FREEJACK" pops first to my mind... this always cracks me up... anyway, our very busy spy Ozymandias sent us this "BBC news" about a possible collaboration of Martin Scorsese and the Rolling Stones man. I can't be really objective about this as I think Scorsese can't do wrong, he's one of the only directors I will go see ANY movie he could do... so here it is :
Source: BBC
Monday, 17 April, 2000, 16:54 GMT 17:54 UK
Jagger moves into movies
Rolling Stone Mick Jagger is to team up with acclaimed director Martin Scorsese to make a no-holds-barred expose on the music business. Jagger, 56, will co-write The Long Play with Scorsese, whose long list of credits include hard-hitting dramas such as Taxi Driver and Raging Bull.
The movie is being billed as an uncompromising, behind-the-scenes look at the recording industry - based largely on the life of Jagger himself.
However, details of who will star in the film have not been confirmed.
Jagger has his own production company called Jagged and The Long Play is just one of a number of film projects on the books.
Among the others is The Map of Love, a biopic about the life of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his wife, Caitlin.
But the first film to be finished by Jagged looks likely to be an adaptation of the Robert Harris best-selling thriller Enigma.
The movie is already in production with Titanic and Holy Smoke actress Kate Winslet in the lead.
Michael Apted, who directed the latest James Bond saga The World is Not Enough, is at the helm, while Shakespeare in Love screenwriter Tom Stoppard has collaborating on the script."
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Euro AICN with the official list of films selected for the Cannes Film Festival (10-21 May 2000)... I Hope to get more information on each movie very soon. We will anyway comment the Festival and the results. But it seems this year's programme is very rich again : the new Coen movie, the new one from James Gray (LITTLE ODESSA), Lars Von Trier, Neil La Bute, Ken Loach, Michael Haneke, John Waters... Just makes me so angry we can't be there... (next year, maybe ?) so we hope to get feed-backs by any lucky one who will be there.
Meanwhile you can check the official website of Cannes at http://www.festival-cannes.org/
Official Competition :
- Sanger fran andra vaningen, from Roy Andersson
- Eureka, from Aoyama Shinji
- O brother, where art thou ?, from the Coen Brothers
- Kippur (Kippour), from Amos Gitaï
- The yards, from James Gray
- Estorvo (Embrouille), from Ruy Guerra
- Chunhyang, from Im Kwon Taek
- The golden bowl, from James Ivory
- Guizi lai le, from Jiang Wen
- Fast food fast women, from Amos Kollek
- Nurse Betty, from Neil Labute
- Bread and roses, from Ken Loach
- La Noce, from Pavel Lounguine
- Takhté Siah (Le tableau noir), from Samira Makhmalbaf
- Gohatto (Tabou), from Nagisa Oshima
- Trolösa (Infidèle), from Liv Ullmann
- Dancer in the dark, from Lars von Trier
- the untitled movie from Kar-waï Wong
- Yi yi, from Edward Yang
- Les destinées sentimentales, from Olivier Assayas
- Esther Kahn, from Arnaud Depleschin
- Code inconnu, from Michael Haneke
- Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien, from Dominik Moll
Hors Competition :
- Requiem for a dream, from Darren Aronofsky
- Mission to mars, from Brian de Palma
- Under suspicion, from Stephen Hopkins
- A conversation with Gregory Peck from Barbara Kopple
- Crouching tiger, hidden dragon, from Ang Lee
- Honest from Dave Stewart
- Cecil B. Demented from John Waters
- Avril (1962), from Otar Iosseliani
- Les glaneurs et la glaneuse, from Agnès Varda
And of course Vatel (from Roland Joffé) as the opening film.
Luc Besson will bill the jury's president with :
- Nicole Garcia, French actress/director
- Arundhati Roy, Indian writer
- Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Spanish actress
- Kristin Scott-Thomas, British actress (you knew that one, no ?)
- Barbara Sukowa, German actress
- Jonathan Demme, American Director (that one too)
- Jeremy Irons, British Actor (and that one)
- Mario Martone, Italian Director MP<- Patrick Modiano, French Writer
